DesiQuest
Podcast version of the TTRPG Actual Play set in a South Asian mythological universe starring Jasmine Bhullar, Anjali Bhimani, Omar Najam, Sandeep Parikh & Rekha Shankar.
DesiQuest
Never Say Farewell - DesiQuest Episode 8
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In this finale episode of the South Asian mythology inspired TTRPG 🎲 actual play DesiQuest, starring our DM (Jasmine Bhullar), Sitara (Anjali Bhimani), Laddoo Auntie (Rekha Shankar), Murkha (Omar Najam), and Ash (Sandeep Parikh), we follow our adventurers as they continue their fight against a duo of blood-thirsty Gods 💪🩸, including the keeper of the DesiQuest crew's morality scale ⚖️, the Lord of Judgement. Will a supersized Baccha 🤖, Spider Mommy 🕷️, and a glo'd up Murkha with a singed beard 🔥 be enough to save Silsilaan from eternal sleep? Will Namir be forced to return to the Realm of Decay?? Will Jasmine cry????? 🥹💔
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Hey, angelia, what are you doing? What's going on? Nothing. What's in that script?
Speaker 2Oh um that is, you signed an NDA. What An NDA.
Speaker 3I can't tell you, or I'd have to kill you.
Speaker 1But then you could like kill me and then cast Ray's dead and then tell me anyway, right, that's no, I'm a druid.
Speaker 3That joke doesn't even make sense. Okay, fine, just please, please.
Speaker 1I mean I know it has something to do with this book. It's so pretty like everyone got a copy except for me.
Speaker 3Look, it's just kind of like an if-you-know-you-know thing, I know.
Speaker 1Yeah, great. Where is she even coming from?
Speaker 3Like I just don't want to spoil it for you. It's going to be a really fun surprise. Just go, You'll find out at intermission.
Speaker 1Fine, I'll wait.
Speaker 4Hey, where's my copy of Candela?
Speaker 3Yeah, right here, We'll see you all at intermission. In the meantime, enjoy the finale of this Equest. She's going to kill me. Give it back.
Speaker 4Welcome to Thisy Quest Our adventures. Oh gosh, where do I begin? You look like a waste bin. They came to Vihar, the continent we are on Reminder.
Speaker 6What reminder.
Speaker 4Kitty party.
Speaker 6That's right.
Speaker 4Kitty party.
Speaker 6That's correct.
Speaker 4Kitty party yeah that's yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2Oh, this is Priya's correct Kitty party. Yeah, that's yeah, absolutely. Oh, this is Priya's week. We learned from Priya about her past expeditions. Oh, yes, I know about the mountain.
Speaker 1You know about Raktipa? Oh yes, Did I say that right?
Speaker 2And that there is a goddess who normally comes down and that kind of ushers in a harvest festival.
Speaker 4But she hasn't come down, and so the harvest festival has been delayed. You have a visitor to your group, this Namir person. Yes, he used his bone to acquire you all magical invitations to go on an airship, and they make boats. Now I don't have job anymore, okay, I don't have job anymore Okay.
Speaker 4Now they hijacked the airship which was supposed to go in a different direction and found themselves in a jungle with these two sisters. They found themselves trapped inside the Crooked Sun Fort, but the party is split. They have traveling with them a young witch streamer.
Speaker 3I'm Natasha, natasha, everyone, this is Natasha.
Speaker 4Who cares? She tried to befriend a ghost in order to make her videos better, but this ghost turned on the party and things went south. I don't get violent, I get even.
Speaker 6We got out and we were met by a familiar face. Our very good friend Priya was traveling through and bringing with her a new companion by the name of Nori.
Speaker 4I must admit, when I first saw you I thought she has a giant stick, stick up my ass.
Speaker 3Yes, that's quite a common phrase. We started to talk with these goblin folk who showed up on crazy phase spiders. We tried to negotiate with him to give us some mounts, and he did.
Speaker 4You made it to Silgar, we did make it to Silgar With all your limbs attached.
Speaker 3Yes, as all of this was happening, we were about to make our big plan and we found out that there were nefarious people working around in the marketplace, and so we desperately attempted to thwart these nefarious folk, but unfortunately the ritual the ritual that one of them was casting as we had been hearing the lamenting wails of Silselan from atop the mountain, all of a sudden that whale stopped. I don't think there's much time.
Speaker 4I think you must go to the summit.
Speaker 7This is it, everybody. This is the fight, thank you. You know what I'm going to do. I'm going to stand in between. I want to be a meat shield, a decaying meat shield, for Mirka. I'm going to stand in front of him.
Speaker 4Okay, you're actually placed there now. Great, so it's perfect.
Speaker 7So I'll stand exactly there and I stare daggers into Rakan's eyes.
Speaker 4Okay, that's my turn. Amazing Ash, you're up.
Speaker 1What have we seen S Salon. What actions have we seen her perform so far? She's taken a turn, right or no? No, she has not. She's unconscious. She's unconscious. Okay, I want to inspect the potion.
Speaker 4Yes, upon inspecting it, you surmise it's the same one that Mirka got and that consuming it would restore a spell slot upon the rolling of a d4.
Speaker 1In terms of the balance of power that's happening right now are we feeling like this is grave.
Speaker 3I mean, that does not look great.
Speaker 4Help her this can't get much lower.
Speaker 3She'll, she'll, she'll. We gotta save her. Okay, you have to save her we gotta save her.
Speaker 7Okay, you have to save her. I say out loud Okay.
Speaker 1So Ash sits to the ground again, taking palativa, and he prays, he channels what he's heard from his parents Om Sanav Matu, om Sanav Matu, sanav Matu, and he casts Sanctuary on Sosalani. Okay, perfect, ah, um, warding her against additional attacks. Yes, I'm hoping that's gonna be helpful to her.
Speaker 4It's got a range of 30 feet, so I think you can move and potentially so it's 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, if you can get here, Because what's your movement's 20?
Speaker 7Yeah, my movement's 20.
Speaker 4So you could go. If you go past here you'd provoke an op attack, so that's also part of this problem. So you'd have to move through a friendly creature space like here. So you'd have to go 5, 10, 15, 20.
Speaker 1That's not going to get me close, though, Okay. Well then, I don't do that?
Speaker 7Would you be willing to provoke an opportunity? Attack in order to man. Would you be willing to provoke an opportunity?
Speaker 4attack in order to you could get closer, but I think you still wouldn't be within 30, because if you did 5, 10, 15, 20, and then you used your action to dash and you went 5, 10, 15, 20, then you could do it on your next turn. If you wanted to telegraph for the future, yeah, so you could do it on your next turn If you wanted to telegraph for the future?
Speaker 1Yeah, so you could do that. Can I use my bonus action still If I dash?
Speaker 7Yes, yes, if Sanctuary's a bonus action, then that works.
Speaker 4Sanctuary's a bonus action. Yes, so you can do that, but you'll provoke an op attack. But otherwise, having to move one square this way or that way, you'll be just out of range. One square this way or that way, you'll be just out of range Kind of worth it.
Speaker 3I think it's not worth it. If he dies, we're always doomed.
Speaker 1I think of my son and call upon any strength that being a dad can give me. And I run, I run, me and I run, I run as fast as I can.
Speaker 4Five, 10, 15, 20. It's going to roll at you to hit with its scimitar. You got this Ash 21. Mm-hmm, it's gonna hit and then you take 21. It's gonna hit. And then you take oh sorry, my thing is magnetic and this little cup keeps snapping onto it. Seven plus five, 13. Slashing damage as, reaching back for its scimitar Rakan twirls around effortlessly and slashes you. Slashing damage as reaching back for its scimitar Rakan twirls around effortlessly and slashes you as you run by, but you do get to continue your movement.
Speaker 1I sure do, thanks to Namir.
Speaker 5All right.
Speaker 1Thanks to my fellow countrymen, thank God.
Speaker 4And you are in range to cast Sanctuary.
Speaker 1Om Sahanavamathu. Let's go, I do it.
Speaker 4I cast it. You cast Sanctuary on Silsilani, meaning that the next character to attack her has to make a wisdom saving throw to attack. Wow, major Leduanti, you are up Okay.
Speaker 2What Le Duanti you are up.
Speaker 4Okay, what, uh? Would you like to invoke the boon? I believe I would. You have three open stamps. You can trade them for three Yep.
Speaker 2I would like to do that.
Speaker 3Yes, Auntie, thank you. Wow, like to do that. Yes, Andy thank you.
Speaker 5Wow, let's do it.
Speaker 2Whoa, hey Didn't like that one.
