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Oct 20, 2019 48 min

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Right? Ready? And we're back. I have donned the costume of the executioner because some people are probably gonna die.

In front of you is a massive pulsating glob of- That's the first adjective you go with the first verb. Yeah, he's got big tentacles and And on the at the top of this like roiling massive flesh is this long almost like a trunk And at the end is a head and on each side of the head are dozens of they look like like the cliche theater masks on each side It is top of the turn order or zach your feet suddenly come free So how does leaping work again? Is it half your move or what is there a leaf distance? That's whatever your move distances.

Oh shit. At least that's what I'm gonna say it is. I'm gonna leap on you're gonna leap I'm leaving on it. Oh, okay.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean do make a acrobatics check for me How are you rolling so 18 18 okay, so you you're able to stick the landing you're on it Attack it twice while I'm on top of it. Uh, yep So talk to me about how big this thing is it like larger is you said massive?

So is that bigger? Yeah, sorry, so that's technically a size I think that's like according to the rules size huge not gargantuan Which is the biggest but huge so it is like then the miniature does a good job It's like two three times your heights suspect fat thing my question would be if I'm on top of it Is it pretty easy to hit oh for sure? Yeah, you can do that all right? So am I really advantage or not?

Oh, yeah, you get advantage. Okay, so I'm gonna go ahead and rage out That's two sixes so the 14 Is a miss and as a reaction it wraps one of its tentacle arms around your head and throws you do we have opposing checks? No, he just he just gets that as a reaction and he rolls a 15 So well, no, this would be opposed to be opposed athletics. So make athletics for me.

See if you resist his grip. Yes, I do Damn it. Yeah, it's 22 fuck you Tim. Yeah, you'll get yours.

No, so I'm gonna attack him. I'm gonna attack him again. Yeah 20 oh man, that's almost that's 27. Okay, so it's a hit okay, and I roll shitty That's a seven seven points of two seven points of who all right?

Oh the cloak the hood is off ladies and gentlemen Oh, he's gonna have to take the hood off when he plays day for you. I won't be able to take him seriously I'd be part of the deceit. Okay, okay. Okay.

Next up is Toy Now the demon incarnate Gargatiloff G-man G-man. We'll call him G-man takes his one of his tentacles and Coils it into almost a spike and shoots it at Ornella and I roll a goddamn your armor class misses You gave her the armor. I know His second attack his head turns and looks at all three of you all of you need to make a charisma save for me. Oh, okay, okay That DC is the DC is 16 14 so you fail 17 you pass.

Oh, yeah, you fail. So you two take two D 12 damage Because he's just so charismatic with the oh shit. So you take 22 damage So his face looks at you and the mass is this it's like it's psychic damage Sionic damage The masks of his face begin shifting and you see all Everyone you've ever known all of a sudden and the the tearing of reality in your brain and the confusion causes you to take Sionic damage. It is now harbecued turn.

I'm gonna throw god killer. Okay. Yeah, do that Geez Do you have any blessings or anything? I have um bonuses toward fiends, right?

Yeah plus five fiend. Oh hell yeah It's a huge thing. I got a chance So god killer flies through the air and it's it's despite having a corpulent fat body is definitely moves out of the way It's fat just fat twice. It's just one.

It's just big fat fatness sucks in Like perfectly wraps around to miss the god killer spear as it flies through the air and lands on the other side Does that take a charge? Uh, yes. Oh my god down to one now it is Or no, let's turn I Would like to hit it. Okay.

Yeah, try that That is a 13 plus seven which is a 20 and then your axe does minus two to their AC so that's a hit finally holy jesus christ Okay So I do one D 12 plus six so eight plus six regular damage 14 and then I also do a one D eight fire damage Yep. Yep, which is one 15. Okay, and then do you get another attack? Yeah, all right do that.

Oh, that's not so good Is that a miss? Yep, okay right on Davies, Davies turn he uh like well hold on Uh, I'm rolling to see how he recovers from the shock of like trying to kill or an elephant Uh, he rolls a six so not well He just drops his sword to the ground and begins crying in his hands gotcha That's my boy Or zach, okay, yes, sir do that thing so I'm on top of this guy. Yeah, you're on him. Aren't you so The tentacle that contains its heads.

Yeah, um I'm gonna attempt to cleave it. Oh, okay Both my attacks are going at it and I'm gonna like that's my goal now. Yeah. Yeah, so I don't know what that means I'll just give him increased AC Okay That's a 21 that's a hit Okay, uh, that's a bad damage five.

