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Westred dropped a polymorphed whale on them, and then a fight broke out between Tegan's men and the heroes. Who would achieve victory, and what price would they pay for it? Find out right now. How's it going, everybody? Bye. Good. Good, I just ate two bowls of Frosted Flake, so I feel great. Artian nailed it. I had Chipotle. I had Fazoli's, because I hate myself. Oh, there you go. I ate two sandwiches. Ah. So. Danny, what did you eat? Dan, what did you eat? I had Renza. A local cuisine. Love me Renza. So, speaking of Akio, you unconscious. Yeah. You got hit with some magical spell that knocked you down.
Then you got up again. Then you got knocked down again. Yeah. You got knocked down. Then you got up again. They ain't never going to keep you down. We'll see. Maybe. Who sings that, Josh? Smash Mouth. Yep. I literally said the answer before we started. That's the closest. Twelve stones.
No? Okay, that's fine. She'll get there. Marley and me. No, we're doing movie times. Harry Potter. I did a book as well. A book you can get on Audible. It's just sad to throw that out. So what just happened is the polymorphed whale reverted. We are so off the rails already. It reverted back to its true form, which is this massive humanoid monster with a disfigured face and a giant wooden club. It looks around very confused. Larry. Larry? Yeah. Larry. Okay, I can get with that. It doesn't exactly conjure like the disfigured menace. I'm picturing the cable guy. That's what I want. That's perfect, actually.
Well, we should get him the guest. He's here in town. He's from Nebraska. I'm sure he'd come on. Yeah, he lives like 10 minutes away. So he looks around. He's snarling. He's angry. And before letting out a massive roar, he slams his club into the ground and then just arches it back and just bellows out this really deep guttural scream. You can hear, Gitter-Dun, in the middle of it. Yeah, he's gone. I like timing it as soon as he takes a drink. That'll burn. I started laughing because I was picturing it saying, Gitter-Dun, and then you said it. There we go. So...
The eyes of the princess, they kind of widen in terror, and they start to take a step back from their teleporting adversary a bit. So what do you guys do? Also take a step back. Everyone just gives it a wide berth kind of thing. Yeah, I don't want to be the first one that notices. Sure. That's fair. And can my step back be towards Tegan? Didn't he run away? I just know I was on the Tegan side of the whale. You were on the Tegan side of the whale? Yeah. So I'm assuming my direction would just be closer to him. Yeah, but also with the other adversaries. So yeah, that's fine. We're all not really focused on each other at the moment. Yeah, Akio's unconscious. Brenna, it was behind a wall of force.
Uh, which she doesn't really know how, like where it extends to, but, um, you're pretty far away in general. And Milo, you were, if I'm not mistaken, you weren't that close either. I don't know. Oh yeah. You kept trying to amulet from a distance. Yep. I'm right next to Larry, right? Correct. Unconscious. Unconscious. We don't step on you. Maybe.
You're playing dead better than anybody. He won't see me if I don't move. We're kind of calling this a nice little reset in the initiative because I don't remember where we left off in the initiative order. So we're just going to start over. Actually, Greg, you're pretty high in the initiative order. I was fifth in the initiative order. With a 20, though. I remember there were 11 people in this order. I know, I know. You're going to re-roll? Yeah, I thought we were going to re-roll. I thought we were, too. Not with your 11, Milo. Oh, you're just saying we're going to start from the top. Start from the top of the existing order. So at the top was Tegan's two bodyguards. Brenna, what were their names? Sven and Mikhail.
Mikhail? Yes. Okay. Greg, you see Tegan and his two bodyguards start running in the opposite direction. Oh, man. Yeah. Like, as soon as this thing appears, they decide, you know what? Coward! I've kind of had it with this. Uh-huh. He was expecting overwhelming success. Oh, definitely. The whale falling on half his men really, like, disrupted that. We're not getting that spear back. No chance. Brenna. I would like to...
Steal the amulet. Just kidding. I said kidding. Chill. She hasn't had much luck with that amulet anyway. No, it's not my friend. It wasn't meant for you. No, it sure wasn't. The book was made for me, though. It's true. But everybody convinced me to take the amulet. If only. If only's right. Okay, I will do dissonant. Well, how far away is Jeff, the armored human? His name's Jeff. Oh, is he? Yeah. We'll say 60 feet.