Speaker 5One always falls on the floor.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 4You feel the cards warmth in your hand and for a moment you hear a voice in your head that is unfamiliar to you, and the voice just says I know you, Let me see what I can do. And then fades.
Speaker 5Okay, great.
Speaker 2And then fades. Okay, great, does that count as like an action, or what does that count as I?
Speaker 4don't think we counted it as an action on Sathara's turn, so we won't count it for yours, incredible.
Speaker 2How far away am I from?
Speaker 4Actually it's 10 feet.
Speaker 2And who's? Sorry if you've already said this the person in front of the lake. This person, yeah, this is the person in front of the lake.
Speaker 4This person yeah, this is the person that's been channeling some type of negative energy flood towards Silsilani.
Speaker 2Okay, no, no one has touched that person. No.
Speaker 3My crocodile had started going away, but he didn't Exactly.
Speaker 2I think I will. Again newfound energy, again thinking of my taken sister. I turn to this person and I taunt them with my chapel oh, oh, so big and strong, huh, huh. Okay, come here, see how big and strong you are. When I hit you across the face and I hit them with the chapel, oh, let's sharpshooter. Okay, okay.
Speaker 4And you're blessed and I'm blessed. So you take, I think, a negative five to the attack, but you get to add 10 damage. I think. Yes, yes.
Speaker 1Negative five, but plus 10 to damage if you land Less.
Speaker 2And then plus the plus, so it's only negative one, okay Well.
Speaker 3Right Depends on the die roll. Depends on the die roll, yeah.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, yeah Okay, do I do digital dice or real dice?
Speaker 7Go real. Real dice always are better for me, okay.
Speaker 2Okay, I'm gonna need some help with math.
Speaker 1Okay, I got you.
Speaker 7Thank you.
Speaker 6So now the d4.
Speaker 2That's cocked. We don't think about that one.
Speaker 6No, we don't think about it 16, but then minus 5.
Speaker 711.
Speaker 4So 11. The juffle flies wide and then, as though like a boomerang, comes soaring back into your hand, unable to make its mark.
Speaker 2I know I'm like can I do it again? Yes, you can, you're lucky, I am stubborn. Sharp-shooted again.
Speaker 5Yeah, I sharp like can I do it again? Yes, you can. You're lucky, I am stubborn.
Speaker 2Yeah, I sharped you again, Not quite, not quite. Oh Yay, stop it, stop it, stop it, okay, wow.
Speaker 4Yeah, go ahead and roll damage.
Speaker 5So I'm helping you with that.
Speaker 4Technically, with your minus five there would be a chance this wouldn't hit. But you are blessed, Just plus six too, for a modifier.
Speaker 2Yes, okay, okay, so I roll one D4 plus three on that, but if it's a nat 20, does that help me?
Speaker 4You add another D4, and then go ahead and also double your sharpshooter damage Nice.
Speaker 2This is like a headshot. I got that for you. Thank you so much, so I am rolling a d4.
Speaker 3The only non-Indian at the table is the one doing the math. We're failures. How did we?
Speaker 2fail. I'm a nerd. How did we fail so badly?
Speaker 4Auntie's gonna be so mad about this. 2d4 plus three plus 20.
Speaker 5Ah, that's right, three plus three, so six, six plus three Plus three.
Speaker 7Plus three plus your rage, okay, nine, 11, plus 20, 31.
Speaker 1Yes, andy, yo, the Chumple of Destiny.
Speaker 4It's gonna make a wisdom. Save this Chumple. As it collides with this channeler's face, you see it crack the demonic horn on its head with a resounding thunder. Yeah, he looks at you bleeding from the mouth. He got a 13 on the wisdom. Save what's your save DC.
Speaker 7Because you're a barbarian, so there's not even a tab for that.
Speaker 4It's versus your intimidation. Oh, and it's just gonna be for your taunt.
Speaker 2Okay, that's three plus five, eight Eight.
Speaker 4You deal a grievous blow to this creature, like I said, cracking its horn. You see a little blood coming out of its mouth as the Chappal makes contact and comes rebounding back to your hand, and it has the reverse effect. He wants to do everything but attack you. You have successfully intimidated him to the point that, even though you're taunting him, he is now cowering in fear from you.
Speaker 2Oh, too scared to come next to your auntie. Huh, yes, could you get a beating on the ass? I cursed, I get one.
Speaker 3And Sitara's screaming from the ground. That's it, auntie.
Speaker 2My bonus is um Ranged weapons, frenzy attack, frenzy attack, but then with the chupple is the bonus action not, yeah, I think you used your bonus action to intimidate, to see if I can intimidate.
Speaker 4Yeah, to see if you can intimidate. Or provoke.
Speaker 6That was a hell of an attack.
Speaker 2That's a turn, though.
Speaker 4That rolls, that rolls hard, mirka.
Speaker 5Yeah.
Speaker 3Emboldened by Auntie's flying chupple, it is your turn. You also get your healing at this point oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4You get 1d6 healing at the top of your turn, At the top right.
Speaker 6So let's do that right now really quickly 1d6.
Speaker 4Plus, that's six, nice, that's six, it's 1d6, plus something I still can't get over how beautiful notebook is.
Speaker 6Thank you, it's very sick.
Speaker 2It's so good, it's twisted, it's hot, it's hard to eat.
Speaker 6I'm hearing conflicting reactions. The split pages.
Speaker 2It's disgusting, it's gorgeous.
Speaker 6Someone's gonna buy that Just so you all know I have little barn doors. Someone buy this on a farm, Someone hire.
Speaker 2Omar for their TV show.
Speaker 4This notebook reminds me of Pedro Pascal in all the good ways.
Speaker 5Oh, thank you.
Speaker 6Like so good, it shouldn't be allowed this was featured on one episode of Buffy in season four, the Freshman.
Speaker 2Um so All right, sick, Just like Pedro Pascal Sick.
Speaker 6All right, amazing, okay, so I'm gonna fire Whirlwind right now. It will take an entire action to try to remove myself from it. Yes, Does that include a bonus action?
Speaker 4No, you will have your bonus action available to you.
Speaker 3You also have the healing spirit around you and it will continue to heal you if you stay in that spot.
Legendary Action and Guilt Condition
Speaker 4I know it's not fun, but that's a good point, but you also take D4 fire damage at the top of your turn from the fire, from being in the fire world.
Speaker 6I'm gonna get D6 from you.
Speaker 4Well, it depends on how I roll. So you take three.
Speaker 6Right now.
Speaker 4Wow, but you heal.
Speaker 6Roll a rollercoaster ride.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah yeah, you just die Because it is like a fire it is like an inferno that you are trapped in.
Speaker 3Okay, so get out. Get out.
Speaker 6There's folks blocking me, which is the only reason I'm gonna try to get out of here. If no one was blocking me, I would stay in and just attack and attack, and attack. But you are in front of me, I am. I wanna go around you so I can assist with this. Okay, so I'm gonna try to leave this storm.
Speaker 4Okay, give me a strength, save Okay.
Speaker 1You're blessed.
Speaker 6And I'm blessed, so this is gonna be an additional d4. Yeah, and I'm still using my powered up suit, so it's gonna be plus three. Okay, that's nine plus three, 12.
Speaker 412, and that's with the plus three from your suit. Yeah, and the blessing.
Speaker 6Yeah, so the defy roll is six.
Speaker 4You are unable to get out of this whirlwind, as you are buffeted by the flames but also comforted by the small healing spirit. Both of you kind of like finding almost a moment of calm as the flames lick around you.
Speaker 6I'm stuck here but I want to do some good, so I am going to yell out to Butcha Butcha, help. And I would like for Butcha to fly over to our Spider-Auntie and cast Spare the Dying through me.
Speaker 4Aww, Butcha, savings please let's stabilize Spider Auntie. Butcha stabilizes Spider Auntie. Well done.
Speaker 2What a crazy sentence.
Speaker 3You said that out loud.
Speaker 4If you look at her, she literally has a dupatta and bangles Amazing.
Speaker 2That's so cool. That's so cool, I'm going to show it to you.
Speaker 4I want to see it. You deserve to see her. You deserve to see her.
Speaker 2Aiyo, hello, hi guys. Ah, amadi, amadi. Ok, I'll wait for, you.
Speaker 6I'll wait.
Speaker 5Sorry, sorry, the title will keep changing as we keep going, spider-dd. Thank you, thank you, spider-dd.
Speaker 2Oh my gosh, look at how sweet she is. Namaste, namaste, namaste, chakya ma.
