MATT: Hello, everyone,
and welcome to tonight's episode
of Critical Role, where a bunch of us
nerdy-ass voice actors sit around and
play Dungeons & Dragons. ALL: (shouting) We play
Dungeons & Dragons! MATT: Yes. LAURA: Wow.
MATT: Indeed. To that point, we have some
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believe we like this shit. LIAM: It's so accurate.
ASHLEY: It's my favorite. TALIESIN: I don't like
any of that. Oh god. (laughter) SAM: (caterwauls) TALIESIN: No. MARISHA: Oh god, he's in heat.
LAURA: Stop, stop. SAM: (caterwauls)
MARISHA: Oh no! LAURA: Stop.
MATT: Okay. LAURA: Get your hairball
off the table. (laughter) TRAVIS: Trigger warning. MATT: All right, well thank
you for enduring that. Thank you, Sam. Thank you
Backblaze. Sorry, Backblaze. Laura, you got some
announcements to talk about. LAURA: I love going
after that. MATT: (laughs) LAURA: First of all, let's just wipe
the slate clean with our very first-- MARISHA: Look at it,
it's too cute. LAURA: No, Sam!
LIAM: No, not right now, Sam! LAURA: I'm announcing
something so cool. TRAVIS: Sam.
ASHLEY: What is that? LAURA: Get it off the table.
SAM: It's my urine. ASHLEY: No.
(laughter) LAURA: I'm just going to
not talk until you get it off the table.
ASHLEY: But it's real cool. LAURA: Get it off the table! TALIESIN: No.
(laughter) TRAVIS: Here, just
give it to me. SAM: Oh god.
LIAM: You don't want those two things associated
with each other? TALIESIN: Travis,
that's as close as you've ever gotten
to something like that. TRAVIS: To cat dung. LAURA: I'm so
excited about this. (laughter) LAURA: Don't ruin things
because you're a cat. SAM: That's my job. LAURA: We partnered
with HipDot! MARISHA: Yeah!
(cheering) LAURA: Our very first
makeup collection. MARISHA: Yes.
TRAVIS: Turn it in the light. SAM: Makeup? That
looks like a box. LAURA: The Mighty Nein
Collection features stunning art by
Will Kirkby and Hieu Nguyen, with a design that
takes inspiration from the Fletching and
Moondrop Carnival. SAM: Oh!
LIAM: Dang. LAURA: Check it out.
SAM: But there's more. LAURA: There's lipsticks,
there's a highlighter. There's this amazing
eyeshadow palette. It's all embossed. SAM: Oh. LAURA: Each product is also
completely clean and vegan. MARISHA: Yes.
LAURA: Seriously, though, it's amazing.
LIAM: It's gorgeous. LAURA: I'm obsessed. Pre-orders will be
open for 12 days starting today. So check it out
right now at hipdot.com/criticalrole. I had to test out this stuff
when we were figuring it out and I am obsessed with
this middle lipstick color. So I'm going to be ordering
a couple of these sets so I don't run out
of this one. TRAVIS: Okay.
LAURA: I'm obsessed. MARISHA: I've waited
for this for so long. TRAVIS: It's so pretty.
MARISHA: I've waited for so long. TRAVIS: The inside
is amazing. LAURA: You got to see it up
close. Go to the website. Check it out up close.
ASHLEY: It's so cool. TALIESIN: It's amazing.
LAURA: The embossing on it is just so beautiful. MARISHA: It's got
our character's faces. TRAVIS: Y'all have been
working on this for years. LAURA: We've been working
on it for such a long time. LIAM: It's one of
the most amazing boxes I have ever seen.
TRAVIS: You made it happen. MARISHA: It literally
brings a tear to your eye. It's so fucking gorgeous.
LAURA: So yeah, you guys. TRAVIS: Because it burns you?
ASHLEY: It's so pretty. LAURA: Okay, okay,
okay, okay, okay. I'll move on because I've got other things to
announce still. SAM: (retches) LAURA: Samuel! (laughter) LAURA: (frustrated groan) TALIESIN: This really is the
cat experience, isn't it? LAURA: We have a Pâté.
TRAVIS: It's a Pâté! LAURA: Hanger plush.
TRAVIS: Look at him. LAURA: Look how sweet, Marisha.
LIAM: Sweet little dead guy. TALIESIN: Oh my god.
MARISHA: I haven't seen him yet! ASHLEY: Oh my god.
SAM: He looks horrific. MARISHA: He does! ASHLEY: Look at his tail.
TRAVIS: Look at his slippery tail. LAURA: He's got a
little rat tail. LIAM: He a little dead rat. LAURA: He's got your little
scissors as a charm. ASHLEY: Oh my god.
MATT: Oh my god, that's so cute. ASHLEY: That is really cute.
TRAVIS: No, no, no! MARISHA: No, not for you.
TRAVIS: No. Rats are friends, not food.
LAURA: In addition to that, we have finally--
SAM: The tail can contort into different shapes.
LAURA: Oh, it's so cute. MARISHA: Oh my goodness. LAURA: We have our chibi
pins of the Bells Hells. TRAVIS: Oh shit.
LAURA: Artist Jenny Park smashed it again. Check it out. I think FCG
is one of my favorites because his little
wheel moves. SAM: It moves?
TALIESIN: His little spinny wheel? LAURA: The spinny wheel.
TRAVIS: Does it work? LAURA: We've got Laudna,
we've got Ashton. We've got Sir Bertrand.
ASHLEY: Come on. LAURA: We've got Chetney
and we got lil' Imogen. SAM: This is so cool.
ASHLEY: Bertrand. Look how cute Bertrand-- Oh my god, Ashton. TALIESIN: Oh my
god, it's so spiky. LAURA: Obviously,
your character and your character's
already out. LIAM: They are first
out of the gate. ASHLEY: Oh my god, look at Chet.
LAURA: And then, in addition to that-- TRAVIS: ♪ That's Bertrand Bell ♪
LAURA: It's just a day. We have one of our-- Yes. Okay, good.
LIAM: So much cool shit. SAM: Oh.
MATT: Whoa, what? TALIESIN: Oh my god.
LAURA: Sleeveless cardigan. ASHLEY: ♪ Sleeves
are bullshit ♪ MATT: ♪ I'm going to
wear that every day ♪ MARISHA: I know, and
it's a Matt vest. MATT: I need that. MARISHA: It's a Matt vest
and it's a Beau vest. LAURA: These are designed by Adriann Helton.
TRAVIS: Turn. Turn again. LAURA: It's so rad.
TRAVIS: Turn again. MATT: It's so hard to find
good sleeveless vests. LAURA: Turn around so
they can see the back. LIAM: Damn.
TRAVIS: Kneel down little bit, squat.
LAURA: It's all Beau-tastic. TRAVIS: Don't stand up. MATT: I didn't even know
we were doing this. SAM: It's the Cobalt Soul. LIAM: Give us some
shadow boxing. LAURA: There's a medium, do you want it?
TALIESIN: Give us some shadow boxing. MATT: Yes, I do!
LAURA: Yeah. LIAM: There it is. MATT: I'll put this
on right now! SAM: Amazing.
ASHLEY: The hood is so good.
LAURA: So yeah. The hood is so great. It's so cozy,
there's pockets. TRAVIS: This is fucking adorable.
MARISHA: Yeah, there's pockets. LIAM: For bacon.
For your bacon. MARISHA: Yes,
for pocket bacon. LIAM: You better not
put it in a Ziploc. TRAVIS: This is an insane pin.
LAURA: Isn't he so cute? ASHLEY: The Imogen with the glitter.
TRAVIS: The rocking horse. LAURA: I know! So yes.
Go check it out. Go to our stores. Go
look at all this stuff. TALIESIN: Oh wow.
LAURA: I'm so proud of it. TALIESIN: That's really nice.
LAURA: Okay. TALIESIN: Oh wow.
ALL: Yay. TRAVIS: That was a good one.
SAM: That's a really good one. TALIESIN: The lightning bolt
looks so fucking sexy on that. LAURA: Isn't it so cute?
TALIESIN: It's so good. MATT: This is awesome.
MARISHA: Let me see the Ashton one. TALIESIN: Yeah, yeah.
MATT: Sorry. I guess that concludes
our announcements. (laughter) Got a little
distracted there. So I believe that does bring
us to tonight's episode of-- MARISHA: It's in your house.
MATT: -- Critical Role. (excited yelling) ♪ Critical (It's Thursday) ♪ ♪ It's Thursday night ♪ ASHLEY: ♪ One-by-one, we climb
until we reach the top ♪ ♪ Two-by-two, we fall ♪ LAURA: ♪ Will we meet our end
or meet our destiny ♪ ♪ Hold your breath and roll ♪ MATT: How do you
want to do this? ALL: ♪ It's Thursday night ♪ ♪ All ye Critters, ♪
come join us ♪ ♪ It's time to ♪
continue our plight ♪ ♪ There is ♪
magic and mystery ♪ ♪ Who knows ♪
what will happen ♪ ♪ He might ♪ ♪ But one thing's for sure ♪ ♪ We never give up ♪
on the fight ♪ TRAVIS: ♪ From the healer ♪ LIAM: ♪ To the renegade ♪ MATT: ♪ We all share
the same goal ♪ MATT and TALIESIN:
♪ Adding more allies ♪ ♪ Taking more chances ♪ SAM: ♪ Hold your
breath and roll ♪ MARISHA: You can
certainly try. ALL: ♪ It's Thursday night ♪ ♪ All ye Critters, ♪
come join us ♪ ♪ It's time to ♪
continue our plight ♪ ♪ It's Thursday night ♪ ♪ There is ♪
magic and mystery ♪ ♪ From darkness, ♪
our friendship will rise ♪ ♪ But one thing's for sure ♪ ♪ We never give up ♪
on the fight ♪ ♪ Oh, get ready (get ready) ♪ ♪ It's Thursday night ♪ (flames crackling) MATT: And welcome back.
(laughter) MATT: So last we left off: Bells Hells,
after learning about some odd, kooky things
surrounding the moon Ruidus. SAM: Some odd, kooky things. LAURA: Kooky.
MATT: Some odd, kooky things. MARISHA: Oh, so kooky. TRAVIS: Cookie!
MATT: An odd vision of something structural and
massive on one part of the surface
of the red moon as well as elements
of Fearne's history that seems to tether
her to being born beneath this same red
moon many, many years ago. After learning some of
this bit of information, watching Ira Wendagoth
vanish into the ether for whatever he has
planned and plotted, you returned to Bassuras being dropped off
by Birdie Calloway who returned to the hideaway
and began to figure out how best to handle the day
before you look into Treshi. You went to
Imahara Joe's place to inspect what
may have caused this strange bit of violence
that came from FCG. Couldn't quite pinpoint
any reasoning for it, but learned a bit about the
physiology of this Aeormaton that you've had with
you, as well as a bit of possible history that
may have a connection. Then went over to check
out the Seat of Disdain where the faction,
the Crawler faction within the city of
the Paragon's Call that seems to be
highly involved in both the business of
this fugitive Treshi as well as some of the
things going on around Otohan, the Paragon's
Call group leader and an individual that they've
been seen with many years ago and a lot of the business
in Jrusar as well. You passed by Artana Voe, who you had met once before,
a bounty hunter in Jrusar who seems to have made a trek
out here around the same time. ASHLEY: Ooh, sneaky, sneaky.
MATT: You went and introduced to yourself as new members of
the Paragon's Call after proving yourself
in the Deathwish Run. They brought you in,
showed you your quarters and your barracks, gave
you a tour of the place, but while keeping a close
eye on you as you did so. About the time this happened, the distant darkened
dust and sandstorm that was slowly encroaching
began to overtake the town as everyone battened
down the hatches and sought to wait it out. During this time, you found
that Treshi was indeed being kept in the Seat
of Disdain in the basement, the locked away basement
within a cell, a prison cell that had been outfitted
to be almost like a guest quarters but
still definitely a cell. After Chetney had done a search and information
gathering mission and a few of you also
went and gathered the ring that you could track with
from the local jeweler in the middle of the storm.
MARISHA: That's right. MATT: You began
to figure out how to handle this possible
capture of Treshi when you began to hear
commotion and shouts and yells. As you went and followed
them out to the front, the doors to the Seat
of Disdain were open, the sandstorm blasting by as
you heard people shouting, yelling and explosions
and fiery impacts as one member of the Call hits
the ground in front of you, covered in burns. That's where we pick up here
in the midst of this chaos. Who's doing what? LAURA: Ah! MARISHA: Does it look like--
Can we tell who's attacking? MATT: You can make
a perception check. SAM: We ran outside, right?
MATT: With disadvantage because everything here is--
MARISHA: With disadvantage? MATT: -- obscured
in the storm. MARISHA: But it was a natural 20.
LAURA: Are we in the door opening? LIAM and LAURA: Ooh. MATT: Roll again.
SAM: Oh. ASHLEY: That's a way
to start it off. MARISHA: And that's a three.
LAURA: Oh. MARISHA: Titties.
LIAM: My straight roll-- MARISHA: Eight.
SAM: With disadvantage? MARISHA: He said because
it's so cloudy or so dusty. MATT: Yeah, the dust storm.
LIAM: 22, and I rolled once. MATT: That's right because
you have advantage normally. Glancing about, you
see about a dozen or so members of the
Paragon's Call both on or around the ground here,
some injured, some fighting and you see a handful
of other figures that are along the wall just
barely seen in the shadow. They're ducking down
and up and another explosion rocks the side
of the mammoth-crawler. You can see now this detonation
gives a flash of light and flame before bits
and pieces of wood start flying down as well as a couple of chunks
of broken rock from the masonry crates
that you had set up there. One of the heavy
rocks (thuds) hits the dust maybe
two feet to your left and you sideswipe
before it impacts. It would have probably
knocked you out. LIAM: The mammoth-crawler
got blasted? MATT: The mammoth-crawler
is being attacked. MARISHA: They're going
after the load. LIAM: Side note, you look
really good in that vest. TRAVIS: Yo!
MATT: Thank you. TRAVIS: Snap, snap.
MATT: (laughs) MARISHA: Oh, Orym. LIAM: Yeah?
MARISHA: You said Artana Voe was here? LIAM: You think
it's a coincidence? MARISHA: No.
LIAM: All right. MARISHA: I think we
should get to Treshi. LIAM: Okay, what about
the ring on that? They're going to blow it up.
Someone's blowing it up. TRAVIS: It's true, we should
see who's attacking, though. A fight! MATT: Two other Call
figures rush by and they're like,
"What are you doing? "Come help!" And just go
charging out into the storm. TRAVIS: Ah!
MATT: What are you doing? What are you doing? LAURA: This is our
chance to get Treshi. MARISHA: Yes. LAURA: You're the only
one that can pick locks. TRAVIS: Okay. I'm
going back inside. I run back in and I go down the hallway and I go
back to the door. SAM: Wait, don't you want
to take someone with you? TRAVIS: Nope, it's just me.
LAURA: I follow. I run after him.
LIAM: I run, too. MARISHA: I'm going to go
plant the ring. Talk to me. TALIESIN: I'll be covering you.
ASHLEY: I'll go with you. I'll go with you.
MARISHA: You with me? All right.
LAURA: Get some of those crates. MARISHA: Copy. That's a Marisha thing.
LIAM: Copy what? MARISHA: Laudna's never said "Copy" in her damn life.
TRAVIS: Team Treshi raise your hand.
LAURA: Team Treshi. TRAVIS: Treshi?
LAURA: Team Treshi? TRAVIS: Three. Okay, good.
MATT: All right. TRAVIS: Woo hoo! LIAM: That's a big 10-4.
MARISHA and ASHLEY: Team ring? TRAVIS: We've really planned this.
LAURA: What are you doing? MARISHA: What are you doing, FCG?
TRAVIS: Nope. LIAM: No, we're in
chaos. It's chaos. ASHLEY: Pick the right side.
SAM: I think I'm going to stay-- MATT: They've scattered.
What are you doing? SAM: I'm going to
stay where the attack is happening so I can find
out who's attacking. TRAVIS: Yes, yes. Good. Good. LAURA: Smart. That's
good. That's good. MATT: Okay, valid. Valid. So as you push into the
space now, you see, you glance up and through
the elements of the sand and the fog and the heavy
dust that's blowing through just these shapes
along the parapets of the walls that surround
the Seat of Disdain. You look on the ground
and you can see some figures that are lying
on the ground motionless. Some of the usual
sentries that watch have been thrown off
the edge and are now unconscious or worse on the ground outside of it.
SAM: Oh god. MATT: At this point,
you can see now some of the ladders
that are currently being slammed up there
or are maintained up there as a means to get to it are
being climbed by members of the Paragon's Call and
are firing up with hand crossbows or throwing daggers
up to whoever's up there. But they're just
being cast away in the middle of the
heavy wind and sandstorm. SAM: But I don't see
any attackers yet? MATT: You don't see any
detail, they're too far away. You just see shapes
moving along the wall and it looks like they're
all lobbing from a distance. They're all sticking to
the wall and using the edges of it to guard
themselves between impacts. This is a full-on
assault from that side. SAM: And the wall?
MARISHA: Fuck. Fuck. SAM: The protective wall
has a hole in it? MATT: The wall
doesn't have a hole. They're attacking
from the top of it. It looks like they've
taken one of the walls. SAM: Oh.
LIAM: Ah. SAM: Gotcha. MATT: Another
explosion on the side and you watch as one of
the large load-bearing mammoth legs leans to
one side and lists. A bunch of the crates and
everything that got loaded begins to shift a bit and
tumble and hit the ground. Some crates break open,
some get blown off and end up impacting
against the far wall, leaving a pile of everything that had been loaded
now heavily unloaded. TALIESIN: Any of
the good shit? ASHLEY: I take off
running to the crates. TALIESIN: I'm running with
you into the crates. MARISHA: Are they going to leave--
TALIESIN: Are you doing what I'm doing? MARISHA: -- a mammoth-crawler
standing? Let's just go. TRAVIS: As you know, I'm taking
my chisel out and dragging it across the palm of my hand
to use the Crimson Rite. MARISHA: I'm going to cast
Mirror Image on myself. MATT: Got it.
SAM: Is there anyone of the Paragon's Call who's
injured within range of me? MATT: There's a
number of them, looks to be five
members right now, three of which aren't moving. They're on the ground
unconscious it looks to be, burned or impacted from
shrapnel or elements of heavy bludgeoning damage
from the initial explosion. SAM: Okay. I'll go up to
one who looks unconscious and I will reach out to
cast Spare the Dying on him. But I will hesitate because I don't know
what that will do to me, so I will not do it. MARISHA: Oh. Oh.
MATT: Okay. LAURA: What do you mean you
don't know what that'll do? SAM: I don't know what that'll
do to me. So I better not. TRAVIS: He'll start
killing everybody. (laughter) MATT: All right,
so you over there, you in this moment
focusing on what you may or may not do.
LAURA: Are you scared to cast anything? ASHLEY: Can I bamf out
Mister real quick? MATT: If you'd like to.
ASHLEY: Yes. MATT: (monkey hoots) TALIESIN: We're going
to need that hole! MATT: Dust dragging his face. MARISHA: Any crates? Do we see any of
the fancy ones? TALIESIN: Any of
the fancy ones? ASHLEY: Oh no,
everything fell! We're helping, uh-oh! MATT: Yeah. (laughs) You see three members
of the Call are now rushing underneath the now partially
standing mammoth, which would normally
have these large, massive four or five legs,
depending on the construction. One of the legs is completely
blown from under, another one has
folded on the side, so that's only three on the
other side that are standing. So it's at this
heavy side tilt and you see the legs trying
to readjust to make up for the lost weight structure,
but it's still struggling. As it's doing, there are
a number of Call members that are climbing
the ladders on the side. There's two that have
gotten on top of it that are firing towards
any of the entities that are up at the top
and you see one them pulls out one of
the carbine rifles, waits, aims and
fires. (booming) It cracks like
thunder locally and you see a shaded figure (impact, groaning) and fall
off the wall and (thuds). TALIESIN: Done.
MATT: Hit the dust and the ground
right at the base of the wall on the inside.
TRAVIS: Shit! MATT: You can see one of
the other Call members, because there are now three
of them up by the pile of boxes that are
starting to grab crates and try and get any
of the necessary goods out from the
middle of the open and one of them goes
over and (whack), finishes the job on
whoever fell off the wall. As they were getting up,
crack with a heavy club and they are
no longer moving. SAM: Nice! MATT: But now,
you hear (flits) other shots, arrows going by and the occasional rifle
shots from the wall and more members are now coming
out of the Seat of Disdain. MARISHA: Do the ladders
appear to be a target? Are people, are
Paragon Call members going up the ladder and getting--
MATT: They are. MARISHA: -- shot off
the ladder? MATT: No one's been shot
off the ladder yet, but you do see about two
members are up on the ladder and then a shadow comes up
the top of the wall and pushes it off the side
and the ladder. (yelps) They both leap off
at the last second to try to save best they
can and roll into it. MARISHA: Oh, the ladders
are going up the wall? MATT: They're going up
against the wall, yeah, and then they get pushed off. You watch as they
tumble out of it. One of them gets up. (groans) Shoulder has popped out
of his socket a little bit and he starts yelling,
trying to get it back in while the other one looks
hurt, but he gets back up, pulls out
a nice, wicked saber, and starts rushing up around
the other side of the wall for another entryway. MARISHA: I'm going to go--
Is there an easy way to go up into the crawler? MATT: You can try, yeah. MARISHA: I'm not
going to try. I'm going to cast Spider Climb
on myself as well. LAURA: Yes!
MATT: Awesome, awesome! TRAVIS: Here we go.
LAURA: You got Spider Climb! MARISHA: I have Spider Climb
now, yeah. You see Laudna's limbs
start to crack as she starts to think and
channel the Nightmare King and then I'm going to
go on the inside of, underneath the belly
of the crawler and start to crawl up from
the inside to try and help-- LAURA: Creepy creeper! ASHLEY: Cool!
MATT: Great, that's awesome. Plenty of cover
on the inside. You notice that the platforms that are on the top
of the mammoth crawler are fairly even-keel
because they're designed to carry both
people and goods. MARISHA: Okay.
MATT: The underneath section is barely welded together
with whatever scrap was there and it is a jungle
of sharp, rusted bits, with the occasional
spaces to comb through. But with your Spider Climb,
easy enough with care, and I will ask for
an acrobatics check just to make sure
you don't end up nicking yourself
in the process, but it does give you-- MARISHA: Acrobatics?
MATT: Yes. TRAVIS: Nice. MARISHA: 16. MATT: 16. Without issue.
MARISHA: Distress. MATT: Without issue. No damage sustained. You're basically now
weaving in and out of this odd,
tangled hanging mass of jumbled junk that's
been welded underneath here to keep it going and
to prevent anyone else from blasting it from underneath. So you're now up
underneath that space. MARISHA: I'm trying to go
where the crates are. MATT: You got it. In there, amongst that, you
have three quarters cover while you're
underneath there. Just keep that in mind.
MARISHA: Sick. MATT: What's everyone else
doing who's not on Team Treshi? ASHLEY: Yeah, okay,
running through the crates. MATT: So you're into
the crates? Okay. TALIESIN: And
following along. MATT: Okay, cool. You rush up.
SAM: The crates, the crates! MATT: You can see now more
members are joining and while some
are fighting off, about half of the crew
out here, which now stands both, I'd say,
standing about 15 and about six or maybe seven
that are down and out in the current fray, but of the ones that
are still standing, half of them are
focused on the crates. They know the importance of probably why
this attack has happened and they're shouting, "Get
them inside, get them inside." They're grabbing
what they can. ASHLEY: Hurry, hurry,
get them inside! MATT: They're
picking up crates. As you approach, you can see
one of them is currently putting a bunch
of elements back into one of
the shattered boxes that you saw with the
Treshi name on it and you can see there's
these folded blankets that are torn open and there are dozens of
these small crystal vials, about a foot long that're
all spilled out on the ground. LAURA: I grab them.
MATT: As the dust is-- TALIESIN: I'm grabbing, yeah. We're coming in to help. MATT: Okay, cool.
So you grab a few. The guy holds
the box out like-- TALIESIN: Is there,
is there... Are there any of the
little, metal, black boxes with no edges, the little
safe boxes around? MATT: I will say
there is only one. The others ones would've
been picked up and they're being
loaded back into it and there's somebody currently
going for the last one right-- ASHLEY: I got it,
I got it, I got it! TALIESIN: I was about to say. (laughter) TALIESIN: Yeah,
I'm grabbing them. ASHLEY: I hike my skirt up and I'm putting things in. MATT: Putting things in?
ASHLEY: Yeah. MATT: A lot of it's broken
rock and mason materials. ASHLEY: It's fine!
TRAVIS: Take it! MATT: You shove it in there. ASHLEY: Who knows what it is?
MATT: A handful of vials. ASHLEY: It could be something cool.
MATT: Okay. TALIESIN: Yeah. MATT: A couple of the vials
broke onto the ground and you can see this
dark, viscous gray liquid spread out and
it immediately begins to dissipate and evaporate. TALIESIN: Don't touch it!
Whatever you do, don't touch it! It might be dangerous! As I'm just yelling to
everyone to stay back. MATT: Okay.
LAURA: Okay, Dad! MATT: Okay.
TALIESIN: Yeah. MATT: I would like to ask you
to make an investigation check. TALIESIN: Yeah, yeah.
MATT: And you to make an intimidation check. Because the other guy
that was going forward at the same time--
ASHLEY: Okay. MATT: -- has that look
in his eye like, "I'm important.
This is important." ASHLEY: Ooh.
MARISHA: Come on. TRAVIS: We're going to get promoted!
MARISHA: Come on. TALIESIN: Let's try
that again. I didn't-- That ran.
ASHLEY: 18. MATT: 18? He rushes towards
it and you say, "I got it!"
ASHLEY: I got it, I got it, I got it! MATT: "Jeez, fine!" (laughter) Turns around and starts
picking up some other things. Grabs another one of the
crates and lifts it up and you all now have access to a handful of
random materials. What did you roll?
TALIESIN: 20! MATT: A 20?
TALIESIN: 19 plus one. 20. MATT: Okay.
ASHLEY: Woo! MATT: I say you have three
of the vials you recover-- LAURA: Yes!
TALIESIN: Cool. MATT: -- and
quickly ferret away while the rest are putting
it back into the crate as the guy is carrying it and
puts the blanket back into it. You guys begin
pulling back before a much larger explosion-- TRAVIS: Oh my god.
MATT: (exploding) Rocks the top of
the mammoth-crawler. Immediately, as
the impact hits, I need you--
MARISHA: Yeah. MATT: Are you going to hold
on or are you going to drop? MARISHA: I'm underneath
and I'm going to hold on. TRAVIS: That's where you
want to be when a large structure explodes.
MARISHA: Yeah. SAM: On it!
MARISHA: Underneath it! MATT: So. It rocks, and even those
of you who are running in with Team Treshi, you hear
this distant, muffled (explosion) inside
the stone walls-- TRAVIS: I'm sure it's fine.
MATT: -- of the Seat of Disdain. Those of you outside-- LAURA: You hear in
your head: Laudna! MARISHA: (hums nervously) MATT: It looks like a large
satchel of preset explosives, not dissimilar to the one
that you had recently used-- MARISHA: Oh shit. MATT: -- had been thrown
onto this crawler and then detonated
upon impact. It specifically hits
one of the large joints at where one of the other
still-standing legs is and as it detonates, the leg (crawler
leg cracking) cracks out from its mooring and the entire structure
begins to collapse downward. LAURA: Oh no.
ASHLEY: Mister. Go to Laudna. MATT: "(screeches)"
(laughter) Like a burst of
zipping flame, you watch as Mister
just starts darting through the storm,
the wind striking him. He's having to correct for it like he's a sail pushing
against the wind. It has to arc
around as it's like (crawler leg creaking) and it's starting to rotate and crumble onto itself. You, who are holding on the inside
of this mass of tangled metal, feel it list, shift
and then begin to turn as you see the ground
itself get darker as shadow begins to
rise towards you. MARISHA: Oh boy. Can I position myself-- Can I Titanic this and get on the other
side of the railing, to where I'm not
going to smash-- MATT: So you're trying to
get up onto the top then? MARISHA: Yeah, I'm
going to move around to where I'm not
smashing down. MATT: Roll a d20 and add your dexterity
modifier right now. I'm just going to roll
for the actual machine. MARISHA: Don't fuck me, Gil. LIAM: Come on, Spider Climb,
Spider Climb. MARISHA: Okay. 10 total. MATT: Machine rolled a two. MARISHA and LAURA: Oh. MATT: So this was just
like slowly listing as you dart around
from underneath and you just scurry up around
the edge of the crawler as the impact hits
(crashing). Dust billows out of the sides in a big ring and
gets caught up into the wind behind,
just adds to the rest of the sandstorm around.
MARISHA: I just say to Imogen: I'm not sure if there's going
to be much of a crawler left to plant this ring! MATT: At which point, you feel
this clawing on your shoulder. SAM: Oh wow.
MARISHA: Ah! MATT: "(screeching)" MARISHA: Oh, don't fucking
scare me like that, Mister! Mister, look for
the black crates! Go, go! MATT: (whoosh) And goes
darting after Fearne who has a black crate. MARISHA: Oh fuck! (laughter) MARISHA: Stupid monkey. ASHLEY: He's only seven! (laughter) MARISHA: Do I see
any more crates? Are there still more crates
left on this crawler? MATT: You see there are
four crates left on it and they're all just the very
large, rock-based crates that were heavy enough that
they didn't slide far enough off to hit the ground
when it first listed. LAURA: They got
all the Treshi stuff. MARISHA: Yeah, there's nothing left--
LAURA: I think so, yeah. MARISHA: -- here
for me, is there? MATT: Not at the moment,
no. But, what else, is there anything else you want
to do while you're up here? MARISHA: Come back to me. (laughter)
MATT: Okay. You got it. SAM: Did you just pass? Really?
MATT: And-- TRAVIS: Pass.
MATT: -- pass. (laughter) TRAVIS: Check.
ASHLEY: Come back to me. MARISHA: Can I do that? MATT: Okay. TRAVIS: Check. Your turn. MATT: So you guys are charging
back to the Seat of Disdain while carrying boxes. I need both of you to roll
dexterity saving throws. LAURA: That's you.
TRAVIS: Don't look at me. ASHLEY: That's me.
MARISHA: Don't you look at me. MATT: Yes. You're both carrying the goods of
interest here and you don't quite
know what's happening, except for you hear a
brief, high-pitched whine. What did you roll? ASHLEY: 18. MATT: 18. Okay. So you only
take half damage on this. SAM: Uh-oh. TALIESIN: 15. MATT: 15? You take full damage.