Yeah, he is. He is 60 feet away. Okay. I'm going to do Dissonant Whispers on Jeff at a second level. Oh, no. We're playing the entire game of my dice out. It's fine. I didn't know what I wanted to do yet, so. I swear, I roll more 15s with wisdom saving throws for you than anything else. You're going to take 11 damage. Oh, no. My pen. Okay, there it goes. I thought the ink was dry. 11? Yes. Okay. He takes 11, some kind of psychic damage.
mental anguish damage, memories of his father and the estranged relationship between his father and his mother come flooding back into his head. He's questioning whether or not he's ever known love. Wow. I'm more powerful than that. I said second level read. Hey, I'm, you know, it's, it's, I, I, I fear what eighth level would do to him. I think you'd probably just fracture as a person. I think he's got more baggage than we're aware of. You know, I put a lot of thought into these nameless NPCs that you come up with. Jeff.
So, okay. Are you going to do anything else? I'm going to... Does it look like Terry is still trying to force me? Scary Terry. Right. Scary Terry being...
You're a wizard. Yes. I think so far the wall of force is still up. You don't know. But I'm going to say it's still up, despite the fact that she's very startled by the whale turning into this creature. I don't think it broke her concentration because she hasn't cast anything else or taken damage yet. And how far is she? About the same. 60. I'm going to start walking toward her. Okay. Until I can't walk anymore. Okay. You walk 20 feet before poof. Okay. You hit a wall of force. Akio, I need you to roll me a death saving throw. 18. Okay. That's the way. You're one up.
I always get very sad when there's big combat happening, lots of moving pieces, lots of enemies, and then someone's down and that's all they can do. How far is he from me? Kyo, he was on the other side of the whale. He sprouted the tree. No, on the other side of the whale. He's right at the feet of the monster thing. In his mouth.
Larry. His name is Larry. Yeah. So, Greg. My turn? It is your turn. And I got a guy right next to me? Yeah. Is it the other fighter dude? It's the other wizard. The male wizard. Antony. Mark. Like, within five feet of me? I don't know, because you guys are kind of fanning out, avoiding this creature, so I'd say probably not. This is the point I have to debate, whether I go by myself towards Tegan. Okay.
They've run off. Yeah. Like how far now? I don't know. Another like 60 feet. All right. I'm going to fight the guy next to me. He's a half-elf and they're like athletically perfect specimens. Yes, we are. Same. And I know that I haven't had much luck with those purple guys one-on-one. These guys even look a little bit more brawny than the guys you encountered before. They're honestly not great when it comes to health. So I'm going to attack the wizard. Okay. Raging.
With my sword. Have we not done any damage to any of these wizards? I thought we did to the lady wizard. Yeah, I thought we damaged Terry. 26 reed. Is that hit? Oh, you're right. Yeah, we just established that. 26? Come on. Yeah. Okay, that's 13 damage. And second attack, 21. That also is a hit. And nine damage. Okay. So 22 total? Is that what I'm hearing? Nine plus... You said 13? 13? Yeah. Yes. 22. All right. So this is the first damage that Antony has taken. And it's quite a doozy to start. I'm hoping he's squishy.
He's easy to hit, I'll tell you that. Because he's just wearing robes. These definitely look fancier than any wizard robes you've seen, even going all the way back to Bartholomew. Wow, I had to dig deep for that name. I was surprised how fast I got it. Who? The wizard that Greik trained with? Yeah, to become an elder tonight. Episode 5 or something? It's so long ago.
From Ryko? I think so. Yeah. It was right after the orphanage. You guys finished the orphanage and you decided you were going to take a week to determine whether or not you wanted to continue as a group. That's when you sang Graduation. As we go on. Yeah, and then Begraic met a local wizard and trained with him to become an elder tonight. Yep. Gosh, that's OG. Yep. As we're wrapping up the story, it's nice to think about. Yeah, first eight episodes, I think. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that was episode nine. So, okay.
So, yeah, so anyways, I say all that to say, these guys look... Better than Bartholomew. ...impeccably dressed, like, you know just by looking at them, by their garishments, like, just the way they present themselves, they've got a very arrogant type of demeanor. You know that these guys, like, they think themselves to be, like, some of the greatest wizards. Did my attack have any, like, effect on this dude's, like, demeanor? I would say he doesn't, like, his stoic appearance hasn't changed, but you knocked him over. I mean, like, he's not invulnerable to bludgeoning. Yeah. Oh, I have slicing. Oh, that's right, you're using your sword. Yeah, he's not invulnerable to that either.