Speaker 3Oh, yeah, yeah, Okay okay, you're better now, because Machine Baby has fixed you Machine Baby.
Speaker 5No one, yeah Kutty. Robot fixed you.
Speaker 2Yeah, ash, go get some ice water.
Speaker 6Machine baby has fixed you. Machine baby, good team robot fixed you. Ash, go get some ice water, please. Please, go over to the brimstone lemonade for.
Speaker 4Ani, we are at the top of the round, but before, at the end of your turn, it's going to use its legendary action. Rakan is going to use its legendary action Points at you, invoking your guilt, and he says because of people like you. Do you realize what your modernization has done, what it's left behind, what it's destroyed, what it's made redundant as humanity's filth spills over the land? Have you ever asked Bulwinder why his farm was taken from him? Make a charisma saving throw.
Speaker 3You're blessed too. Yeah, yes, yes.
Speaker 7That is coming in handy.
Speaker 1Yeah, I didn't do it last time when I paid the price.
Speaker 6Okay, supposed to thank you.
Speaker 2That's very cute. Did you use your left hand?
Speaker 6No, this is rolling so badly that's going to be seven total, oh man.
Speaker 4As you ponder this, you don't think of your creations, which haven't done much wrong, but you think of the clay golems in the domain of dread and you ponder whether or not you've driven people away from you with your creations or tried to replace people with creations. You remember the haunting visage of your very own Bacha, damning you and cursing you for never being a real boy and feeling that he'll never be able to grow old or have love of his own. You are afflicted with the guilt condition, mm. We will get back to what that means in a moment. I can't wait. No, the guilt condition. Wait, dude. No.
Combining Spells in Battle
Speaker 3The guild condition. Sitara, it is your turn. Question if I have a spell that is an action and I have a spell that is a bonus action, may I cast both on the same turn?
Speaker 4Yes, if one is a leveled spell and one is a cantrip.
Speaker 3That is not the case, okay? So in that case, she splits her attention and with one hand she reaches out toward the caster in the lake and she'll cast Scorching Ray at third level. It's 120 feet. So he's within that range, this one. Yeah, I think so. Let's see, it's 120 feet.
Speaker 4So he's within that range. This one yeah, I think so. Let's see 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3Plus seven is 18.
Speaker 4An 18 hits. Go ahead and roll your two other hits 22.
Speaker 3Hit, miss. So two of them hit for three. Oh, when I cast this slot, I thought of third level or higher. You create one additional ray for each slot level, but put two so I get another one right, yeah, 13?, miss, Okay, first one. Six plus six, 12 plus seven, 19. 19.
Speaker 4Second, as the scorching ray goes flying out. It finishes off all of LeDoux auntie's work. What Teamwork auntie.
Speaker 2Teamwork Okay, okay.
Speaker 5Chandler once and for all severely weakened.
Speaker 4he had 40 hit points, Severely weakened by your grievous jumble blow.
Speaker 5Yes.
Speaker 4The scorching ray is too much, he goes up in flames.
Speaker 1Amazing Idiot.
Speaker 3Then for my bonus action. Great, I can't do anything with my bonus action, but I am going to come at-. You get your beast and your fire spirit, so my beast will just attack Rakan again. Okay, no, he doesn't hit. And then Chotu is gonna. It's just fun to see.
Speaker 7This is a fireball spit.
Speaker 3Yes, okay, so 21.
Speaker 4That's a hit. Go ahead and roll damage. Four the hairball collides with Rakan, who lets out a blood-curdling laugh and then raises a hand. Have Chotu make a dex save. Oh no, chotu, my daughter Gonna use his legendary action.
Speaker 3Son of a bitch.
Speaker 4He doesn't make it, no way 17 points of fire damage as Chotu is engulfed in flames with that hellish rebuke.
Speaker 3Hmm, even though he's flaming, he's engulfed in flames. Is he flame resistant, damage immunity, fire.
Speaker 4So he does not take the damage. That was a misplay on my end. I really wanted to kill that little.
Speaker 2I'm sure you did. It's like a snake by a snake. I mean.
Speaker 4I know, you hate the druid right now, but don't hate the player, hate the game. It's not my fault, that's how they make them. I'm tired of it being in the initiative track, yeah.
Speaker 5Zero HP. One HP is more.
Speaker 4Yeah, no, no, no, Okay. So he reaches out a hand to Hellish Rebuke. Sees that this is so up, I'm gonna do it. Channel your inner Brennan Lee Mulligan. Oh, Seeing that Chotu is immune to fire, he looks at you and he says that's okay. I set your parents on fire every day. It is Rakan's turn. Oh, it is.
Speaker 3Rakan's turn. Oh, it's been nice knowing you guys. It's been nice knowing you.
Speaker 7What is like beyond rage?
Speaker 3I just hope someone has or something, because I can't wink any bigger.
Speaker 7Oh, can I say five words to Rakan while he is taking action.
Speaker 4You can do it on your turn, uh-oh.
Speaker 2I love you so much. Sorry, I'm like.
Speaker 5Pilate-ing is what you're doing.
Speaker 7I'm like Plotting is what you're doing. I'm plotting.
Speaker 3She really hates me this episode, so take it down. It's cool, it's cool.
Speaker 4I don't like all the creatures in the initiative track. I mean, if I were an enemy on this map, I'd hate everything you've done to me.
Speaker 7Yes, yes, maybe I am an enemy, we don't know.
Speaker 3No, that was the big. You made us think you am an enemy. We don't know. No, that was the big, made us think you were an enemy. I don't know why they-.
Speaker 7I mean, you know, not over yet. Okay.
Speaker 3Just kidding. I think I prayed at your goddamn feet when you turned into Statue. Come on, yeah, Be nice.
Speaker 2She was like obsessed with you. All right, I'm going to do it.
Speaker 4I'm going to do it. I don't think this is that mean. This thing has crit him twice.
Speaker 1Yes, okay, that's fair.
Speaker 2Crocodile uncle, please, crocodile uncle Look.
Speaker 3Crocodile uncle. Let me find out what he is.
Speaker 4Let's see. It's a melee. Does a 19 hit yes, make a charisma saving throw for the beast?
Speaker 3This modifier is 20? Missed.
Speaker 4You see, Rakan cast Plane Shift. You see the ground open, you get a glimpse of the Feywild, oh wow. And then you see a single being horns on its head, eyes rolling, long tongue. Come out with backwards hands on all fours and whisk away your beast. Oh no, it's OK, that's a plane shift.
Speaker 5That can happen. Yeah, it means, oh, I know but that means he's high. Oh yeah, no, he's giant level.
Speaker 3He's got the whirlwind thing. He's ginormous level.
Speaker 6So what are we talking like?
Speaker 3level three rogue, yeah, totally.
Speaker 4Three, three and a half human yeah, like half. And then I get these jokes. Let's see, I think he is going to move towards Silsilan. No, he's not flying this time, so I think he's gonna stop here Is Silsilan now.
Speaker 3That is anything changed in her.
Speaker 4Is she conscious Did?
Speaker 5I change it. No, because she hasn't left. He's still within range yeah, he hasn't left your attack range.
Speaker 6No, but he's breaking eye contact and I think that's wrong.
Speaker 4It is Spider Auntie's turn. Yeah, come on, spider Auntie, I take away, but I also get.
Speaker 5Yeah, we love Spider Auntie.
Speaker 4Spider Auntie has only been stabilized.
Speaker 7Yeah, Unconscious still yeah.
Speaker 4She's not alive. But she grants you one last boon, as with like one of the last vestiges of her health. She gives Batja an Ashir Vod as right before she like kind of passes out.
Speaker 2Batja Wait a minute, as right before she like kind of passes out Bacha, wait a minute.
Speaker 4Yes.
Speaker 2Is that super bacha, is that?
Speaker 4mecha bacha, and bacha begins to grow.
Speaker 6Bacha delu, a growing boy Bacha.
Speaker 2You see all those laddus out. You just turned four, oh my gosh. You and your big son, alright, your big giant son.
Speaker 4What you should know is that Spider-Auntie has cast Enlarge on Butcha. Yes, butcha now has advantage on strength checks and strength saving throws. Wow, his weapons grow to match his new size. While they are enlarged, the target's attacks with them deal one D4 extra damage, d4 extra hello.
Speaker 2My big, powerful son you just hear beep boop.
Speaker 3His voice is changing, we're so proud of you.
Speaker 2Puberty is wonderful.
Speaker 3It's a terrible time At least he doesn't smell, it's fine.