TALIESIN: Okay. MATT: That is 18 points of bludgeoning
damage to you. SAM: Are you ragé-ing? MATT: He's not, so that's full. You take nine points of
bludgeoning damage. ASHLEY: Okay.
MATT: As another explosive that was thrown from above and arcs trying to catch you
guys as you're all rushing back towards the Seat of Disdain.
LAURA: Oh my god. TRAVIS: Bombarding this.
MATT: It's thrown well, because with the wind going, it manages to catch, and while it's not a
perfect hit, it rolls into your periphery
as it impacts and then detonates
right in front of you and as it does, you manage to
take the full brunt of it, but, you know, you're
no more worse for wear than in other worse
scenarios than this. Fearne, you do manage
to dart out of the way slightly and
minimize the impact, but you're still able
to continue going and-- SAM: How far am I from them? MATT: They're now probably
about 15 feet and closing in because you only got partway
out of the battlefield. TRAVIS: Kill them all.
SAM: Okay. So I'm just going to keep
my eyes open for more bags of explosives
being thrown over. Maybe I can knock them out of
the sky as they come over. MATT: Okay. As you glance up, make a perception check
with disadvantage for me, if you don't mind.
SAM: Dis-- MATT: Yep. SAM: -- advantage? Perception is 15. MATT: 15? Okay. Not too bad. Glancing up, you do see
some of the figures on top. You see multiple shadows
now, but they're combating. It looks like members
of the Paragon's Call have now managed to
climb back onto the wall and it looks like there is
a definitive scuffle now beginning to occur at
both sides of the wall. There's still figures and
shadows in the center of it that you can see are lobbing
explosives and firing down from different rifle shots. You see flashes of muzzles.
SAM: I can't make out who they are or what uniforms
they're wearing? MATT: The best you
can tell with a 15 is that they are heavily
wrapped in heavy hoods, multitudes of cloth
almost like a mantle and they don't wear any
distinctive colors or symbols that you can tell in
the middle of this storm. SAM: Okay. Assassins.
MATT: They're to the point where it seems
intentionally vague. TRAVIS: The vaguery. MATT: In the interim,
while the rest of you are going through and doing
this and going about this, you know, multi-minute
struggle and grabbing things, pushing through,
getting blasted, Team Treshi, what
are you doing? LIAM: Lead the
way, Pock O'Pea. TRAVIS: Okay! I take my bloody
hand and I smear it on my face. MARISHA: Cool.
TRAVIS: Uh. And make my way towards--
SAM: ♪ Makin' my way! ♪ TRAVIS: -- the door that
had the lock before. Is there anyone
standing at it? Is it open? MATT: Okay. It is not open and there's nobody
currently standing at it. As you guys are
rushing back in, people are pushing past
you, grabbing weaponry. "Where are you going?" LAURA: Weapons! (laughter) MATT: Keeps going! (laughter) MATT: They're not that
concerned with it. You see someone goes by
and sees you and goes, "Oh god!" And
just keeps running. "Stay strong, little one!" (laughter) As you tear down the hallway, back to where
your barracks were, around the curve,
passing by the war room and you can see there
are now two figures up on the table there that
are both talking loudly trying to figure
out, "Who is it? "Do we know?
Are there any sides? "Bring one of the bodies in!" They start fanning out
and giving orders to other figures. You know
earlier when you heard that there were only going
to be about 20 or so people here in the Seat of Disdain for when you were getting
your original tour? You get the sense that maybe that information
wasn't correct. SAM: Oh.
LAURA: Ah, the lies! MATT: A lot of more people are starting--
TRAVIS: Oh more. to come out of the woodwork
to defend this place. But nevertheless,
you rush back to where your
barracks door is, down the hallway where there's
the stairway that leads up and there is the
current barred gateway that leads into the stairs
below to the basement. TRAVIS: (twirls tool)
Just give me permission. LAURA: Do it.
TRAVIS: Okay! I start lock picking on the lock,
even though we're standing out in the middle
of the chaos. LAURA: If we're caught,
what do we say? We're the elite team?
TRAVIS: Ratanish sent us to get Treshi out of here.
LAURA: Yeah. TRAVIS: He's gone!
LIAM: Get down to the VIP! LAURA: Yeah. Yeah,
yeah. Got it. LIAM: All right. I'm
going to get behind Imogen so that she's between Chetney
and I and I'll back us-- I'll watch our back. MATT: Okay. You got it. All right, so you
go. Pick a lock? TRAVIS: Yep. MATT: You don't have
to roll. It's open. SAM: Oh!
LAURA: Oh. LIAM: Shit. TRAVIS: I shut it last time.
LAURA: Oh no. MATT: Yeah.
LIAM: Yeah, someone beat us here. TRAVIS: Fucking Bells!
LAURA: Get in there! TRAVIS: Come on!
(laughter) LAURA: Oh no. It was this whole distraction.
MARISHA: It's about to be a thing! TRAVIS: But as I hustle, I'm
scanning for hidden traps. MATT: All right. (laughter) TRAVIS: The super scan!
Going down the steps! (laughter) MATT: Sure. Make an investigation or perception
check with disadvantage. TRAVIS: Oh!
MATT: Because you are rapidly searching
as you are running. MARISHA: Come on! TRAVIS: Nine? MATT: (laughs) Seems fine!
TRAVIS: Okay. Going down the steps.
MATT: Cool! The wire hits you in the shin and you immediately start
tumbling forward down the stairs. MARISHA: Fuck!
TRAVIS: Fuck! There was no wire
there before! MATT: Make a dexterity
saving throw. LAURA: Can I use
telekinetic shove to pull him back to me? MATT: In a moment. We'll
see what he rolls here. TRAVIS: Is this magic at all? No.
MATT: No, it is literally just a wire. TRAVIS: Ooh god. 12. MATT: 12. We're talking ass
over tea kettle. You just (tumbling). This
is the second time a wire has fucked you up in
the stairs scenario and you just go (thuds)
down the stairs. You Telekinetic Shove him back five feet.
LAURA: Yeah! MATT: Which pulls
him back up again. LAURA: No, no, no! MATT: He gets an additional
five feet of him tumbling. (laughter) TRAVIS: What the fuck? We're on the same team, huh? Oh god, there are wires! MATT: You failed
the saving throw. We'll say it's only two
points of bludgeoning damage on the way down.
TRAVIS: Okay. MATT: Not too hard.
LAURA: We step over the wire. MATT: All right. You reduced the damage
he would've taken by pulling him back, but it
definitely made it longer which is funnier.
LAURA: All right, yeah. MARISHA: Just slows
his momentum. MATT: Hit the
ground! (groans) Right as you focus, the rest of you trying
to follow suit, but he definitely made a, not intentional bee line
for the basement floor. Glancing to the right you see what looks to be
an unconscious guard-- TRAVIS: Shit.
MATT: On the ground. LAURA: Go. Go! TRAVIS: Yeah,
I'd say I run up. Can I pat his
waist real quick? Are there any keys, pouches,
anything that I could grab that would be a faster
way out of here in case we come up
against a locked door? MATT: You go and search
through his body. Make an investigation
check for me real fast. LAURA: I'm running past
to get to Treshi. MATT: Okay, you're both
running past? Got it. TRAVIS: 17. MATT: 17, great. I mean, there's weaponry, there's a coin purse.
TRAVIS: Nope, fuck that. Well... MATT: It looks like there
is a loop on the belt, a leather loop,
that is well-hidden underneath the coin purse
itself, but it's been cut. TRAVIS: Yep! Okay, okay, follow me! MATT: Okay.
TRAVIS: As I run to the-- MATT: You say "Follow me!"
and they're already gone. TRAVIS: Shit! (laughter) TRAVIS: One nine! (laughter) MATT: The two of you, who are
stepping out into this area, as soon as you step down
the stairs past Chetney as he's searching the body, there is a hallway that
goes right in front of you and a hallway that
goes to the right. Where do you go?
LAURA: Well, I know that Treshi was underneath
our room before, so I'm going to
head that direction. MATT: Okay. So you
turn the corner and at this moment
immediately, you see there are
two other guards on the opposite
side of the hallway that immediately start
firing in your direction. SAM: Oh shit. LIAM: On us? Obviously,
on us? MATT: They start firing
in your direction. Hold on, you need
help with the VIP? It's us! It's us! LAURA: We're here to help! MATT: So, are you continuing
into the hallway? LIAM: Yeah, and I hold up a hood.
LAURA: We'll pause just long enough, yeah. MATT: Okay.
LIAM: Yellow hood. MATT: They both duck behind. Because the hall continues,
it opens up into a larger room and then pinches inward, and then turns to a
left as you look down. LIAM: So tunnel,
boop, tunnel, turn? MATT: Yes, and they're
around the turn. So they turn around, fire at
you, and then come back. LAURA: Were they
wearing yellow? MATT: Yes, they were both
wearing yellow cloaks. LAURA: Okay, yeah.
MATT: And they're well armored. LAURA: Okay. MATT: So you both shout out. LAURA: Uh-huh.
LIAM: Yeah. MATT: There's no
response immediately. They turn back out
and get ready. LAURA: Okay. In their head,
I'm going to say in their head: Has he been compromised? MATT: One of them looks
confused for a second, and they both take
a shot, pardon me, both take a shot, not
in your direction, but to the left of you, past where your vision
into the room goes. TALIESIN: Oh.
SAM: Oh. SAM: Shooting at
somebody else. LAURA: I'm confused
about our-- Yeah. LIAM: There's
someone in there, so Orym's going to
start sliding up. MATT: So you're, again,
walking into a hall. It opens up into a room, but you haven't
entered the room yet, and they're both firing--
TALIESIN: Blind corner. MATT: -- to something around a blind corner.
LAURA: So they see us, but they're now attacking
something different. MATT: Correct.
LAURA: Okay. TRAVIS: Might have
a chance still. LAURA: I know. I'm going
to try to continue and-- MATT: One of the guards who
turns around the corner another round of fire takes
something to the forehead and just stumbles onto
the ground, not moving. LAURA: Did we see where that
came from, the shot came from? LIAM: Orym runs up.
MATT: You get the sense the direction it
was coming from was around the blind
corner to the right. LIAM: Orym runs up the left wall
and springs off it, sword out, at whatever is
around the corner. TRAVIS: Sick, sick,
sick, sick, sick! ASHLEY: Cool.
MATT: Okay, okay. There, as you jump
around and land, as soon as you do, the
first thing you notice is that the cell to Treshi's, you see the cell
that Treshi is in, and Treshi is currently
up on the cot, back to the wall, hands
on the side of the wall, eyes wide and
trying to just stay out of the middle
of this scuffle. The second thing
that you notice is that the door is not
yet open to the cell. The third thing you notice
is the cloaked figure that's standing there
has a blade to your throat. SAM: (gasps)
LAURA: (gasps) LIAM: As I fly through the
air down from the wall? MATT: As you come down
from the wall and land. LIAM: Okay. Okay.
Yeah, great. MATT: What else would
you like to do? LIAM: Oh, I was going to
come down and slash, so I could potentially get--
I wasn't trying to readjust, I think I would get
stabbed because I was saying I was launching off the wall--
TRAVIS: Yeah, your momentum is moving forward. MATT: That's true. That's true.
LIAM: -- like a missile. So that being the case, as the
individual swishes around, blade out towards
whatever is right there, hearing the sound,
yeah, all right. TRAVIS: Familiar face?
LAURA: Familiar face? MATT: You don't know yet. That will be 26 to hit. LIAM: That definitely,
definitely, definitely hits. MATT: Okay. That is seven
points of slashing damage. LIAM: Okay. MATT: As the blade catches
you on the side of the face, up the side of the
cheek, past the ear, and you feel that warmth,
that warm immediate pain, that burning sensation,
as you stumble and land and look
up into the face of a very harried-looking,
intense glare from Artana Voe. LIAM: Shit. I'm going to roll
through her legs. MATT: Okay. Make
an acrobatics check. MARISHA: Told you I was horny.
SAM: (laughs) LAURA: Can I see anything
at this point, or is-- LAURA: If you're
following in, then yeah. LAURA: Yeah, okay. MATT: I'd say you, by
now, have caught up around the corner here,
and you immediately see just out of vision of
Orym leaping up the wall-- TRAVIS: Little
hamster flying across. MATT: -- bouncing
off out of sight. TRAVIS: Okay. What are you all doing?
LIAM: 16. MATT: 16?
LIAM: 16. MATT: I'll say,
yeah, actually. You see in the moment
of recognition, there's a look of
confusion on her face, and that's just enough
for you to dart, having a little more
information about the scenario than she did, and
she tries to reconvene her position and try
and sweep her leg out to pick you up and
hook you as you go, but you're too quick
and you immediately tumble onto the opposite
side, through the legs, and now you're in between
the cell door and her. LIAM: Okay. And blade,
not attacking now, just blade pressed a
little bit like with Yu, pressed to the
small of her back. MATT: Mm-hmm. LIAM: We got a bit
of a standoff here! MATT: She takes a
hit to the shoulder from the other guard
that's still alive down the hallway and
she goes, "Shit!" Pulls up her crossbow. She
has a big, old, heavy crossbow. You've seen it once before. Pulls it up and
launches a bolt out towards the guard
that just shot her. That's a natural 20.
(groaning) That's not good for him. That's really
not good for him. Yeah. Into the chest,
and you see him hold it for a second, realize
it, grab his crossbow, and start going through
the motions of loading it, and as he does, his motion
just gets sluggish. He falls to a knee and
then falls unconscious. TRAVIS: Too tired to fight.
MARISHA: Fuck. LAURA: I am going to
see all this happening? MATT: Mm-hm.
LAURA: I'm just going to say: Artana Voe! I'm going to hit her
with Psychic Lance. MATT: Okay. TRAVIS: Quick! They're
probably after the same thing! LAURA: That's an
intelligence saving throw. MATT: That is.
Okay, that is... TALIESIN: That's dark.
MATT: That's going to be a 13. LAURA: She fails.
TALIESIN: (laughs) TRAVIS: What does that do?
TALIESIN: Oh man. LAURA: So, she is
going to take 7d6-- MATT: Okay!
LAURA: -- psychic damage. MARISHA: 7d6. TRAVIS: I'm sorry,
did you say 7d6? LAURA: 7d6. One, two,
three, four, five, six. MARISHA: 76. SAM: Then something happens
to her afterwards, too, right? LAURA: Yeah.
MARISHA: This is that one. ASHLEY: Ooh!
LAURA: Okay, well. 10. 20. 24, 25 points of
psychic damage. MATT: 25 points of psychic
damage, you got it. LAURA: She's immediately
incapacitated. MATT: Until?
LAURA: My next turn. MATT: Okay, yeah, so as
you shout that and scream, there's this glance
as she goes suddenly from across the shoulder, it would be actually
from this position based on where you're
coming in, and goes, "Huh?" Looks over, the eyes go wide,
and you watch as the pupils dilate in a flash, and suddenly
she grabs her forehead and crumples onto one knee and
is just clutching her head. The crossbow just clangs
to the ground around, and holds her face,
going "(groans)." And is just there, this
tight ball of all the muscles trying to deal with the
pain that's wracking her mind. LIAM: I'm going to whip
out a rope and tie her up. MARISHA: Oh!
MATT: All right, go ahead. Chet, you want to do anything? TRAVIS: No, I'm running
to Treshi's cell. LAURA: Yeah, get Treshi.
TRAVIS: Yeah. MATT: Okay, so you go ahead--
TRAVIS: Find the keys! LAURA: I think
she's got the keys. TRAVIS: I know, but I'm
not waiting for her. MATT: Okay, are you finding the
keys or are you tying her up? LIAM: Tying her up.
LAURA: Tying her up. MATT: Okay.
LAURA: He's tying her up. I'm going to say to Treshi:
We're here to help you. MATT: I'm going
to just ask this, because she's incapacitated
until the next turn. That's six seconds she's incapacitated.
LAURA: Yeah. MATT: That's a very fast time
to tie someone up entirely. What kind of tie
are you doing? LIAM: I'm going to--
TRAVIS: Uh-huh, uh-huh? LIAM: I'm going to
tie her legs together. MATT: Okay. Fair enough. LIAM: Because that's
something I can do fast. MATT: Go ahead and roll
a dexterity check, I'll say with advantage
because she is incapacitated. LAURA: Can I kick her
crossbow down the-- MATT: You can indeed, yes. It skids and clatters about 10 feet from
where you're standing. LIAM: With advantage?
MATT: With advantage. LIAM: Natural 20.
SAM: Yes! ASHLEY: Oh my! MATT: With that--
Well, first off, you're pretty close
to the legs already, and with her crumpled
down, you basically kick the one knee that she's
leaning on out from under her. She goes flat on the
ground and, with the legs straightened out behind, you
immediately grab the rope and figure eight
around, pull it up, and do a half hogtie in the
back, pull the knot taut just as she begins to pull up and try and back away,
and her ankles are bound. Immediately as
this is happening, you're going over and looking
for the keys, you said? TRAVIS: No, I'm just
going to the cell. MATT: Well the cell's right
next to where they are, so you go and join
them at the cell. TRAVIS: Yeah.
MATT: You see him tying up the legs of
Artana Voe just as she's starting to rouse.
TRAVIS: Good job! MATT: What are you doing now?
You're talking to Treshi. LAURA: I'm saying we're
here to get him out. MATT: Treshi at
this point is like, "Of course, yes.
Whatever you need." TRAVIS: I'm going to start
trying to lock pick the cell. Speak to me, cell-y! LAURA: I'm going to reach
into Chetney's shirt. TRAVIS: Mind? My
brain? My chest? LAURA: In your shirt.
TRAVIS: Ah. LIAM: Get those white curlies.
LAURA: And pull out the scarf that's sticking out
that Fearne gave you. TRAVIS: Yeah? LAURA: I'm going to stick it in.
TALIESIN: Little bit of a Velcro sound. LAURA: Because we can reach
through the bars, right? MATT: Yeah.
LAURA: I'm going to flare it out on the ground and
tell Treshi to hop in. SAM: To a scarf?
LAURA: No, the hole. SAM: Oh.
(laughter) MATT: Make a deception check.
MARISHA: Come on. Get in. Get in, you piece of shit.
LIAM: Make a hole check. MATT: You're telling a man
under fire to jump into a hole. LAURA: Right.
MATT: So make a deception check. LAURA: But we just helped him.
MATT: Of course. That's why you have
an opportunity here. LAURA: Oh my god.
SAM: Oh my god! LAURA: 13.
MATT: 13? You throw it on the ground. "Open the door.
Open the door." TRAVIS: Yeah, good thinking.
MATT: "We can get out of here." TRAVIS: Cover my work.
MATT: "We can get out of here." Get in there, start
(picking lock). MATT: Okay, at this point,
Artana Voe is now rousing. Goes, "What are you doing?" Turns around and twists where
she's flat on the ground, flips over while her
ankles are still bound so that her back's now
on the ground facing you. TRAVIS: That's a problem. MATT: And goes ahead and
pulls out a shortsword and just looks at you
and just and says, "What are you doing?" LIAM: Disarming attack.
TRAVIS: We could work together! I mean, maybe she's with people!
MATT: Go for it. LIAM: Disarming
attack. Is she prone? MATT: She's very much prone,
yeah. So with advantage. LIAM: Oh wow, that
was a crazy roll. SAM: Always the diplomat. LIAM: That is an 18.
SAM: Chetney Pock O'Pea. ASHLEY: Pock O'Pea! ASHLEY and LAURA: Pock O'Pea!
LIAM: To hit. SAM: (as Chet) Let's just talk about this!
MATT: Yeah, that hits. That definitely hits.
LIAM: Okay. Then Artana needs to
make a strength save-- MATT: All righty.
LIAM -- of, that would be, where is it? 16.
MATT: She rolled a 14. So the shortsword that
she had sheathed earlier after striking you
as you went down-- LIAM: Mm-hmm. MATT: -- is now struck
from the other hand, skids off down the
hall a bit behind her. She's like, "(grunts)." LIAM: I will pierce
her in the shoulder. SAM: Oh god. LIAM: And say--
Well, I got to roll. MATT: Yeah. LIAM: That is a 21. MATT: 21 misses.
LAURA: Oh shit. TRAVIS: She's stacked up.
ASHLEY: Whoa. MARISHA: 21 misses?
TRAVIS: She's wearing some shit. SAM: Or she has Blur on her.
MATT: She has an ability called Multiattack Defense where she gets a plus four bonus against multiattacks.
LIAM: Thank you. Cool. Okay. TRAVIS: Multiattack Defense? MATT: So you strike once, knock the blade free.
SAM: That's cool. MATT: The second time, she
gets that look in her eye like, I know your tricks. As you try to strike
part of the shoulder, she's like... TRAVIS: Yeah, Drunken Master.
MATT: Slowly moves out of the way, puts the arm around, and grabs your arm, and
is now attempting to, as a counterattack, lock
your arm up with hers. This would be an athletics
versus athletics check. LIAM: Okay.
SAM: Rollies! LAURA: (laughs) LIAM: 14. MATT: 14? 18.
LAURA: Oh no! MATT: So you're
considered grappled. We'll say for the purposes
of the narrative here, that one weapon arm is
currently locked in place. You can still strike
with the other, you know, whatever it is you want
to do, but right now, that arm is locked and
she has you pulled in, looking you straight in the
eyes and is going like, "Whatever you think
you're doing here, "you're fucking up a lot." LIAM: We're walking
out with him. MATT: "Where?" LIAM: Let's talk
about it on the way. MATT: Make a persuasion check.
MARISHA: Come on! LIAM: Natural 20.
(cheering) LIAM: On the Catha die. MARISHA: Liam's on fire!
ASHLEY: Yes! MATT: She reads you. The intensity in the
eyes tries to hold for a second, and there's a
slight relaxing in the brows. "You're not one of
them. All right." LIAM: Okay. MATT: Takes a moment,
releases your arm. LIAM: Chet, can you
get that lock open? TRAVIS: She's just
starting to talk to me. I'm feeling it out. Yeah, reveal your secrets! I mean, I know you got keys, but I'm going to
fucking take my chance. Natural 20!
(cheering) MATT: Wait, really?! And you hit the table
and knocked it off. (laughter) MATT: There it is, yeah. MARISHA: Holy shit. MATT: So yeah, you don't
know where the keys are. That brief moment of
tension separates itself, and you and Artana have
this brief moment of at least understanding. As that's happening, you, coming up to this
relatively intricate lock, what's your total on that
with a natural 20? TRAVIS: That'd be a 30.
LIAM: Damn! SAM: Jeez Louise.
ASHLEY: Oh my gosh. MATT: The DC on
this was a 25, so. LAURA: Wow.
ASHLEY: Whoa! MATT: You, glancing
at this lock, the inspiration rolling
through you, the burst of invigorated
blood hitting your system, all the adrenaline
flowing through you. In the back of your head, you
hear that howl, that (howls) (laughter) MATT: And you quietly, without
even realizing it, mouth it. (quiet howling)
TRAVIS: Yes. (laughter) MATT: As you're focused in, without hesitation, every
single tumbler falls. You find the right hook,
click, and turn. (plink) It falls open,
the heavy-ass lock clanks to the side
and the gate opens to the front,
Treshi still up on the side. TRAVIS: Explain one
thing to me! Are you a prisoner, or
are they protecting you? MATT: "You wear their colors."
TRAVIS: I know, I'm new here. MATT: "You're working
with her? "Who are you, who are you?" He grabs a book and is holding it out--
LAURA: I say Command. MATT: -- in front of him like a weapon.
LAURA: I'm going to Command Treshi. MARISHA: Jump in the fucking hole.
MATT: What do you command? LAURA: In! TRAVIS: Oh, one word!
MARISHA: That's right, bitch! ASHLEY: Let's go, let's go!
TRAVIS: One word! LIAM: Come on. MATT: That is a natural
16, plus two. That's an 18, I'm sorry. MARISHA: Hot table,
hot table! LAURA: I was trying to
make it easy for you. Yes, take him down. TRAVIS: Okay. (screams) MATT: He goes, "Ah!" Holds the book out to
try and defend himself. You get the sense
that seeing this person that attacked the people
and then is now-- there's a lot of weird
scenarios here as far as alliances go that
he's starting to figure out, and right as he's about
to say something about it, you come at him
like a madman. TRAVIS: The wood chisel goes (whoosh) and touches
his aorta, and you can see it moving against the pulse
of his heartbeat. Unless you want to bleed, get
in the hole and do it quietly. MATT: Make an
intimidation check. MARISHA: Come on.
LAURA: Come on, Chet. TRAVIS: Natural 20!
MARISHA: Dude, dude, dude! (cheering) TALIESIN: Why are you
burning through them now? Why are you burning
through them now? MARISHA: Fucking bananas! TRAVIS: Now's the time!
The wolf decides! (laughter) SAM: No! ASHLEY: The wolf
decides, yes! LIAM: Holy shit.
LAURA: Oh my god. MATT: Treshi's sitting
there with the... He goes, "Fine. "She'll kill you
just as easily "as she would've killed me," and then he jumps
into the hole, vanishing into the
dark, and you hear-- Actually, you would
hear nothing. TRAVIS: Ah! (laughter)
TRAVIS: (objects thudding) TALIESIN: Start counting. LIAM: I'll slice
the rope open. MATT: Okay, as you cut
the rope, she looks at you and then immediately skitters
back and grabs the crossbow, the heavy crossbow, darts over and grabs
the blade, sheathing it. TRAVIS: Wait!
MATT: Loads the crossbow, pulls it back in
a rapid maneuver, and then turns invisible,
vanishes from sight. TRAVIS: Great, I was going
to grab a yellow cloak. Even better.
MATT: There's a brief beat where you hear, "Where are you taking him?" You're not quite
sure where she is. You just hear it in the
space where she was standing. TRAVIS: Going out in the desert?
LIAM: What do you think, Imogen? LAURA: In your head.
MARISHA: 10 seconds. LAURA: I think you shouldn't
have trusted her. TRAVIS: 10 minutes, right?
LAURA: Tell her whatever you want. TALIESIN: 10 minutes before?
TRAVIS: Yeah. TALIESIN: Okay.
TRAVIS: Not 10 seconds. MARISHA: That's right. TALIESIN: Thought it was a
minute and a half, okay. LIAM: We're taking him home.
We're taking him home. MATT: "Maybe our paths aren't "quite as different
as you think." You hear the voice
sourcelessly, and then she reappears on the
opposite side of the hallway where you guys came from,
and is now standing at the base of the stairs
where you first entered, and goes, "We got to go." LIAM: Come on. MATT: Okay, back to the rest
of you, who have been outside. You, who have-- begin to
rush back to the Seat now, hear the
continuing explosions and the occasional screams, (screams) (impacts)
TRAVIS: (laughs) MATT: As more things
explode and detonate, there's rocks and shale
being flung from behind, Fearne, you're struck a little bit in the
back of the head, not enough to
really do damage, but enough to sting a bit.
ASHLEY: Ow! MATT: Other soldiers
start rushing out, and you can now begin
to hear a sound that you almost began
to hear before, (rising whirring)
(jarring impacts) as you see a ruin-crawler
from across the side now that's being manned by
some of the Paragon's Call, have fired up their
Kshatriya Special-- SAM: Oh wow.
MATT: -- that is now, the flares of its
muzzle are (explosions) shooting in
a row in the space, as the ruin-crawler, coming
forward towards the direction where the mammoth-crawler is
now partially collapsed. You can see now the
lobbed explosives and the various rifle fire that's coming from
that side of the wall is now moving
and shifting along the wall to try and avoid the fire from the Special,
and as it's just shooting, (gunshots) you can see chunks of
the wall itself (impacts), bits of rock flying off, as elements begin
to crack and break, not enough to do enough
damage to the wall to destroy it, necessarily,
but definitely you can see where
the spray of fire is trying to trace and
follow, but once again, the storm itself is
definitely obfuscating a lot of their
attempt to whip around. While this is all happening,
what are you two doing? TALIESIN: If we've gotten
close enough to the building, where the fuck is Laudna? MARISHA: You'll actually
hear in your head: Ashton! TRAVIS and MATT:
(deeply) Ashton. MARISHA: Where have they
taken the crates? MATT, TRAVIS, and ASHLEY:
(dissonant whispers) TALIESIN: We've got what
we need. Fuck the ring. Get out. We're heading out. MARISHA: (growls)
TRAVIS: (deeply) (growls) MARISHA: I'm going to
start dodging fire. I'm going to
Spider Climb down. MATT: Okay.
MARISHA: You kind of just-- I'm going to lay low
and skitter across, back towards the Call.
MATT: Okay. SAM: Aside from the thing
that's firing right now, are there any other
vehicles or horses or carts or modes of transportation?
MATT: There are no horses. There are definitely two
other skirmish-crawlers that are at the periphery,
against the wall. One of them is on its side, that's currently
not operable, and another that's resting, and then there's the
ruin-crawler that's now, like a giant tripod,
making its way over to this side
of battlefield. It's just firing.
SAM: I'm making a beeline through "Saving Private
Ryan" gunfire and explosions and
bodies and stuff. I'm just like, (shouts) Ah! I'm sorry,
I can't help you right now! MATT: At that point, I need
both you and Laudna to make dexterity saving
throws for me, please. TRAVIS: Oh no!
MARISHA: To dodge? Just straight dex? MATT: To dodge shrapnel
and thrown-- SAM: Eight.
TRAVIS: Oh god! MATT: Ooh, that's a fail.
MARISHA: Shit. It was going so well. What's my dex saving throw?
It's not great, okay. Okay, 16.
MATT: 16? Okay. MARISHA: Yeah.
MATT: So you take half damage. MARISHA: All right. MATT: That's actually
a pretty bad roll. MARISHA: I have to
roll to see if it hits my
Mirror Image, right? MATT: This is a radial scenario.
MARISHA: Okay. MATT: This is not a targeted
attack, so it's not going to, unfortunately, be avoidable
by the Mirror Image. MARISHA: Okay.
MATT: However, you take 11 points of
bludgeoning damage, FCG. Then you would take five
points of bludgeoning damage as the reign of
chaos around you. TALIESIN: Can I see
either of them? I would be looking for you. MATT: You can see the dark
shape in the dust storm of FCG darting back and
beginning to make his way through the
different gunfire. Where are you heading?
TALIESIN: What the fuck are you doing? SAM: I'm trying to
get to the crawler that is parked up
against the wall. MATT: The skirmish-crawler?
SAM: Yeah. MATT: Okay, you
watch FGC just vanish into the dust storm. TALIESIN: Shit, fuck!
ASHLEY: Where is he going? MARISHA: Do I pass FCG? MATT: With your passive
perception, I'd say you see, of everyone who's
running and charging, a lot of these very
normal, humanoid shapes, you see one (zooms) cruise off
in the opposite direction of where a lot of your friends were darting off
with their equipment. MARISHA: FCG?