Okay, and uh, same thing That's a That's a 15. Yeah, so that's 20. Oh man, that's 24. That's a hit All right, come on That's a 13 13 He's bloodied Cap health That can only mean something else is coming right behind him.

So he's I'm sorry. What did you say? He splits into two Cool. Cool.

So I know I know they're serious and cut. Yeah Like the two halves is our class is split or is it Why would I tell you that? No, no, it's like weaker now, right? Yeah Because he's split in half.

Yeah, so there's two the pictures are different Those two they argue and they like don't want they don't know what to watch on Netflix one wants to watch banders Snatch the other one I don't know what you want to eat Typical it is oh one of their turns but which one So the second one is going to do the face attack The look so it can't see you, but it's gonna look at you two in Davery Can we call this a smoky eye attack or the smoldering eye attack the smoky eye attack You know how long the make a charisma save. I mean if he close your eyes if he tenacles you he would like get advantage probably Um, not probably for sure. Uh, 20 you rolled a 15 harbeck. Yeah, plus five.

Oh, so 20. Oh, so you pass Uh, that's a 10 you take Eight damage. I can survive that. Uh, it's gonna take one of its tentacles and it's gonna try to tentacle you harbeck No, uh, it rolls a 21 that hits okay You take 15 damage stop Now it is harbeck's turn.

All right, so i'm wrapped up in this guy. Yeah, all right, so Last time I threw god killer it tore through and missed and so I call it But they'll probably the last time in my hand. Yeah, and I bring it down on the tentacle. That's holding me Nice.

Uh, roll the hit roll attack with advantage I hate on me that's an 18. I actually roll it anyway, my crit Damn, all right still hit so do damage with god killer sweet. So that is 88 plus 10 radiant damage Yep plus a d8 of lightning damage 98 here should have planned ahead Yeah, if only I got two I got one fire powers combined and I need those two All right, 98 here. Okay.

So so i'm gonna tell you you need you need to do 24 damage to kill him Kill one of them or both of them. I didn't I didn't say anything okay one two seven nine 16 17 20 21 27 So what does it look like when you kill this thing so like me as I connect strikes and goes upward out of the sphere Crashes the ceiling huge thunder Uh reverberating off the walls of the castle and this thing just rides and screams Nice job. Do you want to read what happens when all the charges and god killer go out? Yeah, I do Um, I think we may have been cut off for the show, but I got as far as 88 damage So god killer is a weapon made from literally taking a Mortal god and imbuing it into a weapon So what happens when it runs out of charges is as follows After both charges are spent the spear shatters causing four d8 plus 10 radiant damage and 150 foot circle around the spear Anything reduced to zero hit points with damage from the spear is obliterated and killed with no death safe Just sorry one more time.

I'm almost there After both charges are spent the spear shatters causing four d8 plus 10 radiant damage and 150 foot circle around the spear Anything reduced to zero hit points is obliterated and killed with no death safe here we go Five seven that's 15 16 plus 10 26 Oh plus another d8 for my lightning damage That's 34. Okay. So everyone take 34 damage It's not it's everything everything enough. It is not psionic damage, right?

It is uh radiant. Yeah radiant damage cool So harbeck hits and it explodes and then the power and this thing begins to build up And harbeck just lets both hands go and watches it blows up in his face and harbeck is down 34 I don't like that. That's Harbeck is knocked out by the explosion you're unconscious. I'm unconscious So uh or Nella and or zach you see Uh this explosion of white light this impossibly radiant light it disintegrates the other demonic form of gargantiloth banishing it to oblivion And it disappears You also see that davory's gone as well Gone is his body gone or is it just disappears?

Well, i'm gone too. I was reduced to zero as well. Yeah, anything reduced to zero is obliterated. I'm obliterated with no death safe No reduces zero Yeah So or Nella and or zach you're suddenly found in this quiet room Same spot same same room.

Yep So visually, I think what's happening is there's like steam coming off of like it's like Being flash-fried. I don't know how to explain it, but there's like heat dissipating off of my body and yep I'm just kind of not even really sure what happened. I kind of fell to the floor because whatever, you know occurred. It just kind of um And I look at or Nella the only other person in the room.

Are we dead? I walk up to where toid was when we first came in What's up there? Um, you find uh Find an old piece of stone that has intricate carvings in it that you don't understand the piece of Dammit the piece of stone is cracked in half and broken. We cut over to davory and harbeck Um, i'm sorry.

What? He's surfing the wave. Yeah, where's your dream? He lost in the ether with davory?

