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The real OG God. Craig.
Welcome everyone to Secret Invasion, Session three-part
three. I don't remember what I said
last week or the week before, but #3, our last session, the
group, let's see at the last, at the start of the last session,
two of our members vanished into the ether by being basically
atomized. Everybody experienced a tear and
shift in reality and then they continued about their death.
They decided to explore the portal that they had found.
Very cautious about entering it as they could not see what was
on the other side. After one of them threw a jello
shot through, they noticed that while the jello shot was passing
through the portal they could see what the was on the other
side. Oh, Justin, Justin take about.
Take about 45 minutes trying to break into some vehicles,
failing pretty badly before getting some help from the
others and driving the van halfway into the portal so that
they could sit in outside of the portal and view through the
passenger window into the room itself.
Through itself contained a large machine in the center that was
protected by a shield. The machine itself was the
mechanism controlling the portal, and in it you guys found
two recognizable objects, one being a phone, an iPhone owned
by Jillian, and another being the pocket rocket, which none of
you had seen previously, but one at least had recognized what it
was, picked it up, and pocketed it, so to speak.
They quickly realized how to unlock the portal or the shield
around the portal, and then decided to gallivant around town
by teleporting to the nearest White Castle, meeting a young
employee who was working there, seemingly alone.
They promised him to. They promised to take him away
from his boring life and into a world of adventure, if only he
would make them 30 or 40 hamburgers while they hit.
When he finished this, Justin decided to trick him by saying
they also ordered fries and they couldn't leave before they got
their fries. While he was making the fries,
Justin stole the hamburgers. The group entered the portal and
portaled the way, leaving the poor individual to clean up what
is surely quite a lot of property damage.
The group decided to portal into the prison near the Ross
Security or the Ross Prison Maximum Security prison nearby,
and before leaving they investigated the rest of the
room finding a cage with a orc in it that who was very clearly
dead even after one of the group decided to poop on the orcs
face. For that they were wearing pants
and shitting themselves and then having to change clothing with
the orc. They found out the orc worked
for a for the Kingdom of Socrates, which doesn't exist
here on Earth, and Justin found over by the work table a series
of plans that seem to indicate that at least two devices were
created, one small and one large.
And the small one seemed to be sitting on the table, which he
promptly left alone. And right before leaving, Jess
decided to run up, grab it, and grab the OR take a photo of the
paperwork on the wall and on the desk before the device exploded
upon touching it, damaging her pretty severely.
The group took a little bit of time to heal up and as I said,
decided to set the portal to the to the prison.
Exiting the portal, Olivia turned I think and shot a
fireball through the portal into the machine, which was actually
a person covered in bugs, killing him and sealing the
portal behind them. Turning around and surveying the
view behind them, they see what appears to be the yard of a
prison covered in corpses with a large pile of corpses in the
center. A lone prisoner runs, seemingly
scared, from the center of this pile before a large tentacle
like appendage whips out of the pile of corpses, grabs him, and
then reels him back and screaming.
And that is where we left everyone last week.
So. You guys see in front of you a
large pile of corpses that just reeled somebody in, as well as a
number of guards positioned on the roofs of the local
buildings, and a crowd of people kind of positioned just to the
northeast of you in a little key corner between the buildings.
Give the actual visual on that, yeah, let me move you.
Yeah, I'm gonna hear that. It's not a pile of corpses
that's moving. I think there's something in the
pile of corpses. That's a deduction.
A hint? All right.
How's that? Everyone can move themselves?
Yep, these are 5 foot squares actually.
Right, yes. OK I.
Think we're missing 2. 2020. 50 We need Bree.
Oh, I'm. Sorry, one person.
She was also one of the ones to have disappeared in that
pairing. Oh, yeah, that means she's back.
OK, hold on. I have to do that first.
OK. OK.
So Bree, last thing you remember is standing in front of a large
portal in the middle of a kind of pitted out landscape and then
suddenly you experience yourself atomizing.
It's excruciatingly painful. Can you make me a con save DC?
12 Constitution say there it is I die.
Six natural one. Yeah.
Not natural one. See.
Fine. So you you are conscious in what
feels like an empty void. Time has no meaning here.
As you float, you have no appendages or body.
You were simply a spirit, unable to see, taste or sense anything.
It feels like you're there for an eternity before suddenly you
feel a tickling sensation in your hands, which you've never
felt because you don't have hands.
You don't even remember what hands are.
And then suddenly, excruciating pain as you were atomized again
and next to all of you, you guys feel the world around you,
shake, twist, bend and tear as suddenly Brianna pops into a end
of view, screaming the entire time, falling through her knees
as outside of the player's perspective, a #8 ticks up from
7:00. Awesome.
I just caused the whole world to have another iteration.
My favorite. So you guys see her kind of Star
Trek atomize back into reality next to?
You. I run over to her.
I was like, what happened? What happened?
Oh, hi. Don't know.
I was. I was here and then I was
nothing and I was floating and I'm back.
You sound different. Do IA.
Little bit. I don't know.
Maybe it's a side effect of whatever just happened at.
Least you're back. At least you're back, Yeah?
Glad to have another back to this chaos.
Just. To warn you.
Giant pile. Pile of bodies.
We didn't do it. Do you hear muffled screaming
coming from the pile? Muffled screaming.
Okey dokey. Was that blood?
The smear there about last time was it's not new blood smear.
Nope. You guys see many corpses
nearby. That blood looks like that
thing, whatever it is, can pull. Got that kind of range.
Not a huge fan. I also definitely just realized
I rolled with the wrong character for my Constitution.
Safe. Oh yeah, it says vomitro at the
bottom. Oh, it's I I have the same
modifier, but I just realized it.
I mean, are you? Maybe you are Vamar.
It's possible. That's actually a good point
anyway. What should we do here guys?
This Gord server says I'm muted. I'm I'm fixing it.
I'm I, I, I I unmuted all of you there.
I muted her while you were doing your introduction because we
were getting some massive feedback.
So I got it. Was.
Helping the editing, yeah. OK.
So far so good. I just want to get my normal
headphones to answer. Well, I'd definitely say that
that thing is not to be trifled with, whatever is that thing is.
But my first thought here is to try and pin it down and then
beat the crap out of it. It's usually my answer.
Did you guys hear that screaming from the pile, too?
Yeah. Yeah.
Because I was going to say kill, kill it with fire until then.
Oh, you mean you because you think people that are alive in
there? I mean, yeah, fire might be a
doable thing. It might be preferable to
whatever is happening to the people in there right now.
That. Is true.
We're we're we're euthanizing then, Yep.
Yep, That's what we're doing now what are?
We doing now. I guess we're gonna euthanize
things. I mean it would be kind at this
point. True.
If we could drag anybody out after the fact maybe I could try
and bring him back from the bring him back from the brink
too at at the at the worst. But the little bit of burning
probably is is better than whatever is going on in there.
I can start with the opening move for you guys.
My my thought would be like I was saying to pin it down.
I've got this and I just like rub my nose and you see kind of
like a a silkier type of snot start to come out and it starts
to it's still attached to my nose as it's stuck to my hand
and kind of comes out. I've got a bit of a hot on how I
could anchor it down to its point.
I've got a bit of a gooey web like substance that comes that I
found coming from a nose and I don't know why, but it it can.
You know, I'll just do this display on VTT what it what it
can do instead of listing off a whole bunch of facts.
Unless anybody else has a better opener, it would be destroyed.
It wouldn't be completely destroyed if it were set on
fire. It would just.
Increase the flammability of everything around it.
Just FYI. Wait, that's Web?
That's fine. Yes, yes.
It does. The only fire I have is produced
Flame. Wait, I made a list.
I. Mean I have.
Fire bolts. I have catapult and fire bolt.
I don't know if catapult helps us here, but I'm happy to throw
fire bolts at it. Do we have anything?
Sorry. I'm a.
While you guys are discussing the the guards up on top of the
roof are actively shooting this thing.
All right, kill the fire, kill the.
Fire. Bolt.
Fire. So you want me to try and hold
it down in spot first? Yeah, that might be better to
keep it from moving around, although it does have tentacles
which might not be, which might not stop it from doing what it
does. Well, the webs are planable, so
in one round it'll burn them away and then it'll be free
again, right? Yeah, yeah, we gotta get closer
+4. OK.
It's not 120 feet. Oh, damn.
OK, you guys. As you guys are standing there
discussing what to do, you see the pile kind of shift a little
bit, and from the pile a large tentacle emerges holding what
looks like a corpse, and it chucks it into this group over
here. Which group?
Into this group of like prisoners and guards.
Like between the buildings. I've not seen your PIN.
Over here, yeah, OK, so it's going to roll and it's going to
hit and you see this thing begin using corpses like catapults.
That's cool. I'm going to shoot a Firebolt at
it. Pin it down with the web.
Do it. It's 11 to hit.
It's a good idea. I can try.
I have to get closer. Legally distinct.
Yeah. Great.
I think that should get me right within range for testing it.
If you want me to pass it again I think I have think basically
like I I I described where it comes from I just and spit and
it spreads out from my mouth at a giant web formation of 20 feet
wide in the air and would come over top of it or at least
attempting. Yeah.
I think it's not a save in so far as being able to cast it.
So it'll be a save on its part as you cast this and and then
need everyone to roll initiative.
You probably want to get the initiative.
Tracker how. Do I start?
Rolling. There's turn over there.
Yes. All right, it's open, it'll
it'll auto pop. I must ask.
You initiative or initiative saving?
Then I realized that was a real dumb question.
Sometimes we got to ask those questions.
Let. Me.
Mine worked. You got to be selected on a
token too. I forgot to remind everyone that
too. Well, I can't pick up my token
again. All the technical difficulties.
Right, they just. Pop up constantly.
Mine's not a we roll. Or can we apply it like after
the fact, you know? Oh, I wasn't collecting my
token. Oh, that would be.
I mean, I can I just add the man, Add the man.
Yeah, you can add people in and everything but it.
Yeah, that's good. And I didn't know that you had
to be clicked on your thing and then hit it.
In and if you haven't messed with it, the encounter builder
on D&D Beyond does a really good at auto populating these two.
So like if you have it, if you have the encounter up on like
another tab and then this turnover on when the rules start
coming through, even for the monsters and everything like
that, it'll populate on both screens.
Oh. Really.
Yeah. Yeah.
Fancy. It's nice.
All right. I see corpse pile, guards and
prisoners. And then Josh.
Let me see. Justin had 18.
I guess I'd add him. Add seven.
Yeah, 13. 818 but. 18 Oh, Josh had 19.
OK, Alex right now, right? I think so.
All right. Oh, yeah.
Where is Jesse's? Jesse's.
Where did you roll? I didn't roll because I couldn't
click on my character and I thought if I couldn't click my
character, I couldn't roll yet. I'm just adding them in
manually. Oh, you can't control your
character? Yell though.
Yeah. Gosh darn it.
I thought I'd fix that. I'm sorry, Tokens, you die.
I mean. Well, it even gives you a little
reminder. It said you wanted to send this
result of this role to the turn tracker, but no valid token was
selected. All.
Right. So 1212?
Yeah, I can't select anything. Am I on the wrong layer?
Nope. Still can't select yourself,
gosh Dine. You.
Just need to hold. On Yeah.
So ping. OK.
Ping just making sure that. It's controlled by.
Controlled by Jesse turn out. Yeah.
Sorry. All right, where did my turnover
go? There it is.
So let's draw Josh's 20 foot rectangle 20 foot by 20 foot. 20
foot cube. Is it what color?
Yeah, I make it green. Go for it green for mucus.
Green for mucus. Oh, it needs an actual square.
The Corp The corpse pile's gone and there's no screen there.