I rolled an 18. That should have been a crit. Oh, well. I didn't call it out. We haven't moved on. I'll have to roll a more damage dice. One more damage dice. Solid. Six more damage. Yeah, just a straight number. I forgot about my extra crit ability. I'm sure someone was screaming at their phone or computer for a second. Crit, Josh. It was a special crit. Okay. So, it is his turn. Cool.
I'm on him. So, Greg, this wizard kind of recoils from your attack. Okay. He feels like he's been critically wounded. Great. Because he hit him with critical. But searching through his mental arsenal of spells available, he realizes he's insufficiently equipped to deal with a head-on attack with a warrior. Ooh. So he's going to Misty Step. Ah, nugget. He's put himself in prime position. That's a good move. Yeah, he's going to Misty Step away from you. How far away is that? Like 15 feet? Up to 30. Up to 30. And he's going to Misty Step and then move an additional 20. So that's what he does. Okay.
The next person is Debt. The next person is not here. The next person is Terry. Sorry, Milo. Damn me. So Terry is kind of now where Antony just went to. Okay. So if we're looking at it from like a top-down... Bird's-eye view. Bird's-eye view, Tegan being at the 12 o'clock position, really far away, these guys are now kind of at the 9 or 10 o'clock position. Okay. In the circle you guys have formed around this giant creature. So there are now two wizards over in that area. You're probably like...
Noon, one o'clock, but much closer to the creature. Great. Than Tegan, for sure. Than Tegan, yeah. So, realizing that you're kind of shifting your focus a little bit away from Tegan, perhaps, this person is going to cast a stone skin on themselves. I'm nuts. Yeah, just, they gotta prepare. Trying to prepare. Seeing what happened to her friend, she cast stone skin. All right, that brings us to the third warrior. The preemptive dab was great, though. Thank you. I was dabbing for the warrior.
And this person is now on the opposite side. So you're right in the middle between these two wizards to your right and this one warrior to your left. So I kind of spaced equidistant apart. This guy's going to charge you. The wizard? No, no, no. The warrior. Okay, okay. Yeah, you wish. I do wish. No, this warrior, he's going to charge you. Okay. And he's going to try and drop a shoulder bludgeoning you because hopefully you aren't paying close attention. I'll let you roll a perception set a really low DC. How do these guys get behind me so much? Is this a mechanic of get behind you kind of thing? Can I do this to somebody? You were focused on the wizard who went the opposite direction. I attacked somebody. I'm just saying like, is this a mechanic in combat?
Because it just feels like I'm getting taken advantage of. No, this won't deal you any damage. I'm giving you the option to avoid it entirely, as a matter of fact. Okay. Yeah, Josh, can you let him explain it first? Go and roll me a perception. And crit. I just gotta, I gotta, like, say at the end of every attack that I'm looking everywhere. Crit. Carmen is real. Did he actually crit fail? Perception attack? No, we got close. Uh, perception. I got a 10. Okay, that's fine. You definitely hear this guy coming. His arm is clanging. You can hear the footsteps on the ground. Okay. Despite the fact that you were just, like, right in the face of this other guy who vanished before your eyes. Right. Your attention is not so focused on this.
This old target that you don't hear the new target coming. Okay. So he's just going to attack you like normal. Okay. No big deal. It's going to be fine. I'm just trying to add a little bit of flavor to this overly long. But all the flavor puts me at disadvantage. No, no, no. No, it doesn't. I'm the second person who's gotten like special treatment because I'm looking at a certain direction. Don't worry. You just can't look everywhere. Neither can all of them. Somehow I've never done this to anybody. I mean, I didn't know how you can hear him over your complaining, but. All right. All right. All right. All right. So this guy, he's going to, he's going to swing at you with the sword and try and catch you between your shield and your kind of armor plating at the shoulder. Okay. Crit hit. It doesn't crit.
Does a 16 hit? No. Okay. With the shield, I wasn't sure. So just at the last second, you kind of like pull your arm tight to your chest so the shield forms a nice extension of your armor. And you turn real quick and the sword just clangs right off of that. And so you can turn totally prepared.