No seriously It's like getting into heaven with a rock on your shoe So you so you both blink and you're suddenly transported into this vast empty plane There's the horizon goes on forever the the ground below you looks like a liquid it royals and churns in the same way a liquid But liquid would but you were standing atop it as it is a solid surface You see patterns in the liquid that look like star constellations The realm ocean what the fuck man? Sorry about that. I missed the first shot You've worn a guy. Where are we?

We're in the ocean realm. The what we sit on the substrate that carries our worlds I don't know I still don't you gotta use different words. We're in a dream Fuck when will we wake up? I don't know Hang on and harbeck in the way that he can Meals on this infinite plane and clutches his carving of the goddess and calls to bollarot So you go to clutch the amulet around your neck and it feels heavy and there's no response We're on our own boy You and me I'm sorry to say Don't worry We'll we'll we'll find a way back wait.

Hey, what? You love or Nella Well, I mean oh no no messing around right now. You do yeah feel it in your heart. Yeah conjure the image in your mind right now Okay, hard concentrate hard.

Um, this is weird. I shouldn't be doing this with you here The cloak to the cloak just concentrate. Yeah. No, okay.

Okay Yeah, where do we go? He opens his eyes and turns just 35 degrees to the right that way you first Okay And then we see davory and harbeck just walk in this direction across this infinite bathroomless space We come back to reality. Oh, oh Ornella is standing on top of this altar thing and she's looking Out into this room and she's clutching the brooch that davory made her Maybe this is what was supposed to happen Those visions I had harbeck had maybe This is where we belong It is what is I don't understand it any more than you do You hear the pitter patter of footsteps across stone and you watch as avon brinsdale walks over Okay, this bitch didn't obliterate Oh, yeah, she would be dead, huh? Oh, yeah, I'm sure No, I'm bad at math.

Yeah, she's totally bye nevermind Okay You hear no pitter better is there a portal is there anything? It's just two stones. Mm-hmm. Just two stones.

Can I look at them? Yeah, uh in relation to any of the You know cave, you know the yeah, yeah, the snake. Yes, right? So in bear boondi tradition There's this story of a great serpent that swallowed the sun right and Gave birth to basically the world by destroying an oppressive ruler and in its dying body giving life to everything.

Yes It looks totally foreign to you The carved tablets have multiple Relieved images of pyramids and eyes and some eyes are closed some eyes are open, but it doesn't make any sense to you I've you clearly found something that gave him He had to sacrifice whatever this was to bring whatever that was here. That was the beguiler the the god of lies gargantiloth That's what that was weak when in these None of this happened here. It was in a different room in the palace Should we try that? Yes Follow me So where do you go to the throne room?

Okay, so it's it's a few corridors and as you wander Want is you run through an empty palace you come across various corpses that are In the same position dead laying in what you would imagine to be facing the portal that you Exinguished You get to the hallway where the throne room entrance to the throne room is and the ground suddenly begins to shake violently again Um As in the whole building yeah the floor. It's the whole building begins to shake violently Um I mean, I guess we're just gonna have to try to see if we can get beyond that or climb or whatever Where you going inside so inside the throne room. Um, you you see an an empty large audience chamber with tall pillars You know game of thrones does a good job of representing what this would look like It's a big room with these pillars and at the center is this tall throne and um sitting on the throne is a Older woman and she's got her hands her head in her hands and she's just sobbing It's the queen Adelaide Honestly, this is the last place. Well, I mean, this is your rightful.

It's her chair. It's your throne What are you doing? She just stops insists over All of this Does it shake when she emotes? No, it's not tied to her.

It's not tied to her. I feel like it's tied to her No, okay Why are you still here? To watch it all come down Like the captain of a ship, huh She nods her head. Yes, and just has her hand head in her hands you hear uh the sounds of Rock splitting and exploding outside of the where is this happening?

Where is it supposed to come from? She just points straight down Here and at that the floor gives way and the throne room splits apart creating a massive chasm beneath Uh, the throne falls into the uh into the pit with the queen sitting atop the throne as it descends into a perceived bottomless pit The crack along the floor begins to open and widen as if it's coming towards you two standing at the entrance to the throne room I reflexively grab for or Nellissanne This is the lumen scourge We have to add we have to beg we have to seek audience And I dropped to my knees and I'm like, I don't even know who I'm praying to I don't even know how to explain it, but I'm basically So in the legends, this is this is a cycle, right? Yep gets reborn gets remade From what we learned verontoid wanted to or excuse me g-man. I'm not gonna say that fucking name G-man fair wanted to claim this realm this planet To launch an attack on the ascended ones from here.