Speaker 6We're going to have to deal with so much now. Oh my God. Keep him away from us.
Speaker 4You see something so small in his hand, a tiny little pinwheel I have five little single fingers, wee.
Speaker 5Butcher, what do you say?
Speaker 6Zucrea.
Speaker 5There you go.
Speaker 4Zucrea, zucrea.
Speaker 6Good boy.
Speaker 4The channeler is dead. It is Rakan's turn. I think he's going to attack you, since you're the only one in range. Who's you? Me, yes, me, it's you.
Speaker 2It's you.
Speaker 4I think it's actually gonna go with. The scimitar Gets three attacks, okay, 18. Okay 28.
Speaker 2So 17. Whatever, 28. So 17. Whatever. Okay Is that three hits? Yeah, who cares?
Speaker 4Just gonna roll digitally.
Speaker 2I mean 12. Okay, I'm done. 13. I'm done.
Speaker 7Drops on the first attack I'm done.
Speaker 2Oh no, I only had seven yeah you can stop.
Speaker 4You all watch as, whirling the blade around almost like a dervish, it catches La Duante twice in the chest and she falls, knocked unconscious, to the floor. No, oh, he can move now without taking an op attack.
Speaker 2Oh, pretty cool if you just kill the person you're walking by. Yeah, yeah, that is his action.
Speaker 4You cannot do anything else. This turn, nomir. Oh, you are out.
Speaker 7Okay, so I see.
Speaker 4He's getting serious, I see you drop Mm-hmm.
Speaker 7And I have a sense of this. I know there's these scales at play. We all have a sense of that. Mm-hmm and this Lord of Judgment. I pull out an arrow and I look at him as I let it loose. I call out to him, the Lord of Judgment, taking down the mortals of this realm, instead of facing an equal how like you? And I'm casting Hunter's Mark as the arrow flies through the air, attacking him. So he's got my Hunter's Mark as all these moths flutter all around him very violently and let's just roll. And I oh, that's nice, that's very nice. Oh, an 18 to hit that hits. Oh, I, oh, that's nice, that's very nice. Ooh, an 18 to hit that hits. Oh, actually I didn't even add that's a 28 to hit. Yes, that hits. So this has my Hunter's Mark. I'm gonna use a second level spell slot for Divine Smite, so that's gonna be three smites my swarm is also hitting him, plus my hunter's mark, do you?
Speaker 4need more dice, I have just enough, take a couple more dice to it.
Speaker 7Yeah, yeah, just for fun, just for funsies, all right. You take aim, I take aim and I let this mofo have it. Oh, but I rolled so many ones, oh, no. So, wow, that's a lot of ones. Okay, that is 11, 12, 13, 14, 21 points of damage 21 points of damage.
Speaker 4I'm helping you.
Speaker 7Cool, yes. And then looking around, seeing again that this is, I'm no longer of the mortal realm, like everyone else is. And this trespasser, I will fight him back, as I've been instructed, asked to do by Noren. But the realm is best defended by the mortals that walk it. And as my second attack, but the realm is best defended by the mortals that walk it. And as my second attack, I take another arrow and I aim it at you, at Landu, and with the same kind of this, one's aggressive. This has violence in it. But instead of doing ooh, instead of doing damage, you're getting max healing from this healing arrow. You take 11 points of healing, oh, my God.
Speaker 7And blooded in you is an ancient rage.
Speaker 4Your frenzy continues. As you stand back to your feet, you will not have to take another action to rage.
Speaker 7Thank you so much. You're welcome. That is my bonus and my attack and I stay. I'll move out of the way if I'm blocking anybody, so I'll step to the side.
Speaker 4Legendary action. He points one finger at you and attempts to invoke guilt.
Speaker 1Ooh.
Speaker 4And he says to you oh, you care so much for the mortals of this world. Is that why you abandoned them and chose to take up residence in the woods instead? If you're so fond of them, why didn't you remain amongst them? There is some part of you that has a very low opinion of these people that you dwell with. Make a charisma saving throw Ooh ooh yikes.
Speaker 7That hits hard. I'm still blessed.
Speaker 1You are still blessed.
Speaker 7Oh, that's a 19. Ooh, 23, 24.
Speaker 4You push these thoughts down, for you are the avatar of Nuren and this being's words have no hold on you. These thoughts down, for you are the avatar of Nuren and this being's words have no hold on you. You're up, ash, hell, yeah, okay, I just drop yours and no one else's.
Speaker 1What's that supposed to mean? I don't know How's everybody fair. I look around, I wanna see how my compatriots are faring. Oh, I don't know How's everybody fair. I look around and I want to see how my compatriots are faring.
Speaker 6Oh, I'm doing good. I'm just living in a fire tunnel.
Speaker 7Oh yeah, but with the healing spirit as your roommate.
Speaker 6Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 3Sharing a studio apartment. I have 15.
Speaker 6Yeah, it's been worth it 15.
Speaker 3I'm fine, he's been worse. 15. I'm fine, he's a god, you're a god, he's a god. I'm not doing great.
Speaker 1You have healed yourself too, so I'm gonna have to do some work here. And La Duante, you're low, okay so I'm fine.
Speaker 2Can't be true, I can't, that's, that's that's Tell me truly, I'm good.
Speaker 1I'm good, I'm gonna channel divinity. Ash props up on his tail, goes cross-legged, does some inaccurate praying and he gives Ladoanti. I'm gonna give you 15 healing points.
Speaker 2What the hell Thanks.
Speaker 4I didn't even know you could do that.
Speaker 1I do that all the time, I'm gonna do it once and I'm gonna give myself 10, the remaining 10. That's because I can only get you to half. Yeah, yeah, you got me.
Speaker 2Okay, great, I'm trying to figure out if there's another way to kill him, besides just killing you.
Speaker 1And then, for my bonus action, ash picks up his haladi, his grandmother's haladi, and he goes I know there's more power in you, yet ba, grant me even more power, will you? And he tosses it in the air and casts Spiritual Weapon, spiritual.
Speaker 4Weapon Perfect.
Speaker 1With the power of his corn-shucking Ba, he sends that spiritual Haladi at Rukhan.
Speaker 4So if you spawn it on him, you can attack him on this turn.
Speaker 1There we go. That is a 20, dirty 20.
Speaker 4That hits, go ahead and roll damage.
Speaker 1Okay, and it is 13 damage.
Speaker 4Wow, perfect, 13 damage.
Speaker 7Yes, nice roll.
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Speaker 4Yeah, your spiritual Haladi goes out and makes contact with Rukhan, who is distracted and has his back towards you. Larduanti, you're back on your feet. Yeah, and I'm frenzying right, oh yeah, real quick.
Speaker 1Ba from beyond says go shuck yourself.
Speaker 5Ooh.
Speaker 7She's got a good reliner, doesn't she? Yeah, I'd like to meet your she, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3I'd like to meet your ba, wow, wow.
Speaker 2OK, so I would like to use my hand axe and attack this person, ok.
Speaker 4Meeting.
Speaker 2Rukon Go ahead. So are you going to move up to him then? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry, I can't see how far I person, okay, meaning Rukon Go ahead, so are you gonna move up to him then? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry, I can't see how far I am, yeah.
Speaker 4Gorgeous Five 10, 15, 20. Great, Go ahead and roll to hit.
Speaker 2That is a 21. Wow, go ahead and roll your second attack. That is a 15. That is a miss.
Speaker 4Do you wanna use your bonus action for a third attack, since you are frenzying?
Speaker 5Go ahead and roll it.
Speaker 7The Bless is gone because she got knocked unconscious.
Speaker 2Oh, bless is gone. That is a nat, 20. Come on, sadita. Yes, that frenzy and roll damage. Thank you, okay. So on that last one, that is gonna be eight plus two, two because of your rage, ten Ten. On each of those attacks. Oh, that applies To every attack. Okay, cool, great. So that's a ten. And then on that one. This is why I put Luis next to me.
Speaker 5Thank you.
Speaker 2Thank you, mommy. And then the second one was also ten, thank you. Thank you, mommy. And then the second one was also 10.
Speaker 4Okay, for a total of 20. Damage Magnificent. You strike a reeling blow with your Chup Bull, clacking out with power at Rakan. I believe that is your turn.
Speaker 2I say nothing. I say nothing For the first time in my life she's really
Speaker 3angry guys, she's not saying anything. Mark happened.
Speaker 6Okay, so let's first deal with the healing and the.
Speaker 5Yes, so you take.
Speaker 6That happens simultaneously.
Speaker 4You take one fire damage, all right.