I say in his head. Do you need help? (dissonant whispers)
SAM: Ah! (laughter) SAM: I'm getting
us a getaway car. MARISHA: I'll be right there. TRAVIS: (creepily) I'll be right there.
MARISHA: I'm going to go towards the Call, towards the Seat of Disdain. Do I see Ashton and Fearne? MATT: The two of you,
have you been waiting at the front of the entrance? TALIESIN: I was about to
go run deal with this, but they're both moving
in weird directions. I'm trying to figure out
what the fuck is happening. ASHLEY: I'm just
running around, just screaming, in circles. MATT: So the two of them are
just running around in circles in front of the fortress.
ASHLEY: Ah! TALIESIN: What the fuck? MARISHA: I'm bullish
on completing this. I just crawl
right past Ashton and start crawling up
the Seat of Disdain. MATT: Okay, so you're now
full-on creepy "Ring" girl crawling up the side of the fortress.
TRAVIS: Up the fucking fortress? LAURA: Up the fortress? MARISHA: Yes.
TRAVIS: Love it. MATT: All right. Cool.
TRAVIS: That's like wife of Dracula
and Bram Stoker. MATT: FCG has darted off into the sandstorm
towards the wall, and Fearne is now--
TALIESIN: Try and track everything! I don't know what
the fuck to do! I'm going to run
at FCG full speed to wherever the
fuck FCG is going to. MATT: Okay.
TALIESIN: I will probably rage while doing it in case anything tries
to fire at me. MATT: Okay, so you're
going to do a full rage charging after him.
TALIESIN: Mm-hmm. MARISHA: I'm going to
look for Otohan's room. MATT: So Fearne, you're
now alone holding the dark, one-foot by one-foot
by one-foot cube. MARISHA: It's a really bad idea!
MATT: Heavily reinforced box as soldiers are now
running past you, running the other direction
past you, wounded and going, "I need ammunition!" He goes rushing back in.
(boom) Another explosion. The Special is now (gunfire)
up against the wall that way, and you see a burst of flame as another explosive
gets thrown against it. The crawler rears back a
bit, but holds its bearing, and you can see somebody
is currently casting a spell from the top of the wall. You see as it glows,
these dozens and dozens of small, little,
I want to say spears begin to shoot out and wrap
around the leg of the crawler, trying to hold it in place. You see it (metallic creaks)
get stuck there. Its legs can't
pull against it. It's locked in, but it's
still firing. (gunfire) One of them hits
whoever was casting that. Immediately, that
thread dispels. SAM: Oh wow.
MATT: You see a body, "Ah," hit the ground. So, it's chaos.
LAURA: This is chaos! ASHLEY: Yeah. MATT: In the meantime,
you are rushing over to where that--
SAM: Yeah, double dash,
trying to get there. MATT: Okay, make another dexterity saving throw
for me, please. SAM: Ooh, yikes. LAURA: You're trying
to get to the car? SAM: 17.
LAURA: To the crawler? SAM: Yeah.
MATT: 17, okay. Now that you're not right
in the middle of this chaos, charging around the
side to where it is, you avoid all damage
for this round. SAM: Great. MATT: Darting past,
you go to it, and it's, this is the one that
was on the right, that's away from the chaos?
SAM: I think, yeah. MATT: Okay, because there's
one that's on the ground and one that's set
up on the side there that you can see. SAM: Is it on blocks or
something, or is it-- MATT: No, it's just
resting on its side. SAM: On its <i>side</i>.
MATT: Yes. SAM: Was there
one that looked more drivable than the other? MATT: There is, but that
is where the ruin-crawler is now over by, and
where it seems a lot of the
scuffle's happening. SAM: Okay, all right,
great. I'll figure it out. MATT: Okay, so you rush
up to the side of it, and you can see it's
laying on its edge. It doesn't appear to be
heavily damaged, by any means. It definitely looks like it's
seen some wear and tear. A lot of the armor
and metal aspects that are welded to it
are bent and jagged, but also, that's part of its
charm and what people present as a scary thing, not
to get involved in. You're not sure if it's
damaged or not, really, in the way that it's built. What are you doing? SAM: I'm going to use my
grapple hook, if I need to, to get up into the
cockpit of it. Or is it laying on the side
so I can just roll in? MATT: You can just
roll into it. SAM: I'll roll right into the cockpit.
MATT: It's getting sideways situated. SAM: Then yeah, I haven't
driven one of these, but I was one, once.
(laughter) SAM: So I'm going
to, you know, you see a decision
tree flying by, robotic Terminator
decision tree. TRAVIS: Yes!
SAM: I'm going to look at all the controls and
see how to turn it on. MATT: Make an investigation
check for me. SAM: Oh boy. Can I
Guide myself? MATT: Yeah.
SAM: Guidance! Ooh, terrible.
LAURA: Oh no! SAM: What is that?
LIAM: A one. SAM: Okay, investigation?
Oh, this is brutal. Is that a nine or a
six? Oh, it's a six. I got a six. (laughter)
TALIESIN: Plus a d4? TRAVIS: Plus one?
SAM: Plus one, <i>minus</i> one. LAURA: Oh no!
(oohing) (laughter) (laughter) MARISHA: Shit! MATT: The controls on
this are a little obtuse. There's a series of
handles back here, and there's no
buttons to push. It's not a motorcycle. It is an automaton
that has, you assume, an odd combination of
autonomy and taking direction, and so as you grab onto it, you try and push forward
on it, and as you do, the legs spark to life and
begin digging into ground. It begins to right itself. The problem is, it's
about 10-foot from the wall, so it goes (impacts) and slams into the wall.
SAM: Oh shit! MATT: Sending you
from the cockpit over end and into the
wall as it hits. SAM: Shit! MATT: Make another dexterity
saving throw for me, please. SAM: Hey! 18.
MATT: 18. You manage to
spin in the air, and your wheel catches it. You turn and then bounce
off of it a bit and land. You don't take any damage, but you're definitely
off to the side. The front of the armor and the armor that
blocks the wheel is bent up a little bit. SAM: Oh no! MATT: It wasn't enough room
for it to get enough speed to do any serious
damage to the wheel. SAM: I'm going to fire
my grapple cannon back and try to pull myself
back into the cockpit again. MATT: Back into it.
Okay, you're inside. SAM: Okay. MATT: But it did seem to move
when you pushed it forward. SAM: Okay, and so
there's multiple levers. The ones that I just
pressed activated the thrust. MATT: It's like holding
a set of horns. SAM: Okay.
MATT: It looks like there's a lever up
beyond that to each one, and you push forward on it, and it seems
to guide forward. SAM: Okay, so I
could pull back? MATT: You pull back.
SAM: Or I could go sides? MATT: You could
certainly try. SAM: Okay, quickly,
I'm going to take out that Changebringer coin
and just flip it. MATT: Okay.
SAM: Heads or tails? MATT: Do you have a coin?
SAM: I do. MATT: Flip it.
SAM: Okay. Okay. Heads,
I'll go backwards, and tails, I'll go left. MARISHA: Okay.
SAM: (laughs) Okay. Tails, kind of left.
MATT: Kind of left. So as you push
it to the side, it doesn't need
to turn to go. The legs in the back, which
are like a beast's legs, dig and begin to tear. The front wheel scoots, and it rotates on
the spot to the side. One of its legs actually
kicks up against the wall and holds it in place there.
SAM: Ooh! ASHLEY: Cool!
SAM: All right! Do I see any of my friends? MARISHA: Boston Dynamics.
MATT: Make a perception check with disadvantage.
SAM: Disadvantage? MATT: Yes, because the
sandstorm's still going. SAM: 18! 16 plus six! 24! MATT: You glace forward
just in time to see Ashton barreling towards you.
TALIESIN: Booking! MATT: You come through
the dust and you see a skirmish-crawler growling. You see the blue energy
of its energy core glowing through the
storm beneath it, lighting up the ground,
and they are over the bent metal front
of it, the armored guard, you see the little lenses--
TRAVIS: (laughs) MATT: -- of FCG.
SAM: I'm going to turn on the Light spell through my eyes,
and I'm going to say: Get in, bitch!
We're getting out of here! (laughter)
TRAVIS and MARISHA: (clap) TALIESIN: I'm going to
run to it, jump in the back. What the fuck plan is this?
SAM: (shouts) I don't know! TALIESIN: No one knows
what you're doing! SAM: I don't know!
TALIESIN: There's no way out of here! The doors are fucking closed! SAM: There's a lot of death
everywhere! I'm scared! TALIESIN: This is a bad plan! Move towards
the front entrance! I don't know what else to fucking do!
SAM: All right, I'll try! TRAVIS: You're like
the cabbie from "Who Framed
Roger Rabbit." MATT: Ashton, as you were
charging through the storm, I would like you to make a dexterity saving
throw for me, please. The more you're out
in the open crossing in these spaces here, there's
danger happening all around. TALIESIN: I'll also say I'm in
gravity mode, so I don't know if that would make
shit less or more likely to hit me, but I hit
the gravity well. MATT: That's definitely
going to make things more likely to hit you.
TALIESIN: Okay, so I'm going to lose my advantage. MATT: Yes.
TALIESIN: Okay. God fucking damn it,
always roll the wrong one. Oh! 20.
MATT: 20, great, yeah. So Ashton arrives. As Ashton runs up to
you, you see behind, in the shape of the shadow of
him coming into frame there, you see behind them
(explosions) He's under detonations
of other things that are either aimed at
or just happen to roll past and barely miss detonating
upside your friend as they charge up
and jump in the back of your skirmish-crawler,
and you are tearing off where? SAM: I don't know! So there's
no openings or gates that are open right
now, to the outer wall? MATT: No, that gate is shut.
TALIESIN: This is a siege! SAM: All right, well,
I'm going to tear around and do a doughnut of the place.
MATT: (laughs) Perfect. FCG's doing doughnuts in
a sandstorm, I love it. SAM: I'm going to
try to find Fearne. I'm going to go around the
perimeter, try to find Fearne. MATT: I got it, perfect. TALIESIN: I'm going to point
you in the bloody direction of the front entrance,
because yeah, this is so bad.
MATT: Okay, while that's happening,
Fearne, what are you doing? ASHLEY: Okay.
MATT: You're holding the box there as Ashton just ran
off into the dust. ASHLEY: Just standing
and staring at it all. MATT: Laudna starts
climbing up the wall. (laughter) ASHLEY: Oh boy. I don't know where
everybody went. How far is the gate? MATT: The gate is
probably a good 60, 70 feet from where you are.
ASHLEY: I'm going to start walking towards
the gate to leave. MATT: Okay, I will
also specify that where the gate is--
LAURA: Maybe you could hold it like a watermelon under your skirt like when people steal, yeah.
ASHLEY: Yeah, yeah yeah yeah. MATT: I will also specify
that, in the direction of where the gate is, not
immediately in front of it but immediately to
the left of it, is where that ruin-crawler
still currently stands, and the Special is still
firing, and you can see, there's a lot of the skirmish
that's now happening along that side of the wall above and around where
that area of the gate is. ASHLEY: Okay.
MATT: So you will be walking kind of into where the
focus of the chaos is. ASHLEY: Okay, I'm
going to stand and I see one of
them doughnutting. MATT: Yeah.
TALIESIN: We should be starting to right ourselves
towards you at this point. MATT: It does take
more of an S pattern, a little sidewinder
snake action, but does eventually make-- SAM: I'm overcorrecting!
I'm overcorrecting! (laughter) TALIESIN: Move over,
move over! SAM: No, I got this! ASHLEY: That one's a
little out of control. TALIESIN: You're too
old to be driving! MATT: Okay, while this
is happening, Laudna, you're climbing up
the side of the wall, and with your speed,
because you get to move your full speed and
dash if you want to, you can climb up
pretty quickly. Where are you going? MARISHA: I'm going to
go to the top floor where all those
balconies are. MATT: Okay. MARISHA: I'm going to start
crawling along the edge. I'm going to start peeking in and see if I can see any
high ranking officers. MATT: Yes, because as you
climb up over the balcony, the first thing you
see is you are about one foot from Otohan Thull, who is just standing at
the balcony and watching. MARISHA: Just watching all of this?
MATT: Suddenly you just, and just looks down, dark eyes looking you
right in the face. MARISHA: Hello! Darkness. TRAVIS: (nervously laughs) TALIESIN: What the
fuck is happening? LIAM: We're making
trigger decisions. TRAVIS: Let's go, baby!
TALIESIN: Chaos! MATT: There's an
immediate look of, what? Before all of a sudden,
the entire balcony is immersed in darkness,
which you can see through. MARISHA: I can see through if I use a Sorcery
Point to cast, which I do.
MATT: Okay. MARISHA: I'm going to
then loop around her. So I can see through it,
does she have any pockets? Her Boba Fett jetpack?
Change purse? Anything like that? MATT: Are you trying
to shake down-- MARISHA: I'm trying to plant
this fucking ring on Otohan. SAM, ASHLEY, and TALIESIN: Ooh!
MATT: Oh! Okay. Make an investigation check.
ASHLEY: Good call! MARISHA: Investigation check? SAM: In the dark.
TALIESIN: Oh my god! MARISHA: I can see through it. Beau, come on, come on. Hot table, hot table!
TALIESIN: Everyone is going fucking batshit.
MARISHA: 15! MATT: 15's not bad.
SAM: Pretty good. MATT: So as you dart
past, Otohan-- ASHLEY: God,
what a good idea. MATT: -- immediately is
confused by this, but is moving very
quickly towards the back, in the slow motion element
of you pulling in the back, pushing past the cloak, you can see this,
it's a device. It's a device that's
affixed to her back. As you look underneath,
there's these two cylindrical chambers with things placed
inside them, and as you pull back, you
can see there's definitely an area where you
could tuck a ring in or you could hide it in
there, if you'd like to. MARISHA: Sure. Does it feel like
she would access-- Doesn't matter,
there's no time. I plant it. MATT: All right. You rolled pretty
high on investigation, so you would be able to
find a place to plant it. It depends, I will say-- MARISHA: I want to try
and be smart about it. MATT: All right, I know.
MARISHA: A place that makes sense. MATT: Right. You're placing
this on somebody who is also now moving because right below
this assemblage are two sheathed blades that are cross-sheathed
in the back. MARISHA: Uh-huh.
MATT: She is now darting-- In this slow motion
shot of you, rushing past and trying
to grab underneath, she is at the same
time moving back to unsheathe the weapons
and pull them free. MARISHA: I'm trying to,
ooh, don't touch. No touch. MATT: Right. So you rolled
15 investigation. I'll say to finish up
to try and place this, make a--
ASHLEY: Oh boy. MATT: Make a sleight
of hand check. LAURA: (nervous noises)
LIAM: Come on M, come one! LAURA: (nervous noises)
SAM: Come on, come on. LIAM: Come on, Marisha. SAM: Which die?
TRAVIS: You've got this. LAURA: This is so stressful.
SAM: Gil? Gil? MARISHA: Oh sure.
Don't fuck me-- LIAM: Come on.
MARISHA: -- Gill. 11. MATT: 11, okay. SAM: You have a
good sleight of hand! MARISHA: 11. I rolled an--
SAM: Oh shit. MARISHA: No, wait! No. Yeah, 11.
MATT: (laughs) Okay. So you go ahead, and you
go to place it up inside, and you're like, great! As soon as you get it
placed in its positioning, she spins with
the blades out. You immediately
take the full brunt of a round of attacks. She cannot--
MARISHA: But I placed the ring? The ring is in?
MATT: As far as you're aware. SAM: Oh no.
MARISHA: Okay. TRAVIS: Yeah. Good,
good, good, good. LAURA: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
TRAVIS: For the cause. MARISHA: For the cause. For the cause.
LIAM: Great fucking idea. MATT: Okay.
TRAVIS: You've got a big HP and AC, right? You're going to be fine? MATT: Three attacks.
MARISHA: I'm going to be fine. I'm going to be good,
I'm going to be good. TRAVIS: Hey batter,
batter, batter, swing! MATT: So that's three attacks
against you with disadvantage because she can't see. MARISHA: I still
have Mirror Image. MATT: You do. So the first strike
is going to be-- 17. MARISHA: She hits a mirror. MATT: (poofs) Darts off
one of the mirrors, the edges of it,
the diversion. While she can't even see, she's going off of the sense
of where you might be and strikes one
of the mirrors. TRAVIS: I love that you're just
going after Ahsoka right now in the dark. (laughs)
MATT: That's going to be a natural one
with disadvantage. LAURA: Nice.
MARISHA: Miss. MATT: Second strike
misses. The third one is going to be a 21 to hit. MARISHA: Hits a mirror.
ASHLEY: (gasps) MATT: No damage
on that round. ASHLEY: Yes!
LIAM: I love it. You're just surrounded
by wraiths. TRAVIS: When you
make a mirror, does it feel like
she hits anything? Or it just goes-- MATT: It just (whooshes). So that's going to be Otohan's
immediate round to that and is now just like-- You hear in the
darkness her voice go, "Whoever you are, your
timing is curious." MARISHA: I jump
off the balcony. MATT: You jump
off the balcony? MARISHA: Yeah. MATT: Okay. You immediately dart off. LIAM: Bones! MATT: Let's go ahead and-- TRAVIS: Is there a follow-up
to that statement? MARISHA: I'm going
to wait 'til I get almost
all the way down, and then Feather Fall. MATT: Okay, she
cannot see you. So technically,
as I've learned in the corner case scenarios, you can't make an
opportunity attack against someone you can't
see necessarily, I believe. I'm going to go for that in
this circumstance anyway. So swings wide thinking you're
in the same space you are. Doesn't realize that
you were going to jump right back off the same
balcony you came from. You (vanishing puff)
out of the dark orb, off the side of this dust
surround, cloud-encased fortress. (whooshes) Fall
three stories down, tumbling backward,
righting yourself in the middle of the air as your bones
crack into place. MARISHA: It's like when you
see cats fall in slow motion. It's like that, but
I crack my bones and then land.
MATT: And flip around? SAM: You're a cat? MARISHA: (like Sam)
I'm a cat. (laughter) MATT: Falling as the shape in
the flashes of the battlefield in the middle of
the main courtyard of the Seat of Disdain
comes into focus below you. You stop yourself and land right on the ground just as-- SAM: (car revving) MATT: As you're rushing
towards the front, you see suddenly
a shape drop. SAM: Ah! ASHLEY: Hey.
SAM: We hit the brakes. ASHLEY: Oh.
MARISHA: (yells) ASHLEY: Come here. I think they were driving
around on that thing. MARISHA: Let's go.
ASHLEY: Okay. TALIESIN: Where's
everybody else? MARISHA: I don't know. Imogen? MATT: In the interim,
the rest of you, who have been inside
this fortress. You have Artana
alongside you, and you have a
hole wrapped up that contains currently
Armand Treshi. What do you do?
LIAM: Can we hear her roughly? Are we going through
the hole now? MATT: She's reappeared. LIAM: She's reappeared?
MATT: She reappeared on the opposite side of you by the stairs--
LIAM: Okay. MATT: -- and basically
was like, "Let's go." LIAM: So she's
leading the way more or less? Okay.
MATT: Yeah. LIAM: I'm getting
in front of Imogen to take the brunt of any
shit that comes at Imogen because she's got the hole.
MATT: Okay. Okay, so the rest of you, the three of you along
with-- Following her lead end up coming up the stairs. The grate itself is still
open as you push through. Immediately coming
up, you can see two of the Paragon's Call
round the corner and see her, weapons
out like, "Oh, shit." As they go to draw,
she immediately fires. For the size of
this crossbow, the speed at which it can
reload and fire is insane. But she takes two shots,
one at each of these. Not great,
but she still has-- TRAVIS: She should
have put her cloak on. LAURA: Yeah.
LIAM: Is she stacked? It's a heavy crossbow, and-- MATT: It's a heavy crossbow. LIAM: So her muscles
have got to be rippling. MATT: You can't see between the armor--
TRAVIS: Sarah Connor. MATT: -- is a series
of back muscles that would
make any of us jealous. TALIESIN: Painted silver. It's not plate mail.
MATT: What's interesting, too, is that the heavy
crossbow that she has, has this heavy
crank circumstance, where it fires, and then
immediately grabs underneath, like taking a
shotgun and (reloading). Just cranks over--
LAURA: Sick. ASHLEY: Cool.
MATT: -- and then already has it ready for the secondary bolt.
LAURA: Sick! MATT: The first shot hits.
LIAM: Orym just does one of these.
(impressed sigh) MATT: Both still hit. TRAVIS: You need to learn how to whistle.
ASHLEY: Sarah Connor. LIAM: Oh, it was just--
MATT: 12 damage to one and then--
LIAM: That wasn't a whistle. MATT: 10 damage to the other.
TRAVIS: (exaggerated failed whistle) MATT: So both of them go
like, "Ugh," and take a hit. They're going
to move forward. Are you guys doing anything?
Are you going to help out? Or are you going
to wait for them to finish the skirmish
and move past? What are you doing? LIAM: Well, I'm not doing
anything but following and letting her deal
with what's ahead of us. MATT: Mm-hmm.
LIAM: And making sure that she doesn't turn
around on the hole-bearer. MATT: Okay. LIAM: Unless I hear from the boss.
MATT: All right. So now they're going
to both take a round. They rush forward towards her as she's going ahead to reload.
SAM: You mean Keyleth? MATT: They're both
going to take-- LIAM: She's not here. MATT: She's going to take--
SAM: She can talk to you. LAURA: I'm going to say into Artana's head--
MATT: -- a dagger and two rapiers. LAURA: -- play along. MATT: Play along?
LAURA: Uh-huh. MATT: Okay.
LAURA: I'm going to run up and tackle her. MATT: Okay.
LAURA: And yell at the guards: We've got this covered. Go help everyone in front. I don't know, fucking--
MATT: Okay. TRAVIS: Yeah, come on.
ASHLEY: Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. TRAVIS: I kick
her in the butt. MATT: Okay. Make
a deception check. Advantage because
you're getting help from Chetney on this one.
TRAVIS: Yeah. MATT: This will be pretty high
because they were ready to-- LAURA: That's good.
That's good. 24. ASHLEY: Whoa, yeah.
MATT: 24 will do it. You had to roll over a 20 because they're just
ready to unload on her, weapons out and ready.
TRAVIS: Chisel comes down, and just looks
like: Ah, yeah! I'm opening her up. Get outside!
(laughter) MATT: She crumbles
to the ground, and she's now laying
flat over the crossbow. They both start reaching
into their pouch to bring out what looks to
be chains and manacles to-- LAURA: Go! We
have this handled! MATT: They throw the
manacles down, and they-- "Put her back in
the cell below!" They both--
TRAVIS: That's a good idea! MATT: They both go continuing down the hall
where they were headed to get some sort of equipment that they weren't
quite ready for. What do you do
now that she's-- TRAVIS: She needs
a cloak, right? LAURA: Yeah, let's put-- I'm going to say: I'm not going to
really lock these, but we're going
to act like we're putting these on your wrists. MATT: Make a
persuasion check. LIAM: Was it one set
or multiple? Just one? MATT: One set they
were pulling out. TRAVIS: I'm assuming you
have an exit plan? MATT: "I did until
you showed up." LAURA: 15? No, 19.
SAM: Ooh. That's better. TALIESIN: I did--
MATT: "I hope you know what you're doing." All right. TRAVIS: If you're having a
rendezvous with somebody, we can also stick
a cloak on you. But now you're manacled, so do you have a specific
place you need to be? MATT: "Well, I
was going to exit "through one of
the upper balconies. "But it's hard to do
with a group this size." TRAVIS: No, fuck that. It's all terrible upstairs. Let's get out of here. LAURA: If we
have another cloak, we can just put
it overtop of her. TRAVIS: Oh yeah,
let's go to our room. It's--
LAURA: On the way, right? TRAVIS: Yeah.
SAM: There's also probably a bunch of dead guards around.
MATT: You head to the room-- LAURA: Yeah. There's
dead guards everywhere. TRAVIS: In the hallways,
probably not, though. MATT: Downstairs there was.
TRAVIS: Oh yeah, yeah. I tried to kill them. Somebody turned invisible. MATT: Well. TRAVIS: But we have
cloaks in the room. LIAM: I'm going to
help her up and say-- MATT: You're all
wearing your cloaks. So you don't have
any extra cloaks in your room, I don't believe.
LAURA: Oh. MATT: You just have the
ones that you're wearing. TRAVIS: Here, take
mine. (laughs) LAURA: This teeny one. MATT: A little bib.
(laughter) LAURA: Run!
SAM: You ripped it in half to do it.
LAURA: Let's get out of here. LIAM: I grab her by the arm
as we start running and say: We're the Bells Hells. We're not with
you, you're with us. Come on.
SAM: Woo! TRAVIS: Yo! Yo! It's in the trailer. MARISHA: Name drop, name drop.
MATT: She-- MARISHA: Smash
cut to the title. (laughter) SAM: Suicide Squad.
(laughter) MATT: As you do
that, she goes, "Fine. Do me the favor of at
least picking up my weapon." LIAM: I-- Ooh! MATT: It's pretty hefty.
LIAM: Yeah. I start doing-- Man, I got a lot of
shit in my hands. (laughter) TRAVIS: I'll take it.
Here, give me that thing. LIAM: Yeah, thanks. (grunts) TRAVIS: I'm stronger
than you anyway. LIAM: Yep.
MATT: Okay. TRAVIS: Oh, yeah! (grunts) (laughter) MARISHA: Would my "Imogen!"
be right about this time? MATT: Right about now. MARISHA: Imogen?
LAURA: Laudna. Is everything all right? MARISHA: We commandeered a crawler.
(demonic whispers) LAURA: Great! We got Treshi. We're on our way out. MARISHA: Meet us out front.
LAURA: All right. (demonic whispers)
LAURA: Artana Voe in tow. MARISHA: Oh!
SAM: What? LAURA: Go.
TRAVIS: Oh. (laughter) TALIESIN: What the fuck
was the squeak about? There was a squeak. MARISHA: They are-- We are bringing Artana Voe. TALIESIN: Oh!
SAM: Hey, look what this lever does! (laughter) TRAVIS: (crawler spinning) ASHLEY: What
about this button? SAM: Sure, hit it! MATT: Okay. You all begin to--
SAM: Oil slick! MATT: -- rush past down the
hall, past the war room. As you're passing the war
room, you see as Ratanish steps around the
corner and goes, "You caught her." LAURA: That's right. MATT: "Where are
you taking her?" LAURA: I'm going to
throw Artana at him. SAM: Throw her?
LIAM: Whoa. TRAVIS: You're going to what?
LAURA: I'm pushing Artana towards Ratanish. LIAM: Whoa.
MATT: Okay. So you push--
SAM: You're betraying her already? MATT: (laughs)
SAM: That was so fast! TRAVIS: All the people on
the outside are on her side. LAURA: No, they're not. I think she's using
it as a distraction. She's an assassin. She works alone.
MARISHA: I think she paid them off. LIAM: We'll find out. MATT: So you throw
her towards Ratanish. SAM: She's bad. MATT: You have
her weapon, and-- LIAM: Chetney has it.
MATT: Sorry. You have her weapon.
TRAVIS: Huh? MATT: As she gets
pushed into his arms, he goes ahead and
grasps the chain and looks at her and goes, "Good work. "Oh, you have no idea
what you've done." SAM: Oh, shit.
TRAVIS: Those manacles aren't closed. MATT: Begins to try and
drag her by that point, at which point
she pulls out of the manacles and
(disappearing poof) turns invisible once
more and vanishes. MARISHA: Okay. Okay.
TRAVIS: What? MATT: "Shit!"
TRAVIS: Where'd she go? MATT: "Find out! Find her!" LIAM: We'll look outside. MATT: "She cannot
be too far." TRAVIS: Damn it!
SAM: Undo the betrayal. Undo the betrayal.
LAURA: Yeah, I know. MATT: He runs back
to the war room and goes for a large greataxe that you see is set
on the main table, and begins charging
back into the chamber. What are the rest of you doing at this point?
MARISHA: So much is happening. LAURA: I'm saying
in her head-- Nope, I have to see her in
order to get the connection. So I can't do that.
MATT: Yeah. Nope. LAURA: Well, I'm hoping
she understood that we knew her
hands weren't tied. TRAVIS: Out the front door, like we're still going after her.
LIAM: Orym is sticking to Imogen like glue. I'm listening as hard
as I can for Voe. MATT: Okay. Make a
perception check for me. LIAM: Okay. With
advantage or not? Because she's invisible. MATT: She's invisible. For sound, I'd say just make
a straight roll for this. Also, in the chaos of all
the sound around you, trying to pick
up a specific-- LIAM: Not great.
MATT: -- element. LIAM: 11. MATT: 11? Okay, yeah.
LIAM: Yeah. MATT: It's hard to make
out much of anything beyond the footsteps
and the shouts and the sound of dust outside.
LIAM: Mm-hmm. MATT: The dust storm is
clearing up a little bit for those who are
on the outskirts. It's still blowing through, but it's not in its
deepest, darkest state. It looks like it's
starting to find at least a pocket where
it's not quite as intense. You don't know if it's
the end of the storm, or if you're just finding
a brief lull in it. TRAVIS: Gotta go!
MATT: A little bit of the sunlight is starting to
peek through a little bit. While the rest of you push
past the two front doors, you can see there are now
three guards out there who are in the process of
reloading their rifles. One of them sits
around the corner, jumps out, takes a big old shot, and
then darts back around. Sweat on his face. You can see the dust and
dirt is now crusting from where the sweat has
gathered around the eyes, and he has to wipe his
face off and looks at you. "Get out there, help us!" TRAVIS: No problem. Let's go! LAURA: Let's go! We run out.
(laughter) Have any of
the walls been blown open at all at this point? MATT: No.
LAURA: It's still all standing? MATT: Of course.
These are very, very well-reinforced walls. LAURA: Yeah, of course they are.
SAM: Can I just turn to Ashton and Fearne and-- Wait, are you with us, too? MARISHA: I am. SAM: We got to open the gate! How do we do that?
Can somebody do that? LAURA: Is there-- It's all happening at the
front gate, or the back gate? It's happening
from both sides? What is it?
MATT: There are two gates. The one that it's
happening near now is the one where you came in. There isn't really
a front gate. There's just two different
ones. But this is the one that you've used
the most often. The other one is facing
a less public area of the street, necessarily. But it's not as often used.
MARISHA: Oh shit. SAM: Which one
has the gigantic monster crawler next to it? LAURA: The front. The main.
MATT: The front one. The one that you're used to using.
SAM: So we should go to the other one.
LAURA: Other one, yeah. TALIESIN: Also, how long
has it been since we-- LAURA: Oh, put
Treshi in the hole. TALIESIN: -- put Treshi in the hole?
TRAVIS: No, no, no, it's only been-- LAURA: It's been so fast.