To engage with this guy. How far away am I from Graik? From Graik? Yeah. Is it a little jaunt? It's a jaunt. Is it a day travel? You might need some type of assistance. A carriage, perhaps. So you've got to go around the big dude, I think. Yeah, that's fine. I'd say 40 feet. Okay. I want to get over to Graik because I want to take advantage. Oh, sure. Somebody being next to another person. Okay. So I'm going to put my amulet back in my...
Or whatever the heck I'm wearing. You've got your dog robe on over your leather armor. I forgot about that. I'll put it in my leather armor, and then I'm going to put the hood on. Okay. Let the people know the dog's coming. The dogs of war have been released. And I'm going to head over to Greg. Okay. If I can make it there in one turn, that's cool. Yeah, we'll say you can. Because you can just use a bonus action to dash. You can bonus action dash. To dab. You dab along the way, like Naruto, except dabbing. And I'm going to attack the warrior. Okay.
17. 17 is a hit. Yes. Sweetie, sweetie. Oh. This kid rolls. 27. Are you serious? Okay. Are you going to howl? Woo-woo! That was a woo-woo, not a howl. I'm a dog now, so I go woo-woo. Coyote's howl. I know you only had a dog for like two days, but... I'm confused on what dogs are. Just kidding.
Okay, that is the end of the initiative order. And I need all of you guys to roll me a perception check. To roll me new initiatives. I'm trying to be at the top. 17. 7. 5. Okay. So Milo and Graic, just fiercely engaged. I don't know why you rolled a keel. Sorry.
I'll just go back to laying down. He moves his head up. This is the last recording session, by the way, that you have to keep up the voice. And you're getting off super easy by not having to say anything. That's why you charged the whale. Oh my gosh, you wanted to go down. He gave me the system. I respect it. I'll give you more experience. With Milo and Greg engaged with this warrior, the one remaining warrior, Brenna being back further up this hill.
that ultimately led towards the now-destroyed statue. Brenna, you catch out of the corner of your eye someone walking past you, that person being Westra. And Westra begins just slowly, steadily walking out into this field, down this hill, towards this creature. This creature still is very disoriented. There's a lot of clanging. There's a lot going around. It's just been teleported halfway across the world. Right. It was a whale for a while. It's had better days. And so it's kind of like... Poor Larry. It's kind of looking around with all this rage in its eyes, trying to determine who to kill first. Sure. And as it does, it locks on to this tiny little artificer walking in its direction, this person being Westra. Oh, no. Its eyes narrow, and it kind of loses focus on everything else around it. It's just tunnel-visioned in on Westra now. And as she's walking closer, her fists are clenched, and you can see...
blue light just like glowing from underneath her clenched fingers. And there's this massive shadow of this creature that just envelops Wester as the sun is setting behind this creature. So it's got this ridiculous backdrop of like pinks, blues and oranges, but this massive shadow just sprawled out across this field. And as Wester gets up right up next to the creature, like eye to knee with this creature, everything just seems to go quiet for a second. All the fighting seems to stop and everyone turns to see what the heck this girl is doing. And the creature like gripped its club really tight and kind of lets out a little half smile as he's like, there's gonna be the easiest kill I've ever gotten.
And it hoists its club high above his head, and it brings it down with just full force, everything it's got. At the very last minute, Wester just brings a fist up to her face and opens her palm, filling the space with a brilliant blue light. Just an explosion of light and color fills the space. And the club, right as it's about to make impact, just, like, disappears. And...
just seems to disappear into thin air the giant like loses its footing as its momentum as its momentum completely gets cut out from under him and he kind of topples over uh landing on his side and kind of rolling around and behind him that's just silhouettes in the setting sun you see two members of the pineapple gang go toppling through the air getting sent 50 feet before smashing into some adjacent rocks and falling to the ground lifeless and as As this giant creature stumbles and moves around, you see a portal on the other side of the creature that had opened up right beside them. So the creature whiffed his club right into a portal, which destroyed these other two guys. Oh, nice. And yeah, so that is what Lester does at this moment. Nice. It's an interesting way to be a pacifist.
I think if you could see the look in her eyes right now, you'd think maybe she's reconsidering some decisions she made in her life. At this point, the portal closes, and she puts her hands together, clasps them super tight, and you can see the light starting to build again. Also, for those of you that don't know, because I don't know if I made it extremely clear, she no longer needs portal crystals to use her. She's fully portalized. That last crystal she touched that teleported you guys here was packed with so much raw magical energy that it's self-charging her device. She's in her final form.