Yep. We stopped that attack. Yep So as this shit's falling apart, I'm just yelling out loud. We stopped him from attacking you Over and over.

Just let us speak Stop the cycle once or not. Yeah, drops her knees and does the same thing and it's just like wailing and crying and and begging Um, so We we cut over to the realm ocean again Yeah, I'm not gonna do that. You know what it is. It's like a bunch of cool white shit.

Yeah like gross stuff um, we see davory and harbeck walking and davory's face is like covered in stubble his eyes have like deep bags under them harbeck's beard has grown quite Significantly as if a lot of time has passed and his eyebrows are really bushy. He just looks more sausages and gross than usual Davory looks over to harbeck harbeck Do you have any water left? I can try and harbeck casts make food and water attempting to use magic out here for read for lower reasons. It's extremely taxing and it actually requires a And requires you to give of yourself because there is no magic that exists in here All of it exists in you so in order to do that you have to give over a part of yourself to do that harbeck cuts off his left two fingers pinky and ring and uh a um pool of water like grow like the blood Delutes and turns into a cool spring of water at the ground and davory goes on both hands and knees and just lapping it up like a dog It's kind of gross.

It's his old magic It feel like we've been walking for so long. We have we can't stay here much longer we uh you You see up ahead a column of light open up in the sky and point through the clouds and through this roiling undercurrent And the the water gives way and it's like uh, maybe what seems like 100 to 200 yards away I walk with davory. We get a long shot of us walking toward the light Cut back over to you guys. Um So you you you you pray and beg for someone to intervene and wish for them to come down and deliver you and the rock and collapsing of stone only begins to increase when suddenly A portal appears and you see bollarot on the other side He says get in come we have to go now without a question It's all falling down go and he steps to the side and you go sprinting through the portal that he's made the portal collapses and the The scene pulls back and zooms out and we see the whole capital shake and begin to tumble into an ever-growing chasm at the center of the At the center of the city We see chandeliers rattle and a cacophony of noises and standing furniture moves and falls into this pit armwars, etc, etc Uh Another single appears and a creature pokes its head up from the darkness spewing orange molten rock from its head melting all of the stone and buildings and cityscape around it the creature It's like the size of a t-rex has a uh an orange crest on the end of its head and all around it are these These Onyx scaled creatures leap out with white skin underneath over glossy black armored plates long lizard-like snouts with rows of triangular teeth They move in sync with each other and overwhelm all of the obstacles as they collapse into this pit We zoom further back and see the armies fighting outside of the capital and we turn to see calofell scream retreat to the woods go And people begin uh crab preachers and trader guardsmen baribundi toaster alike fall back away from the city as it falls in on itself We cut over to orzak and ornela in the queen's garden In the queen's garden the queen's garden is the forest that exists on the periphery of the capital You are you're at the meeting site where the oldest tree in allal was before bollarot took dominion expanding still You can't see it.

You seem to be very far away from wherever that was deep inside the queen's garden Are you alone? It's just you two bollarots not with us It can't just be over like that Well, it can be But what a waste I mean who would create something like this just to destroy it Toid This is not toid's work This was preordained Toid believed he could stop it by making a deal with this Liar But we stopped the liar we stopped the invasion if they would only listen to us we could part a For time or skip the cycle once let it let please see what this world could become but that didn't happen And now we're here And harbeck and devory and everything that we have ever known and anyone we have ever loved is gone and it's us now Well, do you have anything to drink? Cut over to uh devory pulling his head up from the uh pool as it disappears and fades away into the eternal abyss of the realm ocean He looks worn and weary more tired and aged than the last time we saw him Harbeck you two reflect see yourself in the fading reflection of the water you've aged Harbeck does some quick math on the lifespans of humans versus dwarves dwarves live 100 to 200 years longer than humans It's been nine months that you've been in here the pillar of light just on the horizon We keep moving A figure walks towards you a familiar figure brawler out You're here I am I thought you couldn't come back. I couldn't then why and for you My god Help us get us there says all I have left Thank you When i'm gone there will be no god of nature on your world.