TALIESIN: Okay. LAURA: It's probably been like three minutes.
MATT: Yeah, it's been about a minute. TALIESIN: Okay. Perfect.
LAURA: Oh god, not even-- MATT: A minute to two
minutes, I'd say since then. MARISHA: So redirecting? TRAVIS: Go, go!
MATT: This all moves very quick. LIAM: So we wait 'til
nine minutes or so-- LAURA: Yeah.
TRAVIS: Yep. LIAM: Then we check.
LAURA: Yeah. We're going to run to the back gate. MARISHA: Yeah, I quickly
just tell Imogen. New plan, back gate!
(demonic whispers) LAURA: Got it. MATT: So the
crawler, as you-- (grinding), begins to push its way
through the dust, past the array of
combat happening to what will be now
the right of you as you move beyond that
one entryway gate. TALIESIN: Is there
actual combat happening on the ground, by the way? MATT: Right now, you don't
see combat on the ground. TALIESIN: Okay.
MATT: There aren't any shock troops. There's no idea of people
coming in to storm. They're staying along the wall
and just harrying people. TALIESIN: All right, so
there's no one to run over. SAM: The crawlers
have ACs, right? MATT: They do. SAM: So is it considered-- If I cast
Shield of Help on it-- Is it a creature? MATT: It is considered
a creature. SAM: I'll bonus action cast
Shield of Help, Shield of Faith, on the crawler.
MATT: Okay. SAM: Just so it doesn't take
any damage as we go around. MATT: Okay, you got it. Okay. So you cast it. This little, weird,
shimmering energy encircles the outside
of its metal form and then clings to it, leaving this faint,
glowing film to it, reinforcing its capability
to withstand damage. As the crawler begins to
tear through the space and head around
the courtyard, you can see there are
others now getting on-- Not on skirmish-crawlers
at this point. They wouldn't be
helping them at this-- They're just gathering
more weaponry, and you can see a couple
of them have catapults that are set up on the back that they're in the
process of loading now. They're going to
attack their own walls to try and stop these people. But it's going to take
them a while to set that up. What are you guys doing? The rest of you are on
foot, so you're behind. SAM: We still-- We can get to the-- Are you talking to us, Matt? On the crawler? MATT: You three
are on the crawler. SAM: Yeah.
MATT: You're with them in the crawler as well?
ASHLEY: Yes, in the crawler. MATT: That is all
the room there is, and the crawler is not
moving at a great speed with that many people. MARISHA: Right.
ASHLEY: Do we jump ship, or do we--
SAM: No, we don't jump ship. This is the way out. ASHLEY: Okay, go to the-- How far away from
that back gate? MATT: You're maybe
about 120 feet or so. You can get there pretty
quick on a crawler. SAM: But someone's going
to have to open it. Do you want to be an
animal and dash up ahead and open it or something? LIAM: What if you rammed it? LAURA: No, that's not enough.
ASHLEY: We can open it. LAURA: The ramming it won't--
TALIESIN: Ramming it won't actually
be enough, but-- ASHLEY: Is there
a lock on it? MATT: You're not close
enough to really see. But as you approach,
you can take a look. ASHLEY: Yeah. To get a little closer.
LAURA: There's probably cranks. TRAVIS: It's a big-ass exterior.
MARISHA: Do the two buff people get to crank real quick? TALIESIN: I'll hop off
once we get there. MARISHA: All right. MATT: So as you approach
and spin off to the side, the legs digging in
a bit to stop before you slam into
it, the secondary gate, while smaller than
the front gate, is built in a similar,
reinforced way, and there are cranks
and two sets of chains that work through
this pulley system to pull them apart and open. However, in the process
of the siege, as is standard procedure,
there are a number of bars and elements that
have now been placed to keep it shut and
defensible from the inside. ASHLEY: Okay.
SAM: (whispers) Do we have any more TNT? TALIESIN: That's a lot of TNT to get.
ASHLEY: We do. We have it. We passed them out.
LAURA: I don't... Yeah, we passed out
the TNT, I think. MARISHA: I threw one.
SAM: I don't have one. LAURA: I don't know
who all threw it. MARISHA: I threw <i>one</i> in the fight.
SAM: We got four left, then? TRAVIS: I got one, but I'm not with you.
MARISHA: You have one? Okay. LAURA: I think I've got one. TRAVIS: Can't you just pull the bars out?
ASHLEY: I am going to try with my ring-- SAM: Sure.
LIAM: Stonky's? ASHLEY: -- to cast
Telekinesis and try to pull one
of the gates open. MATT: Pull one of
the gates open? Okay. LAURA: Oh, with your spell? MATT: What's your strength on the ring?
ASHLEY: It can... MATT: This is Telekinesis?
ASHLEY: 1,000 pounds. SAM: Oh! MATT: Okay, that door weighs
a little more than that, but you begin to pull on it.
LAURA: So for further-- MATT: That will help
other attemptsa as you're using that
focus to yank on it. You can see the chains
and the metal bars that are placed into it to
keep it braced from this side (impacts) shift a bit, and
what little bit of gap or room there was from the wiggle is
now brought to a tense point as the door are now
pulled against that brace. MARISHA: (shouts) Ashton! TALIESIN: Is anybody
watching, by the way? Are we...
MARISHA: I'm going to turn-- MATT: Right now their
focus, it seems, is largely to the assault on the opposite side of the courtyard.
TALIESIN: Okay, I'm raging and I'm going to
hit this thing. Burning another rage,
here we go. MATT: All righty. TRAVIS: Has no one tried
to remove the bars yet? MARISHA: I know! Lift the bars!
TRAVIS: Pull the bars. MARISHA: Lift the bars!
LAURA: Why don't you pull the bars? SAM: (pigeon coos)
TALIESIN: Oh, well then, I get my strength,
so yeah, I'll rage and try. MATT: It's up to you.
You can attack it if you want to.
TALIESIN: Does that help? Or... MATT and MARISHA: (laugh) MATT: While you're
raging, you have advantage on strength checks. TALIESIN: Oh, well,
in that case, yeah. MATT: Or you can break it.
I mean, it's your call, man. You're the barbarian. You tell me.
ASHLEY: Boosh! TALIESIN: How tough do
these things look? LAURA: Pretty tough. TRAVIS: (shouts) More than 1,000 pounds.
MATT: It's reinforced to defend, yeah. TALIESIN: Okay, then I'm
going to try and lift it. I'm seeing what I got to...
MATT: Look, I just don't want you to miss a chance to fight a door.
TALIESIN: Oh yeah, no. (laughter) MATT: It's a cherished pastime, really.
TRAVIS: You haven't lived. TALIESIN: I'm trying
to find a thing just because there's
too many things. MATT: Get your
vengeance, bro. (laughter) TALIESIN: Ooh, are there
ones that are too high to hit, out of curiosity?
MATT: There are. There are three braces on it. One of them looks like it
had a latch that was pulled that caused it to fall
into the higher brace, because it was
just out of range. That one's about 10 feet up,
and then there's a central one that's about seven feet up, and one that's about
the 3 1/2 foot mark. There's three metal braces.
TALIESIN: I'm going to start at the top one, and because I hit my rage, and suddenly, I
become mildly translucent in the head as I sort of
get that portal shift. I'm going to do a wormhole
strike at the top one and try and see if I
can knock it either out or break it, try and
knock it out of its-- ASHLEY: Cool!
MATT: That's great. All right, yeah. You're essentially
Portalling, if you want to, as
opposed to a weapon, this full-on Dragon
Ball Z shit, you can portal your
arms up to it and try and lift it
from a distance. TALIESIN: Yeah, I'm going to
just try and do a big shove and see if I can get it off.
MATT: All right, make a strength check for
me, with advantage. LAURA: Cool.
TALIESIN: All right. MARISHA: We got lucky on that roll.
LAURA: Yeah, that portal. Finally.
MARISHA: Uh-huh. TALIESIN: 23.
MATT: 23. So as you look up
towards it, you focus. There's a spark on
the side of your head as you punch your arms
forward and they just vanish into a dark hole, and up
above, you watch as the brace gets knocked off and
these arms just appear out of nowhere, lift
it up in the air, and then you withdraw them. So the highest brace
is now removed. TALIESIN: Is the second
one that's seven feet up, that's not reachable
with a hit, is it? MATT: I'd say it would
be with disadvantage. TALIESIN: I'm going to use
another Chaos Burst and instead of trying to-- If it doesn't
look liftable, or is it? MATT: It looks liftable. TALIESIN: I'm going to
give it one more run, but instead of using my
hands, I'm going to see if I can just knock it out
with a fucking baseball bat. MATT: Sure. Go for it
with a strength check. TALIESIN: Hm? Would that
be a strength check? MATT: Yes, it would be.
TALIESIN: All right. MARISHA: While he's doing all
of this, I'm just looking backwards, just scanning for the others. MATT: You see
them at a distance. They're nowhere near as
fast as the crawler. TALIESIN: 20.
MATT: 20? 20 is the DC for this. Another heavy golf
swing upward cracks into it
and (brace creaking). It looks like it's about
to clatter back down, but then it just stays up. There's just
enough resistance to hold it elevated.
TALIESIN: (blows forcefully) MATT: With the next
rattle, you're uncertain if it's going to fall in a way
you like or a way you don't. SAM: Oh no!
MATT: But you have one way to find out. It's definitely not
braced at the moment. TALIESIN: I think that's
two hits, though. That's the end of my
turn, isn't it? MATT: It is, but we're not
in a combat round here. If anybody else wants
to throw anything else into the process, feel free to jump in.
TALIESIN: Anybody? Anybody? MATT: We're not
in initiative here. LAURA: Are we there
yet? Are we there yet? MATT: Nope.
LIAM: No, we're running now. SAM: Wait, so there's
another few braces? MATT: There's one last brace that's around the three and a half, four-foot.
TALIESIN: And there's one that's a little iffy right now. MATT: There's one that's
up and just teetering. ASHLEY: If we hit
it with the-- Do we have any,
a leg or something from the crawler?
TALIESIN: Is there a rock on the ground? SAM: I can shoot something at it.
MATT: Yeah, there's a rock. There's plenty of rocks.
TALIESIN: Shoot something at it! SAM: Okay. I'll
attach the bolt thrower and I'll just try to shoot it
so it falls the right way. MATT: Great, go ahead
and roll an attack. SAM: Okay. 10 plus six, I think. MATT: 16?
SAM: No, it's 10 plus 3. 13. MATT: 13. It ricochets off the
door, not heavy enough to cause it to jiggle
one way or the other. It still stands. SAM: Sorry! ASHLEY: Scorching Ray. MATT: Scorching Ray?
SAM: Gonna burn it open. ASHLEY: Burn it open.
SAM: Fearne it open. Sure. ASHLEY: Wait, isn't it--
It's like this? TRAVIS: It's doing this.
SAM: You got to push it. MATT: It's on a hinge. SAM: Throw a rock at it! TALIESIN: It's like a bus on a freeway--
LIAM: Force. You need some force. TALIESIN: -- in an action movie.
MARISHA: Yeah. LAURA: Just going to burn it! ASHLEY: Just burn it
to the ground. SAM: I'm going to
cast Bane on it. TRAVIS: It's the
second top one, and your toss would probably push it.
TALIESIN: I mean, at this point! LAURA: Yeah, that's true. ASHLEY: I'm going to run
over and try to push it. MATT: You're pretty tall. I'll say, are you leaping
to try and catch it? Because it's just out
of reach for you. ASHLEY: Yes, I'll do a Mirthful
Leap, jump up, and boop. SAM: Ooh! Whee!
MATT: That will definitely be enough to do it.
ASHLEY: Yes. MATT: So just make a basic
strength check for me. This isn't a high DC.
ASHLEY: Okay. LIAM: Skip, skip, skip, skip, bing!
MATT: Just you have to meet a certain base level to get it to move--
LAURA: Skip to my lou! MATT: -- as part of
the Mirthful Leap. ASHLEY: Okay. Six.
MATT: Six, okay! Okay. SAM: Oh no.
MATT: You reach up and you tag it. As you do, it begins to move from its mooring.
TRAVIS: No, no! MATT: I need you
to roll a d6 for me. LAURA: Oh no!
MATT: On a one to four, it falls the direction
you want it to. On a five or six, it falls
back into the brace. ASHLEY: Roll low,
roll low, roll low! MATT: Because you didn't roll
a five or lower-- What'd you get? ASHLEY: A five.
MATT: Five? (laughter) SAM: Fearne, no!
MATT: Back into the brace. ASHLEY: Okay. That was not
what I wanted it to do. But let's see. Can somebody else
do something? LIAM: Is Stonky's Ring a
one time only, one a day? TRAVIS: You guys couldn't
knock over the red Dixie cup? MARISHA: No!
SAM: We're working on it! TALIESIN: I assume you're all coming, too.
LIAM: I bet the bars are under 1,000.
TRAVIS: We're way back there. SAM: We're at the
exit of a parking lot, and that thing is just,
we can't get around it! TALIESIN: So it has
fallen back into place. MATT: It has fallen
back into place. ASHLEY: It doesn't say
that my telekinesis in the ring is
one time a day. MATT: You do
concentrate on it. Telekinesis is a
concentration spell. So if you want to, yeah, you could just
use that to do it. ASHLEY: Oh. (whooshes) (laughter) MATT: Now, the brace does move
easy with that. There you go. MARISHA: There's one brace left?
MATT: There is. MARISHA: Do it again!
Bottom brace! MATT: (brace falling)
There you go. TALIESIN: I hate all of you.
(laughter) MATT: It's about this time
that the rest of your troop catches up to you,
covered in sand and dust. MARISHA: Come on, come on, come on!
LAURA: Let's go! Let's go! SAM: Laudna, we can't all get on.
LIAM: Can we fit on it? TALIESIN: No, we're
not taking it. We're going and we're
going to shut it behind us. Let's go, go, go! SAM: Wait, we're
not taking the car? TALIESIN: We can't all
fit on it! Let's go! SAM: Well, some of us can.
LAURA: Take the car! TALIESIN: Take the car
if you want to. Go! LAURA: Take the car to Joe's. MARISHA: Maybe go tiny.
LAURA: We'll get the other car. ASHLEY: Go tiny?
Oh, to get in? SAM: You're the car.
TRAVIS: Just go! LAURA: Get to Joe's! Get to Joe's!
ASHLEY: I try to open the door. MATT: Okay. So there are
the dual chain cranks. You have to go over and (crank).
TALIESIN: Yeah, I'm-- TRAVIS: I'll do the other one.
MATT: Okay. So with that, the doors.
SAM: Give me the package! LIAM: Orym is turning around and
using his 26 passive perception to listen for Voe in front of her.
LAURA: Why? SAM: I'm faster than you! LIAM: In front of her.
MATT: Okay. LIAM: Just waiting. SAM: Because I taste blood. MATT: Roll a persuasion
check with advantage for me. LIAM: Persuasion? Perception.
MATT: Sorry, perception. LIAM: Good.
LAURA: I don't know. LIAM: That is 24.
SAM: Come on, don't you trust me? TALIESIN: No.
LAURA: I don't know. MATT: 24. Now, the dust is
not entirely clear, but it's not as heavily
intense as it was. Dancing about, you can see, there's still some
skirmishes happening, but it looks like
it's getting lighter along the walls on
the opposite side. You see one shape dart from the fortress
to the wall. TRAVIS: Fuck.
MATT: Arc over. LAURA: That might be Artana.
LIAM: That is Artana. LAURA: Good. She
got out. Fine. ASHLEY: We're going! TALIESIN: Let's get our people
out and shut the door behind us. You've got the fucking ring. So yeah, if we get through, I'm just going to try
and shut this thing, and if we can knock one of
those things back in place. ASHLEY: Yeah, I'm going to just
pick up one of the bars again and then just, boop,
put it back in. MATT: So the only means of
really closing it with the winch is on the inside, so if
you're going to try and push it closed, that's
going to be a strength check from you with the help
of your Telekinesis. SAM: Or we could just go.
TALIESIN: All right. MARISHA: Or we could just go.
LAURA: Or just go. Just go. MATT: Yeah, it's hard to
close it from the outside. ASHLEY: Yeah yeah yeah.
TALIESIN: Okay, fuck it. SAM: Imogen, you won't give
me the guy, so it's fine. LAURA: Here.
SAM: No no no. LAURA: Take the scarf. Take the scarf!
SAM: You take the car. It's okay. MARISHA: Yes, and
you have that crate. ASHLEY: Yes.
MARISHA: And you guys got Treshi? LAURA: Yeah.
ASHLEY: Where are we going? MARISHA: Then get on the car
and we'll meet you at Joe's. TALIESIN: Going to Joe's.
ASHLEY: Okay, going to Joe's. MARISHA: Joe's? Joe's?
TALIESIN: Joe's. ASHLEY: We're going? Okay.
LAURA: Who's driving? You know how drive it.
ASHLEY: I will. LIAM: Yeah.
ASHLEY: Okay. TRAVIS: You can track
a skirmisher to Joe's. I'm just saying. TALIESIN: Marked fucking
skirmisher. Yeah, fuck it. ASHLEY: I feel like we should--
LAURA: Really? TALIESIN: We should
abandon it at some point. ASHLEY: I'm leaving it.
I'm running to Joe's. I'm getting off the skirmisher.
TALIESIN: Yeah, let's all go. Let's go. LAURA: We just abandon
the skirmisher. MATT: You abandon
the skirmisher there? SAM: No, we're not
going to abandon it! What are you talking about?
Why would we abandon it? TRAVIS: Stay on
the skirmisher, then! LAURA: Let's take it halfway, then abandon it before we get there, yeah.
SAM: It's faster than us! MATT: Okay, so who's
on the skirmisher? ASHLEY: Okay.
MATT: One, two. SAM: We're switching drivers. MATT: Okay. But
you're still on it? SAM: I don't know if
I'm allowed to be. LAURA: Get on it! Go!
TALIESIN: If you're the slowest, then yes. SAM: You didn't trust
me a second ago. LAURA: FCG, just get on. SAM: I shouldn't
trust me, either. LAURA: Jesus, I'm just going.
Somebody better get on this thing. MARISHA: Is it full? LAURA: No, there's only two
of us now on this thing. MATT: There's two people on
it right now, currently. It's just the two of them. LAURA: He's little, and
you're light, so get on. MARISHA: All right,
I jump on with Orym. MATT: Okay, so the
three of you are on the skirmisher.
LAURA: Sure. MATT: The rest
of you are on foot? TRAVIS: Yep.
MATT: Okay, cool. MARISHA: So one, two, three.
Okay. Okay. Yeah yeah yeah. SAM: The throttle's a little tricky.
TRAVIS: You and your box are on foot? SAM: The clutch is
a little sticky. ASHLEY: I was thinking of getting in--
LAURA: FCG, just get on. ASHLEY: -- but I'm wondering if--
SAM: No, it's fine, I know, I get it. ASHLEY: Okay, I'm going
to get in with them. MATT: Okay, so you get in
the skirmisher as well? ASHLEY: Yeah.
MATT: Okay. So it's the four of you. LIAM: Mm-hmm.
MATT: Okay. Now as you're outside
of the gate, are you going to
the right or left? LAURA: We're going
towards Joe's. MATT: Towards Joe's from
where you're standing would be to the
right, probably. LAURA: Okay.
MATT: Okay, so you turn around and begin to turn
past that space, and right as you
turn the corner back into the main
thoroughfare, there's a shape waiting for you right
where that opens up. MARISHA: Artana?
MATT: You see a figure's cloak whipping. LAURA: Oh no.
MARISHA: Uh-oh. MATT: Right as
you come tearing in-- MARISHA: Oh, that's Otohan.
MATT: -- the lights of the sand
begin to apparate, you see the
familiar gray hair and red cloak--
LAURA: No. Oh no. MATT: -- of Otohan Thull, just
standing there right in your way. As you begin to try and slow
it down, she darts forward and just, blades out, starts striking up against
the crawler's side. TALIESIN: Which currently has a--
SAM: Plus two to AC. MATT: It does. Still
hits on two attacks. LIAM: Jeez Louise.
LAURA: Oh god. MATT: Third one also
hits, and is going to-- MARISHA: Shit.
So good, so good. LAURA: Can we jump off?
Can I just jump off? TRAVIS: What, you want to get off--
MATT: Hold on as second. LAURA: Is it too late?
TRAVIS: -- the big, trackable vehicle now? MATT: You can in a second.
We'll get to that in a second. Going to offhand attack. LIAM: Oh no.
SAM: Sorry, Imogen. MATT: Natural 20.
LAURA: Wheelie sorry. TRAVIS: Oh snap!
MARISHA: Silvery Barbs. MATT: Silvery Barbs on that one?
MARISHA: Yes. MATT: Okay, so disadvantage on it?
MARISHA: Disadvantage. MATT: Okay. Still hits, but
not a crit. You got it. LAURA: On the car?
MARISHA: The next advantage is for Imogen, on
your next attack. MATT: Next attack?
Okay, got it. So for that,
that's damage on... LAURA: All my spells
are not attack. Mine are saves. SAM: Well.
TALIESIN: Get creative. MATT: Okay, roll a-- The skirmisher
that you were on, the front wheel is destroyed. LAURA: Okay.
MARISHA: All right. MATT: Now, there are rules
for the front wheel, for those of you who still have
the skirmisher sheet on it. TALIESIN: Yep.
LAURA: Okay. LIAM: Nope. TALIESIN: Let's see, front
wheel has an AC of 21, 25 hit points, can only
be damaged by targeted, if the wheel's
destroyed while moving, the skirmish-crawler's speed
is reduced to 10 feet and must make a DC 12
dexterity saving throw or tumble and explode,
causing all creatures riding to make a DC 12
dexterity saving throw-- SAM: Oh my god.
LAURA: Okay, so we all-- TALIESIN: -- or take a
fuck-ton of fire damage. MATT: So roll for the
skirmisher you're on. TALIESIN: I'm not on
it, so who's driving? LAURA: Roll for the skirmisher.
MATT: Correct. LAURA: I have to roll what?
SAM: This is a save. MATT: Yeah, the dexterity
save on there is? TALIESIN: DC 12.
MATT: So roll, and add the dexterity
modifier of the skirmisher. LAURA: What's the dex modifier?
LIAM: Minus one. LAURA: That would be 10. MATT: So as Otohan carves
through with the blades, like a spinning
whirlwind in the air, and then landing
behind the skirmisher, wheel up, the wheel
splits apart and then digs right
into the dirt ground. TALIESIN: That's going to be bad.
MATT: The back legs fling forward as
all of you (screams) get pulled forward as it
just grinds into the dirt, throwing all of you from
the back of the vehicle. LIAM: Like Morpheus!
MATT: Everyone who's on the car, I need you to roll a
dexterity saving throw. MARISHA: Yep.
MATT: DC 12. TRAVIS: 100% just like that. MARISHA: Nope. 12. TRAVIS: Roll and slide.
LIAM: Aw! MATT: What was DC on that?
TALIESIN: 12. LIAM: It was so good and
then it was terrible. MATT: 12, so that's a success.
MARISHA: Really? LIAM: Fail. Seven.
MATT: Seven, fail. LAURA: 10.
MATT: Fail. ASHLEY: Four. SAM: Oh, brutal.
MATT: Fail. So they take how much damage?
TALIESIN: 4d6. MATT: 4d6 damage.
TALIESIN: Fire. MATT: As it explodes
around you. That is a shitty roll. That's 10 points of fire
damage to those who failed, and five to the success,
which was Laudna. As you all--
MARISHA: How much? SAM: Five.
MATT: As the vehicle, the skirmisher, just
detonates upon the impact, the flames swirl around you, and you all end up
tumbling in the dirt, spinning over and over,
before coming to rest. While the rest of
you who weren't on it went to chase
and follow suit, and you see this fiery explosion,
and it and just eats shit and get destroyed, your
friends thrown from it, and there, standing on the
ground, you see Otohan stand up, the two blades at
the side, the cloak just flapping in the breeze.
SAM: Oh shit. MATT: At which point, she
looks back at both sides, has blades out
to both, and goes, "Let's have a
conversation, shall we?" You watch as there's this
weird flicker in the back, underneath where the cloak is,
and these dark shapes appear. Three dark, shadowy
versions of her appear in the space around
where she is, all wearing the same
dark gray armor, but somehow darker,
dark grays and blacks. That's where we're
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(exclaiming) LIAM: This table is on fire.
Matt, you are on fire. LAURA: Oh my god.
LIAM: Holy shit. LAURA: Chaos!
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come back here in a few minutes and
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scattered on each side-- SAM: God, where were we?
LAURA: Oh god! TALIESIN: Oh god.
MARISHA: We didn't talk about this. SAM: We didn't talk about
anything during the break! MATT: Still pushing
through, blades out, and these strange,
shimmering, dark-- MARISHA: Treshi might die.
MATT: -- figures appearing around her. SAM: Oh shit, he's
suffocating. MARISHA: Treshi's
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use my bonus action to regain my 4th-level
spell with sorcery points. MATT: Okay.
LIAM: I'm going to push up and use Second Wind to
get some hit points back. MATT: Go for it. MARISHA: Does it feel
like she has spotted the rest of our team? TRAVIS: She's in the middle of all of us.
MATT: Oh, very much so. After cutting through,
you guys rushed out through to follow suit. You ran out there.
LAURA: Oh, we ran on either side? TRAVIS: Yeah, she's got the
sword pointed at each of us. MATT: Both sides. LAURA: So-- oh god. SAM: I'm going to do
Sympathetic Binding with... Who's facing her? MATT: I mean,
everyone, I think. LIAM: We're split.
LAURA: We're like-- SAM: They're ahead of us. MATT: Oh, they're ahead of
you guys, so on your side-- On your side, it's whoever
was not on the crawler. SAM: Am I within-- ASHLEY: How much
time has passed? MATT: Six seconds. SAM: -- 30 feet of them? LAURA: Since we got in, probably like three minutes.
ASHLEY: Since we got in? MATT: No, I'd say you're
about 45 to 50 feet from the rest of them, since they got thrown
from the vehicle in the opposite direction. SAM: Can I get closer? LAURA: Wait-- MATT: If you want to
approach Otohan, you can. SAM: I won't do it, then. LAURA: How far are we
from Otohan, each? Is she like-- MATT: Your group's about
30 feet from her on one side. The rest of you are about
20 to 30 feet from that side, since the vehicle. Actually, it'd probably
be the other way around. 20 feet for the rest
of the group. For the people that
were on the crawler, you're about 35,
40 feet from her, because you got thrown after
the vehicle hit the ground. LAURA: Okay, and
it's an alley way, or it's just like a street? MATT: It's like a
T-intersection on the outside of the wall, and there's a street
that crosses there. You guys came out of the gate--
LIAM: Right outside of the wall. MATT: -- turned to the right, and then she was
right there waiting, cut you, and then you
were thrown off this way. So now, technically, you're near an intersection
of streets with the wall of the
Paragon's Call Seat of Disdain right there at the edge. LIAM: The two groups are the
two sides of the table, right? We're the blown-up group and
you guys are on the crawler. MATT: Technically, yeah.
TALIESIN: Yeah, yeah. SAM: I'm going to move closer
and just bind with Imogen. LIAM: Just binding? SAM: Just binding.
MATT: Okay. TRAVIS: You want
a conversation? You better start talking before that jaw is removed
from your skull. MATT: "(Otohan laughs) "You impress me with
your brazen infiltration. "Brash can have its
merits over well-plotted. "We who think too
far ahead, it seems, "can miss what stands
right before us, yes? "Who sent you? "Who is your employer?" She takes a few more
steps in your direction. LIAM: I step in
front of Imogen. MATT: Okay. LAURA: I'm going to
hold my hand out. MATT: The shadowed versions, which now you can see
are versions of her. They're dark, shadowed
versions of her body, bereft of a lot of color, just in grays and blacks. There's faint flickering
to it a little bit. MARISHA: Do they move
as she moves or do they move
independently? MATT: They move
independently, though the movement
is similar. ASHLEY: I step by
Imogen as well. MATT: Orym, you've seen
these assassins before. TRAVIS: Oh! Shit! It just got interesting. LAURA: Underneath Otohan--
SAM: Before it was not interesting, but now it is. LAURA: -- the ground is
going to sort of rip open, and red light's going
to pour out, and a sphere of storm is
going to erupt around her, and I'm casting-- I'm casting Hungry Torrent. MATT: Okay. TRAVIS: You're casting what? ASHLEY: Ex-squeeze me? LIAM: Hungry, hungry torrent.
MATT: So, as this-- TALIESIN: Well, here we go. MATT: -- this dark red
rift flashes, opens up, and (whoosh) this deep
red and purple light begins to swirl around Otohan as she walks forward in
the direction of all of you. There's a look of
recognition in her eyes as it begins to swarm around. What is the DC on this? LAURA: This is-- oh, fuck. It's a dexterity, which
I'm sure she's going to beat. MATT: Okay, and what's
the radius on it? LAURA: It's a 20-foot radius. MATT: 20-foot, so all of the other versions--
LAURA: Yes. MATT: -- technically
would fall into this. So, she succeeds with a 20. Sorry, a 19. LAURA: Okay. MATT: The other ones,
natural 16. 17. One of them fails with a 12. LAURA: Okay. Are there four extra
people or three extra? MATT: It's her
and three extras. LAURA: Okay. All right. They take half damage of
3d6 lightning damage. MATT: Okay. Two of them immediately
dissipate. LAURA: Okay.
MATT: And are destroyed. LAURA: So, she takes seven
points of lightning damage, and then I guess nothing
else is affected right now. MATT: Wait, the other one
took half damage as well? LAURA: Yes. Anything
that took-- MATT: Okay, so all
three are destroyed. LAURA: Oh, great.
MATT: They're like, (dissipating). SAM: That was easy.
MATT: Scattered. TALIESIN: Oh. MATT: As the tendrils
lick around her, she strikes it off. Now, is this a
concentration spell? Does it maintain
itself in the space? LAURA: Yes.
MATT: Okay. So they're still like
(tentacles writhing) and you watch in
this storm area, there are these long,
whip-like tendrils of dark purple, red energy, like lightning that moves, and then it's
frozen in place, and then moves again, and
then freezes in place. It seems to be trying to wrap around
whatever's nearby, like one of the
Ghostbusters, you know? TRAVIS: Oh, yeah.
MATT: Proton cannon. It tries to wrap
around and pull, and as it begins to
whip around her, she glances towards you. "Hello, again." TRAVIS: Oh shit. ASHLEY: I'm standing by Imogen.
TALIESIN: A little closer to Orym. MATT: She takes another
step towards Imogen. LIAM: That's enough.