Yeah, I'd say so. She's Avatar! So, that is both the creature and Wester's turn, which brings us back around to Tekken and his bodyguards. They run faster, because they just saw two of their guys go flying through the air like 50 feet. So, they're pretty terrified right now. Brenna, it's your turn. Okay. I would like to... Is anyone on my side of this force field? No. The force field was put between you and Milo originally, so he was able to run with impedance. If you want to get around it, tell me left or right. Is Milo to my left or to my right?
To your right. Okay, I'm going to try and go to the right. Okay, so you kind of just run along with your hand out, feeling this invisible barrier, running perpendicular to this creature, and after about 15 feet, you feel your hand kind of give way, and you're swatting at the open air, and there's nothing there anymore. Okay. So you can turn and hightail it down there if you want. Can I see Akio on the ground? You can. I'm going to hightail it to Akio. Okay, he is definitely within walking range, so you don't have to take a full action to get there. Sweet.
Can I do a medicine check and try and sustain him? Absolutely. 17. Hey, Akio, you are sustained. Oh, yeah. You no longer have to make death saving throws. And the crowd got a little sadder. Everyone wants you to get right up to the brink. Yeah, that's when the group is most effective. Sorry for caring.
And now we have a healer. Oh, what is this? Healer that heals? Nice try. So, Theo, it is your turn. You are unconscious still, though. Oh. You just don't have to make death-saving throws. So how do I get back? If you wait an hour, you'll gain a hit point. But if you get healed, you'll immediately come back. So I can't do anything. So you pass. Unfortunately, you still can't do anything. Give your move to me. What are you dreaming about right now? I feel like we never talked about near-death experiences, like life before your eyes type of thing. Yeah, yeah. Do you see yourself back in the plane of the damned?
No, not anymore. I think Akio is thinking about noodles, obviously. Uncle Linus. He's remembering Uncle Linus before all this stuff went sideways. Sure would, too. Do you see yourself owning a noodle shop and they've come in and they're sitting up at the counter eating noodles? Yeah, like an alternate reality. If all of this hadn't happened and the world wasn't coming to an end.
That's a really nice place to be. Yeah, that's nice. I also don't want to suck you out of that next turn. I will. We got it. I will. Put me back to sleep. I'm not ready to come out. What have you done? All right, Greg, your turn. Awesome. Is the wizard dude within range. Can I get to him? You would provoke an opportunity attack. The fighter guy. Fighter guy. Okay, okay. All right, I guess I'll fight him. He's pretty hurt, too. Okay. We're fighting together. Yeah, like friends. What is this?
17. 17? Yeah, that's it. What'd you roll? Rolled a 9. Oh, I thought you rolled a 6. 9 damage. Okay. And then... That's better. 19. Yep. And 11 damage. So 20 total? Yes. Good grief. All right, he's hurting bad. So, Milo...
went up and just like six quick jabs with a dagger and while he's like recalling from that doubled over in pain you just two big slashes across his back awesome and he's hurting bad he's hurting bad so um it does bring us to oh gosh our two wizard friends who took a whole heap of damage you don't see any movement coming from their bodies no little like death twitches no twitches no no nothing so That catapults us pretty far ahead in the initiative order. We've killed initiative number six, seven, eight, and nine, with number 10 being this last warrior guy. Okay. So it's his turn. He's hurting bad. I want both of you to roll me a perception check, Milo and Greg. Do better. Nine. Seven. We're until we love the battle. I am raging.
I'm a kid. You can't blame anything on me. You're playing with the grass. In the middle of a fight. I'm just touching my dog ears. Okay. So, Milo, when you stabbed him a bunch of times and dropped him to his knees, Greg, then subsequently slashed him across the back. While he's down on his hands and knees, you fail to see him pull something out of his pouch. And...