Speaker 6And I, so I'll just add three Mm-hmm, nice, great, so I'm to 17. Beautiful and that's taken care of. We love that. Let me just quickly journal about it.
Speaker 5Come on, dear God. Wow, I'm at 17.
Speaker 6The pages go up in flames. Yeah, oh geez, oh my God, oh I'm beginning to swing in your favor.
Speaker 4Come on, okay, oh jeez Dude beginning to swing in your favor. Come on, Butcha is huge, with a tiny little pinwheel in his hand.
Speaker 6Butcha has advantage on strength checks right. I would love for Butcha. It's up to him, I'm not asking him.
Speaker 1Big boy now.
Speaker 6But he can either pull me out of the fray or attack, and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna actually roll a d6. Odds he pulls me out, evens he makes an attack. It's up to him, it's not up to me. One that's an odds.
Speaker 2He's not up to me.
Speaker 6Okay, one, that's an odd, he pulls you out he pulls me out.
Speaker 4Cute, go ahead and roll with advantage on the strength check to pull you out Come on Good job.
Speaker 6Oh yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, we'll go with this one, oh.
Speaker 4Oh no, what's that?
Speaker 2Oh no.
Speaker 4What's that? Oh no, what's that, what's that?
Speaker 5It's on.
Speaker 6Gordon. He has a negative three to strength.
Speaker 2Even in this one. Yeah, doesn't he get some sort?
Speaker 7of Did he get a bonus?
Speaker 2Do you?
Speaker 4see stats. Um, let's see. Yeah, the target has advantage on strength checks and strength saving throws. It doesn't say that enlarge gives more strength, just advantage, just advantage and extra damage.
Speaker 6Yeah, it sounds like a typo. Yeah. Yeah, just throwing that out there, so that's going to be a 14.
Speaker 4Wow, that is, I believe, just enough. Yeah, I think I got a 14.
Speaker 6Wait no, it's fine, it's just below right. It's just below. Yeah, I think I got a 40. Wait, no, it's fine, it's just below right, it's just below, it's just below.
Speaker 4Damn. Yeah, you see Butcha's hand come down to reach you out of the fire. This is how this is going to be. This is how this is going to be flavored. And then the pinwheel catches flame and it disappears. Blah, blah. And the pinwheel disintegrates as the paper catches fire, as he gets distracted Blah blah.
Speaker 6It's okay, we can build a new one. We can make it ourselves. We're just folding paper and pinning it together. You can make it any way you want. That's the great thing about invention If you want something, you can build it and make it to how you like it.
Speaker 4I can't roll again.
Speaker 5Yeah, goody.
Speaker 6Double advantage Ah, that's a 19 to minus three, that's 16.
Speaker 5Yay.
Speaker 4Scoops down his hand, lifts you up and puts you on his shoulder. Aw.
Speaker 7He's that big.
Speaker 1He's so big, look at him, he's huge Look at him.
Speaker 2I want a huge son.
Speaker 6Now pulled out of there. And from this vantage point I yell to Namir now with my action, Cause that was Butch's action yes. Namir, I didn't tell you this earlier, but I found a stick and I am going to cast Scorching Ray with my Arcane Focus.
Speaker 4Yes, oh, I thought you were trying to like a stick. A stick, I don't get it.
Speaker 7Well, I mean, namir would probably be like. I understand. Yes, exactly yes.
Speaker 6And then the d4 is added to the first scorching ray. How would that work?
Speaker 4Yes.
Speaker 6To each roll.
Speaker 4Yeah, because it's a roll to hit.
Speaker 6That's like one overall If it's a roll to hit I roll.
Speaker 4Yeah, you just add it, okay.
Speaker 6So I'll just do bless I, yeah, okay so it's gonna be a plus two to all these Paladins and clerics galore. Okay, 16 hits, the 16 is miss 16, and then they all miss, oh yeah.
Speaker 4All three scorching rays come streaming out of this stick and with ease, almost as though turning your flames against you. It racks you with that guilt that you are afflicted with. You take nine psychic damage, as firing on Rakan makes you feel, makes you doubt yourself. You think for a moment, as the scorching rays go out is he wrong? Am I perfect? And as you sit on Butch's shoulder, you see the burning pinwheel in his hand and you, for a moment, are just absorbed with the guilt. Josh, do you have anything else on your turn?
Speaker 6I am going to take the rest of my time to meditate on this.
Speaker 4Mm Ooh Sitara. Mm, you are up the guilt man.
Speaker 7This is the start of the third round.
Speaker 2I think Damn, yes, damn.
Speaker 3Spicy, right, she's pissed Once. He said that about her parents, she's done. And she said that about her parents, she's done. And she reaches down on the ground and she slams both fists into the ground and she casts Tidal Wave and from beneath the earth, a wave of water comes up and crashes down 30 feet long, up to 10 feet wide and up to 10 feet tall. So I want to cast it right on his spot. Going that way. Is it 10 feet wide? Yeah, so 10 feet wide and up to 10 feet tall. So I wanna cast it right on his spot. Going that way. Is it 10 feet wide? Yeah, so 10 feet wide. Like, so, like a ribbon, like I want it to go up on him and past him. This is 10 feet wide, this is 30 feet long. That's what I want it to do. So it hits him here, not on the like in the corner. It still hits him that way because it's like that. Let me see.
Speaker 4So I don't know. It's going to be 30 feet long, 10 feet wide, 10 feet tall.
Speaker 3Like he would be at the bottom corner of this rectangle. Got it Ribbon. He'll be right when it erupts Like the bottom left Correct Okay, legendary resistance.
Speaker 4He's not going to fail that deck. Save, okay, legendary resistance.
Speaker 3He's not gonna fail that dex save. Okay, well, he's still gonna have to take some damage.
Speaker 4Yes, that's why I only ever use two of my legendary actions.
Speaker 5I keep one in the can For a big meaty spell.
Speaker 7Huh For a big meaty spell, so you can resist it.
Speaker 4Yeah, so I can resist it. Yeah, wow, yeah. Well, that'll do it.
Speaker 5That'll do it. I mean our weapon attacks are resisted.
Speaker 4That's eight damage the water comes crashing over him and you see his flame dim for a moment and then, within him, fueled by his insane judgment of you all, he stands strong with that legendary resistance.
Speaker 3OK, and then?
Speaker 4Rekha's like how dare you, how dare you? I'm like, how dare I always keep one of the?
Speaker 3characters. How dare you? I'm like how dare.
Speaker 7That's good you gotta keep in mind. Well, it's funny sometimes when I'd be DMing.
Speaker 4I'll read the chat where people would be like she only used two of her legendary actions. I'm like I always keep one on deck If someone does like a Dissonant Whispers. I'm like legendary resistance.
Speaker 3So hang on a second. I just have to see what this does. Yeah, I have to.
Speaker 4I'm totally cool cool, cool.
Speaker 3The Dissonant Whispers are playing nearby. Okay, they start playing.
Speaker 4Water Wall instead of Wonderwall. Oh, that's good that's good.
Speaker 6Wow.
Speaker 4Classic. I said, maybe it's doing damage.
Speaker 5Uh-oh, psychic damage.
Speaker 3So for my bonus action, I am going to cast. I can't. Okay, nevermind, that's my turn. You have Chotu's attack, I do, and so Chotu is just gonna hawk another Lugii.
Speaker 5Mm-hmm roll to hit 14 plus seven is.
Speaker 3Was he plus goddammit, every loogie counts Every so many things to keep track of.
Speaker 7You have so many different stat blocks. Yeah, plus seven okay, 21.
Speaker 3That's a hit. Go ahead and roll damage. Okay, one D, six plus three.
Speaker 4Once you are right and once you get into wild shapes, it gets even worse. Oh yeah, because then you have the wild shape stat blocks, you have the summon beast stat blocks and then you have the wildfire spirit stat blocks.
Speaker 3I've been avoiding changing just because of that I have a druid in another game.
Speaker 4Eight damage, just enough.
Speaker 1Come on, yes, yeah, tides turned.
Speaker 4It is Rakan's turn. He has three attacks. One of them he's going to focus on Silsilon, but that sanctuary is still up. Yes, so he has to make a wisdom save. Fail that wiz, that's an 18. Oh, does that make your wisdom save?
Speaker 1Probably does, so I have to roll right for a wisdom save.
Speaker 4You should have your spell save DC at the top of your spell list.
Speaker 1Yeah, on the very top. Save DC is 16. Makes it it's gonna attack her once. Yeah, on the very top.