MARISHA: Imogen? MATT: "Who sent you?" LIAM: With everything that's
going on, while she's staring, Orym has also not forgotten
about Artana Voe, and is still just
listening and listening. MATT: Make a wisdom
saving throw for me. LIAM: Oh shit. 15. MATT: 15. So, the few times-- I'm trying to remember. The
times that you've had Imogen glance through your mind. Has she peered into
your mind before? LIAM: She says she hasn't. MATT: So this
is a new sensation. LAURA: You let me do it.
You welcomed me in one time. LIAM: Oh, well, we've talked. Well, you've got all these
different things that you can do. We've talked, but is that
different than showing you things? I showed you things once?
LAURA: You showed me. LIAM: On purpose, right?
LAURA: Mm-hmm. LIAM: Okay. MATT: In a familiar,
but more intrusive way, you feel a cold icicle begins
to push into your mind. She asks forcefully
once more. "Who do you work for?
Who sent you?" You try and resist,
and it pushes through, and for a second, you feel like you've lost
all grip on your will, your strength, and then it's gone. SAM: Oh. MATT: That brief burst of
headache slips from you, and you're back in control, and at that moment,
she looks at you. "(chuckles) "Eshteross." TRAVIS: Oh. MATT: "Interesting. "I'll have to
pay him a visit. "That old fool meddles far
beyond his aspirations." SAM: Oh shit. MATT: "What do you
know of me? Of this? "You can answer
these questions, "or I take the
answers from you." TRAVIS: Yeah, clearly. LAURA: We don't
know anything. We didn't even know
you were here. MATT: Roll a deception check. SAM: Can I help her
since I'm binded to her? MATT: How do you help? SAM: I invoke
Trusted Companion. What is it? Yeah,
Trusted Companion. I'm going to give her a
Bonded Blessing of a d6. MATT: Okay, so you can add a
d6 to the roll, if you'd like. LAURA: Okay. Okay. 18. MATT: 18. SAM: But as I do, I back up and go: Ah! Yeah. MATT: "I have a
hard time believing "that you would not know that "the leader of the group that
you've infiltrated was present, "especially given the
face time I've had "with a number of you
since your arrival." LAURA: Are you starting your
turn? It's been six seconds. You're going to take
another 3d6 lighting damage if you stay in there. MATT: She's going to
stay there and take it. TRAVIS: Wow! TALIESIN: Nightmare King.
TRAVIS: Wow. MATT: She make another save? LAURA: Yeah.
TALIESIN: People track of the hole? LIAM: Are we in loose combat
terms here, or are we in a lull? MATT: Right now, it's on
the cusp of initiative. LIAM: Okay.
TRAVIS: A conversation still. ASHLEY: Oh.
LIAM: A conversation. ASHLEY: You're the leader
of this establishment? LAURA: That's 18,
unless she saves. MATT: She does not. LAURA: She doesn't save? MATT: She doesn't save. LAURA: Then she takes the full
18 and she is restrained. MATT: She's restrained? LAURA: Uh-huh. She's restrained
until the spell ends. MATT: She'll use Legendary
Resistance then and succeed. TRAVIS: Ooh, shit! LIAM: Yeah, she's--
TRAVIS: (warning alarm) (laughter) ASHLEY: Whoop! MATT: I think she's going to go--
TRAVIS: Def-Con 4. MARISHA: Moving up,
moving up. TRAVIS: Yeah.
MATT: "Perhaps the rest of you are weak, "like the sheep
who bleat to be "saved by some higher power." ASHLEY: Yeah, that stinks. MATT: "You are worthy
of only ashes then." (apparating) Three more
of those same versions just reappear around her. TALIESIN: Are
they in the ball? MARISHA: Run!
MATT: No, they are not, and we're rolling initiative. (groans) SAM: Rolling initiative?
MARISHA: Fuck, we should've run! SAM: Oh god!
LAURA: We got to run. We got to get away. MARISHA: We got to run!
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LAURA: Oh look! ASHLEY: So cool!
LAURA: Our crawler's already knocked over.
TRAVIS: That is so gorgeous. LIAM: The lamps on the wire.
ASHLEY: What? LAURA: Oh, yeah!
TRAVIS: Fucking awesome. ASHLEY: Oh, the little lamps!
TRAVIS: God damn! ASHLEY: Oh my god, that's fly.
MARISHA: Ooh, crystals. TRAVIS: Look at
the crates and barrels and
shit on the street. ASHLEY: Oh, come on. MATT: The rest of you that
are over on this space here. ASHLEY: Ding dong! MARISHA: Uh-oh, you're stuck.
LAURA: Oh no. MARISHA: Oh, it's your
magnet. It's the magnet. MATT: I'm going to take
it off or the time being. MARISHA: There we go. MATT: There we
go. That works. I'll leave that off for this one.
TALIESIN: Oh boy. TRAVIS: His power
has weakened. SAM: I don't have
any spells left, guys. LIAM: I got to see it.
LAURA: Oh no. I'm almost out,
too, actually. MATT: Ashton, you
were over here, right? TALIESIN: I was near--
MARISHA: Shit, shit. We're running, right?
We got to run? We got to run.
LAURA: We have to. MARISHA: We have to run. Run, run, run, run? LIAM: Orym is directly in front of Imogen.
SAM: No, we got to see. We got to do a little combat
to see what she's got. MARISHA: The people
who have Treshi-- SAM: Let's see what
she's got. (pigeon coos) TALIESIN: I am curious how many hits it will take--
MARISHA: -- Treshi and the boxes have to run. TALIESIN: -- to TKO you.
LIAM: Look at her. Look at her! LAURA: Oh god, she's running forward.
TALIESIN: To knock you dead. MARISHA: I say we split, and try and--
LAURA: Yeah. LIAM: Her mini
is running at us. SAM: Her mini is perpetually running.
MARISHA: Yeah, we got to scatter. (laughter) SAM: That's exhausting to me. (laughter) TRAVIS: Oh boy. LAURA: Or at least--
SAM: She's like a shark. TALIESIN: She does nothing but cardio.
MARISHA: Because they always swim. TALIESIN: What is the
radius that you placed? LAURA: 20 feet.
SAM: I'm going to run around the block. LIAM: It's two of
the assassins? SAM: Three.
LIAM: Three? LAURA: Three.
LIAM: Oh, another one's being placed. TALIESIN: Also, is
this a spell that affects anybody who
walks in, or just baddies? MATT: Anybody.
LAURA: Anybody that walks in that spot.
TALIESIN: Anybody? Okay, looks dangerous. MATT: Okay. Initiative on this. TRAVIS: Ooh!
SAM: Oh, initiative. TRAVIS: Oh, right. MARISHA: I rolled dog shit.
LAURA: Oh my god. MATT: 25 to 20. LAURA: Cool.
MARISHA: Not good. MATT: All right. TALIESIN: Yep.
LAURA: So I think Otohan is right there.
MATT: All right, 20 to 15? LIAM: 17. MARISHA: Wow.
MATT: Okay. LIAM: There it is.
MATT: 15 to 10? TALIESIN: 14.
TRAVIS: 14. ASHLEY: Rollies.
LAURA: Which one is higher? MATT: Who has the higher dex? SAM: Better just roll for it.
TRAVIS: 14. TALIESIN: 16. MATT: All right, so Ashton. TALIESIN: Okay.
MATT: And then Chetney. 10 to five?
LAURA: Oh, wait. No, I had 11. MATT: You had 11? Okay. TRAVIS: Sorry, what was it? Who was after Chetney? ASHLEY and SAM: Imogen.
LAURA: I am. ASHLEY: Seven. LAURA: Wow. ASHLEY: Wow, really? MATT: Anybody above seven? Okay.
ASHLEY: Holy moly, okay. TRAVIS: A level seven.
TALIESIN: Okay. MATT: All right. Who's left? SAM: One. MARISHA: I rolled a
natural one as well, but that puts me at three. MATT: Okay.
SAM: Mine is just one. Did you also roll a nat one? SAM: Yeah.
MARISHA: Oh boy. Hot table's done.
LAURA: Wow. MARISHA: Cold table,
cold table. SAM: Cold table. LAURA: (laughs) TRAVIS: Boy. MATT: Okay. LAURA: Remove your chips. MARISHA: Yeah.
LAURA: The luck is gone. MARISHA: Move.
LAURA: Walk away. MARISHA: Move out. MATT: All righty.
SAM: FGG. MARISHA: FGG.
SAM: Fucking GG. (laughter) MARISHA: Fucking GG. MATT: So.
LAURA: Uh-uh. MATT: Otohan goes first. SAM: Yep.
LAURA: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. MARISHA: Sure.
TRAVIS: Sure thing. MATT: She's going
to dart forward, right up into this space. TALIESIN: Yep.
LAURA: Yeah, of course she is. MATT: The echoes
are going to-- SAM: Oh god. Oh god! Oh god!
LAURA: Oh, okay. I'm dead. I'm going to die. SAM: Oh no. TRAVIS: Does your sphere hurt
anybody, or just enemies? TALIESIN: Anybody.
LAURA: Anybody. MATT: She's going to-- TRAVIS: So we can't get to you.
MATT: -- go up to you first, Imogen-- LAURA: You could go around. LIAM: All the way around. TALIESIN: Here we go.
MATT: -- and is going to unleash three weapon attacks, and then an offhand
strike against you. TALIESIN: I am not still raging anymore?
TRAVIS: Did you just say four attacks?
MATT: You are not still raging. TALIESIN: Okay, I've
dropped my rage, apparently. MARISHA: Three and an off-hand.
MATT: Well, you weren't taking damage or
dealing damage. TALIESIN: No, I was
just like-- Yeah. SAM: Wait, that's her? MARISHA: Yeah.
SAM: Oh man. TRAVIS: This is a problem. MATT: That is 28 to hit. TALIESIN: Oh yeah, that hits. MATT: Okay. That is 16 points
of slashing damage. TALIESIN: Fuck me. MATT: Plus an additional
nine points of force damage. TALIESIN: Okay, 25. MATT: Second attack
is a 18 to hit. TALIESIN: Yep.
MATT: Okay. TRAVIS: I have to
[inaudible]. MARISHA: Yeah, like relay race it?
MATT: You take 11 points of slashing damage, plus seven force.
MARISHA: Hand over Treshi. TALIESIN: 18.
LAURA: She might now know we-- MARISHA: Have Treshi. Does she even give a
fuck about Treshi? MATT: Actually, sorry, no. You aren't prone, reduce
the force damage. Sorry. TALIESIN: So, okay, one
more time. Tell me what. TRAVIS: He said she's
going to kill him. MATT: So it was
nine force damage, and then the last one was-- TALIESIN: I don't know.
LIAM: She's giving the blessing. MATT: I totally forgot-- TRAVIS: He was a
prisoner, he was not-- MATT: We'll say take off 11. TALIESIN: Oh, so take how
much? Because I undid it. Oh, seven. So it would
be 11 damage. SAM: Otohan's going
to kill him? TRAVIS: He said she is
going to kill him, yeah. SAM: Well, she could have
killed him at any point. TALIESIN: Yeah, wait.
That's not right. LAURA: I think Voe was
going to kill him. TALIESIN: I may have fucked up
some shit. We'll find out. I think I may have taken too much damage.
TRAVIS: I don't think he was a guest. TALIESIN: I got confused, so. MATT: Okay.
MARISHA: He was talking about Artana Voe?
MATT: Well, we're removing the force damage, because you weren't knocked
prone on that, unfortunately. So we're going to, instead--
MARISHA: Fuck. TALIESIN: I may have taken an extra 10 points that
I didn't mean to. MATT: It's fine.
TALIESIN: Yeah. MATT: Take it off. LAURA: He went, I'm
confident enough. MATT: It's fine. The third hit is
going to be a 19. TALIESIN: Oh, yeah,
that hits. MATT: Okay, that is
going to be 15 points of slashing damage. TALIESIN: Yep. MATT: Then the echo
is going to take in that offhand strike. So it was (weapons slashing)
and then from the side, the echo strikes as well for that's going to
be a 20 to hit. TALIESIN: Yeah.
MATT: For 14 points of slashing damage. TALIESIN: I'm down.
TRAVIS: Oh, whoa! SAM: Wait, what? TALIESIN: I'm down.
TRAVIS: Ashton's down. SAM: He's more than 30 feet away from me, isn't he?
TRAVIS: Barbarian's down, not raging. TALIESIN: I'm down. I was very high, and I don't know if I
fucked up that 10, because I might still be
standing without that 10. I don't know. Fuck it. LIAM: Ashton's down. TRAVIS: I mean, we
have two options. Hit her directly or scatter.
SAM: Oh, wait, it's 60 feet from me I can do
Healing Word. Okay. Cool. Cool. Cool.
TRAVIS: I would scatter. MATT: Yeah, so you got that.
SAM: Okay. MATT: That's going to finish
their go for this round. Next up is Orym. LIAM: Holy shit. MARISHA: Should we just
ask if she wants Treshi? TRAVIS: There we go. LIAM: I can't slide
between-- SAM: Might not even
know that we have him. LIAM: I really wanted to
be between Imogen and-- SAM: He not standing with us. MARISHA: Yeah, she might
just want to kill us for being invasive bastards.
LIAM: And her. SAM: She doesn't even
know we have him. LIAM: Let me see, I am going
to use a superiority die. MARISHA: Maybe, we don't know.
LIAM: Shit, no. I'm not going to do that,
I'm going to move to the space in here. This little
square that's empty. MATT: All righty.
MARISHA: Not good. TALIESIN: Holy shit, I just had a lot of damage
done to me. MARISHA: Not good.
ASHLEY: Really not good. TALIESIN: I was in--
TRAVIS: High 50s, right? TALIESIN: Possibly low 60s. LIAM: I'm going to kneel
down fast and jam this into Ashton's mouth
and then stand up, whip around, and
slash twice. I'm going to leap
up in the air. MATT: Mm-hmm.
LIAM: Slash her, and then kick her off and use a superiority die and
try to push her back in. So, that is a 19 to hit.
MATT: 19 to hit misses. TALIESIN: Fuck.
LIAM: Misses. MATT: Yes.
LIAM: Okay. MATT: You try and strike,
and just parries it. TALIESIN: Fuck.
LIAM: Second slash. SAM: What happened?
What's wrong? LIAM: This one hits. TALIESIN: Took a healing
potion, and it-- LAURA: Does it?
LIAM: Well, let's hope. That is a 25 to hit.
SAM: It what? MATT: 25 does hit. TALIESIN: Four HP is
what I got out of it. SAM: And you're up.
LIAM: She needs to beat a 15 strength save for a pushing attack.
TALIESIN: Out of what could've been 10. MATT: 19.
TRAVIS: I don't think six matters. LIAM: Okay, so I'll
do my damage. 13 points of damage total.
MATT: 13 points of damage. TRAVIS: Stunned silence.
MARISHA: Silence, I know. MATT: Going to use
Protective Field. As you strike, you watch
her flex the muscles in her forehead,
and as you go, there's almost
a psychic shield. It absorbs most of the blow.
How much damage was it? LIAM: 13.
MATT: 13 reduced by seven. So she takes six
points of damage. LIAM: Okay. Then I just square off and hold my shield up
higher and stand ground. MATT: All righty,
finishing Orym's go. Ashton, you are
conscious, though prone. TALIESIN: I'm in the middle. If I move anywhere away
from these motherfuckers-- MATT: Unless you use your
action to disengage. TALIESIN: Okay, shit. LIAM: Tuck and roll. TALIESIN: Yeah, can I-- I can use my action to disengage on that, then? MATT: You can.
TALIESIN: Then just try and back up without
standing up? MATT: If you want to, yeah. TALIESIN: I'm going to
disengage, fucking back up. I cannot believe
I'm doing this. Take a little cover
behind that. MATT: Are you going to use
half your movement to get up? TALIESIN: Can I only move at
half movement if I'm crouched? MATT: Crouched? Yeah, because
you're not on your foot, so. TALIESIN: You know, sure,
I'll burn half my movement and still have 20-- MATT: You can get over here
if you want to, behind this. TALIESIN: Yeah, as long as I
can get a little safety there. Fuck, I'm going to rage,
just for the shit of it. TRAVIS: You think?
LIAM: Quick quesh. MATT: Yes? LIAM: To give the
potion to Ashton, that makes it a
full action, because I was giving
it to someone else? MATT: Correct.
LIAM: That means my attacks were my Action Surge. MATT: Got it. I somehow
assumed that, sorry. My apologies (belch), pardon me.
LIAM: Yeah. MATT and MARISHA:
(belching) My apologies! (laughter) MATT: All right,
finishing your turn, to take a Legendary Action,
take a strike at Imogen. TALIESIN: Shit.
LAURA: I'm dead. SAM: Are you really?
LAURA: No, but I will be. SAM: Jesus. MATT: That's going
to be 22 to hit. LAURA: Yeah!
TALIESIN: Shit. MATT: You take 11 points
of slashing damage. LAURA: Okay. MATT: It's going to use
a Psionic Strike on you. Otohon looking over at where
Ashton's going off and facing off with Orym,
with an unnatural speed, just glancing over, all
of a sudden focuses on you, and in a moment,
you see a flash of where your eyes
met in that dream. As you pull out of that, you didn't even notice
the blade meet you. So you take 11 points
of slashing damage, plus-- LAURA: Is that an additional
11 points, plus the-- So this is another 11 points? MATT: Yes, this is additional
psychic damage. TALIESIN: Fuck me, man.
MATT: I need you to make a DC 17 strength save, please. LAURA: Sure, no problem, I'm
really strong, so I got this. Five.
MATT: And you are knocked prone. SAM: Is that her or
her underlings? LAURA: So that was
11 damage twice, right, yes, got it.
TALIESIN: They're kind of all the same thing. MATT: I also need you to
make a concentration check. TALIESIN: Jesus fucking Christ.
MATT: You have to beat a 22. SAM: Beat a 22? MATT: Or it's half
damage. 11, sorry. LAURA: What? MATT: It's half the
damage you took. LAURA: So 11.
MATT: So 11. LAURA: Okay, so I beat that.
MATT: Okay, cool. So you maintain concentration
on that there. All right, finishing Ashton's
go. Chetney, you're up. TRAVIS: Fucking shit. There's a goddamn hurricane of lightning in the middle.
SAM: Even if we wanted to leave, how do we leave? LAURA: I don't know to get
out of here. I don't know. We just scatter.
MARISHA: We split and scatter. SAM: She's going to
go after her. LAURA: I don't know. SAM: We don't have
teleport-y things. TRAVIS: Yeah, bonus action,
I'm going to grab my lower jaw and just rip my face
off, and there is-- MARISHA: Let's go.
TRAVIS: -- a huge wolf maw underneath. LAURA: Should we try and scatter?
TRAVIS: But I'm wearing a "Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles" Chetney mask up top. MATT: Oh god! That's horrifying!
LAURA: Everybody go different directions. MATT: I love it.
TRAVIS: I am going to run up to the edge of the cyclone and then run around the
side of it as far as I can. MATT: All righty.
SAM: Who has Treshi? MATT: It's around this way? TRAVIS: I'm going to
go the opposite. MATT: This way?
TRAVIS: You know what? It's the same, so I'll
go to your right. MATT: Okay. MARISHA: I don't know if
she gives a fuck about him. MATT: 30?
TRAVIS: Yeah, 25. LAURA: He was paying her.
I don't think he-- TRAVIS: How far am I--
can you count squares for me, to her, to Artana?
SAM: Of course she does. He has access to--
MATT: So 25 feet there. This isn't Artana, this is--
TRAVIS: I'm sorry. MATT: No worries. TRAVIS: Am I 30 feet from
her in a direct line? MATT: Correct.
LIAM: She's waiting for us. TRAVIS: I'm going to use--
tell me if this is right, I'm going to use--
SAM: He has the tech she needs to get to the moon
or something. TRAVIS: -- one of my new blood curses.
MATT: Uh-huh? MARISHA: I think he's
a rich guy and Treshi's paying
her for safety. TRAVIS: Where the fuck
did it go? LIAM: But if she doesn't
give a fuck about him, why is she here?
TRAVIS: I'm going to use the Blood Curse of
Bloated Agony. SAM: Bloated Agony?
TRAVIS: Bloated Agony. You curse a creature
that you can see within 30 feet of you until
the end of your next turn. For the duration, the creature has disadvantage
on strength and dex checks. And takes 1d8 necrotic
damage if it makes more than one attack
on its turn. MARISHA: She looked at you
and said, "Hello again." MATT: Oh yeah, okay.
SAM: That's bloated all right. TRAVIS: Well, yeah. MATT: Is there a save they
make, or does it just happen? Double check, trying
to remember. TRAVIS: No, because
it's only one turn. MATT: That's true, yeah. So as you focus, you
flare up your blood magic. What does that look like
as you invoke the curse? TRAVIS: Yeah, so the blood
magic's already on the chisel, but he takes it and he
just sticks it into his rib, and he goes-- (howls) LAURA: Oh shit.
TRAVIS: A huge howl comes out and you see shock
waves that go out. MATT: It hits the
back of Otohan, and you watch as the armor seems to almost bulge
as muscles begin to fight, and something internal
begins to twist and contort within the
body of Otohan Thull. Looks back over her
shoulder, back at you. TRAVIS: That's my turn.
MATT: Okay, you got it. All right, finishing
the end of that turn, it's going to use
another action to dash. Move her speed any direction. It's going to move and dart to this side, next to Fearne. All righty, that brings us to Imogen. You're
on the ground. TRAVIS: I also did run
by one of her shadows. MATT: Right, it did not get
an attack of opportunity. TRAVIS: Okay.
SAM: It would be so cool-- MATT: She used her
reaction already. SAM: -- if on
that line across, there was just a tiny
pair of sneakers, dangling. (laughter) MATT: Aw, I should've
looked at Etsy for it. TALIESIN: Was that
technically one of her turns? LAURA: Are we trying to run? TALIESIN: So if I had
one of my effects up, would that affect her?
LAURA: So we should run. TALIESIN: Within my
15-foot radius. SAM: We need to put up
some wall of something. MATT: No, that was
not one of her turns. TALIESIN: Okay, cool. MATT: All right.
TALIESIN: Fuck, shit, piss. TRAVIS: We got a hard
choice to make. We're going to fight and
die, or we're going to run, and if we run, we
got to scatter. LAURA: We got to scatter. MARISHA: If we could just incapacitate her
for a hot second. SAM: Our car just blew up.
TRAVIS: If we scatter, she's going to get to
pick who she goes after. MARISHA: Who she goes to.
Unless we just try and-- SAM: We just have
to hold her off for 48 hours until
the skyship comes. LAURA: Cool, cool cool cool.
SAM: We can just call for it now. TRAVIS: Call the C-130. TALIESIN: Fuck. SAM: Can you hold
her while we run? LIAM: Supervillain in
a lightning bubble. MARISHA: Can you use your lance? Are you out?
LAURA: I can't, I'm out that spell. I'm out of spells. ASHLEY: I can try
to hold it, but. MARISHA: Do you
have Hold Person? TALIESIN: Do we have Bane, anything?
LAURA: In your head, you're just going
to hear: Run! I'm going to use Misty Step. MARISHA: Okay, okay.
LAURA: When I'm on the ground, I'm looking up, and
I look past Otohan up at the balcony behind her.
MATT: Okay. LAURA: I'm going to
Misty Step up to here. MATT: All righty. MARISHA: Okay, okay. SAM: Imogen's gone! TRAVIS: She's going
to chase one of us. MATT: Up into this balcony?
SAM: She abandoned us! LAURA: Up into this balcony,
and I'm going to run and try to go
into the building. MATT: Okay. You got it.
MARISHA: Maybe we buddy system it? MATT: Okay.
SAM: You open a door and there's a couple
just railing each other. TRAVIS: In the middle
of a sandstorm spike? LAURA: I mean, what else
are you going to do? TALIESIN: Mind Wipe, Mind Wipe!
LIAM: Oh my god. SAM: It's a tabaxi couple.
MATT: All right, does that finish
your turn, Imogen? TALIESIN: Shit.
LAURA: Hold on, let me mark it. I'm confused. Yes. MATT: Okay, end of your turn. It's going to use a
third Legendary Action to take a strike
on you, Fearne. That's going to
be a 28 to hit. ASHLEY: No.
TRAVIS: 28 to hit? Matt Mercer! MATT: Sorry. TALIESIN: I hate all of this.
MARISHA: She's going to murder all of us if we stay.
MATT: 14 points of slashing damage.
ASHLEY: Okay. MATT: It's going to use
another Psionic Strike to add an additional--
LAURA: We're trying to run, right? MATT: -- 14 points of psychic damage.
MARISHA: I think she's pissed enough even if we try to
hand over Treshi, she's not going to--
LIAM: Orym couldn't run away because he protec, but it's a run situation. MARISHA: Run? Run? We all
have to be in on running. MATT: That finishes her.
LAURA: I thought we were. That's why I ran.
MATT: Fearne, it's your turn. ASHLEY: Okay.
TALIESIN: There's nothing to be done. SAM: How do we run?
TALIESIN: We all scatter. SAM: But we're
going to be leaving-- MARISHA: We got to try
and just slow her down. If you can slow her down. TALIESIN: Anything you have to slow her down.
SAM: Can you get out? ASHLEY: Okay. I'm
going to try to cast-- MARISHA: Come on. Come on, Fearne.
ASHLEY: Hold Person on her. MARISHA: Come on. High level
shit, high level shit. SAM: You just hope that she
doesn't look in the bedroom? ASHLEY: Yeah, I'm going to try
to cast Hold Person on her. MATT: Okay.
TALIESIN: Keep going, yeah. MARISHA: Come on.
ASHLEY: I'm doing it at 3rd-level, so that's also getting
another creature as well. MATT: Okay. So you're targeting
her and one of the echoes. Got it.
ASHLEY: Yes. MATT: Okay.
SAM: Hide under the bed. MATT: That's a wisdom save?
ASHLEY: Yes. MATT: That's a failure. She's going to burn a
Legendary Resistance. The echo, which one? The right or the left,
you're affecting? MARISHA: Fuck, the
Legendary Resistance. So wait, that's two
that she's burned? ASHLEY: That one over there.
MATT: Over there? TALIESIN: That's two down.
ASHLEY: Yeah, your right. MATT: That is a failure,
so that one is currently held. Mark that here. ASHLEY: Are we running?
LAURA: We're running! ASHLEY: Okay. I'm going to
reach my hand down to Mister. MARISHA: Fuck.
MATT: Mm-hmm. ASHLEY: I'm going
to say: Let's go. As a bonus action, he's going to cast
Fiery Teleportation. MATT: Okay.
ASHLEY: We will move-- I think it's only 15 feet
or something like that. Yep, 15 feet.
MATT: Which direction? ASHLEY: To an
unoccupied-- Okay. LAURA: You could go on
the other side of it. ASHLEY: I think
I'm going to try to start running
this way as well. MATT: This way or
this way? You tell me. ASHLEY: This way, yeah.
MATT: Okay, so 15 feet. There.
ASHLEY: The space that he left, so-- TALIESIN: I need
to see a thing, shit. ASHLEY: She's going to have
to make a dex saving throw. MATT: Okay, yeah. We'll say
you put her next to her-- ASHLEY: Yeah, to make sure
that it goes off. TALIESIN: Okay, okay, okay.
MATT: Dex save. Natural one. So she
just takes the damage. ASHLEY: Okay. LAURA: She doesn't want to
use a Legendary Resistance? ASHLEY: Of course.
What a bullshit roll. Four points of damage.
It was a dumb one. MATT: Aw. Four points of fire damage.
ASHLEY: Four points of fire damage. MATT: Okay, got it. Okay.
That finish your turn, Fearne? LAURA: She explodes.
It's so weird. MATT: You just
(flaming teleportation) in this burst of flame
and it burns her a bit. ASHLEY: Yeah, that's my turn.
MATT: Okay. ASHLEY: Shit, that's my turn.
MATT: Laudna, you're up, with FCG on deck.
ASHLEY: Goddamn it. LAURA: You can use
your movement, still. ASHLEY: That's right,
I can still move! Okay, so from there,
I'm going to still just take off running
as far as I can go. MATT: 30 feet this way? We'll
put you about there, we'll say. SAM: The rammer of the flame. MATT: Okay. All
right. Laudna. MARISHA: All right, I say: FCG, I think we're running! I'm going to hit her
with a Ray of Frost. MATT: Okay.
MARISHA: Under 20 feet. LAURA: Waste of a spell.
Waste of a spell. MARISHA: Wait, no, that was
fine. That was fine, sorry. TALIESIN: So, the shadow that's held--
MARISHA: Fuck, 18. TALIESIN: -- we
can't hit it or it will get free?
MATT: 18 misses. MARISHA: 18 misses.
MATT: Yes. MARISHA: Okay.
TALIESIN: Fuck. MARISHA: 18 misses.
Oh my god. Okay. I'm going to go ahead and use my bonus action
to do Form of Dread. MATT: Okay. MARISHA: Give myself nine temporary hit
points, which is great. Fuck. And then also run. I am going to-- TALIESIN: Fuck. MARISHA: I'm going to run and
start heading up this balcony. MATT: This balcony? The
ladder here, you mean? MARISHA: Yeah. MATT: That'll get you
partway up the ladder there. MARISHA: Okay. Fuck.
TALIESIN: Fuck, man. MATT: That'll get you
about there. Okay. SAM: When you moved away,
Imogen, did your sphere stay? LAURA: Yeah.
SAM: Shit. MATT: All right, does that
finish your turn, Laudna? FCG, you're up. SAM: There's a dude
right there that no one has attacked. MATT: Mm-hmm.
MARISHA: Shadow dude. LAURA: They go down quickly. TRAVIS: Matt's just standing
there with his Weed Whacker on the lawn.
SAM: Am I close enough that he would hit me? Well yeah, I don't know.
MATT: You're 10 feet away. You don't know if
it's in range or not. Its weapons seemed
standard range. SAM: Okay. Which way
did Laudna go? Oh, you're walking
up the wall. MARISHA: Yeah. SAM: Okay, Jesus. Okay, we're running, right?
MARISHA: Running. SAM: I'm going to run this way.
MATT: Okay. SAM: I mean roll that way,
around the back of the house. MATT: Over here?
SAM: Yeah. As I go, I'll bonus
action grant you another four points, four temporary hit points. TALIESIN: God fucking damn it.
MARISHA: Okay. TALIESIN: God fucking fucking damn it.
SAM: With my Ardent Armor. MARISHA: Sick.
SAM: Ah! MARISHA: Oh, FCG! SAM: I'll use my action
to just keep going around the back of the house.
MATT: Okay. All right. Over here? SAM: Around this way.
MATT: Around this way? SAM: Yeah, I'd love to
get around here if I can. MATT: Oh, got you.
You can about there with the rest of your movement.
SAM: Great. MATT: Okay, you got it. All right, finishing
your turn. Top of the round,
it's now Otohan's go. LAURA: No!