You hear like the scraping sound that you don't you're like what the heck is going on sounds like he's scraping something across his armor Which doesn't make any sense until you see the sparks. Oh, no Yeah, bomb from underneath people the bomb out from under his He's he knows he knows the end is night and he's he's kind of causing he wants to just take it easy He just wants to take these pineapple game members place the keeps out like what kind of what kind of bomb is this? Like what kind of bombs? How close am I to this? Oh, you're not Don't worry. We throw it. We'll throw your direction eat it. We have to one of us has to eat it. All right
I'm going to try and eat it. So, I'm going to give you guys the opportunity to roll a dexterity saving throw, but because you did not spot it, I'm not going to give you advantage, correct? Nor are you going to be able to stop him. Okay. So, dexterity saving throw. I'm going to set this at a DC 17. This is going to be hard. I can't do a constitution saving, or a strength saving? Sorry. You can pull my shield up and just... I think it's still reaction time to even get the shield up there. That's valid. You opened yourself up a bit when you went attacking him.
Seven. 17. Oh, you did get 17? Yes. Okay. I just added a one to a 16. Oh, that's fortuitous for you. Yeah. You take 14 fire and bludgeoning damage. How much of it is bludgeoning and how much of it is fire? I'll say fire damage. I'm sorry. Okay, it's fine. I say bludgeoning just from the shock, but I don't really know. I would only take half of the blood, that's why. Okay. Just say you take 11 then. 11 damage? I'll just say, yeah. Okay. Knock three off. Milo, you take 28 damage. Okay. And both your bodies go flying back 15 feet in opposite directions. Oof.
This guy is no longer an active participant in this battle. Dang it. Sorry, dog. And a piece of his over flies over. It's a cube in the head. Just as you start to wake up. That's their version of cyanide capsules, you know? Like, you'll never take me alive kind of thing. I wanted to, we were going to interrogate him. Oh, were you really? Yeah, we were whispering about it. Oh, I legitimately didn't hear you. No, it's fine. We didn't want you. Well, I know, but like, I didn't hear that. Ooh, I don't want them to know anything. Nice try. He's got a bomb.
You missed the trigger, man. So it is your turn, Milo. You're groggy, and you're slowly pulling yourself back to your feet, but you're still okay, I assume? Yeah, I'm fine. Well, not fine. 20 hits a lot. 20 hits a lot of damage. So he's gone. Oh, yeah. He's in several places right now. Who's still up? The only people still up are the two purple warriors with Tegan and our lovely disfigured giant creature friend. I think we've got to fight the creature. No, we don't. We've got to get Tegan. We've got to get that spear back. Okay, who cares? We just let him be there.
He's going to roam the countryside. The spear, though. I don't think we're in any shape to get the spear, to be completely honest. If I had one hit point, I'd get up and start running. I don't even know if we're in shape enough to fight this creature. I have like 10, less, maybe around 10% of my health left. That's only like, what, 12? 19 out of 83? I don't know math. Oh, that's about 30%. Okay. Love you, Josh. It's between 17, or between 25 and 30%. Okay.
I'm going to talk to Greg for a second. Okay. Mom probably is going to be mad at me if I fight the upside-down face guy. All right. What are we supposed to do? What are we supposed to do? Brenna! Can she hear us? Yeah, you're close enough. 30 feet. Oh, no, wait. Wester, can you get rid of this thing? If you want to defer your turn. Yeah, I just got hit by a bomb, and I think I'm kind of shell-shocked. That's fine. I just wanted to talk to Greg. That's fine. So how are you doing? Hey, so how was that bomb? So at this point...
Wester is still building up charge in her little contraption gloves. Charging ult? She's charging ult. He was not yet ready. But this creature is prepared to strike again. The creature's charged. He's got the ult ready. So I think what I need to pitch to you guys is do you want Wester to be able to intervene? And if so, that means someone else intervening first. I can buy time.
I don't really know how this works, but I think thematically I'll allow it. If Milo wants to defer his action, like his turn to Greik, I'll let Greik act again. What are you going to do then? Or Milo, you can just do it. Westra needs a distraction. She's not quite ready to unleash her portals again. Okay. Do we know that? I feel like looking at her, she would be doing something else if she was capable of it right now. She's very focused. This is as much of a mental process for her as it is a physical one. Okay.
I think you can tell just based on her physical exertion, her mental anguish, that she is not yet ready to do whatever is necessary. Okay. I am going to not physically touch him, but I'm going to use my magic to shoot something out. Oh, your amulet? Yeah, yeah. Okay. I don't think my mom would give my IQ for that. Blue pull. Blue pull, mom. Plus, there might be some non-damage healing ones, such as AOE stuff or CC stuff. You could heal us a bunch with one of those once. Mm-hmm. All right, go ahead and roll it. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Did you roll 100? Yeah.