Speaker 4Saved DC is 16. Makes it it's gonna attack her once.
Speaker 1Oh, I see that's for the sanctuary.
Speaker 4And then Dar's Dang it. Okay, that's a bunch of ones, one one, so two plus five, seven damage. And then, with the grievous jumble blow you did to him, he's gonna strike at you twice because you are the closest. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a six on the dice Does 15 hit.
Speaker 2Uh yeah.
Speaker 4Dang it. Your AC's low, yeah, so what? Uh, and then okay. So the second one definitely hits as well, dealing you to four, eight, 11, slashing damage, with the scimitar Slashing down at Silsilani once and at you twice, kind of on the backhand. That is his turn. She's not gonna make a death save, but Spider Auntie is out. Okay, she used her last power to cast enlarge. She's done, but she is stabilized. If she had died, that could have been another counter against you in the weights of time. Well done, alright, it is Rakan's turn, are you?
Speaker 4coming Since you're all so perfectly centered I miss Rakan, sorry, I'm sorry. Rekha, you should have resistance to slashing damage in your range. Are you having your damage? Am I? What? Are you having your damage? That?
Speaker 2rolls yeah non-magical. So you gave me 11 damage, so do I do five or six?
Speaker 4You can round down.
Speaker 1That helps, yeah, that helps big time.
Speaker 4Wow, yeah, you might not have died in that first round. Actually, no, no, no, no, no. All three hit and it was like, I think, something like 34 damage.
Speaker 6You only rolled for the second one.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 4I did, because I didn't even apply all of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, she had two left in that one.
Speaker 5Yeah, yeah so no, no, no, she would have gone down last time. Oh, that is correct.
Speaker 4Thank you, molly, molly, molly, god bless you you know, I don't know anything about this game and I'm doing my best that the blow is quite not as grievous as it would have otherwise been.
Speaker 7Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, that other attack would have killed her anyway, because the first attack killed her in three.
Speaker 4Yes, yes, that's what I'm saying. She definitely would have gone down and it's 150 feet so it can definitely hit you and range 20-foot radius. That gets all of you, everyone in this circle, including Namir, make a dexterity saving throw. Yes, am I in the circle? Because we which circle?
Speaker 2This circle.
Speaker 4So it's gonna be Mirka Sitara Namir Butcha, she's coming after us. Dex yeah, you're all clustered together. It's perfect for a fireball 20. Five seven, okay, 13, 16.
Speaker 6Does her Bless work for this.
Speaker 4Yes, Bless is for saving throws 26. Jeez 28,. Okay, who made their? Save Me. Okay, who made their?
Speaker 7save Me 26.
Speaker 4You all take 14 fire damage. Important question Is Butcha flammable? No, okay, butcha's made of metal.
Speaker 6Yeah well, Butcha's made of love and sugar and spice.
Speaker 5Not sugar sugar can burn Sugar melts. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3We burn sugar before we go, not sugar, sugar can burn.
Speaker 4We've burned sugar before in the kitchen. We don't let it. It ignites flammable objects. But we can even argue butcha's not an object.
Speaker 6I will take beard damage.
Speaker 4Your beard goes up in flames.
Speaker 6Yeah, I'll say that You're gonna Uggify yourself for this. It doesn't say all, but I'll pat it out. But it doesn't like all, but like I'll Pat it out, but like it's singed, like I now look like I now look, smoke, like I have a smokey, like a smokey eye. Good it actually. It actually like it's a glam up, honestly. Like it's like hot, like I step out of the clouds, and it's just like whoa.
Speaker 7Omar you made him do a charisma saving, throw earlier and he's trying to give himself more charisma.
Speaker 4Basically at any cost. I don't know what glam up means.
Speaker 6Wow, okay, 18 on what I just tried to do.
Speaker 4Yes, the fireball lands in the middle of you, buffeting you all with flame, turning into Rakan's horrifying grin for just a moment before dissipating. I'm down.
Speaker 6That was 14 damage, right, 14 damage. Horrifying grin for just a moment before dissipating Ooh, I'm down that was 14 damage right 14 damage. Yeah, I'm down.
Speaker 4You were so calm I honestly wasn't anticipating it.
Speaker 6I was like I came out of the smoke. I'm so hot and I dropped dead.
Speaker 2That's the price you suffer for.
Speaker 6So you're down, I'm down.
Speaker 4But Buccha's up 14? Yeah.
Speaker 6But what's your size 14.?
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 6Butch is also down. We're both down. Butch is 13.
Speaker 4Butch goes back.
Speaker 6Yeah, yeah, butch is down, Butch is down.
Speaker 4Butch goes back to normal size and lays alongside Mirka, almost like holding him still, like the way he was when he was on his shoulder.
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Speaker 5Rude.
Speaker 3I still got it. It's so good. I still got it. I still got it. I still got it. I still got it. I still got it. I still got it. I still got it. I still got it, I still got it. I still got it. I still got it. I still got it. I still got it. I still got it. I still got it, I still got it.
Speaker 4I still got.
Speaker 7This Lord of Judgment is all about balance, but there's nothing balanced about what he's doing to these mortals. I'm gonna hit him again. Yeah that rolls. I am.
Speaker 4I just wanna warn you, because you're afflicted with guilt much like Mirka. This may harm you. I just want, in case that mechanic wasn't, there I am, I am.
Speaker 7That's not being processed. That's fair. That's not being processed.
Speaker 4That's fair. That's fair.
Speaker 7I still have Bless, Mm-hmm, I still have. Oh well, I should make a concentration save.
Speaker 1Yes, you have Bless on the save oh.
Speaker 7I do yes. So that's a seven and my con whoa, okay. So that's seven, that's a nine and I think the minimum is 10.
Speaker 7It's 10 or half the damage you took yeah, so my hunter's mark goes away, but I'm gonna conjure it right back. I'm gonna use a bonus action to as it slips. It's like as if I can reach out into the air and grab it and keep it in place. Yes, right on the Lord of Judgment, on Rakan. So I'm going to attack. I'm still blessed and I got Hunter's Mark. The swarm is gonna land on him. Let's make this happen. That is a 26 to hit. That's a hit. I am going to use a first level spell slot. I'm running out for the. That's two of those gone for my Divine Smite. So that's two of those Weapon Attack my Swarm and my Hunter's Mark. So, divine Smite, weapon Attack, swarm hunter's mark. So divine smite, weapon attack, swarm hunter's mark. Okay, much better than four. So 14, plus 11 is 25. 25. Plus five, 30 points of damage.
Speaker 430 points of damage. 30 points of damage, incredible. The arrow pierces through Rakan's chest and you see him gasp for just a moment, but he stays on his feet just barely.
Speaker 1Gasping is good.
Speaker 7And for my second attack, for the last time that I can do this, I, you're right next to me, yes, yeah. Then I just take out an arrow and I jam it right into your chest and I heal you for nine points as that arrow melts into you and the last thing you see as you open your eyes is he's almost out. Take him down, and then I run.
Speaker 5I can't be the one to do it. I can't be the one to do it, Ash you're up.
Speaker 1Okay, if I take that potion, does that count as an action, or can I just take that potion and release a slot?
Speaker 4It is like I think I made you use your action to use it, didn't I Did you.
Speaker 6I don't think so, but maybe To take the potion.
Speaker 4Yeah, I don't think so, because I just want take the potion?
Speaker 6Yeah, I don't think so.
Speaker 4Because I just want to be consistent. Normally I do object interaction as free, but healing potions it requires an action to use. But I just want to be consistent. For myself I don't actually care that much.
Speaker 6I think because it was given as an action.
Speaker 4Oh, because, she automatically had you drink it Okay. Yeah, you can use it for free. Okay, we'll count it as like an object interaction.
Speaker 1I will do that.
Speaker 4Okay, roll a d4. Oh, okay, oh cool.
Speaker 1This is a wonderful spell slot. Get in there Four.
Speaker 4You can gain back up to a level four spell slot.
Speaker 1Oh, okay, nice, Awesome killer, I'm going to rush up. Yeah, I think I'm within 20 feet. Yeah, so can I touch him? Can I get to Rukhan?
Speaker 4Um five, 10, 15, 20, you can.
Speaker 1Yeah, you've hurt many of my friends today, and so I wish to inflict those wounds upon you in this moment. And I cast, inflict Wounds, okay, and that is.
Speaker 4So make a melee spell attack.
Speaker 1Yeah, so that's 27 to hit. That's a hit. Go ahead and roll damage. Oh wow, Okay, that's 5d10 damage.
Speaker 5Yeah, oh, oh ho.