TALIESIN: She has to make a-- I'm so sorry,
I lost the button. She has to make, because
there's a weird red blue aura coming from the corner, she has to make a
constitution saving throw. MATT: Constitution
saving throw. That is going to be a 15. TALIESIN: That's not looking
at the right number. Where's my save for that? ASHLEY: Be higher. Be
higher. Be higher. LAURA: It's going to
be hard to beat. TALIESIN: So sorry,
I'm trying to remember. What is the save
for these things? SAM: Oh my god. TRAVIS: It's usually listed
in features, I think. TALIESIN: Okay. MATT: Should say
at the top of the-- TALIESIN: Okay,
Fundamental Force is a DC, mine is eight plus your
proficiency modifier. MATT: Eight plus three. TALIESIN: Plus your
constitution modifier. It doesn't actually say the
number, it just says what it is. MATT: Right, so it's 11 plus
your constitution modifier, which is?
TALIESIN: Three. MATT: So 14.
TALIESIN: Fuck! ASHLEY: Fuck, just under.
TALIESIN: Fuck. Shit. Piss. Fuck. MATT: Barely, barely. TALIESIN: Goddamn it, that
would've made everything so much fucking easier. MATT: With that--
LAURA: We're going to die. MATT: -- technically
this one vanishes. SAM: Oh. I killed one! MARISHA: (laughs) TRAVIS: Good job, FCG! MATT: This is going to run. This one here--
LIAM: Is that the one that's held? MATT: -- which is held, which it
can't do anything this round. With this, she's
going to go ahead and already is next to you.
MARISHA: Goddamn it. MATT: Going to run
a couple strikes. Going to do three attacks against you, Orym.
LIAM: Yep. MATT: First strike is
going to be 25 to hit. LIAM: Yeah. TALIESIN: God fucking damn it.
MARISHA: Do you have some cool fighter shit? MATT: That is going to be 10
points of slashing damage. Is going to Psionic Strike
for an additional 14 points of psychic. LAURA: Oh my god.
TRAVIS: She'll take 1d8 for eight points of damage. MATT: Nice, as that
curse "(groans)." LAURA: Nice. Nice.
MATT: All right. I need you to make a strength saving throw.
SAM: Bloated. MARISHA: Uh, period cramps.
LIAM: Okay. MATT: Yeah, you're knocked prone.
LIAM: Five. LAURA: Fuck. SAM: Water weight.
TALIESIN: I hate all of this. MATT: Sweeping it
out from under you, is going to
strike you again. You're prone, so it has advantage on the strike.
LIAM: Advantage. Yep. MATT: That's going
to be a 25 to hit. LIAM: Yep. TRAVIS: She'll take
five points of damage. SAM: Oh. MARISHA: What is this cool
thing you're doing? TRAVIS: Bloated Agony. MATT: Is it once
per turn, or did you... TRAVIS: It takes
1d8 necrotic damage if it makes more than
one attack on its turn. I guess it's just--
MATT: Just the one. TRAVIS: It's just the one time.
MATT: Yeah. TALIESIN: Okay.
MARISHA: Bummer. MATT: But it
maintains every round. It can keep doing the damage.
TRAVIS: Got it, got it, got it. MATT: All right. So that's going to be--
MARISHA: Oh, I understand. Okay. MATT: -- 15 points of slashing damage.
LIAM: Mm-hmm. MATT: Because you are prone, the blade sinks deeper
into you on the ground. It almost seems to seek
to pin you to the floor. You take an additional
eight points of-- TALIESIN: Fuck! MATT: -- force damage. MARISHA: Force damage?
MATT: Third strike against you. LAURA: It's not funny right
now. It's not funny right now. MATT: That's going
to be 28 to hit. LIAM: Yep. MATT: For 12 points
of slashing damage. LAURA: Fuck.
LIAM: Out, and as he's going out, he's looking at the
sky past her shoulder and thinking of his
husband and his father. TRAVIS: Oh no! Not like this! MATT: They're going to take
the rest of the movement over here, moving away from
the now unconscious Orym, pulling the blade forth,
walks over past Ashton just looking off in the direction
of where Imogen vanished. LAURA: She knew where I went? MATT: Uh-huh.
LAURA: She knew where I went? MATT: It's almost like
she can sense minds. TRAVIS: Oh man!
SAM: Oh my god. TALIESIN: Shit.
ASHLEY: God. TRAVIS: She's shopping.
This is bad. MARISHA: She wants Imogen.
MATT: Just staring off in your direction with the offhand strike.
MARISHA: She wants Imogen. LIAM: She's in the
Toys "R" Us toy room. MATT: She does a
strike against Ashton. TALIESIN: God fucking
damn it. MATT: That's going
to be 21 to hit. TALIESIN: Yeah, that
fucking hits. I'm out. MATT: That is 12 points
of slashing damage. TRAVIS: Oh man.
Oh man. Oh man. SAM: Tell our story, Mister. MARISHA: (laughing) Oh. MATT: She's going to use
the rest of her movement, which was 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40. SAM: Ooh.
MARISHA: What? MATT: Right up
towards you, Fearne. ASHLEY: Hey, bitch.
TRAVIS: This is a bad, bad bitch.
LAURA: This is really bad. MATT: All right. That
finishes Otohan's turn. Orym, I need you to make
a death save for me. MARISHA: Roll high.
LIAM: Ruidus it is. TRAVIS: Top.
LIAM: 13. TRAVIS: Yes.
MATT: 13, that's one success. LIAM: Mm-hmm.
MATT: Got it. All right. Ashton,
it's your turn. Death save from you, please.
TALIESIN: Mm-mm. Six.
MATT: Six? One failed save. TALIESIN: All right.
TRAVIS: Cool. Cool!
MATT: All right. Chetney. TRAVIS: Yes?
MATT: You're up. ASHLEY: Fuck.
TRAVIS: Mother shit balls. MATT: Oh, She makes
a save against that to see if she can
break the hold. That is going to be a 12. No, a 13, which I
don't believe succeeds. That echo is still held. TALIESIN: God fucking
damn it, I had plans. TRAVIS: Yeah, double
dash. I'm on her tail. All four paws on the
ground, coming dead charge. Which is not far,
it's only 50 feet. MATT: Right there.
TRAVIS: I'm growling and howling to try and get her
attention if I can, but I know there's not
much else that I can do. MARISHA: Are you tapped?
MATT: Okay. SAM: I'm never tapped, baby.
TRAVIS: Let me double check. MARISHA: Don't you
want to be? TRAVIS: Bonus action, that was
my bonus action. That's it. TALIESIN: Hate all of it.
LAURA: I don't know what to do. TRAVIS: Run.
MARISHA: She wants you. If you get the fuck out. LAURA: But how will we bring
everybody back to life? LIAM: Just get out.
MATT: Chetney, does that finish your turn?
TRAVIS: Who said anything about bringing people back to life? That's my turn.
SAM: Save yourself. LIAM: Get out.
MATT: Imogen, it's your turn. LAURA: I didn't see any of
that because I'm in the house. MATT: Correct, but you did
hear shouts and combat. That's all you know. TRAVIS: Lads, I would've
put a health potion in one of your mouths
if I had one. LAURA: I don't have a health
potion. I don't have anything. TALIESIN: I have one. I was
going to do so many things. LAURA: Can I run out of
the house, down the stairs, and come out through
a window on the side and try to take off running? MATT: As a double move?
LAURA: Yeah. MATT: Yeah, you rush
through the house. Start coasting around
on that side. MARISHA: This is a hard one.
TRAVIS: (laughs) MATT: You have to emerge
out the window on this side, but you manage to, with
the last of your movement, pull through the window
on the opposite end, yes. That's your movement and your action.
MARISHA: I'm hiding up in this red building on the corner. I'm halfway up the stairs. MATT: Is that your turn? LAURA: Fuck,
that's all I have. TRAVIS: There's a lot of that
going around. It's okay. MATT: End of the turn, is
going to use Legendary Action to take a strike at Fearne ASHLEY: Okay. MATT: That's going to be
a 19 to hit. 18, 18 to hit. ASHLEY: Yeah. Oh boy. MATT: Does that hit you?
ASHLEY: Yeah, it does. MATT: That's going to be
14 points of slashing damage. ASHLEY: I'm out. TRAVIS: (laughs) Woo! (terrified giggles) MATT: Okay. That brings us to
Fearne's turn, Fearne, I need you to make a
death save for me, please. TRAVIS: Three out!
ASHLEY: Okay, okay, okay. So, let me put in my--
TRAVIS: Three out! SAM: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
TALIESIN: Because I beat him in chess in France. MARISHA: What do I do?
TALIESIN: This is my fault. ASHLEY: I just roll one of these.
SAM: This fight could go either way right now. ASHLEY: I just roll one of these.
TALIESIN: Roll a d20. SAM: Cleric's still up.
ASHLEY: 14. MATT: That's one success,
so mark that one success. ASHLEY: I'm shaking.
MATT: Okay. ASHLEY: Okay!
MATT: Laudna, it's your turn. ASHLEY: Wait, wait, wait,
can Mister do anything? MATT: Does it say
anything when you fall with the
Wildfire Spirit? ASHLEY: I think he can act
on his on accord, hold on. MATT: Okay. ASHLEY: Mister,
you little fucker, you better do something. MATT: I'll allow it, what
do you want Mister to do? ASHLEY: Okay, wait,
hold on, let me see. TRAVIS: This is so good.
LAURA: Just throw some poop at her. (laughter) SAM: Fire the gun. (laughter) LAURA: His little tiny dagger.
SAM: Yeah, he does have a dagger. TALIESIN: If I recall, somebody had to be
up early this morning. Maybe this is Matt's way of making sure that's
going to happen. Nothing like a TPK
to end an evening. SAM: Counting those
squares. Five, 10-- MATT: This is nerve wracking.
TALIESIN: I don't like it. SAM: -- 25, 30. That gives
me line of sight, cool. ASHLEY: If you
are incapacitated, the spirit can take any action of its choice,
not just dodge. MATT: Correct, so what would
you like the spirit to do? SAM: Its choice. ASHLEY: I can't cast a
spell through him, right? MATT: No.
ASHLEY: Okay, so. MATT: He can take
any other action. He could attack,
any of his stuff. He can grab and move stuff.
LIAM: Give you a banana. MATT: Light stuff on fire,
if he's feeling like it. Whatever you think he's
capable of doing, within reason. TALIESIN: Got to teach that
monkey to stabilize people. ASHLEY: Okay, right,
all right, Flame Seed. He's going to throw
some Flame Seeds at her. MATT: All right, go for it. ASHLEY: Fuck!
MARISHA: I was just reading it. Hit dice.
TRAVIS: Do you have to be alive? MARISHA: Because I have
an ability that allows me-- ASHLEY: 20. Dirty 20.
MATT: Dirty 20? ASHLEY: Yeah.
MATT: That hits. ASHLEY: Okay. TALIESIN: If she'd
just ignored me, I would've been fine. I would've been so far
the fuck out of here. TRAVIS: Stabilize them first. ASHLEY: Six points of damage.
MATT: Six points of damage. She takes a piece
of flaming shit to the back of the shoulder.
ASHLEY: Wait, seven. I'm very sorry. MATT: Oh wow, there we go. ASHLEY: Let's not forget the one extra.
MATT: Now we're talking, okay. TRAVIS: She looking rough? MATT: Yeah, she's getting
a little wear and tear, but nothing too crazy. TRAVIS: Shoulder looks
a little shitty? MATT: Yeah.
TALIESIN: Cape has a stain. MATT: Yeah, a little flaming turd.
TRAVIS: I mean, time to turn in. TALIESIN: Fuck, man.
MATT: Okay. Does that finish your turn?
ASHLEY: Goddamn it. MARISHA: So you're down?
TRAVIS and ASHLEY: Yeah. TALIESIN: Three down. ASHLEY: I had something so cool, fuck.
LIAM: One side down, essentially, with Imogen on the run. MATT: Finish your turn? Going to use another
Legendary Action to dash. LIAM: She's collecting.
SAM: Oh no. MATT: With enough movement,
can get right here. Where you are.
TRAVIS: Yeah. SAM: Oh boy.
MATT: Okay. ASHLEY: Fuck, okay. MATT: That brings
us to Laudna. You're climbing up, and you
look over, and you just see... (three thumping sounds) MARISHA: No. With Wither and Bloom, where
I can pick someone to roll hit dice, does that count
for the people that are down? MATT: Let me look at
that spell really fast. TALIESIN: What?
TRAVIS: Sit down. TALIESIN: What weird shit are
you pulling out of your bag? MARISHA: I'm trying to
get one you all up. TRAVIS: You're going to
find out real quick. SAM: ♪ Wither and Bloom ♪ Guys, D&D Beyond. Start playtesting One D&D today.
MATT: Within a 10-foot radius of you, yes. SAM: Download One D&D playtest materials--
MATT: One creature gets to roll-- TRAVIS: Do they have to be conscious?
MATT: -- an unspent hit dice. No.
SAM: Try them out in your home game.
TRAVIS: Oh. SAM: Provide feedback.
MATT: They don't have to be. They have to be
within 10 feet of you. TALIESIN: 10 feet.
SAM: At dndbeyond.link/crdnd. TRAVIS: Can you turn into
a creepy bitch and fly? ASHLEY: What did you say?
I was not listening to you. SAM: The audience was
listening to me. MATT: The rest of us
are (blood pumping) LIAM: Yeah.
SAM: Dndbeyond.link/crdnd for One D&D today. MARISHA: No, it's not
within 10 feet. It's a 60-foot spell
in a 10-foot radius. MATT: Oh, I see, 10-foot
radius of damage within you and then 60 feet
within you can be-- TRAVIS: You mean you
can send it 60 feet-- MARISHA: It's a 60-foot, and it's a 10-foot circle.
MATT: Oh, I see. Centered in a point, yeah. So it's a 10-foot sphere
and a 60-foot range. MARISHA: So okay, okay,
okay, okay, okay. I'm going to just jump
off of the stairs. MATT: Okay. MARISHA: Move, stick
to this edge. MATT: Okay.
MARISHA: And get within 60 feet. I don't think I
got to go far. MATT: Make an acrobatics
check, as you're jumping off a ladder. MARISHA: Fine. TRAVIS: Fine.
MARISHA: Fine, 17. MATT: Yep. 25, 30. You back up
into this space here, oh god, rushing just
past this here. MARISHA: Can I crouch
in this, do 3/4 cover behind those barrels and
stuff under that awning? MATT: The awning is
closed on this side, but you're behind the awning and using it for cover
right now if you want to. MARISHA: All right,
I'm going to drop Wither and Bloom
right here. Wait, fuck. Yes, okay,
it's 10 feet, it's 10 feet. LAURA: Can that get
both Ashton and Orym? MARISHA: Can I get
Ashton and her? MATT: So, let's see. You can both hit her and
get Ashton in the radius if you'd like, yes.
MARISHA: Cool. ASHLEY: Awesome.
MARISHA: I do that. MATT: Okay.
MARISHA: She takes-- MATT: Constitution saving throw?
MARISHA: Constitution saving throw. MATT: That's a 14. She
rolled really low on that. MARISHA: Fail.
MATT: Fail, okay. MARISHA: Okay, so she takes
eight damage, necrotic. MATT: Eight necrotic damage. MARISHA: You get to roll
a hit dice, Ashton. TALIESIN: ♪ Don't
fuck this up ♪ SAM: Well, anything above
a one, above a zero, will bring you back.
LIAM: One and a 12 is the same. TALIESIN: Yeah, a 12 will
give me 24, though, if I'm doing this right.
SAM: 24? TALIESIN: All right, seven. MATT: All right, so you heal.
Regain seven hit points. TALIESIN: Yep.
SAM: Hey, that's great. MATT: That's great.
MARISHA: Real quick, real quick. Sorry, sorry. Can I have made that-- Quick retcon and make that
a Quickened Spell? MATT: Yes, you can. MARISHA: And then use
my bonus action to try and dash back around? MATT: Dash is an action,
unless you have the rogue ability to use
it as a bonus action. MARISHA: But I moved,
bonus action spell-- MATT: Oh, you use
your action to dash. MARISHA: Sorry, my action.
All the lexicons. To then try and move back
around towards where FCG is, and get back out of the way. Oh my god.
Okay, that's my turn. SAM: Do I see
terror on her face? LAURA: Yeah, did you tell us
what was going on? MATT: At the end
of you turn-- TRAVIS: I mean-- MATT: She's going to spend her
last Legendary Action. LAURA: Legendary Action. MATT: To Psi-Powered Leap. ASHLEY: Okay. Okay. MATT: And is going to-- ASHLEY: Okay. MATT: Yeah, that's it. They
initiate Psi-Powered Leap. TRAVIS: <i>Initiate</i>
Psi-Powered Leap? MATT: Yeah.
We'll get to that. All right, FCG.
TRAVIS: (laughs) LAURA: Wait, what happened? SAM: I don't know,
something bad. TRAVIS: She initiated
Psi-Powered Leap, but nothing happened. MATT: The outside of her body
begins to shimmer and shake. Rocks on the ground
begin to buzz and lift just a couple inches
off the ground. SAM: I'm going to use
my action to keep moving around the house to see what the hell's
going on over there, or my movement, I mean. MATT: Yeah.
SAM: What do I see? MATT: You see a wrecked
crawler. You see Mister. You see Fearne on
the ground that way, and you see Chetney, in wolf form currently.
SAM: Do I see Ashton? MATT: You can see
Ashton on the ground starting to come
to consciousness. SAM: He's okay.
TALIESIN: I'm clearly awake. SAM: Don't see Orym. All right.
TALIESIN: Or, yeah. SAM: I do see Fearne? MATT: You do see Fearne, yes. SAM: Okay, I'll bonus action
Healing Word Fearne. MATT: What's the
range on that? SAM: 60 feet. Ooh, am
I not close enough? MATT: 60 feet.
LAURA: Might be closer to Orym. SAM: I don't see Orym. MATT: She's out of
the 60-foot range. SAM: I will use my action
to move closer to her. MATT: Okay, so you have five
more feet on this. Five. 30 gets you about there. You can definitely
get her in range there. LAURA: Can you see Orym now? MATT: I could say you just
barely see Orym as well, yeah, out of the corner
of the crawler. SAM: Who do I
care about more? MARISHA and LAURA: (laugh) SAM: My lifelong
friend, Liam, or the fun character
that makes us all laugh? (laughter) TALIESIN: I knew it! ASHLEY: Yes! LAURA: You want to flip your coin?
SAM: Ooh! MARISHA: Did you roll up or
down on your death save? ASHLEY: Up.
SAM: What makes more sense? MARISHA: Okay, so you're the same.
ASHLEY: We're both up one. MARISHA: Both up one.
SAM: I sort of feel like-- ASHLEY: Do you want us to
pick heads or tails? SAM: No, I feel like
I've seen you heal before, other people. MARISHA: Yeah.
SAM: So I'm going to heal Fearne. TALIESIN: Good call. SAM: Yeah, I'll bonus
action heal Fearne. ASHLEY: That's
a very good idea. I'll definitely help people.
SAM: Healing Word. Oh, this is a-- Nope, I did not mean
to click that. I will click it here. LIAM: Oops,
I stole your wallet. SAM: Six points of heal.
MATT: Six points of heal, great. So Fearne, you are now
conscious, though prone, out of the periphery
of Otohan, it seems, at the moment, while she's
concentrating on Chetney. MARISHA: It's about
to be her next. MATT: All right, does
that finish your turn? SAM: That's everything, yeah. MATT: It's now Otohan's turn. This one vanishes,
being too far away. Otohan, now buzzing and
hearing the chanting off in the distance
of the Wither and Bloom, taking the hit
and the strike, glances over and sees
you dart around the way with a psychic leap, suddenly bounds into the air, arcing 80 feet. MARISHA: Good. 80 feet.
SAM: At Imogen? No. She's not going after Imogen. TRAVIS: This! ASHLEY: This bitch.
This bitch. TRAVIS: She's
fucking Superman. LIAM: You want to get an attack
of opportunity there, Chet? SAM: Oh. Oh, Laudna. TRAVIS: Both of y'all. MATT: Bonus action, is
going to Manifest Echoes. TRAVIS: Do I get an attack of
opportunity on a Psionic Leap, or whatever that was?
MATT: You do. ASHLEY: Come on. LAURA and MARISHA: Sentinel!
MARISHA: I know! Sentinel! TALIESIN: That's something I
should take at some point. ASHLEY: (tearfully)
Sentinel bitches! MARISHA: (tearfully)
Sentinel bitches! TALIESIN: Man. MARISHA: For life! TRAVIS: That's a 24 to hit.
TALIESIN: If I'd had time to rage-- MATT: 24 definitely hits.
TALIESIN: -- I would've been fine. MATT: She's just
going to take it. TRAVIS: Okay. TALIESIN: I don't know
what the fuck to do. TRAVIS: Six plus eight, that's
14 points of (claws) damage. MATT: 14 points, got it. SAM: I've got one spell
left. One slot. MATT: All right. SAM: Yikes.
MATT: Lands. As you're rushing around
the corner, you hear (thuds). Right as you go
to turn, you watch apparate in front of you,
the dark shadow of Otohan. One of the echoes
flickers into being. You look over your shoulder,
and she goes (tsking). SAM: Oh no.
MATT: "Can't run from this, my dear." It's going to rush into a
flurry of strikes on you. SAM: Oh shit. ASHLEY: She used
all of her movement. TRAVIS: She's jumping all
over this fucking map-- LAURA: Yeah.
TRAVIS: -- like a goddamn jungle gym. MATT: 22 to hit? SAM: That hits.
MARISHA: Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah. MATT: Okay.
TRAVIS: This is a problem! I can't chase this bitch
around the map! MARISHA: It's not good. Nope,
nope, nope, it's not good. MATT: That's going to be 12 points of slashing
damage to you. SAM: Jesus, what is going on? What is that feature?
MARISHA: No, I don't know. I don't know what this is.
TRAVIS: Calm, calm, calm. MATT: Going to use
another Psionic Strike to hit you for an additional 10 points of psychic damage. TRAVIS: I don't have my blood curse anymore.
SAM: She can't even see how many points she
has right now. TRAVIS: You are panicking. MARISHA: There's a dropdown
window, and it won't go away. TRAVIS: It's all right. SAM: You got to rotate
it and rotate it back. TRAVIS: Do a refresh?
MARISHA: No. No. No.
SAM: Okay, did that do it? It didn't do it! MARISHA: I'm
going to refresh. Okay. We're good.
We're good. That helped, okay. All right, I'm good. Sorry. So I got the 12. MATT: And then 10 points
of psychic damage. I need you to make a
strength saving throw. MARISHA: I'm real good at those.
LIAM: You have negative. SAM: Those temporary
hit points were clutch.
LIAM: Negative 10 on that strength? MARISHA: Eight. MATT: Eight, you
are knocked prone. MARISHA: Okay. MATT: Then that's out there.
TRAVIS: Not thrown into the outhouse? MATT: Correct. (body thuds) LAURA: Run, but
run didn't work. TRAVIS: No, not again.
LAURA: Run didn't work. We said scatter,
and nobody could. She just took us down
before we could scatter. Then I basically--
SAM: Well, we could scatter, but three of us would die. LAURA: Yeah. MATT: She's going to
take a secondary strike on you on the ground
with advantage. With advantage.
TALIESIN: It was a good plan. MATT: That's going to be a 25 to hit.
TALIESIN: It was the best plan. It was the best plan we had. MATT: That is 10 points
of slashing damage plus 2d6 because of the blade trying to pin you into the
ground as you are prone. SAM: Sure. Sure.
MATT: You take an additional 10 points of force damage. MARISHA: Okay. MATT: The echo's going to
take the third strike on you on the ground as well. SAM: Mm-hmm. Sure, sure. MATT: That's going to be 22 to hit? MARISHA: Uh-huh. MATT: That is going to be 13
points of slashing damage. MARISHA: I'm down.
LIAM: Can you do that thing where you don't go down? MARISHA: Yep. I'm going
to see what happens. Strength of the Grave. SAM: Strength of the Grave. TRAVIS: This is a
record, right? LIAM: Yes.
MARISHA: Reduces you to zero HP, you can make a saving throw
plus the damage taken. SAM: (sighs)
TRAVIS: Eight years. MARISHA: Okay.
TRAVIS: Longer. LAURA: I'm taking solace
in the fact that she's hitting us and moving on--
TRAVIS: Not the kind of record you want. LAURA: -- and hitting us and moving on.
MARISHA: Nope. LAURA: It's like she knows--
LIAM: We've had fights where many went down, slightly staggered.
LAURA: -- she's going to destroy the bodies. LIAM: Not like this.
LAURA: You've got to fucking go over there--
TALIESIN: No, this is a wave of mutilation. TRAVIS: (laughs)
MARISHA: No. I'm down. TRAVIS: The name of
my high school band. MATT: Okay. MARISHA: (sighs) MATT: Still has
a third attack. Is going to go ahead... SAM: He's merciful. LIAM: ♪ On a wave
of mutilation ♪ LAURA: Mm-mm. Mm-mm.
ASHLEY: No. No. SAM: I mean. MATT: You're the only
one in range, Laudna. MARISHA: Yeah. It's okay.
MATT: Yeah. That's going to be-- Well, it's with advantage
because you're on the ground. MARISHA: I'm sure it hits.
MATT: That's an auto crit. You fail two death saves. MARISHA: I roll, right?
No, I just-- MATT: No, you just
fail two death saves. Critical melee. SAM: Because I was
sympathetically binded to her-- TRAVIS: To Laudna?
SAM: To Laudna. MARISHA: Were you?
SAM: Do I-- I've binded to you two. Do I feel anything? MATT: I will say you
feel this exhale. The bind, I will
say, doesn't loose, but you would sense
dire straits have come. SAM: Ah. MATT: That's going to
end Otohan's turn. The echoes that were
summoned can now move. This one's going
to shift over here. This one's going to turn and run around 30
feet to this side. SAM: Dude, she's relentless.
MARISHA: Wow. LAURA: Oh.
TALIESIN: Fuck, man. MATT: Okay. MARISHA: Wow. Wow,
wow, wow, wow, wow. SAM: Uh-huh.
MATT: Actually, at the end of the turn, as
everyone's rushing around, she shouts out, "You're missing the party. "Run all you want. "You're just running and
leaving them to die." That brings us now
to Orym's turn. Orym, roll another
death save, please. LIAM: Fail. MATT: So a success
and a fail. Ashton, you are on the
ground, conscious. TALIESIN: Fuck, man. None
of this is going well. SAM: How do we get away? MARISHA: I don't know. TALIESIN: All right. MARISHA: I don't know. SAM: Dorian comes in riding--
(laughter) LAURA: An airship. His own airship.
SAM: Riding his airship with the name on the side
of it, it says Ex Machina. (laughter) ASHLEY: Hey, guys!
TALIESIN: Yeah, not a lot I can do. So I'm just going
to do a Hail Mary. I'm going to rage and see
what the fuck happens. MATT: Okay. Rage
on the ground. LAURA: Ah!
TALIESIN: Rage on the ground. LAURA: (mock raging) TALIESIN: All right, so that gives me a--
ASHLEY: Temper tantrum. LAURA: Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
TALIESIN: Okay, okay. LAURA: All righty. SAM: Get out of here, Imogen. Save yourself.
LAURA: Yeah, right. SAM: Yes, right. TALIESIN: Okay. This is interesting.
LIAM: Yes, yes, yes. TALIESIN: This is fucking interesting.
SAM: One of us has to get out. TALIESIN: I'm going to get up
again with the hole in my head starting to go
translucent again and starting to be a
little phase shifted. I'm really fucked up. Not feeling well. SAM: Five times 30 is 150.
TALIESIN: Who do I have left? Okay. MATT: That one--
LIAM: Shadow. MATT: -- shadow is going
to try and drop the-- Actually, you dropped
concentration when you went unconscious, so the hold is technically
off the one. TALIESIN: Okay, that one's just there?
MATT: Which means this one-- LIAM: Will take a slash.
MATT: -- would have moved on its turn, and would probably
move up to Chetney. TALIESIN: Okay, yeah. That's
actually really great. Where is Orym,
out of curiosity? MATT: Orym's on the
ground over at the other side of the building.
LAURA: On the other side. You couldn't see him.
TALIESIN: Okay, there, I can-- Okay, I can--
SAM: To revive you. TALIESIN: Actually, here, I'm
going to hop up one more time because I need to see
exactly what I'm doing because I have an insane plan.
LAURA: I know. This one was like,
just kidding. LIAM: Looks great. TALIESIN: Okay. Okay.
SAM: Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30.
TALIESIN: Five, 10, 15. Fuck, that's my
action, though. ASHLEY: Fuck. TALIESIN: Fuck, that
is my action. Then everything's fucked. SAM: They can't-- TRAVIS: I don't
know if they can see either of you up there.
SAM: I'm just going to shout out: They can't be far from her. Get away from them. TRAVIS: You guys are
standing very tall. You should sit in your chairs so people can see you.
TALIESIN: I know, I know. Sorry, sorry. Yes. I just had to see-- Fuck, I'm trying to decide what the fuck to do.
LIAM: This building blocks. TRAVIS: No, I know. SAM: Just get away from them.
LAURA: You can see a bit. SAM: They can't hurt us.
LIAM: Yeah. TALIESIN: I'm-- Fuck it, yeah. Now that I've got
this going on, I'm going to run up, stand up
with half my movement. MATT: Okay. That brings
you to 20, right? SAM: Is that guy still
there, by the way? MATT: That guy is because it's
at the top of the next turn for the rules that she runs off of.
TALIESIN: I am so sorry, Liam. I don't know what else to do.
LIAM: You're fine. Play the story.
TALIESIN: I'm going to get advantage. I'm going to try and pin
this little shadow fuck so that I can get
advantage on the swing. MATT: Okay, so you're
going after this one right there?
TALIESIN: Yep, yep. TRAVIS: You could get on the
other side of him and be-- TALIESIN: That's what I'm trying to do is get--
MATT: Okay, I see. I see. TRAVIS: Oh, flankage?
TALIESIN: Flankage. MATT: You got it. Make that advantage. TALIESIN: Okay, and-- Here we go. I'm going
to take an attack, barely lifting my hammer--
MARISHA: What am I missing? TALIESIN: -- because
it's really heavy, and I'm really tired, and
nothing's good right now. Come on, roll properly.
MARISHA: No. TALIESIN: Natural 20,
which hardly matters here. But I hit the thing--
SAM: Oh, oh, it does. TALIESIN: Oh.
SAM: Is he within 30 feet of me? MATT: I'll say, I'll allow
it because you're right-- It's a tough place.
It's right on the cusp. I'll say sure. SAM: Oh, within 60 feet of me.
MATT: Oh yeah. Then definitely you're fine.