All I see is the one zero. It's all zero for you. Okay, okay. I can't tell if this is fortuitous or inconvenient. All right, so a lot of stuff happens. Mom's not going to be happy. This one is called Avatar of Ophelia. Oh! And a lot of stuff happens. You're going to be late. You're going to turn into a lady. We're going to shoot off the big fireworks. Okay, I'm going to tell you everything that you gain. Somebody write this down. Akio wakes up six years later.
The first effect is called Eyes of Ophelia. You gain darkvision, can see invisible creatures, and ignore concealment until the end of the encounter, so everything becomes visible to you. No one can hide from you. Oh, this is really funny. You get an ability called Imitation Game, where you roll a second initiative, which is what you wanted the whole time, and you can attack twice. Ophelia bless! She heard my prayer!
When's the last time you've looked at this? Oh my gosh. That's just funny because he's like, oh, okay. There are 100 effects on this table. When you roll 100, you get every 10th effect. So you get 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70. You get all of them. Oh, wow. So each of the 10s is like something. All the 10s are big. They're highlighted in a special color. So 30 is called Holy Visage. You gain an aura around you in a 15-foot radius, so 30-foot diameter, until the end of the encounter. And enemies that end their turn in this aura become petrified.
Next one is called Giant Size. You become a large creature. Cannot be flanked or... People can't take rolls with advantage against you just for having enemies around. So in your case, as a rogue, if you were fighting a creature like this, it wouldn't work.
Your AC is increased by two, and your melee attacks all have reach, so you can hit from farther away. This next one is called regeneration. You gain regeneration equal to your highest ability modifier until the end of your next encounter, so it's not temporary hit points. You gain actual life back equal to whatever your dexterity modifier is for, I think. So you get four life back every turn. This next one is called righteous indignation, and this is a high crit one, so until the end of the counter, you crit on an 18 to 20. We've done this one before. Next one is called heavenly strength.
Until the end of the encounter, you gain a plus 10 bonus to strength con in dex. I'm so low. I can't write all that down. So you have a plus 9 to your dexterity. And so you get 9 health back at the beginning of every turn for you. We're not done. All this lasts until the end of the encounter? I'm going to give it a time limit instead of end of the encounter. Two seconds. This next one is called strength from on high.
Okay. You're learning a lot about this amulet right now. Until the end of the encounter, which is however long I deem, your melee attacks deal an extra... What level are you? Eight? Yeah. Yeah, so an extra 1d8 damage. And this last one is called Hero of the Heavens, and you gain an extra action every single turn. So you get two actions twice per round. Because you get two turns. Per round.
So Milo, let's paint this picture and put a bow on it. What am I looking like? Like if I hit that, like, is there like, I become the tree. So giant dog. Am I a dog? You, you, you pull out your amulet and you reach, you put it out towards this creature and you see the amulet almost like just with light. It almost like breaks open and standing, occupying your space, almost like mimicking your movements. Very much like Pacific Rim is this beautiful elven goddess.
And all of this power is like siphoning down into your body. So you've got this appearance of this incredibly powerful elven deity. And you also grow to a giant, like a large creature size. So like a, like a Goliath or something like that. You're suddenly like nine feet tall, ripped, chiseled, and you can do all the things. So, uh, what do you do with that? Uh, roll at me another initiative, by the way. Uh, plus nine. Oh, plus nine. Uh, 18.
Plus 9 on top of my initiative? No, just because your dexterity is now plus... That still puts you 6th. Which is the same order. You just go twice in a row because everyone else rolled 20s. That's funny. I'm going to have this creature try and roll to save from being petrified. But if he doesn't save, then he's going to have a bad time. That's a wisdom saving throw. Oh gosh, he rolled an 8. Alright, do your thing. I was looking at this up. It's like when Sasuke from Naruto summons
Sisano. Yeah. You somehow made this hyper nerdy endeavor even nerdier. It's like a big purple giant thing that you, like, is an avatar form. That did not clarify anything for me. Just so we all have better visual context. Half of our audience is like, yeah, and half of our audience is like, what? So he's petrified? Yeah. May I attack? Yeah.