Speaker 6Wow, no one touch Ash.
Speaker 1All right, Poonsh, help me out here. All right, nine for the first one, six for the second one 15. One, 16, three, 19., 19., 19. And six, 25. 25.
Speaker 4As your inflict wounds takes hold of Rakan, you see his essence begin to be unmade With one last hellish rebuke, just for flavor really. Nine, 11, seven, 18, 24 points of fire damage, he is unmade.
Speaker 1I'm pretty well unmade as well, yeah, I feel you.
Speaker 4Yes, ash, and the battle is won.
Speaker 5Oh.
Speaker 2Yeah, so fitting that you did it. Yes.
Speaker 4And With when Silsilan wakes up. Just so you all know what she looks like Horns, kind of like you know, rubbing them a little wearily. Her high ponytail flared out behind her Abloh. Gunha who are, oh hi oh, the worst nightmare. I could really use some food.
Speaker 5Oh, from when you?
Speaker 4were, I love you, huh From when you were this big. What do you mean? You came to my Someone in my family, their wedding. Oh, okay, I think, my big sister's wedding, you and your sister. You're this tall. Oh okay, I think, my big sister's wedding, you and your sister, you're this tall.
Speaker 2My God, I remember.
Speaker 4You stole um. You stole the bride's sandal.
Speaker 2He could've been me.
Speaker 4And then I remember that asshole he could have been me, hmm. And then I remember that asshole was like oh, that's thievery. And like banished you to hell or something for it. But I'm really glad you're here because that was not cool. I'm glad you still have the sandal.
Speaker 2You know what you can keep it.
Speaker 4I'm the reason my sister was banished. I thought you both stole it. I mean, it's a harmless prank really, but I am also the patron saint of harmless pranks, so Uh, Lady Auntie felt like sick to her stomach. Yeah, she puts two hands out. Are you okay? Do you need a nap?
Speaker 3No, sitara, at this point, with her one hit point, after all of this has happened, and hearing that, just I think she just she's out with one, she's unconscious.
Speaker 4Oh, oh, I forget. She just she's out with one. She's unconscious. Oh, oh, I forget. You guys are so soft and cast Mass Healing Word on all of you, oh. Oh okay With a yawn Wow with a yawn. And you all heal 4d4 plus three, which is one, two. That's a total of three. Another one, four, another one eight hit points.
Speaker 7Oh thank you, the sleepy healing word.
Speaker 4Thank you for waking me up.
Speaker 3Look around. Where is Namir? Did he run? Where is Namir?
Speaker 7Once that battle is done and that last blow was given, I will suddenly appear near where Rakan fell. Is there any remnant of him? Ash, I reach down and grab it.
Speaker 5This is mine.
Speaker 7May I take this?
Speaker 6Yeah.
Speaker 5I don't think anyone else.
Speaker 1You started it by saying it's yours.
Speaker 7I want this.
Speaker 4Was the nightmare, not a nightmare. Are you the new Toltol, tully, tulls, tully oh, I guess people call him that. Are you the new one?
Speaker 5You look like it.
Speaker 4You got all those cute little buggies on you.
Speaker 7I suppose I am. Yes, that is who I. There's a lot to catch you up on. Suppose I am. Yes, that is who I. There's a lot to catch you up on, I suppose. Oh, I've replaced his daughters, oh.
Speaker 4That's good. You're probably like a really nice person. Sometimes You're a little spooky too, but I'm also the patron saint of spookies, so I will on that note.
Speaker 7Then I will take some of like the corner of my eye and I start to peel it down and you start to see that that very well put together mortal flesh peels away very easily and underneath it is decay.
Speaker 6So we look a little different now, all things considered.
Speaker 7This is for Noren and I have the ash.
Speaker 4Oh, is she gonna eat it?
Speaker 7Maybe Metal. I feel my time here is done, you've done, and I look around at the other, you know, probably still fleeing mortals, but I know I know there's some that I've stopped to watch. You've got many witnesses that saw what you've done for this place. You've restored balance and you have eradicated this trespasser. There is a place for everything.
Speaker 4Yeah, and this is like my place.
Speaker 7This is not my place, no, and I'll start to walk towards the lake, gathering up all of the ash. My place, this is not my place, no, and I'll start to walk towards the lake, gathering up all of the ash, whatever remains of Rakan, and I will wade into the water and then disappear back from whence I came, with in my hands a gift for who sent me here in the first place.
Speaker 4Mir disappears into the depths, leaving you with one very sleepy deity I.
Speaker 1I rush up, ash rushes up to Soslani. He says, uh, my god, oh, wow, that's a lot. Well, I've seen my father pray to you day after day.
Speaker 4Who's your father? His name is Abhishek.
Speaker 1Oh, day after day. Hey, who's your father? His name is, uh, abhishek.
Speaker 6Oh.
Speaker 4I know your family from way back.
Speaker 1Yes, yes, he. I always felt he prayed to you instead of fathering us. Honestly.
Speaker 4What's wrong with that? Look how great you turned out. I'm gonna neglect my future children too. Clearly it works.
Speaker 1I don't want to do that to my child. Oh, I wish to choose another path.
Speaker 4Well, your parents chose another path that's probably why you exist in the first place, kiddo. What do you mean? Chose another path. That's probably why you exist in the first place, kiddo. What do you mean? Well, I was gonna ask them to be my stage managers, you know, like warlocks to my cause and to Drangali. But they were like no, we're gonna like raise our kid and we're gonna go be doctors somewhere. And I was like that does not sound like fun, but you do, you. And they thought I was gonna smite them. But and I thought about it, but honestly, that's so much work and so I just let them leave to Breezalbub. I don't know, I wouldn't go there, braeselwald, that's what I said. Yeah, yeah, sorry.
Speaker 1Beelzebub. They could have ascended, my parents could have ascended and they chose to race. Why do they barely speak to us?
Speaker 4Well, whatever they did, they did for you. I know that your mom said that she wanted to start a family and I said well, you started one here, and she said she didn't think showbiz was a place for a kid. She wanted to teach you, you know, to care about other people, and so I took you to a place where you could ply your trade. Like I said, they fled in the middle of the night. I think they thought I was going to be really angry, but anger is just so many calories and I don't have any to spare. Why didn't you talk to them about it?
Speaker 1About my son.
Speaker 4About like why they left I they wouldn't tell me I. Oh, probably so you wouldn't come back here and almost be killed by a strange judgment deity from the beyond. Yes, could be. They were probably right. They never wanted me to come. I'm glad you did. I'm glad all of you did. I'm still trying to shake, I feel like I've been asleep for like three months longer than I usually am supposed to be. I only like to rest 18 months at a time.
Speaker 6Can we get you like some chai or something like that? I would love a cup of chai.
Speaker 4What's your name? I'm.
Speaker 6Mirka.
Speaker 4Hi Mirka.
Speaker 6Hi, this is my son, Butcha.
Speaker 4Oh my God, what a cutie pie. It's metal, right? Yeah, it's sweets and spices and love I just wanted to make sure I don't know what shape humans come in these days. Hi, little one hi.
Speaker 6I'll just say thank you for the HP from earlier, I believe.
Speaker 2La Duante makes you a very shaky cup of chai, because she did not herself. I don't even know if this tastes good, tbh, and I haven't even know if this tastes good.
Speaker 3TBH, and I haven't looked. I can't, I haven't looked at you yet. You spoke of when they were banished.
Speaker 4Oh, just little kids, they were just. You know, you always still choose at a wedding. It's like tradition. But it is a very magical sandal. How?
Speaker 2They. The person who is banished is her mother, so how am?
Speaker 4I here You're between worlds, kind of like a phase spider Changelings can move between Changeling.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 4Oh, you guys didn't know that. She's like putty. She can like turn into whatever she wants. That's not really what her face looks like.
Speaker 2Okay, wait.
Speaker 3What? This isn't my I don't.
Speaker 4Well, that's probably the one you chose to fit in. I get it, not everybody Looks like me after they wake up from a nap, but If we can go back and forth, how can I go to them? Well, you're the changeling. I had to think you'd know more about that than me. Maybe you just need some help figuring it out. I'm sure there's like a book somewhere or something.
Speaker 5Yeah.
Speaker 4Why are you sad?
Speaker 3Because I keep asking for answers and I don't get them. I keep asking for answers and I don't get them. I keep asking for some place where I feel like I am real and all I get is more confusion.