SAM: Great. I get advantage on
the next roll I make. TALIESIN: Cool.
TRAVIS: Amazing. TRAVIS: Are you amped up--
TALIESIN: Okay. TRAVIS: -- by nats?
So I'm going to-- Yeah, that's--
SAM: When you do good, I do good. TALIESIN: How many HP
does this thing take? MATT: It has one hit point. TALIESIN: Okay, so it's gone. MATT: It disintegrates. TALIESIN: Cool thing though
is I have Space up right now. MATT: Oh. TALIESIN: Which is why
I'm slightly translucent. That swing gives me
just enough power to teleport. MATT: Where are
you teleporting? TALIESIN: As I squish
that thing down, I'm trying to remember
how far I can go, because I'm panicking.
MATT: 60 feet, I believe? TRAVIS: Because you created
a super complicated build. TALIESIN: I did,
there we are. Oh, well it's also-- I've also been blind.
TRAVIS: Fly. Spread your wings
and fly, you bitch. TALIESIN: Yeah. So
I'm going to take 60 feet in that direction.
MATT: Okay. TALIESIN: Actually, yeah.
60 feet this way, actually. MATT: This way? TALIESIN: Then I'm
going to take the rest of my
movement as well. MATT: Okay. So you
just go bolting. TALIESIN: Yeah, in this
direction behind this. MATT: That direction? Okay. So go ahead and move
that piece over there. TALIESIN: Yep.
MATT: Okay. TALIESIN: Don't know what else the fuck to do.
MARISHA: Fearne, you're still down, or are you conscious? ASHLEY: I'm conscious.
TALIESIN: It's like 70, 75 feet.
SAM: That's good. MATT: You got it. You're over that space.
MARISHA: So Orym and Laudna are still down. TALIESIN: Fuck.
MATT: All right. That finishes Ashton's go.
SAM: You're Laudna. TALIESIN: I don't know what else to do.
MARISHA: Yes. I'm just still trying to do the math
of who was down. MATT: Spend a Legendary
Action to dash. MARISHA: I'm very down.
ASHLEY: Two failed? LIAM: Shit. Shit. Shit.
MATT: 40. Got it. She jumps up on the wall.
SAM: She's coming back? Goddamn it! MATT: That brings
us to Chetney's turn. TRAVIS: Yeah,
I'll go meet her. SAM: Chetney, Chetney,
Chetney, what are you doing? TRAVIS: I don't want to be
the only one not dead. MATT: I respect that.
MARISHA: (laughs) TRAVIS: ♪ Sometimes ♪ ♪ you got to cut a bitch ♪
SAM: FODO? FOMO-DO? TRAVIS: I'll take
two hybrid form with chisel strikes
against her. MATT: Do it. TRAVIS: I'll use
my bonus action again to pump a little
Bloated Agony. SAM: Wolf-erined!
MATT: You got it. TRAVIS: First one is 20 to hit. No, 21 to hit. MATT: 21 to hit? Hits. TRAVIS: And second one. Natural one. (groaning) MATT: Ooh!
TRAVIS: Nope, wrong thing. Rolling the wrong dice. TALIESIN: Can I see
you moving back here? Would I be able to
see you since I'm-- LAURA: You'd probably
be able to see me. TALIESIN: Thank fucking god.
Okay, good. Something good. TRAVIS: 17 on the swing. MATT: 17 points of damage. You're starting to see a
little bit of wear and tear. TRAVIS: Nice.
LAURA: A little wear and tear. TRAVIS: The second
one was a miss. With the Bloated Agony--
MARISHA: Fuck. TRAVIS: ♪ Nothing happens ♪ MATT: Okay. That finishes your turn.
TALIESIN: We were already halfway down. MATT: End of her turn. Just going to go ahead and--
LAURA: She could wipe us in one hit. MARISHA: I know.
MATT: They're using a second Legendary Action to
attack you in retort. TALIESIN: Yeah. LIAM: She could kill a person.
MATT: That's going to be a-- LIAM: She knocked you down on hit one--
MATT: -- 15 to hit? LAURA: Yeah.
LIAM: -- she can kill you with the next two. TRAVIS: Misses.
MATT: Misses. You miss a strike, and
then she misses a strike. You're both now just slashing
each other, dodging, and just in the
middle of this fray amongst this tangled mass of what was once
a skirmish-crawler, just sitting there,
smoking rubble in the middle of this
dust-covered battlefield. All right, that
brings us to Imogen. LAURA: I'm going to say: Laudna, where are you? MATT: No response. LAURA: Fuck. I'm going to... fuck. SAM: Go! Get out. LAURA: I'm going to step out. SAM: Do not come back here. LAURA: From behind--
SAM: No! TRAVIS: That's
what she wants. LAURA: I'm going to
cast Fly on myself. MATT: Okay. LAURA: And fly 60 feet
up in the air. TALIESIN: Oh boy. MATT: This will be
a big one here. Straight up?
LAURA: Mm-hmm. SAM: Now tell me. TALIESIN: Ah, shit. LAURA: The storm falls.
ASHLEY: Do you really want to love me forever? MATT: All right. LAURA: In Otohan's head--
MARISHA: Oh my god. LAURA: -- I'm just
going to scream: Enough! TRAVIS: Ooh. LAURA: Let's end this. MATT: Okay. SAM: Shit. MATT: Finishing
Imogen's turn. Fearne? You're conscious, correct?
ASHLEY: Yeah. MATT: You just, from
where you're standing, you would not see her.
But you do see-- Actually, you don't
see a lot of this because there's
wreckage in the way and scattered at this point. But you come to consciousness.
TALIESIN: Fuck! MATT: The dust storm is still
blasting past your eyes, burning from the
sand hitting you-- LAURA: Oh god, there's
just dust storm through this whole thing? MATT: Yeah.
LAURA: Fuck! TRAVIS: Are you knocked over?
LAURA: (wind blowing) TRAVIS: Is that you?
ASHLEY: I was unconscious, but I'm conscious now. TRAVIS: But you're still prone, right?
ASHLEY: Okay... MATT: We'll say at the
end of your turn, at the end of
its turn, sorry, it's going to use
last Legendary Action to make another strike
against you, glaring at you. Then (slashes) TRAVIS: (guttural growl) MATT: That's going
to be a 23 to hit. TRAVIS: That'll hit. MATT: You take... LAURA: (whispers) I was
trying to talk to her! MATT: 11 points of
slashing damage. TRAVIS: Reduced to
six because my wolf hide is so sexy. MATT: Going to use another
Psionic Strike to take an additional 13
points of force damage. TRAVIS: Oh, goddamn.
Okay, hold on. You take-- One point of damage. (laughs) MATT: Okay. (laughs) TRAVIS: You said
11 or 13 psionic? MATT: Psionic, no, it was 13.
TRAVIS: 13. SAM: It will be okay.
MATT: Psychic damage. MARISHA: It will be okay.
TRAVIS: Got it. MATT: I need you to make
a strength saving throw. TRAVIS: You got it. Which I have... MATT: Advantage on while
you're in this form. TRAVIS: I do, right, yeah.
MATT: Yeah. TRAVIS: 17.
MATT: 17. Yeah, you succeed. Tries to strike and
knock you onto the ground, but you just resist the
strength of it and hold form. TRAVIS: (snarls)
(deeply) Fuck. MATT: The tension
is definitely looking over
towards Imogen and seems to be
doing a presentation or waiting for something. LAURA: (groans)
MATT: All right, so that finishes-- Now, Fearne, we're
back on your turn. What are you doing? ASHLEY: Oh god, this
is so stupid. Okay. MARISHA: I'm assuming
you can't, like, look at me? (laughs)
TRAVIS: Or don't. Either way, it's awesome.
ASHLEY: Yeah. SAM: Look at you through a-- ASHLEY: Okay,
so I'm going to-- MARISHA: I'm really far.
SAM: Through a house? MARISHA: I'm through a house. You're really far away. I don't know if
this is possible. TALIESIN: Yeah, you would,
I was going to say, well. TRAVIS: In all this fighting
and post fighting, I'm not getting the scent of
fey, fiend, or undead, right? None of that? MATT: Nothing like that's
creeping through. TRAVIS: Cool.
MATT: But you are seeing, with each of these
creations of these echoes, something is flaring from underneath the back
of the cloak. SAM: I'm not dumb enough to <i>ever</i> use that slot.
MARISHA: Use that slot. One slot. ASHLEY: Something's flaring
at the back of her cloak? MATT: You don't know.
You aren't seeing this. You're way over that way, and they're currently blocked behind the wreckage
of the crawler. MARISHA: -- a 16 and up--
ASHLEY: Okay. MARISHA: I get
a hit point back. ASHLEY: I'm just
going to get up. MARISHA: So pray for something big.
MATT: Okay. SAM: It would be nice. Save me a slot. MARISHA: I'll save
you a slot. ASHLEY: Fuck, this is
so fucking stupid. Okay. I'm going to go to where
I'm in 30 feet of her. MATT: 30 feet of her? With the rest of your movement,
you can move 15 feet. You have no visual on
where she is at the moment. ASHLEY: Even if I go a
little bit that way? MATT: If you go 15 feet
this way, like right there. About there, you might
be able to see her. But that's all the
movement you have on just your movement
this turn. ASHLEY: Shit.
TALIESIN: Fuck. ASHLEY: Okay, that's okay,
because Mister's there. Is he within 30 feet? MATT: He is... No, about 40 feet away.
LAURA: Oh, so close. ASHLEY: Okay, so if I
don't move, and he moves? MATT: He moves
separately on his turn. You can tell him to
move, I believe. ASHLEY: Okay, so instead
of using my movement-- Okay, if I move him forward, am I still
able to cast a spell, if I use it through him? MATT: Can you
cast through him? ASHLEY: I can, because
I have Enhanced Bond now. MATT: Oh! Then yeah,
you could. Does he have visual on it? ASHLEY: Let me just
double check on this. "Whenever you cast a
spell and (mumbles)" TALIESIN: I am fucking
so goddamn far from everything right now. ASHLEY: "In addition, when
you cast a spell (mumbles)" TALIESIN: I have
one last trick. ASHLEY: "When you
cast a spell "with a range
other than self, "the spell can originate "from you and your
wild fire spirit." So--
MATT: Mm-hmm. ASHLEY: Pardon me.
MATT: I think you still have to move to have visual
range on the target. So you still get about
there to see her, and then he moves over, and then you can cast
through him, if you'd like. ASHLEY: Oh god, this is so--
(background music bass drop) SAM and MARISHA:
(imitate bass drop) ASHLEY: Okay. I don't have a lot left. Curing, I can only
do by touch. This is-- TALIESIN: You've got a-- You've got a man down here. LIAM: Can you do it
through monkey? ASHLEY: Oh, yes! I'm right there, okay. Orym-- SAM: (monkey sound) ASHLEY: I am going to do
Cure Wounds on Orym-- TRAVIS: Yeah.
ASHLEY: -- through Mister. TRAVIS: Mister jumps up and
eats the fucking pigeon. MARISHA: Ah (laughs)! TRAVIS: Leave the
pigeon alone! TALIESIN: She's not
even looking a little rough, is she? MATT: She's looking
a little haggard. She's taken scrapes. ASHLEY: So I will do that-- MATT: You guys spent a lot
of this running away, so-- ASHLEY: Goddamn it. MATT: I mean, in a rough
opening round for you. TALIESIN: I-- ASHLEY: Eight points
of healing, Orym. SAM: Oh, look at that. TALIESIN: Yeah, went
from like 89% to-- SAM: We're three-quarters back up.
TALIESIN: -- zero so freaking fast. MATT: I know. MARISHA: Orym's back up?
SAM: We're good. We're good.
TALIESIN: Orym's back up. ASHLEY: So then does that count as his move?
SAM: She's always dead already. MARISHA: True. ASHLEY: Or is that mine--
MATT: You cast your action through him, so your action is spent.
ASHLEY: Okay, got it. MATT: Your movement and
your action's been used. ASHLEY: Okay. So then-- (groans) Okay. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
MARISHA: (sighs) ASHLEY: Okay. All right, Mister's going
to throw some shit at her. (laughter) MATT: Sure, go for it. ASHLEY: Goddamn it,
there's something I want to fucking do, and I can't.
SAM: How do you want to poo this? ASHLEY: Okay. That is-- MARISHA: Fuck, fuck,
I dropped it, fuck, fuck. ASHLEY: -- 16. MARISHA: I'm psyching myself out.
MATT: 16 to hit? ASHLEY: Yeah, okay, all right.
MARISHA: That's what I'm doing. ASHLEY: That's it.
SAM: Pulled a muscle. MARISHA: Did you really?
MATT: All right. Laudna, I need you to roll
a death save for me, please. ASHLEY: Goddamn it. SAM: Yeah, yeah! TALIESIN: God fucking damn it. TRAVIS: This is it, kids.
MARISHA: This is it. SAM: No problem. MARISHA: ♪ Delilah,
take the wheel ♪ LAURA: Natural 20,
is it a natural 20? MARISHA: It's a natural 20.
LAURA: (gasps) MATT: Is it really? MARISHA: You saw it.
You see it, right? You see it, right? It's a natural 20.
MATT: Holy shit! ASHLEY: Oh my god. TALIESIN: Hey, you
get knocked down, then you get up again.
TRAVIS: Just so you can see-- MARISHA: I will never question you--
MATT: Yeah, I know, that's-- MARISHA: -- ever again, Delilah.
SAM: Delilah. MARISHA: Delilah.
LIAM: Warlock for life. MATT: In the middle
of the shadow, deep in your spirit, as the darkness threatens to consume you--
MARISHA: That doesn't make any fucking sense. (laughter) LIAM: She's got more
plans for you. MARISHA: That doesn't
make any fucking sense. SAM: Wait, wait, wait--
MARISHA: That is so stupid. SAM: Listen, listen, listen--
MARISHA: I'm sorry. MATT: In the deep shadow, before the darkness begins
to curl and take you-- (laughter) (slow heartbeats) (Delilah) "Not yet, my child. "We have much to do." Your eyes shoot open, just-- MARISHA: But they're full-- No one can see, but they're full black as
I just-- (chokes) And just black comes out. Now, question, because I know if you roll
nat 20, you get a hit point. MATT: Correct. MARISHA: But then also,
because of Cling to Life, if I roll 16 plus,
I get a hit point. Do those stack? SAM: She wants that
two hit points. MARISHA: I do (laughs).
(laughter) MATT: Technically, what
that ability does is it replaces the other. It's not like you get two. You get a hit point
on a 16 or higher. MARISHA: Okay. TALIESIN: (sighs) LAURA: I feel like
I'm going to puke. MATT: That happens at
the top of your round, so you still have a round,
if you'd like to take it. MARISHA: Oh my god. TRAVIS: It would have been
cool if you had just died, and then your husk of a body just started
killing everybody. But I guess that's
second-fiddle by now (laughs). MATT: I can't believe that. MARISHA: I have a fucking action.
TRAVIS: Nat 20. MARISHA: I can't
believe that. Oh my god. Wait, who is this over here? One of the shadows?
LAURA: The shadows? MATT: Those are
shadows, yeah. TRAVIS: "Who's this?"
equals, "not a good person." MARISHA: And, Orym, you're up.
We're all up. LIAM: Well, I'm down, but conscious.
LAURA: Yeah, but everybody's awake. LIAM and ASHLEY: For now. MARISHA: Oh my god. TALIESIN: This is basically
her bouncing around like a fucking pinball,
knocking us out. LIAM: Yeah. MARISHA: I'm going
to just roll over and crawl around to the
back of this house. MATT: Okay. MARISHA: Not expecting
to see this fucker, and I'm just going
to Eldritch Blast him. MATT: Do it. Two attacks.
MARISHA: Pop, pop. Goddamn it. It's everyone, okay. Shit, shit, shit,
shit, shit. LAURA: Shit, shit.
MARISHA: Okay. Shit, shit, shit,
shit, shit. Okay, one of them is 18. MATT: 18 just hits. MARISHA: Then the other
one definitely doesn't. SAM: Chetney, you can
get out of this, right?
MARISHA: Oh my god. Oh my god! LAURA: Nat 20?
SAM: Oh my-- MARISHA: Two, oh my god. Two 10s, or 24. TRAVIS: Let's fucking go.
MARISHA: 24. MATT: The echo of Otohan
that was around the corner, stepping blades out,
just (whooshes) and scatters into
dust and darkness. MARISHA: And-- SAM: Shit, what do I do?
MATT: You're on the ground. MARISHA: I'm still
on the ground. I'm going to stand up,
but I'm just going to lean up against the windowsill. MATT: Okay. MARISHA: Freaked the
fuck out of my mind. MATT: Okay. MARISHA: Then, I will say, just with as raspy,
whatever air I can choke out: Imogen? SAM: (sad groan) MATT: Okay. All right. Finishing your turn. Fresh Cut Grass,
you are up. You've come out, you see-- You just helped Fearne
stand as she rushed over, lobbed a couple of attacks. She's barely holding on. You see Orym on the ground, eyes flicker open,
wounded to shit. You see Ashton teleport
around the corner, charging away, hobbling. Imogen is up in the
air, floating angrily, voice echoing like
a thunderbolt. You have no idea
where Laudna is, you have no idea
where Chetney is, though you hear the
strikes and howls from beyond the
wreckage of that crawler. What are you doing? SAM: Did I see her
Eldritch Blasts come from around
the corner or--? MATT: I'd say, not
based on where the focus of where you were. SAM: And I don't feel
her with our connection. Our work is done here. We've got to get
out of here, right? We're all up, we run. But Chetney's still there. He's going to be okay.
You're going to be okay? TALIESIN: That's code for
Travis wants a new character. (weak laughter) TRAVIS: That's code for:
I'm about to see what this bitch's
insides look like. SAM: Those echo things
die pretty easy, right? LAURA: Mm-hmm.
MATT: They seem to die pretty well,
pretty easily. SAM: I'm not going
to kill her so-- I'll just use my action
to do Sacred Flame at the one that is right
on my eye line there. MATT: Okay, you use--
is it a dexterity save? SAM: Oh, is it? I thought I rolled--
MATT: Or is it wisdom save? SAM: I thought I rolled.
I don't know how this thing works.
LAURA: Sacred Flame-- SAM: Oh, it's a
dexterity 14 save. MATT: Dexterity 14 save? It succeeds. Does it take half
damage or no damage? SAM: No damage.
MATT: No damage. So it stays up. SAM: Okay, then I
will move that way. MATT: Okay, so you scoot
(squeaks) over this way. A little wheel sound.
(squeaks) (laughter) All right? SAM: I guess that's
all I can do. I guess that's all I can do. Do I have any bonus actions? Bonus action? No. No, I can't do anything
else. That's it. MATT: Okay, that
finishes your turn. Brings us to Otohan's turn. ASHLEY: Goddamn it. MATT: Otohan, hearing
a thrashing, stops for a second, looks
at Imogen, and goes, "Your friends are extremely,
obnoxiously resilient." SAM: Yeah. MATT: "Perhaps
I've been going "about this the wrong way. "I should be more
complete with my job," and is going to go ahead and take a strike against you, since you're right there. TRAVIS: Oh shit. MATT: That's 20 to hit? TRAVIS: Definitely hits. MATT: That is going to be
12 points of slashing. TRAVIS: Okay. MATT: Plus another
Psionic Strike for 12 points of psychic damage.
LAURA: You coming up with ideas? TRAVIS: That one hits
all the way, right? MATT: Correct.
TRAVIS: Not reduced, yeah. MATT: Yeah.
TRAVIS: Five points of bloaty-bloat to her (laughs). MATT: Oh, right. All righty. One strike against you. That's a natural 20. (groaning) SAM: Shit. MATT: Oh, you make a
strength save, by the way, from that action, to see
if you can stay prone. TRAVIS: Just regular strength save?
MATT: Yeah. TRAVIS: Or a strength
saving throw? MATT: Strength saving throw. TALIESIN: Shit, man.
TRAVIS: 24, 22. MATT: Yeah, you stay up. So this does 18 points of slashing damage, reduced to nine. TRAVIS: 18, yes, thank you. MATT: And is-- She's going to go in for
a third hit against you because you're just
right there in front. That's going to be 18. TRAVIS: Misses.
MATT: Misses. (whooshes)
TALIESIN: Oh my fucking god. MATT: Goes wide. SAM: (deep breathing) Yeah, and is going
to off-hand attack. You know what? TALIESIN: You know what? Any time you say, "You know what"--
MATT: These are going to move over to here. LAURA: (groans)
MATT: That one's gone. She's going to off-hand
to Echo Swap. And-- (whooshes)
TALIESIN: Yep. LAURA: What?
TALIESIN: Yep. MATT: All of a sudden, she teleports separately
from the echo. They both (whooshes)
and swap places. TALIESIN: Yep.
TRAVIS: Is that a feature, bonus action? Whoa. LAURA: (gasps)
MATT: And is going to go ahead and Action Surge. SAM: Oh my-- TALIESIN: Yep.
SAM: -- Otohan! MATT: You are prone,
so that's advantage. That's going to be 23 to hit.
LIAM: Yeah. ASHLEY: Does Mister get a reaction from the
shadow moving? MATT: It doesn't really
move. It's a teleport. TRAVIS: That doesn't provoke
an opportunity attack, right? MATT: Nine points of
slashing damage. LIAM: I went down.
MATT: Okay. LIAM: As it stabs,
you see Orym's hand which was reaching
into his belt, and the blue sending
stone goes, bump-bump, onto the ground.
SAM: (cries) Oh no. TALIESIN: Dude.
TRAVIS: (laughs) Yes, so fucking novel. MATT: Second strike. TALIESIN: Shit.
MATT: Auto crit. Two death saves. SAM: Good night. MATT: Third strike.
LAURA: (gasps) LIAM: Auto crit. MATT: Orym, please
describe to me your final moments.
TRAVIS: (gasps) Oh! TALIESIN: Fuck this bitch. MATT: As Orym looks up, barely holding his
vision forward, and Otohan pulls
the blade up and is about to press it
down into his sternum. LIAM: (choking up) There's a
really heavy sense of failure. But, at the same time, I know I'm going to
see Will and Derrig again. MATT: She stops for a second. "We've met before." LIAM: Yeah. MATT: (slicing impact)
TALIESIN and TRAVIS: (groan) MATT: She turns back up
and looks at Imogen. That's going to
finish her turn. Ashton, you're up. MARISHA: You still have
that one spell, right? TALIESIN: How far away am
I from this motherfucker? MATT: You are quite a distance.
TALIESIN: Shit, fuck. MATT: You teleported
quite a ways away. TALIESIN: I did.
MATT: You are... 75 feet-ish, 80 feet away. TALIESIN: (grumbles) Call it 75 feet? SAM: We'll see?
MATT: 75 feet, yeah. TALIESIN: (sighs) (groans) SAM: Without dying, and
without anyone else dying. TALIESIN: I'm going to step
15 feet towards this asshole. MATT: Okay, that's a good nudge.
TALIESIN: Mm-hmm. MATT: Ashton, 15 feet towards
me, if you don't mind? One more, there you go,
that's good. TRAVIS: Oh man. TALIESIN: I'm just going to
take a wild fucking swing. I'm going to swing
and hit the ground in an attempt to just
make a fucking shockwave towards this motherfucker. But of course a portal opens,
and the hammer disappears, and it's going to hit her right in the back
of the fucking head. MATT: Go for it. Are you doing this
reckless, or--? TALIESIN: Can I do this reckless?
MATT: If you want to, it's still a melee
attack, yeah. TALIESIN: Yeah, I will
do this reckless. MATT: Go for it. TALIESIN: (sighs)
I don't know. Oh, thank god. I probably missed. Fuck, I probably missed,
didn't I? 17? MATT: 17 misses.
TALIESIN: God fucking damn it. MATT: So you go-- the portal
opens behind their head, and her eyes, which have
been locked on Imogen for most of these
past few moments, suddenly (whooshes) dart to
the side, noticing something. She ducks low, right
as the portal-- SAM: Oh god.
MATT: -- (buzzes) opens, and the hammer (whooshes)
swings wide, missing her by an inch. LIAM: She's badass.
TALIESIN: Fuck me! I'm booking for the
rest of my run. MATT: Okay.
TALIESIN: Which is 25 feet.
MATT: 25 feet? 25 feet that way. TALIESIN: Yeah.
MATT: Okay. TALIESIN: I'm actually going
to get out of sight, so-- MATT: You got it.
TALIESIN: Yeah. MATT: She is going to
use a Legendary Action. TALIESIN: Mm-hmm.
MATT: Go ahead and dash, to go ahead and-- SAM: Good god!
TALIESIN: I'm out. MATT: Dash up to Fearne. All right, that brings
us to Chetney's turn. TRAVIS: (laughs) (clears throat)
I will take a swipe at the echo in front
of me with my-- TALIESIN: Fuck.
TRAVIS: -- chisel. MATT: Go for it.
TALIESIN: Fuck, fuck. I don't know what else to do. TRAVIS: I taste iron. 17 to hit? MATT: 17 just
misses the echo. Sorry.
TRAVIS: Well, I'm going to take the second
swipe at it, because I need to
try and hit it. SAM: Get this thing
off the board. TRAVIS: 20, dirty 20. MATT: That hits. Roll damage. TRAVIS: And-- 17 points of slashing damage. MATT: (whooshes) You arc up,
and it (flutters) scatters into this weird
smoke-like sludge that just dissipates
in the air. TRAVIS: I'll use 25
feet to give chase, but it will not
get me very far. MATT: 25 puts
you about there. TRAVIS: That's my turn. MATT: All right,
end of your turn. Just going to use
another Legendary Action to attack Fearne. LAURA: Oh my god! MATT: That's going
to be a 26 to hit. ASHLEY: (annoyed) Yes!
SAM: Good god! ASHLEY: Goddamn it! MATT: Take 13 points
of slashing damage. SAM: (groans)
TALIESIN: Down. ASHLEY: Yes! I'm down.
SAM: Wait! Wait. (desperately) Wait. Is she within
30 feet of me? MATT: She is not.
TRAVIS: No. SAM: Damn it. ASHLEY: (screams) Ugh! (sighs) Okay.
MATT: As you fall unconscious, the last thing you hear before the darkness takes
your vision is Otohan saying, "You carry the seed. "Just not as strong
as others." SAM: The seed?
TALIESIN: Fuck. SAM: The seed? You carry-
LAURA: The seed? SAM: It's Ruidusborn. She's Ruidusborn, too.
LAURA: Of course she is. MARISHA: Obviously.
SAM: But not as strong as others, because it was Ruidus
on the Fey Realm. LAURA: Oh.
SAM: It's not as strong. MATT: So. Imogen,
it's your turn. ASHLEY: Goddamn it. LAURA: Tears just
streaming down my face. I'm going to fly down and
forward, my hand outstretched, both of them towards her. MATT: Fly down a little
bit, you said? LAURA: Just a little bit. I want to get within
60 feet of her. MATT: Okay. TALIESIN: (groans) LAURA: I'm going to
just scream: Leave my friends alone! But it's going to echo in
her head painfully, screech. At level three, I'm going
to cast Dissonant Whispers. MARISHA: Oh my god. MATT: Okay, all right.
MARISHA: It's been too much! MATT: So what's the
save on that? LAURA: It's a wisdom save.
MATT: It's a wisdom save? Still not great, 14? LAURA: 15!
MATT: 15 is the DC, okay. ASHLEY: Okay, okay, okay.
TRAVIS: Ooh! LAURA: So she takes--
ASHLEY: (sighs) SAM: What did you just cast on her?
MARISHA: What did you hit? Sorry, we were scheming. LAURA and TALIESIN: Dissonant Whisper.
LAURA: So she takes 5d6 psychic damage. MARISHA: Okay, okay, okay, okay.
SAM: ♪ ("Careless Whisper") ♪ Wait, is that "Dissonant"? MATT: Yes, it is.
SAM: Careless Whispers. ♪ ("Careless Whisper") ♪ (laughter)
LAURA: Okay, 12. MATT: We can't afford
that, Sam. LAURA: 18. TRAVIS: With all the notes wrong.
LAURA: 21... 21 points of psychic damage.
MATT: 21 points of psychic damage. SAM: (saxophone) LAURA: And--
SAM: That's a different note. (laughter) LAURA: The creature must
immediately use its reaction, if available, to move as
far as its speed allows, away from me. MATT: Okay, which
she does have. So she then moves-- TALIESIN: I don't know.
MATT: 40 feet this way, which is quite a distance
for me to reach. TRAVIS: I got you.
I got you. MATT: Just shift
that about 30. Keep going, a little more,
a little more, about there. We'll say that is 40 feet
from where Fearne is. MARISHA: Wait, is she running now?
TRAVIS: No, she was forced away. LAURA: She had to--
MATT: As you-- MARISHA: Oh, you forced her.
MATT: -- blast her mind. MARISHA: Oh, you forced her!
MATT: She's like, (groans) and darts off
in the direction, and turns around and spins, grabbing her face, looks up. "Good. "Good. "Good." MARISHA: She's demonstrating
her powers for something. TRAVIS: I don't know what--
MARISHA: She's going to try and fucking-- TRAVIS: What does she
want with fucking Fearne? LAURA: Fuck. MATT: Finish your turn,
Imogen? LAURA: That's all I've got.
MATT: Okay. Fearne. ASHLEY: I have such fucking
blue balls right now. MATT: I know.
ASHLEY: Because I can't-- MATT: Well,
make a death save. ASHLEY: Oh yeah.
MARISHA: Oh my god. MATT: Who knows, maybe you'll
have a second natural 20. MARISHA: Come on. ♪ Delilah, take the wheel ♪
LIAM: So many 20s. TALIESIN: I was just
going to say, most of us have died how we lived, which is--
ASHLEY: Seven. TALIESIN: -- so irritating.
MATT: Okay, that's a failed save, so mark a failed death save. ASHLEY: Do I add anything
to it? You just do it? TALIESIN and MATT: No.
ASHLEY: Okay. MATT: 10 or higher is
what you want, so. ASHLEY: Okay. Where is-- MATT: Mister? Mister is--
LAURA: Next to Orym. ASHLEY: Where are you, FCG?
MARISHA: I might have to do something crazy. SAM: You mean hit point wise? ASHLEY: No, just on the board.
TALIESIN: Physically. SAM: I am still within visual sight of Orym.
MARISHA: I'm about to tell her some shit. We got to get her to stop.
SAM: I know what's going on. I'm still on the board. TALIESIN: Shit, I'm so fucked.
ASHLEY: Okay. Okay. TRAVIS: All ideas are
welcome right now. SAM: Are you dead?
ASHLEY: I'm down, yeah. SAM: Cool.
ASHLEY: Okay, so-- SAM: It'd be really great if you could just roll
a natural 20, please. ASHLEY: I already failed one. SAM: But on the next one.