Now we're good. We won Let's.
Go and it's contain. Contain, he said.
Contain and eliminate. We contained it.
Yeah. Pack it up, boys, we're going.
Home. Mission accomplished.
Show the Bush clip. Anyway, so Josh, you cast web.
Let me pull the thing up. Each creature starts its turn or
that enters in during its turn. So on its turn it will make a A
check. OK, all right.
Were any of you else doing anything, or does it just drop
right into into combat? I mean, I.
Threw a fire bolt at it. You did.
Go ahead and make your attack, and then we'll drop or start at
the top of the order. Yeah.
So I hit it for 11. Was to was to hit and then it's
AC. That's an S Unfortunately, as
you shoot your fire Volt suddenly a tentacle will spring
from this like mound and then like slap it out of the way.
Oh. OK, it's sassy.
Like, Nah, Nah. Be a Shanah.
Not today, Satan. Not today, sexy Satan.
All right. Dropping back at the start of
the turn order. Josh, it is your turn.
You just cast web on it by Hawking a loogie on it.
It's a big 20 foot loogie. Big 20 foot loogie.
Yeah, your sinus feels great. Yep, I'm going to also, OK, I'll
be doing that soon, but that was this.
So first and foremost, I'm just going to poke the bear and just
be like trying to. I doubt I would just quick
enough to pull the crossbow at my hip up to try and shoot at
the pinnacle before it was back in, but wherever it went back
into, I'm going to try and shoot at that.
Go for it. That would be a 15, a 15.
As you shoot your crossbow, the tentacle that it slithered back
into, or that slithered back into the mound, you shoot in
that spot, however, it hits what appears to be the corpse of a
prisoner. Good, they didn't scream.
OK. With a soft side.
Give me What's your passive perception, Josh.
Not Great, 12, OK, You don't see anything?
OK. All right.
Anything else? Nope.
I'll. I'll keep.
Oh, I did have some bonus actions I can keep.
Feel free. I think only if I remember
correctly on the rule set too. You can only do full actions as
a readied action, right? It's not like a bonus action.
I've not seen anybody try that at least.
What's your bonus action? Just an unarmed strike.
If something came nearby near enough to me, like, like, you
know, 5 foot radius, obviously. Just like I'm, I'm ready.
I'm I'm gonna kick it or punch it.
Bonus. Action.
You cannot, unfortunately. That's what I thought.
Does the Internet. Yeah, no, that.
That'll be good. Then For, for, for my turn.
For now. Staying where you are.
Yeah. Justin.
All. Right.
Is this a a watchtower right there?
Kind of thing like a building it looks like or is it like a
shack? Is its cover essentially?
I think it's a watchtower, but let me look where is Google
Earth? Oh no, I don't have.
Google Earth installed in my computer.
What's wrong with that? We'll say it's a watchtower,
It's a. Watchtower Yeah, I'm going to
1st use my cunning action on this action to Dash and then I'm
going to go from where I'm at. Should be able to make it 60
feet. My walk in speed of 30 doubled
to like kind of the edge of this building.
So I'm going to do that. I'm gonna swoop on over here,
kind of using the building as cover or be able to duck behind
it, and then I'm going to right there.
I'm gonna fire my crossbow, I guess I probably can't see where
that tentacle went in from where Josh's angle would be, so fire
my crossbow at the pile, see what happens.
Sure. Go for it.
Or short bow, I apologize. 20 A
20 will hit as you sneak up behind this little building.
You poke your head around the corner take out your little
short bow and then just kind of like Squint and you see right
kind of to the left of where Josh's arrow or bolt landed a
small gap between the bodies and you take aim and you shoot and
roll your roll, your damage as this things and you see the
whole shut it like the pile itself, just shut it.
Well, it hits for five damage, looks like and then can I is
turning back to the group and saying something like any part
of action I think is that free. That's free.
That's. I turn back and like, yell
across the yard and everybody else.
It's like look for the hole in the bodies.
Hole in the bodies. A hole in the pile of bodies or
the. Hole in each.
Body no. The hole between the bodies into
the pile. Oh, OK, hold on.
I'm trying to figure. Out how this thing there it is.
It's not. It's smelling, It's smelling.
So. All right, all right.
You take your shot, you do five points of damage.
Do you want to do anything else to this on your turn?
No. I'm going to add my turn.
There. Do you duck back around the
corner? Back.
Around. Yes, do.
Actually, OK. The corpse piles turn as as
Justin takes his short bow and shoots his shot and hits the
pile itself. Shudders and screeches from the
inside as suddenly 6 tentacles sprout from from the pile
itself, and the two of them without one at Josh and one
attempts to slither around to find Justin in the direction
that it was shot from. As it cannot see you, so it will
attack at disadvantage on those two.
It can reach that far, it can reach that far.
Look at the bloodstains. That's true.
All right, so it's a + 8 to hit, +8 to hit, 2 + 8 to Josh.
Guessing that misses. Yeah, yeah, 1010 misses is it
shoots out after you, and then you just kind of hop, skip over
it, skip over it, and then it will roll at Justin and Justin.
You'll get I think 3 or half cover cover which is a + 2 ACI
believe. All right for myself.
Yep. All right, 6 + 8, so 14. +8 It
doesn't hit, doesn't hit. It zooms out and then slaps up
against the side of this building, right where you were
before you scooched back. As you see this large, probably
2 foot wide, 2 foot wide. It's kind of like Tentacle, but
what's your passive perception? What's your pass 15?
15 If with a 15 you can see that it's not really like scaled or
furred or anything. It almost looks like a tree root
of some sort. Like a tree.
Root. OK, so for the rest of its
attacks, it is going to pull out four corpses from the pile and
Chuck it at the group. Over here, over here.
So we'll do we'll go left to right, left to right.
So +8 to hit, 16 + 824 to hit Jesse. 4:00 to.
Hit. It's hitting me.
Yeah, I said. Left to right, 20 to hit Olivia,
20 to hit Olivia And yeah, a 16 to hit Brianna and a 16 to hit.
That hits. That hits.
And then it'll use its last attack to throw a corpse at the
guards over here. Although you see as it's
throwing corpses, it is revealing more and more of
itself. So each of these is going to be
one D6 of damage. So four to Jesse, 6 to Olivia,
and two to Brianna. Brianna and I need to roll
another initiative. Initiative 13.
What is happening? What's going?
On as when these corpses are bodily thrown at you and you are
hit by them, you would fall prone.
And as you lay prone, you notice that the corpses themselves
begin to stir, and one of them, kind of like starts reaching
over for you, Jess. Not cool.
One of us and they will enter the turn 13.
Best suggestion to you as of as a managing multiple things as
things all have the same turn, it makes it so much easier.
Yeah, got it. But I do the same thing.
Then we will have the. How do I delete this?
Can I delete one from the turn order?
Don't look like it, no. I don't remember there being a
way a specific way either. You'd have to like re rack it or
whatever. Yep whatever.
OK, well after getting thrown at you, each of these zombies is
going to try to slam or try to bite at you.
Try to bite at you. So it'll be plus 319 + 3 and
Jesse 18 + 3 on Olivia and 12 + 3 and Brianna?
Yeah, 12 plus. 3. And so if my armor class is 15
and you roll A-15, I forget does that hit?
If it meets, it beats it. Yeah.
So then miss. Oh yeah, that hits.
You said Miss Olivia, it's Olivia.
No at a 18 plus. Three.
So I think all three end up hitting all three end.
Up hitting wait. So if if it meets it wait so I
get hit, or it meets it it misses, I get hit.
If it meets. If so, if it's attacking you and
it hits your AC, you get hit. So if your AC is 15 and it rolls
A15A. 15 Yeah. Then I get hit.
Yeah. OK, Then I get.
Hit all right so going left to right so going left to right 636
jeez. And they made ADC 8 com save
from each of you ADC 8. Like ADC 8.
Com. Like a Constitution saving
throw. Like a Constitution saving
throw. Yeah.
Natural 20 Nice all right Jesse This that with your zombie
latches onto your arm and bites in deep as it as do the others.
However, as you look at your arm Jesse, a moment after the
attack, it seems to be kind of like foaming a little bit in
reaction to you being bit. Isn't that nice?
It is nice. I kind of start to forget like
this God damn thing bit me, this motherfucker.
All right, that'll be their turn.
And then Olivia, it is your turn.
Their turn. And Olivia, it is your.
Turn. Well, I'm going to lash out with
my trusty fire bolt again. 19 that will hit, 19 that will hit.
Now that there are more bots kind of generally open, then
really open it. Yeah.
And then I think that ignites
the web web does it not that ignites the web?
Web. Sure.
Web's very flammable. Web Ignite 5E Expose burns away
in one round. So what's a fair amount of
damage for this? Yeah, we'll roll for it.
For it because she's shooting the creature which is covered by
your web would that night not like start a fire?
Yeah, it it's suggests in there 2D4 fire damage to any creature
that starts to turn. That's on that fire on that web.
That's on fire. Got it.
OK, I will add 11 damage and why don't you just go ahead and roll
that fire damage now, OK, rolling that.
Would be 4. 4 total poor boy. Yeah.
Better than nothing? True.
OK, Olivia, what else would you like to do?
I am going to move. It's only 30 feet.
I figure we shouldn't be clumped together.
We're obviously making it easy for this thing to hit us.
Can't really go very far. All right there.
This didn't really change much. And where did you move?
OK, you're going to provoke an opportunity attack from that
zombie if you move past it. That's fine.
We'll roll with +3 and it will miss.
I assume with a nine it reaches for you.
Does that. Mean.
I can react, No. It's reacting to you leaving its
space, unless you have something that gives you a reaction to
something missing, an attack on you.
Nope, that's all. Then next on the turnover,
Jesse, you were laying on the ground with this zombie on top
of you. It is actively gnawing on your
arm. And you said just.
Drunk chicken. I should taste like White
Castle. I'm going to pull my pocket
knife out of my pocket and I'm going to attempt to stab it in
the face while holding it off with my other arm because it's
gnawing on it. Hell yeah.
Make your attack. 17. 17 will absolutely hit.
Hell. Yeah, whoa, hold two damage.
I am aiming for the face above my arm.
With two damage you you managed to stab this thing directly in
the eye. However, it is still happily
gnawing on you. I'll give you a bonus action
option to try to push it back from you, and I'll do this for
everybody if this happens to you, So it'll be contested
Strength check if you would like to attempt to push this creature
off of you. I would.
Zombie. Zombie has a plus one.
I don't think I succeed. I roll A3 or less.
Nope. So you try to push this thing
off, but the zombies are like. No.
Kentucky Fried Chicken and he continues gnawing on you.
You see kind of like a a darkish stain kind of growing up, going
up through your veins from where it's gnawing on you.
I I do want to mention that I am immune to being poisoned or
getting diseases. Oh, you are lucky.
As you see this, you see your body just like fighting back as
this poison that's running, this kind of disease that's running
up your bloodstream begins like, getting pushed back and pushed
back out of the wound on your arm.
It's very lucky. Yeah, I can't be charmed by Faye
either. So take that, take that.
All right. Anything else on your turn?
No, I'm just going to continue to, like, struggle to fight with
this thing and just wiggle the knife around in its eyeball.
Perfect. Brianna.
You get hit with a zombie full force in the chest.
It tries to bite you. It succeeds, but you don't get
poisoned. What do you do?
I look at it and I clutch my necklace and I stretch out my
hand and I cast Crowd of Madness on on the one in front of me.
What a nephew. Well, let's try to send this.
I don't know how the other is so zombie creatures.
I'm assuming they're humanoid. I corrected that.
I think so. Let me pull up the stat.
Pretty zombie, medium undead. Neutral evil.