Speaker 4I have been told I am the deity of confusion, and so I apologize, but I can speak freely. Little sister, nothing in life is real. It's our belief that makes it tangible. What you believe is your reality that makes it tangible. What you believe is your reality is your reality, and I wouldn't give up what you have in your hands and what you have around you, blaming yourself for something that wasn't your fault to begin with and that you couldn't change. Everything is fake. Time is an illusion. There are people that can move forward and backwards with ease.
Speaker 3An illusion move forward and backwards with ease. An illusion. Hmm. Is that mountain? Is that climbable? This one Can I like start? Can she climb up that Like a hill, like start going up? Yeah, yeah you could.
Speaker 3Okay, she goes up as high as she can. She just silently goes up as high as she can. She just silently goes up as high as she can and out of her, uh jolly, she pulls a sanding stone on it Rakhi Rakesh Incorporated and she plays with it in her hand and she says 25 words. She says so, priya, seems I won't be seeing you after all. Funny, funny, I always knew who I married. You have no idea who you did Goodbye. And she takes the stone and she hubs it as far as she can down the mountain on the other side.
Speaker 4Stone clatters and falls down the mountain Right.
Speaker 6Right, marcus sees this and comes up to you and just very quietly gives you like a hug.
Speaker 3If you don't mind hugging someone who doesn't know what she looks like.
Speaker 6No, and he puts his arms around you.
Speaker 4Oh, fulcelani comes and puts her arms around the both of you, just assuming she's invited. Ash loves hugs. He runs up. Thank you so much, adventurers. You're so cute like just as cute as buttons, but you're so troubled. I wish I could make it better.
Speaker 3I forgot about, completely forgot about Auntie. I wish I could make it better. I forgot about, completely had forgot about Auntie. She's yeah, she's not in the hug, she's still there. I see her and I briskly walk up to her and I say I don't know what happens between the gods and what games they play, but I do know that there has been one person who has been with me my entire life, who has fought for me and who just fought a god for me. That is the person I love and that is the person that I will stay with.
Speaker 2But it's my fault. No, no.
Speaker 3What kind of God messes with the fun of a wedding? There's so many children they steal the chappals and we do the thing and we get the nose. And there's so many children they steal the chappals and we do the thing and we get the nose. And there's so many things. And that is what she banishes my parents for, or he?
Speaker 4I thought, like you're just supposed to like bribe them and get them back, exactly Like I would have just given you like 6,000 gold and gotten my sandals back Right, that would have been a much better turnout. Like that, that's probably like what's a reasonable amount of money, like 10,000?.
Speaker 3Very reasonable. I want to be invited to that wedding.
Speaker 4What could a banana cost Like 700 gold.
Speaker 3Exactly that. That's exactly what it costs. Do you have a banana? That's it, yeah.
Speaker 2No, la Diante takes the chapel off. This chapel that has done so much for her, has wielded a lot of intimidation and she can't even look at it the same, because it's now sort of the cause of her sister and her brother-in-law's. You know absence and she just gives it to you.
Speaker 4Why.
Speaker 2Why I? Uh, I don't think I could look at myself with this anymore. Maybe you have a better use for it. You can give it to someone who needs it, since I am the one who took it.
Speaker 4I have like a really random idea. I think it might work. And she takes the sandal in her hands and effortlessly crushes it into colored powder. It was Rakan's magic that bound them. She blows it on you. Do you learn the ability to cast Planar Shift? Ah, maybe, like his magic, can help me figure out how to get her out.
Speaker 3Oh my god, I have a spell.
Speaker 2Oh my god, what am I gonna do with a damn spell? I don't know how to do this.
Speaker 4You guys are so funny. You panic over such little things Like the universe. It's like balanced on a needle. Okay, chaos and order go hand in hand like a beautiful dance. And I can tell I'm really late for Rangali, which means a lot of people in Lachlan are gonna be really mad at me and Nuri's definitely going to have just been my heir, nuri.
Speaker 3Run back to where we had put her in the-.
Speaker 5In Gauri's shawl. In Gauri's shawl she's like we put a dead body in there.
Speaker 4Mommy is there with the dead body. Thank you.
Speaker 3And I run to Nuri and just check if she's bounced anything something.
Speaker 4You see her chest gently rising and falling Wow.
Speaker 3No, I don't know what's next?
Speaker 4Well, you need closure, you need a divorce, you need to have a better open relationship with your parents and you need to get me to my festival in Lockburn, because I've got some duties I need to fulfill.
Speaker 6Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it, yeah, absolutely, yeah, 100%. I well, yeah, I chose yeah that's it.
Speaker 4Yeah, absolutely, yeah, 100% I. I chose him because he's yummy.
Speaker 6No disagreements here.
Speaker 1The smoking beard looks pretty great, has something happened to me.
Speaker 6I haven't seen my reflection.
Speaker 1Take a peek in the lake buddy. A little bit of a glow-up.
Speaker 6I go and I peer in the lake. I reach out and grab him. Do you exist in the lake?
Speaker 4That's up to you. Do you think you would speak to them through the murky water, or do you think you've returneded to more bonnie forest?
Speaker 7I think I would have lingered around and I would have wanted to witness in my own way what they choose, because they were definitely curious from the moment I met them. Yeah, and if the Fixer is coming, I'll be close enough to see.
Speaker 6So if I look in the water and you're looking back, I'll turn and go. Yeah, you're right, my reflection looks absolutely incredible. Okay, listen, we did something extraordinary this entire trip. We have barely really known each other as a collective, and yet we were able to pull our resources together and we were able to take down a vengeful god himself. Mm-hmm, that's incredible. And free another.
Speaker 4I'm assuming you're all famous or something Kitana is very famous, as are you, lado.
Speaker 1Ante is locally famous.
Speaker 6Well, and you're now internationally known, world renowned. We can do anything as long as we work together. In fact, lodduwanti, the power wasn't in that individual chupple.
Speaker 2It was in the other one.
Speaker 1It was in the one you said.
Speaker 5You guys took both of them.
Speaker 6Well, the idea is it's in you and any chupple in your hand is one of the deadliest weapons that could destroy even the most powerful of deities. I know, not all of them can come back, but and I go and I'll purchase, like, as I'm saying, this, actually buy like a pair of chupples, but these ones can, and I'll infuse them with repeating shots. So now you have or sorry, returning weapon. So now you have a permanently returning chupple that doesn't come with a bunch of trauma.
Speaker 2She puts them on with a newfound passion and confidence. Yeah, I can hit people with any shoe. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 4So she like, so, selenia like, sits cross-legged on the floor between all of you guys, this strange saint of thieves, liars and wanderers, and she says but Joel, do you know why I play the?
Speaker 6villain in every play. Typecasting. Typecasting is my call yeah typecasting being put in a box.
Speaker 3I was going to say it's definitely a good award-winning move to play something that's very complex.
Speaker 6That makes sense. Yeah, it's a demeaning role.
Speaker 2Yeah, exactly, I don't watch plays, it's because it reminds people of two things.
Speaker 4When all those people are throwing their fake spells and the colored powder at me, as the powder falls, they all look the same Because, despite our differences, we're all the same, with the same heartaches and the same victories and the same worries. And I am willing to play the villain. Unlike Rakan, who is a villain, was Was a villain who is a villain. Was Was a villain Because by giving something for people to rise up against, they put aside their differences and they discover the power in themselves. You've discovered power in yourselves. You've also discovered kinship, love, friendship, and maybe you've lost, but I feel like you've also gained and you'll be better for it.
Speaker 4Even if none of this seems real right now, don't focus on what's real. When everything is gone, the only thing you'll remember is how you made people feel and how they made you feel. It has been my pleasure to be your Dungeon Master. You've all made me feel so special and I hope you feel as connected to each other and to this beautiful culture as I feel connected to each other and to this beautiful culture as I feel connected to you. This has been the Sequest I tried really hard not to laugh.
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Speaker 4God damn you, luis, everything you just said, again please.
Speaker 1Everything Well said. Adel, he's a vegetarian crocodile.
Speaker 5He's very sweet.
Speaker 2Crocodile mama, please.
Speaker 1He's vegetarian. Yeah, he's veg, he's veg.
Speaker 4So um.
Speaker 3Matt, that was the crocodile. He rolled. Well, they had a crocodile, that's why they had to get rid of him.
Speaker 1Rest in peace.
Speaker 3The croc had its day yeah.
Speaker 4Is that why you?
Speaker 3Sorry, that was distracting, that was really distracting.
Speaker 2Camera A take three. Thank you very much.
Speaker 6Oh, he didn't hesitate at all.
Speaker 1Take two. All right, ta-ta-ta-ta-tay.
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