ASHLEY: Okay, okay. LAURA: Can I-- (laughs) How far away are
you from Orym, FCG? SAM: Oh, I'm--
LAURA: So far? SAM: 30 feet, maybe? No, I ran that way.
MATT: Correct. SAM: I'm right at the corner
of the building, right? So 45 feet, maybe? MATT: 45, 50 or so feet.
ASHLEY: Okay. LAURA: So you won't be able to
get to him on your next turn. ASHLEY: I am going to--
SAM: To Orym? He's dead. It doesn't matter--
LAURA: You don't have Revivify? SAM: Yeah, but
if I get to him on the next turn
or the turn after, it doesn't matter. Within 10 turns, I
got to get to him. MATT: So, Mister does what? Mister says what? MARISHA: Mister says what?
ASHLEY: Mister says what? So--
LIAM: Hey, Mister. ASHLEY: Mister can do teleportation
with a willing creature. MATT: Correct. ASHLEY: Would that work
with Orym, because he's-- MATT: He is not a
creature at the moment. He is a body.
ASHLEY: He's just a body. He wouldn't be able to-- Okay, understood. So, Mister's going
to come forward, shoot some flaming shit. MATT: (monkey screech)
(flinging flame shit) LAURA: Would you be
a willing creature? Because you're not a body. SAM: Yeah, she is. LAURA: But she's just
an unconscious body, she's not a-- ASHLEY: He can't
make it to me. LAURA: Oh. ASHLEY: Okay.
MATT: What's his movement? ASHLEY: His movement is--
SAM: 20. LIAM: Oh my goodness.
ASHLEY: Oh my gourd. Okay.
SAM: 15 feet? 20 feet?
ASHLEY: I think it's 15. 30 feet.
SAM: Oh. That's a wacky monkey. ASHLEY: That is
a wacky monkey. LAURA: You're going to be okay.
ASHLEY: He could get to me. MATT: It's up to you. LIAM: We've restored less.
ASHLEY: I don't even know what that would get me. Okay, Flame Seed. Shoot it at her.
MATT: All righty. ASHLEY: Nope. MATT: (whooshes) It arcs up. It's like a person shoots
a bullet in the air, and then eventually
(dropping flame seed). ASHLEY: (sighs) Okay.
That's my turn. MATT: All right,
finishing Fearne's go. LIAM: We got to
find some information. MATT: Going to use the last
Legendary Action to dash back. MARISHA: Last
Legendary Action. MATT: Go ahead and
send Otohan my way. TALIESIN: First would be
Treshi's going to die, also, at the end of this.
MATT: And put this right next to Fearne. LAURA: No, it's
not been that long. TALIESIN: We're all
going to be-- MARISHA: I hope he's good at holding his breath.
LIAM: I think you should blast off straight
into the air and then just unfurl it. LAURA: I thought about
that. Believe me. LIAM: Yow!
(laughter) LAURA: I think it
has to be on a surface. I fully thought
about it. (laughs) LIAM: No skyscrapers,
just, flop. MATT: So with that, Laudna. MARISHA: Laudna's
going to get up. Well, she was already up. She's-- MATT: Right. She
crawled over and got up. LIAM: That woman is intense.
SAM: Are you down, Chet? TRAVIS: No. MARISHA: I'm just going to--
SAM: How? MARISHA: -- peek around
the corner of the house. MATT: Over here?
MARISHA: This side. MATT: This side over here? MARISHA: This side,
towards me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right there, yeah. MATT: You see FCG,
you see the wreckage. You see Imogen up in the air,
angrily flying, just energy, reddish purple
energy just (crackling). MARISHA: I'm going to
send a message to Otohan. MATT: Okay.
MARISHA: Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. SAM: A message?
MARISHA: Sorry. I hope this isn't a bad idea. I'm going to send
a message to Otohan-- TRAVIS: I mean, we're at
the bottom of the barrel. LIAM: Yeah, we're scraping. SAM: Wait, don't-- MARISHA: The Moontide Crown.
MATT: "Aye." MARISHA: Ira.
(demonic whispers) We know where he is.
(demonic whispers) Do you want it?
(demonic whispers) You have to stop.
(demonic whispers) MATT: Make a
persuasion check. MARISHA: Okay. All right. All right. Okay. All right. Okay. 22. MATT: 22. Okay. As Otohan
dashes upward, and the left-handed
off-hand blade is drawn is about to start heading down
towards Fearne on the ground to start finishing the
job that she thought she could wipe up a lot
easier than she could, suddenly turns the
head and looks at you as the message hits. "Huh." MARISHA: We can help you. MATT: Looks up
at you, Imogen. You hear in your
head, "Is this true?" Make a wisdom saving throw. TRAVIS: Ooh.
LIAM: Oh. MARISHA: She's trying to peek.
TRAVIS: Checking that shit. MARISHA: She's trying to peek.
LIAM: Credit check. TRAVIS: Verify your account.
MARISHA: Come on. Come on. LAURA: 13. TRAVIS: Congratulations.
Access granted. LAURA: (laughs) MATT: You feel that invasive
will pushing into your mind. As much as you try and
withstand giving information, you feel the extraction
of interactions of Ira, of the device, of the
crown, of the escape. Looks back over at Laudna. "Hm. "You speak some truth. "And tell me, "or..." She raises the blade
up ahead once more. MARISHA: Wait,
wait, wait, wait. ASHLEY: I wrote it down. MARISHA: Panagrip Sands. We got interaction. The leylines.
MATT: "East of here." MARISHA: What?
LAURA: (laughs) MARISHA: Sorry. Interference. MATT: "Continue. "Continue." MARISHA: Oh, continue.
(laughter) LAURA: Oh, continue. Oh, continue. MARISHA: Sorry, you
blew my eardrums out with your psychic bullshit. We've seen the leylines.
LAURA: Ley lines. (demonic whispers) MARISHA: I know where they're converging.
(demonic whispers) MATT: "So do I." FCG, what do you want to do? SAM: They're not
talking, right? I'm just looking at-- MARISHA: Well, you technically--
SAM: All the women in my life just staring at each other? (laughter) MATT: She changes her
expression and glances back. MARISHA: You'd be able to
hear Laudna whispering. SAM: Oh, okay.
MARISHA: You would be able to hear me. It's like a one-way call. MATT: Probably not make
out the actual words given the sound of the wind everywhere.
TRAVIS: We should pretend that she needs the green lens. MARISHA: Yeah, the Weave Lens. SAM: How many
rounds have gone by? One? Just one or two? MATT: Just one. This
is the same round. We took a little
narrative moment there in the midst of this chaos. So on your turn, FCG,
what are you doing? LIAM: I don't know.
TALIESIN: I don't know either. SAM: I'm going to move
behind the crawler. LAURA: Oh god, she's up next. She's up next.
TALIESIN: Yep. MATT: Over here
behind the crawler? SAM: Behind the crawler.
ASHLEY: It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. MATT: Okay. ASHLEY: Oh, she's
making me so mad. SAM: Hold on one second while I just look at
what this thing does. It's touch. Yeah, okay. Action, hide. MATT: Okay, roll a
stealth check for me. SAM: Behind the crawler, just
make myself look like part of it. But yeah, that's a two. MATT: I was going to
say, you have advantage because you are metallic amongst so much a bunch
of other metallic things, given the storm, too.
SAM: Guidance. 19. MATT: Guidance is an
action, so-- SAM: Okay, then 19. Well, then just 19.
Wait, stealth? MATT: Yeah.
TALIESIN: Is Guidance an action or a bonus action? LAURA: No, it's an action.
TALIESIN: It's an action. That's right. You're right, you're right.
SAM: Oh, but wait, don't I usually have
disadvantage on stealth? LAURA: Do you?
LIAM: For what? I don't remember that. SAM: Yeah, because I have
armor and stuff, and-- TRAVIS: Yeah, but you said
you're hiding amongst the-- LAURA: Burned so many
calories during this game. MATT: This is less
about noise-based moving as it is visual-based.
SAM: Okay, and it's just-- MATT: Kind of like how
it's sound or visual for different
types of stealth. SAM: Then 19.
MATT: So 19. Okay. So you shift into
the metal and hold. You got it. Finishes your turn. It
is now Otohan's turn. LAURA: As an action, can you give Fearne a Healing Word? ASHLEY: Fucking shit.
SAM: If I had any spells, yeah. TRAVIS: Oh my god.
MATT: She looks back up to Imogen. "You were so close." (blade slicing) TALIESIN: Mm. MARISHA: What does that mean? ASHLEY: What did she say to you?
MATT: That's going to be-- MARISHA: You were so close.
MATT: -- a crit. You fail two death saves. TRAVIS: You're out.
ASHLEY: I'm out. MATT: Fearne, in
the final moments-- LAURA: (squeals)
TALIESIN: Oh my fucking god. MATT: -- of the consciousness
and life of this realm as the blade rests above you, what do you do?
What do you say? ASHLEY: Boy. Well, that was
a hell of a run. MATT: (blade slicing) As the
blade goes into your abdomen and then with a spray, an arc of red that seems
to almost turn to black as it hits the
dust and then scatters off with the wind, Fearne Calloway is no more. MARISHA: Oh my god. LIAM: Run, you motherfuckers. SAM: Are we still fucking fighting?
LIAM: Run. SAM: Goddamn it, this woman.
LIAM: Run. ASHLEY: Oh my god. MARISHA: Can you
scoop up Orym? MATT: Two more attacks in
her round against you. MARISHA: Oh no. Oh no. MATT: That's 20 to hit. TRAVIS: That hits. MATT: Okay, that's nine
points of slashing damage. TRAVIS: Reduced to--
MATT: Four. TRAVIS: Four.
MATT: Going to do another Psionic Strike for an additional 12
points of psychic damage. TRAVIS: (groans) Unconscious. ASHLEY: No fucking way.
TALIESIN: Oh shit. MATT: It's going to take
her third and last strike. SAM: Against who? MATT: You take
two death saves. She's just (blades slashing). Strikes that third
strike into Chetney and looks up
at you once more. "The more you run from
it, the more you lose. "There is greatness in you,
and our fight is soon. "Embrace it, "or become like the rest." You feel this kind of... this energy in your stomach. That same energy that is
in the center of that storm, in every nightmare
you've had, and it scares you,
and you fight it. It's like staring into
the worst nightmare. And it's calling you. SAM: You know what? MATT: That brings us
straight to your initiative because everyone else
ahead of you is dead. LAURA: Wow.
SAM: Never mind. MATT: Except for
Chetney, actually. Chetney, make a
death saving throw because it's your
turn before hers. TRAVIS: Hey kids.
LAURA: Ashton. Ashton is-- LIAM: Wait, wait, wait--
SAM: Can I go back in time and just give her,
for my bonus action, the thing, the ally thing? MATT: Sure. LAURA: You have a d6
on your next roll. LIAM: This is life or
death for Pock O'Pea. TRAVIS: This is like
the 50-meter high dive. LIAM: Here you go. TRAVIS: 13.
(relieved groans) MATT: Success.
(laughter) TRAVIS: Prolonged it.
(laughter) MATT: Imogen, it's your turn. MARISHA: Oh my god. Oh my god, really that
just prolongs-- Mark your success. Mark your fucking success.
TRAVIS: Sorry. MARISHA: That's important.
TRAVIS: Done. LIAM and TRAVIS: (laugh) MATT: The storm
rages in your belly. LAURA: (squeals) MATT: Do you fight it? LIAM: Emperor wants
you to battle. LAURA: I know she's
got so much dexterity, so I can't do this. TRAVIS: Do you fight it? LAURA: I'm not losing them
to just surrender to you. MATT: "You're not
surrendering to me. "But to your nature." LAURA: I'll fly down. I'll fly down towards her. ASHLEY: Wait, Mister
didn't have a turn. MATT: I will say, you're far from
incapacitated. You are gone. When you vanish, so does
the flame tethering him here, and Mister--
TRAVIS: In other words, fuck your monkey.
(laughter) MATT: You fly down to her? SAM: It's a tension laugh, guys, tension laugh.
LAURA: Uh-uh. I'm going to stay back a little bit. I'm not going to--
MARISHA: Got to laugh through it. LAURA: -- fly down
right in front of her. LIAM: I'm already dead,
I got to tension laugh. MARISHA: Laugh
so you don't cry. ASHLEY: Yeah, why
would Mister still be here? That would make no sense. LAURA: I'll reach
my hand towards her. TRAVIS: There's no logic. LAURA: But before I land, I'm going to Witch
Bolt at 3rd-level. MATT: Okay. LAURA: So my hair's
going to fly up, my eyes are going
to flash white. I'm just going to hit her
with everything I've got. MATT: Roll an attack.
TALIESIN: Oh, shit. LAURA: 23? MATT: 23 hits.
MARISHA: Oh my god. LAURA: (exhales) LAURA: 21 points. MATT: 21 points of--
LAURA: Lightning damage. MATT: As the arc of energy
fires out and strikes her, it impacts and spreads
throughout the torso, and she seems
to drop a blade, reach up, and
grab the tether. LAURA: I'm going
to hit the ground and hold on to it. MATT: "Come on. "You're so close." Make a wisdom saving throw. SAM: You already used
your six, right? LAURA: 16, I did.
SAM: Okay. MATT: 16, okay. That same burning
in your belly, the weird, growing, alluring, calling sensation somewhere deep in your soul,
in the very essence of every fiber of
your being is going, "Now, now." And she sees it. There's a grin on her face.
There's an excitement, like a teacher waiting for a
student to have a breakthrough. Does that finish your turn? LAURA: I'm going to
glance over at FCG, (tearily) and you're
just going to hear: You have to save them. SAM: I know. LAURA: I'm going to
fly down to her. SAM: I needed her. LAURA: You let them go. MATT: "You give in
or you all die. "We only need the
strongest of us." LAURA: Fuck. MATT: She's starting
to show some hurt. She's looking a little
ragged after that last hit. LAURA: (tearily) Yeah? MATT: Not super down, but... TRAVIS: (sighs) LIAM: Fucking
mind games, ooh. MARISHA: Ooh, the mind games. TALIESIN: I hate it.
I hate it. I hate it so much.
LAURA: Who gets to go? Who's left? MATT: Does that
finish your turn? LIAM: I kind of love it.
TRAVIS: No! SAM: Did you go with her? LAURA: I landed in
front of her. TRAVIS: You going
with her or not? MATT: The tether is still
sparking in between you, and she has almost,
not quite sure wrapped her arm around it,
but she's just clutching it, and her fingers burning,
and you can see this dark, it's a smoke rising from
where her gloved hand, her fingerless elements of
it as she touches it, the skin's darkening, and she's just
embracing the pain. ASHLEY: I am shaking
the table. MATT: All right. Finish your turn, Imogen? LAURA: Mm-hmm.
ASHLEY: (sighs) MATT: All right, that
brings us to Laudna. TALIESIN: I hate everything.
ASHLEY: Sorry. I'm so bouncy right now. SAM: Chetney's
not dead, right? MATT: No.
TALIESIN: About to be. SAM: You can't... get him? MARISHA: I could. I could. SAM: I mean, finish him off. MARISHA: Yeah, I could absolutely
murder the fuck out of him. that would be easy.
TALIESIN: He wouldn't feel a thing. TRAVIS: Oh, Laudna,
thank-- (death gurgles) (laughter) SAM: It's 3:00am, Chetney. (stabbing impact)
(laughter) (laughter) TRAVIS: Wood shop. Closed. (laughter) LIAM: Ho, ho, ho,
motherfucker. MATT: Say your last line. You might have a chance. Laudna. SAM: You got to get him. MATT: You see her
now standing right in front of Otohan.
MARISHA: Get him up? SAM: Yeah. MARISHA: Okay, okay,
okay, okay. Fuck, fuck. Yeah, yeah, I do. All right. Huh, I'm shaking,
I'm going to-- Now, one, two (counting) Oh fuck, five. 15, which is 16--
ASHLEY: We're just hanging out with Will. MARISHA: Fantastic. ASHLEY: Get to meet
your husband. MARISHA: I'm going to do it
again, Wither and Bloom (snaps) on top of
both of them. LIAM: Introduce you
to my dad. MATT: Wither and Bloom
on both of them, okay. MARISHA: On top of
Chetney and Otohan. MATT: Is that a
constitution save? MARISHA: Yep. MATT: That is going
to be a 15. MARISHA: Fail.
MATT: Fail, all right. MARISHA: Shit roll,
five damage to Otohan. MATT: Five damage to Otohan.
ASHLEY: Okay. MARISHA: You get to roll
a hit dice and come up. TRAVIS: Okay.
ASHLEY: (sighs) MARISHA: Yeah.
SAM: Clutch! MARISHA: Whatever
your hit dice is. TRAVIS: Three. MATT: So you're at
three hit points. The death saves stay. MARISHA: The death
saves <i>stay</i>? MATT: Correct.
MARISHA: They don't reset? MATT: Wait, actually, let me go--
LAURA: Yeah, yeah, once you're awake-- MARISHA: Don't they reset?
MATT: No, I think you're right. LIAM: You get hit points, it's done.
MARISHA: Yeah. TRAVIS: Plus, I don't
think I can-- MATT: I think you're right. MARISHA: You just click on them again.
SAM: I mean-- TRAVIS: Got it. There. SAM: I think I speak for all
of Critterdom when I say: If one of us had to live, thank god it was Chetney. MARISHA: (laughs) TRAVIS: (sighs) Well. (laughter) MATT: Yeah, now they're
both at zero. That's right Sorry, I misremembered
that briefly. You're good, so.
TRAVIS: Okay. LIAM: Guys, this is
Christmas' origin story. MATT, SAM, and LAURA: (laugh) MARISHA: I-- fuck, fuck,
I guess just-- LAURA: You fuck?
SAM: You blew Chetney. LAURA: You fuck someone? MARISHA: I, fuck, I just,
I give in, and I fuck Chetney. (laughter) TRAVIS: We all do
at some point! Yeah!
(laughter) MARISHA: Unable to... TALIESIN: You can't do any
blood hunter shit? MARISHA: Unable to
control the rage, and Delilah's force, I'm going to do it,
Form of Dread again. MATT: Okay, go for it. MARISHA: And get some
temporary hit points that will mean nothing. Okay. And, um, I'm spooky now. MATT: Okay, there you go.
(laughter) MARISHA: In the corner.
LIAM: Finally. MATT: Perfect, all right,
spooky in the corner. It's my-- MARISHA: ♪ Spooky in
the corner ♪ MATT: -- my autobiography.
LAURA: Yeah, dude. (laughter)
MARISHA: Where are you? LAURA: I feel like it's
all of our autobiographies. SAM: I'm hiding
in the wreckage. MATT: So at the
end of your turn, Laudna, right?
TALIESIN: I am fucking useless. MATT: As the tether's being
held, Wither and Bloom goes off, Chetney
regains consciousness. She looks over, looks at you. "Is she your favorite?" LAURA: (gasps)
I'll go with you! I give in. Don't hurt her. MATT: "Ah, but you see, "you don't just
choose to give in "or let go when
the moment's right." TRAVIS: Oh. MATT: She's going to use
a Legendary Action to dash. MARISHA: She's coming
for my ass. ASHLEY: Fuck, fucking-- MARISHA: She's coming for
my ass real hard. MATT: Okay, there we go. TRAVIS: Even though I'm up, I'm prone, so I can't
make an opportunity attack. LIAM: This is
Matt's dark side. MATT: You can.
ASHLEY: Yeah. MARISHA: Yeah, you can--
MATT: I'll allow it. MARISHA: Go for the Achilles heel.
MATT: Go for the ankle, why not? MARISHA: Sentinel. SAM: As an opportunity attack,
you can't grapple, can't you? TRAVIS: No, not prone,
I don't think. MARISHA: You can't
grab those-- TALIESIN: Can you
grab an ankle? MARISHA: Grab an ankle? TALIESIN: Trip. MATT: I'll allow it,
if you want to. ASHLEY: I mean,
he's scrappy, he would. TALIESIN: Yeah.
LIAM: Yeah. MATT: Up to you.
LIAM: Sure that asshole will trip. MARISHA: Your character,
do your thing. SAM: Pin her foot down to
the ground with your chisel. MATT: So it's a contested
athletics on your end versus her athletics
or acrobatics. ASHLEY: He'll take her out
with just the foot. MATT: Which I will say... her acrobatics
is much higher, so she's going to
take acrobatics. TRAVIS: God, that's balls. That's a 14. MATT: She got a 20.
TRAVIS: (groans) MATT: So you reach out
for the ankle and she slips out as she darts
off towards Laudna. All right, that finishes
Laudna's go, FCG. SAM: Wait, she's just moving,
she's not acting? MATT: Yeah, she can only
use one Legendary Action at the end of
somebody else's turn, and she uses one to dash. LIAM: It wasn't
her turn, it was-- MATT: Gives her
a free movement. LIAM: Boss battle special. SAM: I can't do anything. MARISHA: You can bust
some heads? SAM: I mean, yeah, I can come
out of hiding and attack her, but it's not going to be
enough to kill her. Right? I mean, she's not
even looking rough, is she? LIAM: She is.
TALIESIN: She's looking rough. MARISHA: He said that
she's looking rough, but we don't know-- TRAVIS: "A little haggard,"
I think was the description. LIAM: The percentage of--
TRAVIS: Not rough, but a little haggard. MATT: She's starting
to look rough-ish. TRAVIS: Oof, that ish is a--
ASHLEY: That ish. LIAM: Yeah, yeah, yeah. SAM: I don't have anything
that deals more than 2d8. LAURA: No, then don't waste
it. Use heal if you can heal. MATT: Yeah, her having that
opening round of initiative-- SAM: I can't. MATT: -- on you before you could--
LAURA: You have no spells? SAM: No, today is
the day that I-- TALIESIN: I couldn't
have rolled into that, could I have, with my
new level seven shit? ASHLEY: I thought
we went to bed. LAURA: So you don't
have Revivify? MARISHA: No, that was first
thing in the morning. TALIESIN: Can't be so you
don't suffer a surprise round? MATT: That wasn't
a surprise round. TALIESIN: That wasn't a
surprise round, that's right. She just--
MATT: A really high initiative, LIAM: And bloody water
under the bridge. TALIESIN: She chopped me into fucking kibble.
MARISHA: Have any dynamite left? SAM: I never did. MATT: What you got, Sam? TALIESIN: Increment, yeah. SAM: Well, first,
bonus action, I'm going to pump four more
temporary hit points into you. MATT: Well, they don't stack,
don't forget. SAM: What do you mean? TALIESIN: You can't get more.
MARISHA: Fuck! MATT: Temporary hit points
don't add up. MARISHA: They don't stack.
MATT: They just replace each other. So if someone has five
temporary hit points, and you give them four,
they just have five. ASHLEY: (groans) SAM: Okay.
MARISHA: Can you give them to Chet? MATT: It's a buffer that replaces itself.
SAM: Nope. MARISHA: Because you're not-- SAM: Bonded with him. LAURA: Are you
bonded with me? SAM: I am. But you don't
act like you need temporary hit points
right now. LAURA: I, okay, that's fine. SAM: But I mean, you're
going go with her, right? LAURA: Sure, yeah,
I'm going to go with-- LIAM: Eight hit points means
nothing to this woman. TALIESIN: Yeah.
SAM: (exhales) TALIESIN: 20 hit points
means nothing to her. SAM: So she's--
MARISHA: We don't know. SAM: She just chased
after Laudna. She's about to kill Laudna. MARISHA: It's a war of
attrition at this point. SAM: I can only
Revivify one person. MARISHA: I mean,
I like our plan, if you can keep me alive. SAM: But I can't.
If she sees me pop out, she can prevent
that from happening, or stand over me, and
wait till I finish Revivify, then kill both of us. I want
to wait 'til she's gone. MATT: Those are
all valid tactics. What you going to do?
LIAM: You could hold your action until she's past you
and out of sight? SAM: Uh-huh. Uh-huh. MARISHA: Yeah, maybe I will. TALIESIN: You don't have any
stabilizing spells, do you? Where you can just make-- SAM: It's touch. TALIESIN: Okay,
it is touch, okay. SAM: But they're
already dead. TALIESIN: I mean, you don't
have anything that keeps them from
that 10 minutes, can extend that
10 minutes for--? SAM: No. So I'll just bonus
action give Imogen, god, four temporary hit points. And. TALIESIN: I don't know
what the fuck to do. MARISHA: Doesn't matter. SAM: And that's it.
TALIESIN: Too far away to do anything of
value other than run. MATT: At the end of your
turn, she can use another legendary action to dash. Up to Laudna. Rushes up.
TALIESIN: Fuck, man. MATT: Blades out. Looks
over her shoulder, over towards you,
Imogen, the tether still attaching the two of you. Unless she left
30 feet, right? So the tether broke
as she dashed away. Looks over at you. Top the round is Otohan. Otohan is going to take
one strike against you. That's going to be 15? MARISHA: Yeah. MATT: 15 hits.
ASHLEY: Oh my god. MARISHA: Made of paper. MATT: That is 10 points
of slashing damage. SAM: I will halve that to five.
MARISHA: Okay. MATT: Okay, so you take five, and you have five
temporary hit points. SAM: Mm-hmm. MATT: Second strike. That's going to be a 26.
TALIESIN: I hate this. I hate it all.
SAM: Well. It was a valid effort. MATT: You take--
MARISHA: Keeps me from having to do-- MATT: 14 points
of slashing damage. MARISHA: Okay.
I'm down again. MATT: You watch as she
strikes once, a second time. Laudna falls back. While Laudna's still falling
in the air, third strike. MARISHA: Strength
of the Grave? MATT: That's true. Is that once per long rest
or is that every time? SAM: She didn't use it last
time, she got a natural 20. MARISHA: No, this is
a different thing. MATT: This is a reaction to--
SAM: Oh, okay. MATT: -- dropping to one hit point.
MARISHA: Yeah, you're right. MATT: Okay.
MARISHA: It's done. MATT: Well, this
is an auto crit, so you take two
failed death saves. As she's falling back in the
air from that second strike, she immediately takes
the second blade, jams it up through
her back, which pierces out of
the the sternum. While holding
her still aloft, a reverse Sephiroth
situation, Laudna held in the air,
she looks over at you. It's your turn. LAURA: (gasps) That burning in your
stomach is screaming. SAM: One, two, three, four. MATT: It is bellowing. LAURA: (laughs)
I don't have anything. TRAVIS: Can you
Witch Bolt again? LAURA: I'm going
to bonus action, and get a 2nd-level
spell back. SAM: Make it stop. LAURA: I don't know
how to make it stop. TALIESIN: Yeah, I
got fucking nothing. LIAM: She tried to offer
herself up, and it kept going. MATT: Imogen. LAURA: (groans)
MATT: What are you doing? That call is
screaming to you. Do you continue to resist? LAURA: I'll go with you! MATT: She just
holds her there. "Let go, "and give in to your nature." Pulls the blade from Laudna, her body falls to the ground
with the dark spatter across the rock. Throws the blade
up, catches it-- LAURA: I close my eyes,
open them, and scream and scream Dissonant Whispers
out in her head again at 2nd-level. MATT: Okay, what's
the save on that? LAURA: Wisdom. MATT: Wisdom. That is going to be a
failure. That is 12. She's going to use her
last legendary resistance to resist it.
LIAM: Oh. LAURA: Full spell effect, or
just she doesn't take the? MATT: She just succeeds
in the save, so whatever the--
LAURA: Okay. ASHLEY: Didn't she
already use her last-- That is so hard to say.
MATT: She used two legendary resistances, and this was her third. ASHLEY: I know, I'm trying.
MARISHA: I also thought she did. LAURA: So she only takes
five psychic points. MATT: Five points of
psychic damage, okay. Make a wisdom
saving throw for me. Imogen. SAM: Don't resist! LIAM: I can feel your
anger growing in you. LAURA: Natural one. ASHLEY: God--! SAM: Good.
MATT: As that burning storm within you becomes-- LAURA: I rolled the fucking
Ruidus dice for it. (laughing) MATT: That's fucking awesome. ASHLEY: (sighs) MATT: As it burns
up from within, you feel a tidal surge
pulling you under, like the dark abyss of the
ocean swallowing you up, but it's nothing but red, warm, crackling fury. As it does, the
entire landscape around you just turns red. The dust storm,
the wind freezes. The sand just
frozen in the air. Those of you who are still
here notices the coloration of this entire region of the
city turns a deep, deep red. Otohan looks back at you. "Yes! "Yes! "This is it!" The rest of you,
looking at Imogen, her hair fully extended
and levitating, her skin a deep crimson hue. Where you saw the thin
bolts that had stretched up parts of her are
now alight and glowing, and now encompass whole
facets of her body. As she stands there lifting,
the very space around her, (earthen energy pulsing) shakes and adjusts. As you scream one more
time, uncontrollably, all that pain, all that fury,
all that vengeance within, as you unleash it, you watch as all the
buildings tear away. The bricks crackling
around like a whirlwind. The rest of you are
pulled throughout, and with one final scream: White. SAM: What? MATT: That's where we'll
end tonight's episode. SAM: What?!
TRAVIS: No! ASHLEY and SAM: What?
TRAVIS: Fuck! SAM: What does that mean? MARISHA: No, I don't-- Am I dead or alive?
ASHLEY: No! MATT: We'll find
out next time. SAM: Oh my god!
ASHLEY: No. No! No! MARISHA: No, this isn't okay! MATT: (laughs) MARISHA: This isn't okay! TRAVIS: That was--
TALIESIN: Fuck, man. TRAVIS: -- awesome.
ASHLEY: Yeah, it was pretty awesome. TALIESIN: Shit kicked out of us.
ASHLEY: Fuck. SAM: What? ASHLEY: Shit, no!
TALIESIN: Fuck. ASHLEY: Let's just go a little, 10 more minutes!
SAM: Did we go somewhere? Did she disappear? Are we all dead?
MARISHA: Where are we? LAURA: Is everybody dead? SAM: What happened?
MATT: We'll find out next episode. Yay! LIAM: That was
a great game, Matt. LAURA: Oh my god.
MATT: Dude, you guys, well done!
ASHLEY: Holy moly. MATT: I was like, hoo, this
is going real rough. (laughs) (sighs)
SAM: Oh no. MATT: Well. To that note.
TALIESIN: I'm looking forward to new characters. MARISHA: I hate this.
LAURA: Who all is-- TRAVIS: We don't
know what happened. LAURA: You, you, you--
TALIESIN: Nope! MARISHA: We have
three people-- SAM: Two dead, one
about to be dead. MARISHA: Yeah. Two for sure down,
one that's a big question mark. MATT: Yeah. So, we'll pick
up on wherever this goes at the beginning of
the next session. Thank you all so much
for joining us. We love you very much,
and is it Thursday yet? (groaning)
MATT: Good night. TRAVIS: Oh my god!