I think it's humanoid zombies. Human.
Oh that Jesus. Undead include walking corpses
as well, as they are not humanoids.
They're not humanoids, God damn it.
In shape is an undead. Well, they look pretty humanoid
to me. Humanoid.
I will give it to you if you will let them roll with
advantage. Fuck it.
Let's see what happens. What's the save?
15 So Wisdom. Or Wisdom.
They have a -2 wisdom. Yeah, wisdom, for they have to
make a 15. 9/10/11 and they had an advantage. 9/10/11 same
thing. So they will fail as this zombie
described your crown of madness. Yeah, so this one here, this
like purple and black kind of smoke kind of weaves its way
around around its head and its eyes kind of have like a purple
glow. And it looks at me and I I look
at it and I tell him that one and I point to this guy and he
knows that you know next time he he is going to attack this guy
here with a melee. This zombie, who appears to be
the corpse of a security guard, looks at you, his body ragged,
his corpse or his clothing shredded, and he gives you two
finger guns. He says he turns to the other
zombie next to him and begins walking forward, which will
happen on its turn. Perfect.
Anything else from you? No, that's it.
All right. For the guards and prisoners.
The guards now seeing you guys enter the fray, all begin taking
potshots at this creature now that they can see a little bit
more of it. So there are six of them and
they each have little handguns. They have a + 3 to hit.
That's stupid. So 4518.
So only one of them will hit with their handgun, dealing 2D6
damage, 10 points of damage to this thing as it goes.
Several of these prisoners you see a commotion as they are kind
of like all backing up further away from from the creature.
They are defenseless. Josh.
What would you like to do? It's your turn and then Justin
on deck the so the the web is most.
It. It burned all the way way away
and it's going to take damage on its turn from that?
Or did it already take damage from it?
And. It's technically on its turn, so
it it is webbed until the end of its next turn.
OK, that would that does answer my question because the next
thing I will do then is cast. I'll show it the.
Easiest flame sphere for this one.
Sphere. Nice.
Yeah, I'll I haven't thought of this one exactly how I want to
do this one yet, but it's definitely more of a hand
gesture and. Well, fuck you.
Kind of motion towards towards the creature to create this you
you see, jump up almost from the ground flames around it in a 5
foot diameter, which actually I think the creature is bigger
than if I unless I'm misunderstanding the map, but I
wouldn't try to get it like centered on that location where
the creature is Sure it's about 20 by 20 from what you can see.
OK, so let's see. A 5 foot diameter sphere appears
in the Ah pad starts their choice.
Any creature that ends its turn within 5 feet of spear must make
a deck saving throw. OK are you ramming it on your
first turn with this sphere? Oh yes, the sphere is on top of
the creature currently, 'cause I can create it anywhere I can
see. OK.
I raised from his feet. So I need to make a dexterity
saving throw. And how does that work with web?
Did it give me disadvantage? There it is.
Must make a deck. Oh, starts its turn in the webs,
makes a deck save. Got it.
Rainbow two four starts turn. Doesn't give you disadvantage on
this on decks it looks like just restrains you.
But what does? That mean when you're trained
5E. Good question.
So Restrained speed becomes zero, has disadvantage on deck
saves, There you go. Answered that question.
Perfect. So this creature has a decks of
-1. What's your save?
Oh, the DC 1318 -, 117. It will succeed on disadvantage.
Oh, disadvantage. Yeah, you're right.
Sorry. No worries.
Hit 4. Plus -1 minus just three, it
fails. Fails so hard.
All right, then it does. 2D6 2D6 go ahead and roll 7.
Did I roll it? I clicked on something.
Oh. Look at that.
I can click on click on it from this on on side of roll 20s like
what's cool? Oh Yep, hot 7 all right.
So you kind of hand gesture and say fuck you, and a giant sphere
of fire erupts from you and Rams into this, this like a mound of
corpses. A number of the the corpses that
are actually covering this thing are now on fire, as well as the
web covering it as this just now looks like a backyard bonfire.
Hey, I think we're doing it guys.
We're catching it on fire. Oh, yeah.
That'd be the end of my turn. You hear it going.
Oh, wait, I did want to move. Sorry.
I apologize. I will move.
Is this like a mound here? I see a bit of a shadow.
Hold on, let me zoom out. Hang again.
Oh, sorry, I didn't. I didn't really ping.
I was selected on the measuring tool.
But this spot right here, basically it looks like maybe
it's a tree. I don't know a.
Tree. I think it's probably a series
of bushes, considering this is a prison yard.
Yeah, I figured it would be something like yeah, it's it's
like scrub brush maybe up to like your your knees or waist.
Well, I'm not very tall in real life, so I'll hide behind that.
Is that an action to hide or just you're crouching down?
Yeah, I'm. I'm just crouching down because
I don't wait. I can't.
I don't think I can take it as a bonus action as a monk.
It's a running thing, I was going to say.
So just getting behind cover sounds good.
Justin. Zombies on deck Or I mean not
Zombies. Corpse file on deck, I guess.
Same thing all. Right.
So I see this tentacle, like barely like miss me.
I think to myself, I'm like, all right now fuck this.
And as I was thinking this to myself, I see the corpse is
flying and then they get up and start biting on everybody else.
I want to essentially retreat. Cutting actions dash first.
So 60 feet back over here to to Jesse where this is Jesse.
Correct right here. What about there?
As you leave this things out or range, it's going to take an
opportunity attack on you. OK, Do I do anything for?
That it's going to roll, so D 20 + 815 + 8.
It hits. ME3 Yeah.
So as you are running away from the scene, suddenly you hear
behind you the kind of the the wet slytherin of grass as a
tentacle reaches and grabs your leg and you feel a tug of and
you slam onto the ground as you feel what essentially is like
something as strong as tree trunks wrapping around your
feet. So tendril and then you are
considered grappled. Yeah.
Do I get damage for that? There's no damage.
OK, gotcha. And can I is there any save
forward I have to wait till my next turn forward or something?
Like that. So you used your bonus action to
dash, so you have the option to try to use your action to cut
this thing away. Yeah, all.
Right. Well, in that case, yeah, I'll
turn around and try to fucking, like, cut it with my dagger or
like, stamp through it and, you know, rip it apart if I can.
AC19 or no? This one's AC15.
And do. Not fortunately, that'll be a
mess here. Dagger scrapes along the the
hardened like bark like texture of this tentacle all.
Right. That's all I got right now.
Corpse File begins reeling you in.
Lovely. Start screaming.
Fuck. Fuck.
Fuck. 10 As this creature begins pulling you in towards it, you
get dragged on the ground about 25 feet to it.
You are considered prone and grappled currently, considering
that's one of its tentacles. It will use another tentacle to
attempt to attack Josh, Josh. You'll have partial cover from
the grass. I can't remember what that is
that you said. I think last time it was like +2
to AC if I remember correctly. Half cover is yeah, that'll
work, +2 Daisy natural one, so the natural one.
I think this creature will probably.
It sends its tentacle out to grab you, Josh.
However, it gets stuck, I think in some of the the weeds here as
the thick brush kind of catches on it and there seems to be some
kind of like thorny vines in there.
So we're going to do three points of piercing damage.
To it, OK. And that's two of them.
By fatty damage to the fire. Damage from the Oh yeah, so you
had already rolled that and I added, I kind of added it to it,
OK, Unless you mean the the. Sphere, because it rolls when
it's, but it starts its turn if it any creature that ends its
turn within 5 feet of the sphere, OK, so it'll roll at the
end of its turn. OK.
So this thing is going to Chuck two more corpses into this group
over here, one hitting and one kind of like lamely splatting on
the ground and kind of rolling over.
And then it's going to try once more Josh with another tentacle
to grab you since you're in range 17 + 8 + 8.
Holy. Crap. 24, I think.
No, 25. Yeah.
I mean, yeah, that'll do it. You see one tentacle get caught
in the thorny vines of this Bush that you're kind of hiding
behind. What's your AC?
Because you have the +270. You got shield.
I didn't. I didn't activate anything like
that. No.
Well, shield's a reaction if you have it.
Oh, yeah, right. I was going to get that.
I was so close to getting it. But I I chose some other
sanctuary and some other things that I was like, oh.
It should be fine. Sure.
All right, you feel this thing. Suddenly you're kind of laughing
at the tentacle that got caught in the grass as another one
wraps around your waist and tightens.
And then it will use it that last action to reel you in by 25
feet 20. 5 feet. And you run into a corpse on the
ground. It's gross.
I mean, I still stink of shit. So true, by the way.
I got all that off of me. And say, I thought you changed
your pants. Yeah, I got.
I got. I did change my pants.
You couldn't wipe though, so before its turn ends, the zombie
we'll we'll do the deck save for it since it's finishing its
turn, so deck save. It's no longer restrained
because The thing is gone now, so still a 2.
Roll your damage on your fire. The sphere that did you.
Did you want me to roll it again because I did roll that seven
from previously or so. If you read it, it's if when you
ran it into a creature for the first time, it makes the save,
and then if a creature ends its turn next to it, it makes a
save. Ah.
I see. So it didn't move.
That's why I got you now. OK, they left the giant burning
sphere on the creature. 2D6 and Olivia, you're up next.
And 10. Nice.
This creature screams right in pain.
Meanwhile, this zombie is going to try to bite Jesse again.
That's cool. Plus three 7 + 310 guessing
that's a no. Say that again.
A tend to hit. Does not hit.
And then this one, seeing you being the closest thing to it,
going to move to it towards you and roll as well. 8 + 311 to
hit. 11 to hit. Yeah.
That it's. OK, and roll.
It's a bite on you for four damage as you don't need to make
the convey. Then this zombie turns to
Brianna, gives her finger guns, walks over here while this guy
is biting Jesse. This guy is going to try to bite
this zombie. So the +3 to hit 19 + 3, that's
definitely going to hit, dealing three points of damage to the
zombie. Perfect.
And then you guys hear a commotion up here from one of
the other zombies that that got thrown, but you can't really see
what's going on. And then it will move to
Olivia's turn. All right.
So I'm going to continue to move.
All right, about there, and I'm going to try.
To hit, hit the dark one again. Bam. 11 will miss,
unfortunately, as it hits some of the the corpses on the on the
pile itself, contributing to the fire.
Contributing to the fire. More fire, but you missed
anything else with your turn, Jessie, and then Brianna's on
deck. OK, so I have two zombies on me
right now. Yes.
So the one that's currently got a hold of my arm I am going to
do. I know if zombies are flammable.
I mean, do you? You tell me.
You're you. What do you know from TV shows?
That they're wet and not very flammable and less ignited with
a liquid. I guess I'm just going to
continue with my knife because I don't think a fire will do
anything to this guy. No.
You know what I'm going to do? Produce flame in my hand and
then just shove it into the zombie's face like the the hand
that's holding the knife. I'm going to pull the knife out
and drop it and then produce flame in that hand and just
shove it into the eye socket where the knife had been.
Hell yeah, Tell me what produce flame is flame.
Produce flame. A flickering flame appears in
your hand. It's a can't trip.
The flame remains there for the duration and harms neither you
nor your equipment. You can also attack with it,
which it gives you the attack for throwing it, but I'm just
literally holding it in my hand and shoving it in this thing's
face 2D8 damage. Go ahead and make your roll.
Or roll no. 21 to hit. Yeah, hell yeah, that'll
absolutely hit. Roll your damage as you pull
this kind of gobble little flame in your hand and you just get
off. Get off, you stupid beast.
Nine damage. Yeah, I'm literally struggling
cursing. With nine damage, you see that
this thing kind of like crumples to the ground, seemingly dead.