It will be a place unlike any other As close to the nine hells as the mortals could see I will be there and I will do my best I know and he rips open a place This pillar of light that's shooting down He almost pulls it back like a curtain and you can see inside on the other side or Nella and orzak in grief at the Foot of the dead tree of the world tree now go your world needs you now I take devory and throw him in and I take brawler rot and throw him in Try to stop me. I'm not Okay, you do that the portal closes Harbeck kneels Ghost was quiet place We fade to black on harbeck And we watch as devory and brawler rot and now mortal brawler rot come tumbling through the portal and land on the other side At the foot of or Nella and orzak Daveery looks like he's aged I mean he's he looks like his beard he has stubble He's looks tired worn weary like he's been on some He's been gone for a long time And brawler rot looks aged it creases in his forehead his his hands are wrinkled I don't I don't say anything I go to devory and and I I reach in my pack and grab my water skin and wipe his forehead and He just doesn't say anything and he just hugs you I I grab brawler rot and I'm shaking him You have to we have to talk to them. They have to understand that we stop the invasion They're not going to listen. They don't care I will make them care.

Give me the weapon send me up there Somebody needs to stop this. They don't ever let it finish Don't the best we can do is leave here and go as far south as we can I have no magic left what I used was to get you out of the city and to try to get harbeck here Try what happened to harbeck? Why the fuck did we even fight? We stopped toyed now.

We need to protect it a bunch of petals We need to stop the monsters that have come from below Any ungrateful You can call me whatever you want later But that sinkhole is going to be rapidly growing in size and we need to get as far away from this place as possible Oh, no, let's start talking David like pushes himself up and like kind of ambles after or Nella Are you coming? Reluctantly, so I'll start walking Brawler out pushes himself up and looks back to the world tree that is withered and mostly dead And there's a small like leaf on there's a small leaf on the ground that is reminiscent of azakir reminiscent of What the acorn that harbeck had could have what it could have grown into picks it up and puts it into his robes and follows Orzok in or Nella. We slowly fade to black and of season one Holy balls, that was nuts. All right.

We went on a bit of a roller coaster emotion of a ride angry Don't be angry be glad it happens and we've got a whole crazy new well you should I mean you should be there You've got really angry you but maybe I am what we do have is a really cool opportunity to have a whole other season at some point Of a crazy brand new world with tons of crazy shit in a totally different and rad place Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for being here All right, that that is that cast. How are we feeling? Never mind It's a lot so really quick before we get into the the stuff that we have prepared for thank you I just want to thank you turds for being such great cast members for being yeah, that's fair I put on the cloak you should have thank you so much for being so fun You're fucking welcome. You're fucking welcome.

Love you. Love you guys Thank you to my audience to get to our audience excuse me For being so fun all of you in the internet. Thank you round of applause to our technicians Jordan and soundbar chris and chef Thank you Now let's do these credits, huh My good Sweet so uh, uh, i'm paul privateer. I'm the dungeon master producer and director of this fine show also.

I'm a wizard Shout out to cherry coons who played or Nella sambridge Tim overton harbeck thunder fist Jason min row scale father or zach Clifton de Wayne and twan who played ballerat in our voiceover Our artist lawful mediocre name is john, but he's rad and made all of the art possible all of our cool character art Um shout out to john That rad title music that you guys heard at the beginning well We've got more music coming and other shows and that's all thanks to the bardic inspiration Garrett rose give it up for him Awesome composer that we met on the internet. He's a rad dude. Um, and again our tech team chris jordan and japh And our hosts five one five brewing company We love you matt Could not literally Literally could not have done this show without their hospitality. So seriously.

Thank you five one five And we want to take this moment to in character as mess we can thank our indigo go backers Thank you to Joel Anderson Tory tenderski on a lee kelly katie privateerra sarah munro benjamin harxer and kathryn Leonard Yeah Thank you to sir jostin isbell dustin kerry jim miller tim williams kori trainer e like roasts and adam drayer Thank you very much to head wolt dina preverterra Yeah, why'd you do that? Mason gussetheson matthew still and jordan pera Thank you to christen kerson and jeff anderson alexander anderson lee keler kathryn lenard and nathan hamilton But if you think the cool rat announcement stop there well you're mistaken because just because this show is on pause doesn't mean that Deboin and dragons is on pause. That's right. We got new shows coming this fall for you our fans We are premiering two brand new full cast main stage campaigns the first cast the same people you see before you Playing in a sci-fi solar system based horror game.

We like to call Viking And we've added a new dungeon master and cast to the demoin and dragons crew headed up by my good friend jeff kenoff Yeah, i'd like to announce our brand new steampunk show tidefall. Oh, yeah, oh, but the shows don't stop there What's that called what's that called? We got two more shows as you know we like to do a one-on-one two-one two v one dnd show called last life season two is coming this fall Way more local celebrities way more local talent featuring the best of demoin so don't miss it now my personal favorite new show we're launching Is called charity and jason do nothing? What will they be doing?

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