Do I get a crit on him since he's... You get advantage. Okay. And advantage automatically yields... Wait, if I'm not mistaken, if you land, it's an automatic crit. Yeah, I thought, right? Yeah, this dude is helpless. This dude is helpless, yeah. So, like, you pretty much got a coup de grace on him. Yeah, so, okay, and also, if you crit, as we've been pointed out to many times, your sneak attack... Twice. Twice, but it's also amplified by all these bonuses I've just given you, so... I'm gonna need a calculator probably. Okay, I got it. You don't want to just explain how this dude dies?
I want him to have this. You let me roll it. I'm never going to get the T and the ball and the Babe Ruth and just knock it out of the park. This is the moment we needed to finish this fight, so I'm going to let this play out. Yes. Okay, so. Go and roll me 2d20. 13. Well, 13 plus like infinity, so yeah, you hit. You have 13 finities. So what do I add to all this then? Okay, so you roll your first just like using your sword. Yeah. Okay, so you roll your d6.
Add 9. Okay. Then you roll however many your sneak attack dice is twice. Okay. Plus my D8. Plus your D8. That was a good roll. 17. Oh, sorry, sorry. Yeah, 17. Okay. Okay. You also get to use another action. You get two actions per round. So I can do it again? You can attack them again. Then you roll the 220 for it? Just, yeah, make sure one of them hits. That's fine. He rolled a 13 again, so definitely a hit. This is my first one. That's a plus 9. Yep. Okay. So 13.
And then you can roll all your sneak attack dice twice. Hold, that was a good roll. Yeah, it was. 19. And then I roll my D8 again. Okay, Brenna. That would be a 92. 92. Oh, my God. You almost hit triple digits. I mean, I might have just rolled higher on the D8. I know. You rolled two both times. Okay. Gotta stay humble, though. Yeah. Don't inflate the ego too much. So. Oh, my gosh. You are standing almost eye-to-eye with this guy. He's a little taller than you, but you're almost eye-to-eye with this guy. So.
like still feeling the weight and the movement of your now like triple or quadruple sized body. You start like swinging the sword around and you just, you hold it in your hand and you feel just an immense power like you've never felt before. And you hoist it above your head and you carve into this dude's neck and it just like plants itself right underneath its disfigured jaw. And you're kind of like for a moment, think to yourself, oh man, I kind of was thinking it would do more than that. And the three of you, Akio, sorry, you're unconscious. The two of you. And Westra. Oh, that's true. So the three of you, you see.
this presence of Ophelia reach down with her finger and just like touch the blade of your sword that's exposed and your sword just slices clean through this guy in a diagonal fashion and he just, his body separates in twain and you carve through his club, bone, everything. Just a clean, perfect cut and his top half slides off his bottom half and you've severed this man. The biggest how. It echoes through the canyon. Mountains crumble. Dude. Let's take in here, the how.
oh yeah yeah he witnessed all of this he's like they stop for a second when when this light fills fills this open field uh reflecting off of the lake that they're running past and they turn just in time to see this picture of ophelia absolutely obliterate this this small creature small to ophelia of course dude and uh can we all defer our turn to him going after tegan Oh, God. I think that's probably where we're going to end this week's episode. I don't know what to call this episode. I'll probably just call it Avatar. Oh, solid. And a part of me will die inside. Yeah. The last something bender, and then you won't die. Because it's a better Avatar. The true Avatar. The true. And, yeah, that's where we're going to end this week's episode. Totally destroying.
my plans for a fight there but we've been waiting for that to happen for so long this is the first one 150 episodes that's all it took well we didn't get the amulet until like what like episode 30 or 40 or something so yeah and we've rolled we've seen 100 rolled from personal experience those dice before yeah not from the amulet specifically no wow alright so that is that's gonna do it we hope you enjoyed this week's episode if you did definitely hit us up on twitter at sneak podcast you can leave us a podcast review I'm still kind of beside myself that was incredible I don't know how to wrap this up Apologize for just the word vomit I threw at you guys for explaining everything that happens. We also got to learn pen of the amulet things. Yep, I already filled them in. I think that you've maybe done one or two of them up until this point, so it's nice to get a lot more. And yeah, so that's that. Special thanks to our sponsor for today, Dice Envy. Go to Dicenvy.com. Use promo code SNEAK for that 10% off your first purchase.
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