However, it's going to make its undead Fortitude of DC +55, plus
the damage taken. You rolled 9 + 5, so it needs to
make ADC 14 and a zombie has a Con save of +3.
It will succeed as it like becomes still.
You kind of like gasp to yourself, says You think you've
killed it as this creature stirs once more and goes Kentucky.
Fried. Chicken.
I kind of just muttered like it seems like Castle, you bitch.
And I try to just like just continue to struggle with it.
I'm just trying to get away from it.
I. Don't have taste buds?
OK? You want to make your bonus
action push shove attempt? Yeah, which everybody gets,
yeah. I want to attempt to like, get
away from it. Which one?
The one that's attached to my arm?
Can I attempt to, like shove it off me in the direction of the
other one? Try.
Let's go ahead. And make a contested strength
check. I rolled a natural 20.
Yeah, I do not succeed. You try, but this thing has now
got its teeth sunk into your arm so deep that it you can kind of
feel it grating on the bone as as push as much as you can, it
will not get off of you. I scream at this point, feeling
it's getting that deep into my arm.
All right. Anything else?
Bloody murder? Let out a curse word?
I'm not having a good time, guys.
All right, Brianna. OK, so the zombie could make a a
save at the end of its chart if it wanted to.
Oh yes, sure, I will do that. What's the save?
15. It fails badly.
It turns back to you and finger guns you again while it's
fighting the other guy's neck. OK.
Let's see, what do I want to do? Sorry, there's a lot happening
right now. I'm going to.
Five feet? Cute.
Oh, I'm just gonna run over here.
I think that's 30 feet. Oh, all right, turn and figure,
goes the zombie. Back to tell them, you know,
keep attacking that zombie. Yes, yes, please keep attacking
the zombie. Yes, so that's movement action.
Can you move more on a bonus action?
Only if you have Rogue or the ability to dash as a bonus.
Gotcha. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. OK.
Yeah. The That's my turret,
unfortunately. On the guards in prisoner's turn
three of the guards on three of the guards each are going to try
to take shots at these tentacles that are pulling Josh and Justin
in as they had seen what happens before.
So rolling 3-D20 for Josh's they have a + 3 to hit AC15, Natty
20, and oh, all three are going to hit.
That's excellent. Doing 66 damage to the tentacle,
doubling the first one or the 1st 2:00 so 34812141921 points
of damage to this tentacle as the tentacle itself snaps as in
a hail of gunfire. As Josh you have this remains of
this tentacle like this spark like tentacle wrapped around
your waist. However it is stop actively
reeling you in going to have to save that for later and the
other three will attack the one for Justin 11 so plus there are
two of them will hit in 46 damage 13.
See what are the numbers I have written down by this baby here.
C20. Yeah, and with 13 hit points,
the guards will also snap the tentacle that's wrapped around
Justin's foot. As you are both now prone on the
ground but no longer being actively reeled, you see other
commotion as what appears to be a group of prisoners are
surrounding something and beating it with rocks.
All right, and then it will be Josh's turn and then Justin on
deck. Josh, you are no longer being
real then you are a prone on the ground, having been dragged 25
feet on your back towards this corpse file, you are basically
laying on top of another dead guy prisoner.
We'll see a prison guard. So Justin, with your passive
perception you would you would notice that the guard is wearing
a pistol. What guard is that?
I'm sorry. So you're laying on cops on top
of this? I got you now.
Sorry. You're all right.
You got pulled directly towards them and happened to like get
dragged right into this dead guy.
I get you now. But then my other question was
about I missed. I missed it too.
Is Justin still attached here? No.
No, He was also freed. OK, great.
But. Prone means I have to use all of
my movement to get up or something like that, right?
Or I forget what exactly half of my movement.
OK, How's the creature looking? Do we?
Can I can. Can I tell if any of the like,
go ahead and make me a give me a perception shot.
OK. Not a saving through.
I don't know why there it is down here.
It'd be a 15. With a 15, you kind of get the
sense that this creature is not quite bloodied, but you've
definitely gotten a number of shots on it and the corpses
around it have now kind of burned and smoldered down as
well as the ones that it's throwing.
It's moderately now well revealed, especially being as
close as you are. You see in the center of this
pile of corpses what appears to be like a skull, like rhizome
type of thing, with the root systems coming out the the
bottom of it. It appears wooden in in origin
and kind of has a soft purple glow to it.
So hurt but not bloodied. You said that Ryzen was under it
like the the the what was revealed was a large skull like
you know tree nodule with the with root like tentacle
tentacles coming out from under it.
Yeah, the monster itself, under the pile of corpses it had
covered itself in. OK, so as far as a minute ahead
goes, that wasn't a minute in your mind, right?
That's how long per sphere was is up the concentration a minute
is 10 turns. OK And the concentration was the
other aspect of it. What would you like me to roll
to keep that concentration? Because it says concentration up
to one minute. I think that's.
True. Is usually the.
It is. But you didn't take damage.
That's true. I didn't.
I guess not. So I I think that also web is
also finished because it got burned away after turn, right.
Yep. Yeah.
I didn't have to hold on. So you're no longer
concentrating. It was for the sphere is what I
was talking about. Whether Oh yeah, sorry if that
sphere's still there. If that's.
Up I have another action I could do.
How? Far is it though That's a. 60
Now I can only move it. 30 Dang. Well, let's just stay on top of
this creature since I'm the closest and everybody else is
dealing with something else, so I'm just gonna ram it again with
that sphere. That's only a bonus action.
I'll get back up as well, and as I am getting up, would you say
it'd be an action to take that pistol from the corpse or it's a
free action to pick items up? OK, so I pick it, pick it up.
Covered in blood. Play game.
While. Trying to walk backwards towards
the cover. Let me see here five 10/15/20 as
far as as far as I can make it 'cause I have 40 movement so gay
monks and yeah, taking. Sure I don't know what you treat
it as a hand crossbow, but it is 2D6 damage with OK similar range
for a hand pistol. That's an 11 to hit.
You're are you, You're probably not yourself super proficient
with using handguns as you attempt to pull your pull
yourself up off the ground and start rapidly backing up while
taking shots at this thing and unfortunately you will miss.
Oh yeah. How does that work with this?
Because a crossbow is like one shot per, I'm just adding extra
damage. Ah.
OK. I see, 'cause everything I found
online is like guns. You can't do them in D&D.
They ruin everything. Yeah, there's a.
Little. About.
Handguns are a little bit easier to handle than, like automatic
weapons. Yeah.
In this future, the Democrats banned automatic Rothens.
I mean, well, I think that would be my turn then.
After ramming it with that spear, like that spear like I
had mentioned, which would do another 2D6 damage.
Yeah, inspection. So it'll be a deck sale on its
part. Yep.
That's going to be a fail. Roll.
Wait. Yeah, assault my rifles. 9 nice
assault rifles might exist in here one day.
It's just I don't currently have them figured out.
Good talk to Jesse. Plus, I don't think prison
guards have assault rifles. Do they they?
Might have. They're probably in the prison
like locked up, though, Like like an Armory in case of like
a. They normally have like single
shot rifles or shotguns or the beanbag guns.
Got it. Oh, that makes a lot of sense
for that close quarters, 'cause that spray and prey option
doesn't doesn't work. Too good for friendlies and now
sort of close quarters. Yeah, and they do normally have
them under like, lock and key. They're not just out and about.
They bust them out in emergencies.
Kind of like how this would probably qualify as an
emergency. I think it would.
All right. If that's it, then it'll be
Justin on Justin and then the enemy's on deck all.
Right. So I I realized the the tentacle
like is has been blown apart and I'm essentially free now, like
kind of like use half my movement to supplement my feet,
you know as I'm doing it. I like fucking look up at the
roof and like fucking throw my hand up.
Like thank you. And then so question game
question. If I use Cunning Action to dash
on a bonus action, I have 30 feet of movement 15 to get up.
That leaves me at 15 and then I use it.
Does it give me 30 or does it give me like?
You'd be now at 45. At 45 you use half your movement
15 feet to get up. Then you Cunning in action
dashed AW movement speed adding adding another another 30 to
what you have left. OK, cool.
So I'm going to get up. I'm gonna think to myself like,
that didn't work, obviously. I'm gonna go back to my little,
my little cover spot right on the corner.
I'm gonna take a shot with my my short bow, go for it before I
do. So I'm gonna try to glean like
any like is there any weak spots now that we've done some damage
to it? Go ahead and roll me.
Roll me an investigation, and I kind of generally give at least
one free roll of some kind every turn.
OK. If you want it.
Investigation, OK. Yeah.
You you would kind of spot similar to what Josh has now
that this thing has thrown a couple of the corpses away from
it, and some of them, a number of them have kind of, like
burned away and like sloughed off you.
You do see the center of this creature.
As for a weak point, you would maybe guess.
So what this looks like is like basically a root skull, maybe
about like I said, 20 by 20 with a number of root tentacles
coming out from basically with the neck hole.
So As for a weak point, you think maybe if you were to
somehow like seal or cauterize off the bottom of like the neck
hole, that might be effective somehow, but you see this
creature for what it is. OK, well I'm going to got to
take a shot with a sword bow at that that neck hole.
Shoot the neck hole. The neck hole.
Blast the neck hole. 24 to. Hit 24 absolutely going to hit
with sneak attack too. Wait.
No, it just puts a little. Phone.
There. I don't think anyone's close
enough. Got it.
So yeah, with a 24, you'll definitely strike the base of
this creature, dealing another eight points of damage to it.
What is this number divided by two just so I can tell you when
it happens? Yeah, you see your your arrow
sink into the neck hole, but it doesn't do any extra damage due
to it. Not, you know, sealing it or
anything. But you can probably if you want
free action. Shout out to the others about a
potential weakness if you would like.
Yeah. I'd.
I'd turn around after I like kind of like shoot the shot and
lean back against the wall, kind of move back around the corner
like I more I should have like 5 more five more feet, something
like that. I turn back, I look back over to
to to Bree and I was like there's something at the bottom
of it. Aim for that and then I'll have
my. Perfect.
Great. All right.
The corpse pile no longer bound by web.
It moves because I totally forgot that it moves.
For. The movement speed of 10 feet.
It may be pretty far if it came from the portal.
It took a while to get. Here says it got here by itself,
so it's going to shoot tentacles out at Josh, Brianna, Jesse and
Justin, all four of you. Justin's going to be at
disadvantage. Jesse also at disadvantage
because you have half cover from zombies that are on top of you
and so move it from away from. The zombies use my reactor to
cash shield. Hell yeah.
Well, let's wait until it rolls the hit to see if you have to
use it. OK.
So going from left to right, Justin at disadvantage, +8 so 12
+ 820 to hit. Is it disadvantage?
At disadvantage, yeah, I rolled a 12 and a 16.
OK, got you using both. OK, so it's 20 to hit.
That does hit, but I'm going to use uncanny dodge.
Will that work? Because I don't know if he's
trying to grapple me like he did before.
Will that negate that because it's supposed to have the
damage? OK, I'm Candy Dodge.
It's an attacker that you can see.
I guess I he can't. I guess I can't.
Can I see him from this position?
Starting at fifth level 1 attacker you can see hits him an
attack. He's his reaction to have the
damage. It's not damaging you, it's just
grabbing you, OK? Yeah, gotcha all.
Right. So you see one of these
tentacles slap down around the side and grab you.
Two of them are still on the ground, so there appears to be
only four left. However, you are now grappled by
this thing and then to Brianna +8, so nine and +8 is 17 to hit.
Yeah, that hits SO SHIELD, which has plus five I think, so I'm
going to cast it. Oh, just hit twice.
Slips so but put it up to AC as a 20.
Oh yeah. What does your shield look?
Like. Very good question.
And then just a reminder, everybody has a one time SHIELD
token on them that they were given by the the organization.
That's also true. What does my shield look like?
It's just kind of like I like I put up my my arm, my forearms,
so it's like perpendicular to my chest and then like from it just
like this like kind of like almost almost invisible but like
a little bit opaque, kind of like kind of like it almost
looks like a bubble, but it just kind of like like shoots out,
just kind of like in a big like Oval Oval shape to block the
attack. Oh yeah.
So you slam your arms together in front of you, or your
forearms together in front of you, and as they connect,
suddenly in front of you a giant bubble of energy appears as this
tentacle that would have hit you suddenly slams into it and is
revert like kind of like reflected off of it.
Yeah. All right, Jesse at
disadvantage, Lucky 2 + 810. Oh, maybe not.
Lucky you're covered in zombies. Nope.
As it runs forward, wait, hold on, let me roll AD 28.
If it's under five, it grabs a zombie as the thing tries to
grab you it. It wheels around and snacks this
zombie. However, it doesn't latch onto
it and. Then zombie stumble away from
me. We'll roll AD 20 under 5.
Nope. It holds on with a vicious grip
of someone who really likes what you taste like.
I scream again. And then one more at Josh.
And then that will be the end of this creature's turn that's
going to miss as it. Well, there's forward now, a
little bit disoriented as it's taken damage and it's kind of on
fire currently. As this current thing kind of
lashes out and you kind of hop skip over it as it kind of
lashes for you, then these two zombies are going to continue to
try to eat Jesse fun. Fun.
Plus three each. So we've got a 19 + 3 for this
guy and then the natural one. So on the natural one, this
guy's going to get confused and he's actually going to bite this
guy. This guy is going to bite you.
Well, this guy bites this guy, so yeah.
You know, somebody made a human centipede joke earlier today.
That's. True.
Was this happening? Was that foreshadowing?
I don't like it. That puts you at the front or
the end. I think the end.
Oh, Josh. Wants the end, OK.
Yeah, I think it. I think this chain of events
puts me in the front. All right, so the first one's
going to roll to hit or hit you, and it's going to bite you for
five points of damage. As it's now, it's good chunk
like way through your arm now. Like your forearm is like pretty
wrecked right now as this one is going to now roll to hit this
zombie because it got a natural one.
It's going to hit, dealing one point or one D6 damage to this
zombie, taking five damage, which knocks it out, causing it
to roll ADC 5 + 4 nine CON save, which it fails, so this zombie
dies. Yay.
Stupid.
Well, the zombie killed something.
Hey, somebody did it. Truth.
OK, and then this zombie is going to try to bite this
zombie, since it's still under the crown of madness, it's going
to hit, dealing 1D6 damage to it.
Only one, and then at the end of its turn it makes ADC something
save which it'll fail to continue to be under the Crown
of Madness there. I wish it did more damage.
I wish it did too, but we. Did it's been rolling so low on
the damage? Except for that time.
All right, then it is Olivia and then Jesse on deck.
I'm. Gonna keep going with good old
trusty fire bolt, fire bolt. Hell yeah.
That'll hit you. See this creature?
This rhizome skull tree creature with tentacles and you shoot a
fire bolt right at it and you hit it feeling seven points of
damage is this thing gets hit right in the iron circle.
Plus. Seven.
And as you do that, you guys kind of see that it it appears
to be leaking a a reddish brownish map from many places on
its body as this creature appears bloody.
Oh, Maple syrup. Hatch on fire More maybe.
Let's roll. I'm going to give it a 5050
chance under 10 and it will not over done it will 18 it will It
begins burning a little bit more as this creature begins dying as
it gets lit on fire. Olivia go ahead and give me two
D4 fire damage as it will start taking this at the end of each
turn or it's start of and start of its turn I don't care once
turn once around I don't care 4. Nice.
It's burning a little bit. It's like ow.
Burning a little bit. OK, Olivia D Would you like to
do anything else? Wait, what?
For. This thing OK?
Staying where you are. Nope.
That's it. I like where I'm at, Jesse.
Yep. All right, so the thing isn't
like, laying on top of me. I would say it's like half.
So you're so, yeah, you're like prone on the ground this, this
one is kind of like laying over your legs.
But it's, I mean, it's a person you can kind of just shove it
off this one. I guess it's kind of leaning
down over you and then this one, leaning down over that one.
OK, well I want to like roll the dead one into the other one.
OK, in an attempt to knock the other one away or?
Yeah, to like, knock it away from me.
Or at least, how? Would you like to do this?
Well, you said it's laying across my legs.
So I guess I'll just kind of like try to grab like the
shoulders or if there's any shirt left on it, shoulders,
just grab those and use my legs to kind of like toss it over to
the other zombie. Sure.
So I think that would be a so if you're trying to throw the
zombie at it, would it be an attack?
But if you're trying to shove this one off of you, it would be
a strength shack. Unless you have, I could give
you acrobatics from being like utilizing like the weight of
this body and like your own, you know, person to kind of
cantilever it over on him so. Yeah, what would you like?
Just like not trying to really make it an attack, but to just
try to disrupt this thing from being right next to me.
Yep. So go ahead and make me a
contested strength or acrobatics at your choice.
I'll do strength. Negative point for me 6.
Oh. My God.
Yep. So I rolled the 7 -, 1 six,
which beats A5. So you very pathetically pull
this zombie and kind of shove it into this other zombie who kind
of also pathetically barely doesn't get knocked over.
I got one working hour guys. I believe in you.
So did that count as like my main action?
No, I'll use that as your bonus because I said before you can
attempt to shout. OK.
Well, I'm just going to kind of like after like failing to
struggle with this limp body, just turn to the the creature
next to me. I'm going to extend one hand out
and I'm going to cast Entangle. Hell yeah.
Throw that up on the board for me, I.
Heard it OK there. It went. 20 foot square starting
point within range. Duration needs difficult
terrain. Preaching to spell, Spell saving
throw, or be restrained? Kind of.
So I need to roll two of them for both of these guys.
And the strength saves 91, so a 14 and an 11 left to right.
What's your spell save DC? 15. 15 Both of these creatures
will fail as they are now bound. Hell yeah.
Like something like that. Oh God, can't I make that
transparent there? Great.
I'm going to stand up, pick up my pocket knife and pocket it,
and I'm going to ready my bat to aim for this thing's head.
Hell yeah, staying where you are.
Yeah. OK.
Brianna, you're you're up. And then, Josh, on deck or
guards on deck, you're muted there.
We go, yeah, it just took me a second to get to the unmute
button. All right, so can I look and see
like and tell if out of the two zombies like, which one is more
hurt? Sure.
So this one here that's attacking Jesse seems more hurt.
Well, this one seems to be under the effects of some magical
thing that you were. Right, right.
Running. OK.
Oh, so yeah, because he hasn't taken really any damage.
All right, I would like to cast Magic Missile, which will in
turn disperse the Crown of Madness.
Unfortunately, and I'm going to split my darts up between the
two and I'm going to cast it at Level 3.
Hell yeah, third level.
What does that do? Hold on, I don't.
So one. 33 Glowing Darts Each dart hits a creature of your
choice within range. Yeah, so.
It creates one more dart for every level that you do above
first, so you would be. Throwing 5 darts. 5 darts.
So I'm going to shoot two at this lawn and three at this one.
Great. Guess we just.
Use this roll, or do each one get their own D4 roll.
They should all each get their own roll.
OK, so then it's just a roll. I'm just going to roll it
manually. Yeah, D4, I'm just going to roll
it manually. So this.
So these first two are going to be for the guy right in front of
Jesse. So three so that 3 + 1, so it's
four and then four. This one is 5 S 9.
Nine points damage. Hell yeah as this guy crumples
down to the ground and makes himself a four 5 + 5 DC 10 CON
save. He will.
What are zombies plus 2-3? Nope.
He succeeds as he drops to the ground at one HP, or he dies and
then comes he's back with one HP because he stirs again to life.
That's right. That's right.
All right. And then I'm going to do the
next three at the second guy, so 11 + 314.
Yep, that'll drop this guy too. I guess it's all at once, isn't
it? So if it was all at once,
actually. 456. 789 The first one would remain dead if we're doing
all of this damage at once versus his save being reliant on
one of the missiles, and then this one would drop him doing 4.
12/13. 14 + 5 He needs ADC 19 con save, so it's 50 plus 35678
fails as well As you use your magic missiles and dispatch both
of these zombies. Just what do your magic missiles
look like? They're just like, like like
darts. Like actual darts.
Like you throw in a dart board, but they're like glowing lights.
Looks like, just like a glow. It's like in the shape of a
dart, but it's just kind of like glowing.
Nice. So you pull these darts kind of
out of thin air just very, very much in the in the dartboard
pose just. Throw five of them at.
Once hitting the number hitting these two zombies and they both
fall dead to the ground and do not rise again and.
I just shout. I got to jazzy.
Let's get the big one and then let's see action movement.
What's this? This thing.
Yeah. I can zoom in as much as I can.
I'm going to say a drain. OK, I wasn't sure if it was
something I could like hide behind.
I don't think that would be 1. OK.
They need to hide behind this building.
There's partial cover here and then I.
Think this is a. Little plot of like garden.
We're just going to continue to try to keep us spread out.
Ish. Like, just go over here.
OK, that'll be my turn. Sounds good.
Next up, prisoners and guards. The guards will once again open
fire on this creature and now that it has kind of abandoned
its its corpse pile. So six of them will shoot and
one only one of them is going to hit, unfortunately dealing 2D6
damage, right?
And Josh And then Justin on deck, seeing the fire, seeing
the neck hole, and still in possession of the flaming spear.
I will take the one or two steps that it gets to get me to behind
that partial cover there finally again.
And guide the flaming spear as a bonus action into that neck hole
with hopes of breathing even more fire.
Oh yeah, go ahead and let's see. It's a deck save for me, which
is gonna fail. So go ahead and roll your
damage. And if you're shoving it right
into the neck hole, double it. Oh, OK.
Fire right into the neck hole. Double the dice or double the
eventual damage. Double the dice 4D6.
Fun. That is 15.
Oh, yeah. That's doubled.
Yep. Not doubled.
Oh, not. Wait.
You said you said double the dice.
So there's 4D. Yeah.
Yeah, that's right. All right.
This creature begins screaming as the fiery sphere, kind of
like begins jamming itself into the neck hole of this creature
as some of the tentacles begin arriving and like whipping
around wildly in pain. That was still just my bonus
action and my movement. I didn't think you would count
it as an action just to try to speak with it.
It like, be like, are you done? Will you will you comply?
Will you? Speaking is a free action.
OK. Does it say anything to me, like
trying to talk to it? It begins screaming and
shrieking in an unhuman like sound or in an unhuman language.
What are the languages you speak?
The shot Quite a few. Celestial Common Hadozi and
under common you. You do not understand what it's
saying. God.
Dang, anyone with Infernal would understand anyone.
Anyone going to chime in. Infernal no.
Infernal no, Infernal All. Right.
Well, I tried. And then I leveled the handgun
at it again, I guess. And you said just roll the
crossbow. Yeah, like.
And then it's 2D62-D6 damage. 17 will hit.
Oh, I thought it was 19. Yeah, 17 it was.
But it's moving out of, it's moving out of its protection
zone and it's throwing its Shields away and it's on fire.
The AC of this creature is dropping as it's as it's
attempting to get at you guys. Nice.
OK, So yeah, so 2D6, you said, right?
Correct. That would be 5.
You fire your handgun into this thing.
It sounds much more manly than that.
Does it? Does it have eyeballs, By the
way? This creature?
Yes. You tell me, Josh, Did your
skull rhizomes in your game have eyeballs?
No, just eye sockets. Yeah, just eye sockets then.
Oh, OK, that level. Got it.
All right. Anything else?
Nope. Justin.
I'm grappled by a tentacle right now, right?
That is correct. That is unfortunate.
I guess all I can do so there's like, I have to.
The only way to get out of this thing is to try to attack it.
It looks like or sounds like Can I just, there's no, like check.
I can make it try to like wiggle out of it or like try to like,
you know. Pull it off.
You could attempt to make a Strength contested strength
check if you would like. Does that would that use any
action or anything? Or is that just?
Say that once more. Does that will that use my
action? Yeah, it's your action to either
to attempt to break out of a grapple all.
Right. Let's try it.
An attempt to just like kind of pull this tentacle off my foot,
leg, whatever it is, and kind of get free.
It has a + 510. You will succeed just barely, as
you managed to wiggle your foot free of this this vine creature
all. Right.
And now that I'm free, I'm gonna just tap my movement to stand up
and I am going to Is the tentacle retracting?
Is it kind of just sitting there now that I'm free?
Is what? Is the tentacle retracting or is
it kind of sitting there now that I'm free?
It's kind of sitting there, but you're not.
If you move away from it, you won't provoke opportunity.
It has a outer range. OK, gotcha.
Yeah, I'm going to, I'm 15 feet left, so I'm going to move a
little bit away from it, kind of like right here.
And then I'm going to take another shot with my my short
bow. Do it.
Action 12, It's going. To mess.
Unfortunately, I think that's. All I got.
Shoots over the head. That is all I have.
All right. On its turn, going to move 10
feet. Going to shoot tentacles.
Has four of them. Justin.
Brianna. Jesse.
Wait, no, Jesse's just out of frame, so it'll be Justin.
Brianna, Josh, and Olivia will be in target range, so going
from left to right +8 2 + 810 to hit Justin.
Miss Miss. Yes.
You have your eye on the tentacle that you just escaped
from, so you see it whipped towards you in reaction to you
getting away, and you very nimbly dodge using your rogue
like Waze praise. So for Brianna to 19 + 8, I'm
thinking that's going to grab you.
Yeah, that's going to grab me shit.
And a 10 + 8 for Olivia. Does anyone know her AC off top
of your heads Should be able to see it.
Yeah, you should be able to see it.
If you're in the Beyond campaign and be able to click on her
sheet, I should be able to also see it.
Fun fact, if you need campaign, have a quick reference.
The app has, like the D&D Beyond app on the campaign has all of
that information quickly accessible that you need.
Sweet. She is a 13 AC from what I'm
saying, so she's going to get grabbed.
And then Josh, you're at partial cover for so +2 and it's going
to get a Natty 20, so that's still +8, So 28 to grab you.
Oh. Yeah.
And then it's going to reel everyone in 10/15/2025.
What's? Five, 10/15/2025.
Did we do damage yet or not yet? You have not taken damage from
this, OK? Or just being.
Dragged right now. Reeled.
Yep. Did it move from where it was
moments ago? It did.
Oh, yeah. I mean, it needs to make a spec
save, right? Yeah.
For the fire girl deck, save 14 + 1 negative 1.
So 13. What is it in this case?
If it is, it also meets it beats it situation because it's my my
DC is 13. Yeah, if it meets the beat DC it
always beats it. OK, yeah, I'll just double,
double checking. Yeah.
So it will avoid the fire by kind of like picking its neck
hole up off of the Sphere of fire and gingerly moving away
from it. On its turn, though, it does
take 2D4 fire damage from being on fire and having SAP burning
in it, and then that is its turn.
Olivia is up and then Jesse on deck.
Olivia said she was trying to stay out of danger.
She's in danger. Yeah.
Well, here's the thing. Here's the question.
What did I roll for Olivia to hit roll 1D20?
I did that plus a she had a 13135678.
It still would have beat her so she wouldn't have shielded.
She's got Firebolt, Ray of Frost, Catapult Detect Magic.
Very. Fond of the firebolt and the she
really wants to use the catapult.
I can tell I don't want to use her stuff without a.
What do you guys think I should do?
Catapult or firebolt? Since Catapult we use a spell
slot, she has been firebolting. Yeah, do the Firebolt.
Otherwise, I was. Going to say unless you were
amenable to it the the flaming sphere being catapulted at it so
it would have catapult damage and then flame damage on top of
it. Hold on I can may like catapult.
I'm going to read this now. Maybe choose one object is your
spelling object. The the sphere is.
I created a sphere. The sphere Sphere it's.
Flaming. Here, any creature is in there.
Attention Unifier doesn't have an impact on movement.
It's not an obstacle. I'm not saying anything online,
but I'm going to say it works because that sounds awesome.
So if she's going to catapult your sphere, would she use it on
the tentacle dragging her in, or on the creature itself?
Her thing said she was trying to stay safe and out of its reach,
so I'm going to probably say I'm a tentacle.
OK, so she's going to catapult. I'll just do level 1 display
cast that work. So choose one object, a straight
line, 90 feet. Make a deck save wait so it
would impact it. So the creature needs to make a
deck save at -1 compared to Olivia's spell save DC of
probably higher than that, say DC of 10.
What? Wait, she has spelled save DC of
10? How's that possible?
Low intelligence. Oh my Wait, she has a negative.
OK, yeah. Oh yeah.
She needs to do intelligence. If that's the case.
Yeah, so with ADC 10, it rolls A10, right?
No, I rolled A5, so it has a -1. So four.
So what here? Sorry.
Jesus. Dealing 10 bludgeoning damage.
Plus your flaming sphere. If you want to roll it.
Oh, D6 coming your way. Order up.
How would we fix? As she directs this, your
flaming sphere, she kind of like reaches out her hand.
She's like. Fuck.
Fuck.
And then pulls it towards there and it slams into the tentacle
just in front of her feet, obliterating the the tentacle
itself. And she scrambles up using half
her movement speed, then moves 15 feet backward, and she says
thank you you. Forget my name, Josh.
Jessie's turn. You're surrounded by dead
zombies. Yeah.
And I see everybody getting pulled, pulled in.
Is the thing still leaking fluids?
Yes, Yep, it's taking 2D4 damage fire damage per turn from stop
catching on fire as it's bleeding.
So it's just like repeatedly catching on fire again and
again. OK, so I'm going to move forward
and I'm going to cast Entangle again on the creature needs.
To make. 15. Save.
That'll drop your first entangle.
That's fine. They're dead.
I don't think. It it, it, it'll bother them.
True. All right.
Deck save, right? Yes. -1 It rolls a natty 1 to -1
has a 0. It is entangled.
It is entangled by woody vines. It's confused.
It thought it was it. Nope.
These are mine, you bitch. It screams and unhappy
confusion. I call out to everyone.
I'm like, are you guys OK? Yeah, we good.
Say, oh God, nobody answered. They're all dead.
Now I'm still here. Barely, barely.
Do you need? Do you need?
Some Do you need some words of affirmation?
No, I just need new pants. I'm just going to pull in
another thing twice. OK, yeah, I'm currently getting
that done to me. It's fine.
We can figure out the new pants things later.
I think that's it for my turn. I can't do anything else.
It is too hard to reach. Guards look like they have some
nice pants, Brianna and then the guards undock, or a thing that
would steal people's pants. And there's tons of dead people
around. You could probably find some
pants. So I am going to pass which
bolt? Wait, maybe not.
Oh yeah, no, I can't. I'm going to cast which bolt on
this guy I'm going to try to look like at the bottom, like
based on like what Justin said earlier.
Crouching down. I figure I'm like laying down
because I got like drug. That's true, you were still
prone. Yeah, so I'm just going to
accept that, but I'm going to cast which bolt, so it's a 21 to
hit. That'll absolutely hit What does
your witch bolt look like? It's it streaks out from my
fingers in kind of like a blue. Purple.
Yeah. And it's it's looks like a looks
like a lightning bolt. But it's you know it's got that
like zig zaggy kind of like shape to it.
But it's kind of like blue and purple in color and just kind of
like streaks right into them. Hell yeah.
Start zapping the bottom of this creature as it begins shrieking
and further. Pain.
So it's 15. I think it's 15 damage.
Yeah, 'cause it's just three then.
OK, yeah, yeah, 15 damage and then.
Movement done this action. No, because I'm stuck.
Oh, so now you have my turn. OK.
Well, because I'm, I'm grappled, right?
Oh yeah, that's true. You have not escaped the
grapple. That's right.
Yeah, because I decided to use my action to attack instead of.
Yep. And then the guards and
prisoners turns, You see the guards in the tower and over
here begin shifting their attention away from this fight
and actually turn their guns in a different direction and begin
firing into this kind of this corridor over here.
Wait. Cool into into this, the kind of
like space around the corner that you can't like.
I guess Josh could kind of see into it.
Josh and Brianna and Justin could.
Jesse you can see a little bit of it, but you can see all of
these guards suddenly, abruptly stop, turn and begin firing
inwards. That seems bad.
Oh. Can I see and then?
Sure. With your passive perception,
you can see kind of a commotion going on among the group of
prisoners in the interior, almost like a fight.
Stop shooting at them, send them to attack the monster, one of
them shouts back at you. They're all monsters now.
OK. All right.
Josh, your turn with Justin on deck.
We're not monsters, just to be clear.
Not yet. OK, we need to take those guns
off of them anyways, so I am currently being pulled into the
monster you were prone on the ground grappled very very close
to this thing I am. Does it look like the big guy's,
like, hurting or not really? He's pretty hurt.
He start once, he started. Once he started bleeding pretty
heavily from the SAP, that's when the fire started, when he
when he looked pretty, pretty beat up.
He's definitely not doing great. So I'm gonna as as the how far
I'm away am I? It's there.
The. Sphere is where's the you're
you're about here. And this the sphere was like
back here where it moved to here.
But then Olivia moved the Sphere like somewhere here to she she
was about she moved 15510. Fifteen.
So she was about here. No, she wasn't.
She she she had to get up and move 15 feet because she was
prone. So this is where she was
originally. So this meaningless sphere is
probably around here or around here.
OK, that looks like it. If it's closer to there, then I
would have 510152025. I'll give it to you.
OK, 'cause otherwise I was gonna have to.
I have. I had another action I could do
bonus action rather. But I just wanted to clarify
that that's what I'm going to be doing while I am this is
another. Quick.
Question for you for this particular bell.
It says a shimmering error. I'm just gonna display it, just
gonna make it easier. It's Mel's Acid arrow and I
would prefer my acid be in the form of a alcohol, In this case,
half as much of the initial damage and no damage at this
turn. Green Arrow and I would also
like it to come from my own crossbow if that would be if
you're as long as, that's OK with you.
Sure. I mean you you had a little time
at that place to like kind of work on some stuff.
So you've got your crossbow, which is like an old crossbow
but seemingly like with a ton of attachments that you've added on
to it. So you little flip, a little
switch and then a little like clear tube begins filling with
like a greenish kind of like liquid and it's geared and ready
for you to shoot. Though I don't think I would.
I'll make it alcohol, but it won't be it won't it won't like
ignite because this is an acid spell.
You don't think acid is is flammable?
I. Don't know.
Let's find out. Is acid flammable?
D&D in general? No, acid and poison are not
combustible. Well, you could talk to your DM
and see if a little. Awesome.
All right, I'll let you do the your alcohol.
OK, it is a ranged attack, so you will be at disadvantage.
Oh yeah, because I'm because you were within 5 feet.
I. Thought you were going to say
because I was prone. Because I was going to say I
could use my movement to at least and prone the end.
I don't know if I can stand. While currently technically
either grappled, you would have movement speed of 0, so you
would not be able to use movement speed to stand.
Gotcha. Were you thinking some things?
I guess I would use this sphere in the same way that Olivia did
and that I wouldn't use the catapult feature of it, but I
would just move it to try and hit the yeah hit hit the
pinnacle, which pinnacle dexterity saving throw.
OK 15 -, 1 I believe. Let me check again.
Dex is -1 so 14. I would also argue that it at
disadvantage because it's holding me so it is grappled
while I have grappled, Right? Grappled with a grappler?
Oh yeah, wait, hold on, 'cause it's entangled.
Grappled. Yeah.
The vines still. Have it?
Yeah, it wouldn't be grappled by you because you can grapple
something and not be grappled in turn.
But if you are, a creature is restrained, so that gives
disadvantage from like, your web.
So OK, 8 -, 1, seven. That's a fail.
OK. SO2T6 fire damage from the 1-2
row row. That'd be 6 from that onto the
tentacle. Is it still holding me?
The tackle is still holding you, yes?
God Dang it. Well then Nix the arrow thing
because save that in the back of your mind for later.
And I just use action and bonus action to unarmed.
Strike the shit out of it. Knife hand for days?
Hell yeah. AC15 for the tentacle.
A10. My knife hand wasn't strong
enough for the first time. And an 8.
And I'm getting mistook how strong that route was.
Ow, as your hand sits against this thing, you kind of just
like, shake it off a little bit. Like ow that kind of.
Hurt anything with your turn. Anything else you've got your
you've got movement, so no, you don't because you've grappled.
OK, Justin, you're up with the corpse file on deck all.
Right. So since the her entangle is on
it, that means it's restrained, correct?
That is true, yes. And then you are also no.
You didn't get grabbed, You didn't get got.
So. Yeah.
Not not the third time. So does that mean I have
advantage because it's restrained or no?
Let me look up restrained. I don't think so 'cause it's not
prone. Let me see so restrained
creature Restrained becomes zero or movement becomes zero.
Attack rolls against this creature have advantage, and AT
creatures attacks have disadvantage and has
disadvantage on deck save. So yes, you do have a advantage.
All right, I since I have advantage, I'm gonna hit it with
my short bow again. But also because I have
advantage, I can do sneak attack in addition.
Hell, yeah. All right.
So I'm gonna roll 16. It's gonna miss, unfortunately.
All right. Well, never fucking mind, huh?
Almost got off by 1. All right.
Well, advantage though, right? Yeah.
Oh, true. What am I doing?
Roll twice. God damn.
Sorry, that's fine. No worries.
So is is Brie still grabbed right now?
Bree is still grabbed, yeah, as is Josh, and Josh is right next
to the creature. Yeah, I wouldn't be able to, can
I? I can't get over there.
Don't worry if it eats me, it won't like it unless it like
shit. Just pull yourself again, you'll
you'll be safe. Although it is a.
Plant it might like it. Never mind.
Can I move? What?
I would like to move to Brianna and try to to help her get free
of that thing. You got to do that with bonus
action on my movement. Yes, because I said you could
use No, it's a strength check to get away from the grapple.
The bonus action was for shoving the zombies off of you.
OK, all right, because otherwise everyone would get 2 attempts
return. All right.
Well, I am going to move closer to her, so maybe I can try to
help next turn and then I will end my turn there.
OK. All right.
On its turn, it's looking very hurt right now.
It's going to use first action to reel, so five 10/15/2025 and
Olivia got away. What was that, Josh?
That my Fireball. My my, not my fireball.
My Fire Sphere is in between me and the monster, so we'll also
bring the Fire Sphere with me. You would end well.
No, you enter it. Enter the Fire Sphere, right?
Read. Reads Fire Sphere when a
creature enters it on its turn, so you make a deck save.
OK. Does he do that action also with
disadvantage? Reeling.
Reeling isn't an attack. Right, OK.
It's not rolling to hit, I need to make it with disadvantage
'cause that was an 11 and I think against myself.
DC was 13. So it's already a fail, so no,
you're grappled. So that's.
Fine. Oh, your fire damage Josh.
And then roll a con save. Oh.
Con. Save.
Oh yeah, that for your concentration, 0008, so eight
damage. So you need a.
It's a 10 Con save Standard damage or standard Con save 10
or higher. I thought you were telling me to
roll a Con, say for the real ah, fuck me, roll a. 3.
You run into your fireball, immediately get burned, and then
the fireball winks out of existence as you damage
yourself. And because of the pain that you
are now and you, it's the fireball or the fire.
Pretty pretty much exactly what I say to as I get reeled into my
own fireball. Ah, fuck me.
Ah, fuck. So two of you have now been
reeled into the creature, and it begins.
It will use its last two attacks to try to bite at you, +9 to hit
left to right per usual, so plus 917 to hit Brianna, and A +90 at
disadvantage because it's entangled.
So those two would both be for Brianna.
So 8 + 9 is still very high #17. Then for Josh also 17 I'm.
Getting hit by a different set of goal now.
You're now being eaten by this creature.
It has reeled you into it and is now biting on you.
So was that. It's not biting.
Yeah, it's now. Biting on token.
Shield token. Can use my shield token?
Yeah you can use your token. I don't remember what that is
but I everybody got a one time use shield spell token.
OK what's it look like though? That's what I mean I don't know
how to activate it. It looks it looks like a little
shield badge on your on your chest that you just like.
You just tap it, right? OK, so yeah, I'd be doing that
as well. Oh yeah, both of you use your
shield token as this creature attempts to bite down on you and
it is quite larger than you. You would assume if it bit you
it would bite you in half. However you both pop your
Shields and it just noms on the blue energy sphere and at the
end of your turn the token on your chest will crack and and
turn dull, but you have avoided. Wonderful.
Yay. Olivia and then Jesse on deck.
Olivia is. Gosh, would she run out of?
Would she keep running further away, or would she stay where
she is? Fire damage?
Yeah, she's going to roll her fire damage.
See. Where is it?
Yeah, two to +3 to hit. That was the fire.
I was saying damage. Oh, since it's still.
That's right. That's true. 2D4 damage, five
points of fire damage. This thing is looking very hurt
now. Very, very hurt.
And Olivia shoots Firebolt on it and misses.
Unfortunately, with a nine, I think she'll probably stay where
she is, Jesse. So.
Brianna on deck. I I want to use wild shape and
turn into an elephant. Oh.
Hell yeah, Can you? That's awesome.
It says creatures of a level one challenge or a challenge rating
of one. But every time I try to look up
just animals, 'cause that's I'm guessing that's all that I
myself have seen has is animals. It's just a list of like all the
D&D mythical creatures and races, and I'm like, no, not
these. And he's just plain boring
vanilla animals. Well, the elephant has ADC or an
Ace, or a thing of four ACR 4. OK.
So let's see, what are beasts? I mean you.
I mean the go to is a bear, right?
These spicy. Yeah, that was like, my next
thing would be like a bear. OK.
A bow, a bear or a tiger or a lion or a rhino, something.
Big something? Mean Lion is an option.
Tiger. War Horse.
You said one? Yeah, I think so.
Right. Yeah.
It was supposed to be a challenge rating of one, I
think. So you're looking.
At I don't think. I Tiger or bears?
Oh my. OK, I'm gonna go with the bear
then. OK, this is the first time you,
Jesse, have ever turned into another species.
How does it feel? It feels a little bit crazy, but
I freaking love it. I'm like girl, I'm gonna earn
them all. And how much movement speed does
a bear have at? The bear necessities the simple
bear. Can I find?
Limit speed of 40. Hey, I can move as fast as a
bear. They AM.
Oh, it's. Far I'm just gonna turn into a
bear and I'm gonna charge towards the tentacle creature.
I don't have a bear on me. Sorry, I left it at home.
Wait, I do have a bear. Oh yeah.
Hold on. Let me give it a controlled
Jesse. There you go.
Be a bear. And this?
You'll just stay right there. Just together, this is me, the
bear, so I'm going to charge towards.
So what is that 510152025303540? Whoops.
I left the bear behind. That's fine.
Right there. You get right up to the edge of
this creature. I do and I see it just like
nomming on my friends and I'm just gonna can I just find a
bear in this list I just found brown bear.
Yeah, that's it. OK so this thing says it has a
multi attack. The bear makes 2 attacks, one
with bite and one with claws. So the first thing I'm gonna do
is just do a melee attack with my claws.
Hell yeah, it's E 17 right now. So I should just roll on here,
huh? That's what I do.
Wow. Plus sixty hit.
Negative +6. Yeah.
Oh no. Oh no.
What happens? Oh God.
With a critical failure, you unwittingly roll AD four, one or
two Brianna, 3-4 Josh, 3-4 Josh. Make an attack roll on Josh,
please. Oh no, sorry, I'm way too
excited about being a bear. Lost to yourself?
OK, so an attack is 2D. Six five points of damage.
As Josh, you are literally being almost eaten alive by some crazy
skull tree creature, as suddenly from next to you a bear just
comes right like running forward and then swings at the creature
slips as it's running towards you guys and then lands like
basically like slips into you and then slices you for five
points of damage while you're on the ground but you have your
other attack. I I look real worried, Josh, And
then I turn to the tentacle that has a hold of him and I'm going
to attempt to bite the tentacle. Oh, God, let's.
So he is now like in. Well, he's grappling.
Yeah, that. That's fine.
Go ahead. So that +6 for the bite, yeah,
+6 and. That technical has very few HP
left. Josh did some damage to it.
So 22. 22 Yeah, you'll be able to slice right through that
thing and bite through it. The taste is very not good.
It tastes like rotten flesh as you bite and tear into this tree
like creature. Which is weird because it's a
tree, right? Yeah, why does this taste like
this? I obviously cannot voice this
aloud, but I just have it in my jaws and I tear the tentacle in
half and I just kind of shake my head back and forth and try to
toss the limp half of the tentacle away before turning my
head to the creature's face and just roaring at it to try and
intimidate it. Go ahead and roll me in
intimidation. Nice.
I know a good role.
Thank God. As this thing turns to look at
you, you see little like tears starting to roll out the side of
its empty eye sockets as it says something an infernal to you.
I don't understand Infernal. I didn't choose any languages
because I just don't actually know languages in real life.
So I was like, Nope. Didn't.
Forget it. So I would assume you'd kind of
pick up some of the ones that you would have as your D&D
characters because you pick up their memories.
But you know that's a whole other.
That's what I tried to base mine off.
Of. Oh, OK.
But anything else on your turn and then Brianna and then guards
on deck. I don't know if I can do
anything else as a bear, so I'm just going to stand there and
look menacing. There, and it's not true, all
right, Brianna, you are grappled on, prone on the ground under
this creature as it has just attempted to bite into you.
But you managed to, with quick thinking, shield yourself and
save yourself from a very bad fate.
I would like to try to escape the grapple if possible.
Sure. Acrobatics or strength check
contested. The acrobatics Yikes all.
Right, let's see. I have a Maybe so I have a
strength of plus 5 S 9. You will be able to just slither
your way out of this thing as its tentacles are now kind of
coiled under it, and it's not as taut as it was you.
Managed. To wiggle your way out.
That. Was your action though you are
still. Proud.
I'm still proud. So, all right, well, I will use
half my movement to stand up, and then I will use the other
half of my movement to run away. Directly next to the creature
itself, you're going to take an. Opportunity back at this point,
so. There's an outer one for its
tentacles, and then an inner one for its person.
I do, yeah. I yeah, I think that's.
You right with that. Yeah.
OK, yeah, we'll roll to try to bite you.
Let it go. Let's see, 1251013.
Yeah, so I'll try to go there if yeah.
And then yeah, opportunity can hit you clock.
It does. Shit.
Hold on. I'll wait.
I'm going to shield it again. With one of your own spells.
Yeah, yeah. It's a first level spell for me.
OK, you shield as this creature tries to bite at you again.
Once again, it's wooden teeth smack against your shield spell
as you managed to back out of its immediate range.
Yep. And then I believe that's as far
as I can go and so that is where I will stay.
The guards continue firing into the courtyard.
They turn to you. Kill that creature.
Hurry up. These prisoners are all turning
into zombies as they begin. As they are continuously firing
and and they will roll. 123455 will hit, so dealing OK and then
I'll need. OK, Josh, your turn.
Justin on deck. This creature is looking
teetering on the edge. You are basically directly under
it now, no longer grappled. But you are prone.
I'm I'm, I'm not grappled. When did that happen?
I missed it. I bit the tentacle off of.
You. Oh, that's right.
So I'm looking up and remembering that that bear came
through and stepped in my face and.
Yep, my bad the. Nickel off off of me though, at
least. And hearing the guards, I just
yelled to him and and kind of my crew all at once.
Just kind of. Turn it all down.
And doesn't look like anyone else took.
Wait, how are you looking, Jesse?
By the way, Are you worse, worse off than I?
Although. We're in a bear situation now,
so I can't even tell it's you technically.
I was gonna say there's probably a pretty obvious bite mark on
this bear's arm. I'm guessing because my current
HP is 16. But I know when I turn into a
creature, I take on its HP, which is 34.
OK, you're we're we're right. Around the same point right now
'cause I'm at 40. Where does that go now, though?
This would be my last one of these, so I could either do that
or I could do that. I'm gonna stand up, brush myself
off, half my movement, going to look into the mouth of this
thing and the flames that are spreading.
By the way, how's that going spreading wise?
Presumably there's some spreadage happening.
But I don't know. What your thoughts were for that
DM, Because I know there's technical rulings on rounds and
such forth and how far stuff spreads.
Like the fire on the ground or the fire on the creature.
Yes, so the fire on the creature, I'm just doing a
consistent damage. The fire on the ground.
I'll definitely say where your webs are and the pile of corpses
here is on fire. That's OK.
It's smoldering and on fire. And then this is all pavement
around you, so the fire is mostly self-contained and hasn't
spread to these other grass areas.
OK, And you're lucky you're currently on pavement, otherwise
you might be on fire. Wait, you are on fire.
Wait, you wait. This flaming spirit set people
on fire. It sets flammable things on
fire, but I wouldn't necessarily consider myself flammable at
this. That's true.
And for that for that matter, just for.
So I think that's is that also a bonus action double checking?
Some things here. That is first I guess I would
try. This.
Route one last time and summon a sphere inside of the creature's
mouth. Fuck yeah, Level 2.
Spell. I mean, it worked pretty well
last time. Yep, let's keep on going with
it. All right?
So you summon the sphere inside of this creature, this
creature's mouth, basically, and it makes a deck save at
disadvantage because it's still entangled.
Jesse, did you take damage? No, you haven't.
So you still have entangle up. Yeah.
And you can hold it as a bear, so that's good all right.
So disadvantage, it'll fail. That's 2D613.
Not quite. So close.
Oh, that. That was your own role there.
It wasn't even 13. Oh.
Oh Jesus, that was. Stupid of me.
Yeah, OK, it was only 5 but less close and I say and then as a.
Would you say? So that that cost an action to
cast it, right? Mm hmm.
I cast it inside the creature, it as a bonus action, I can move
the sphere, So could I ram it into it inside of it again?
Yeah, make it further. Down the throat.
Yep, pretty much chew on this asshole.
Sure, I think so. So using your bonus action, you
attempt to shove the thing further in, forcing another
saving throw. Oh, Yep.
Which it fails miserably. That's benign damage this time.
So OK, now you're very close. This creature now has this giant
flaming sphere shoved halfway down its esophagus, which is
weird because it's mostly just a floating head and the neck hole
ends at the bottom. So you're wondering at some
point if it's just going to pop out the bottom.
But it is. It's it's wavering in place.
It's shaking. The tree itself is just like
pouring off SAP. Now it seems like one good hit
will probably do this. Yeah, that would be me out of
actions. I I step behind the bear.
It would be a 15 feet to get up and then an opportunity attack
as soon as you walk out of its range.
Well, no, you're still within range.
Yep. So never mind.
I was trying to to avoid any of that.
So just hoping to have a bear. A bear is cover.
All right then, Justin, it is your turn.
This thing is on its last leg. We'll see if I can fucking hit
it. Apparently I can't hit anything.
First thing I'm going to do is kind of move to the right,
'cause I want to get shot. I want to follow up with this
flaming spear under the throat with a another sneak attack
because I have an ally. Oh, I guess it's still
entangled. So advantage on that.
Come on, AC17, Maddy 20. Oh, beautiful.
Fuck yeah. Tell me how you do this as you
shoot this this creature and kill it.
Tell me. So I'm.
I'm watching him, you know, cast his flaming spear and it's, it's
in its mouth and he's fucking. Josh pushes it further in there
and I'm just inspired. I'm like, get up in there.
I just want to follow right up behind it and just fire right to
the back of its throat. You fire your bolt.
It crosses through the flaming sphere out the back of the
creature. You turn around, put sunglasses
on as the flaming sphere explodes and does no damage to
the people directly next to it. As.
You look super cool as this creature falls from its floating
position, crashes onto the ground, scattering a number of
these kind of mean corpses to the side as it finally rolls
down and lays lifeless and dead at your feet.
And in the background you hear the gunfire from the, from the,
from the prison guards kind of begin to die down.
Oh. Die down, Die over my shoulder.
Are they still there? The guards are all still there.
They're still facing the interior of the courtyard, guns
trained. One of them occasionally will
take like a potshot and then they'll be like talking to each
other. One of them looks over their
shoulder and sees the creatures dead, nudges the other guy.
Hey, that thing's dead. Cool.
They turn to you wave. You did it.
Hey, yeah, sounds like you got your situation handled over
there too. We kill them all.
No. God, that's perfect.
That's exactly what was supposed to happen.
We contained and eliminated the threats.
Perfectly with no fault of anything going wrong.
We need to determine what the hell happened here.
That's the last box we got to check, apparently.
You think? I I turned pull my cool guy
sunglasses down a little bit, Yelp to the guys on the roof and
guys know any more monsters you see any more monsters around
here? No, the only other ones we've
seen left a couple hours ago. Oh Jesus, it was like a like a
group of like, Renaissance costume freaks.
Renaissance costume freaks. That's not very nice.
I I turn. To I'm not a very nice guard, I.
I turn to Josh. I mouth like, what the fuck are
they talking about? I don't know.
Let's just tell Sammy we contained it.
We'll just ignore that part. We did it.
Good job. Mission accomplished.
Rolls of George Bush clip again. How about do you know where it
came from? We we kind of are.
I just want to hear their story, guys.
Yeah, sounds good. As this is happening, I want to
inspect like the the where the creature was initially, where
the pile of bodies were, that whole area, see if there's
anything I notice. Sure.
Do you want to dig through the pile of corpses or you just kind
of look in? I'm just kind of looking at this
point. How many corpses?
Then I thought when it, you know, it started throwing a
bunch of them and starting to get revealed.
I wasn't sure how many were left.
Got it. There's still like a healthy
pile of corpses on the ground, many of them smashed into pulp.
It seems like by this creature's bulk.
Give me an investigation check. 17.
So with a 17 both investigating this creature as well as the
area around the creature you see and would find kind of inscribed
on the back of the creature's head.
A very poorly carved in script that reads Regina's mom.
Oh no. What?
Oh, oh. Yeah.
I got nothing to say about that. I said turn it, I turn it.
But I'm like, come look at this when you got a second.
So what the guards say about where it came from?
So one of the guards will walk over.
He'll wave. Hi, I'm Todd, the guard.
Hi, Todd. Don't mind me collecting samples
as I'm taking the SAP and putting it into the jello shot
containers because they're government types, right?
Yep. I'm still in the shake of a
bear. I have not reverted back, by the
way. I just like flopped down on the
ground and kind of like huffing and puff and like, God damn that
was hard. He kind of looks at you, Josh,
because you're wearing the the orcs costume and the bear.
And he's like, you know, you kind of look like those
Renaissance freaks that came through here earlier.
Hey, hey, now it's just the pants.
I had to, I had an accident, had to borrow some pants.
Don't worry about it. And let out a huff as a bear.
What's with the bear? Is it trained?
Oh, it's. Bear.
Trained Monster Hunter right there.
Wow. I wave, I'd watch.
Your I'd watch your fingers around them and also don't leave
any. What's your favorite snack?
Popcorn. Don't leave any popcorn around
it and it'll just devour it. Really.
That's You must have gotten this bear from a circus or something.
That's crazy. No, no, no, no, don't.
Don't say that. No, no.
Not from the. Circus here?
That's just insulting. Oh.
Geez, well. I let I don't know if you still.
Bear anything training, bear sensitivity classes or
something? Geez, I only really need the
bear necessities. OK.
Well, that that was good. That was good.
And he tends to see when he says so.
You guys are from the government here to put a stop to this alien
invasion? I just nod my head.
Yeah, I mean, it's weird. So.
So let me tell you what happened, Noel, I You'll
probably want to talk to Warden at some point, but So what
happened was this this group of weirdos came up from across the
street. I don't know if you've seen the
giant glowing aura across the street, but this group came up,
yeah. And then they knocked on the
door and like they seemed fine and we let them in to talk to
them. And then like the next thing we
knew, this creature was just like in the middle of the yard.
And these individuals were just going cell by cell, executing
every prisoner and then taking their bodies out and loading
them into a truck. Oh.
Interesting. I pull out a notepad with my SAP
covered fingers and continue writing in it some of the things
he was saying. I look over Josh's shoulder and
just, like, continue nodding my head.
So they wouldn't after, well, I guess they they.
So they they went through and executed every prisoner and then
we were trying to stop them. But they had locked down a good.
I don't know how they did it, but they locked down a good
number of the the bays as if they had someone on the inside.
But they took all of these prisoners and threw them into
the yard where this that creature was and that creature
like, I don't know, bit them and then threw them back.
And then the group picked them up and put them in trucks and
drove away. OK, Did you get any names?
I'm assuming you have something out of manifest somewhere to let
have let them in in the first place.
Yeah, of course. He'll generally lead you guys
away from this carnage scene as he moves.
As you guys move inside from through this kind of region or
area, you'll notice that there's a large number of what appears
to be zombie corpses where the prisoners used to be.
It appeared that one or two of the zombies that got thrown had
bitten a few prisoners and then they in turn started biting
other prisoners. And then by the time the guards
noticed during the fight, most of the group had turned into
zombies. And then they had they had to
turn around and start shooting them.
But you walk inside to the front office and they pull up a
security camera and say we got better than manifest, we got
some video of these freaks. He looks at you, he says.
No offence particularly meant to you.
It's particularly meant to me. OK, so on the video screen you
see kind of the entry front door to the prison, and in the
background you see what appears to be a flickering light
suddenly emerge from over the trees across the street.
You assume that's the portal. Several minutes later, about 1/2
hour or so, a group of individuals approach the gate.
They are varied in size, some of them quite small, some of them
wide and short, some of them tall and thin, most of them
wearing garb of some Renaissance style costume.
But they knock on the door, The door opens.
They enter and then in the camera directly inside the door,
the first image that you see appears to be this large, stocky
and short individual who wants everybody's inside, takes his
hood off, and then suddenly emerging from his shell, a large
swarm of insects appear and begin devouring the guards
directly on the other side of the room.
As you guys see Franklin and a number of other individuals from
the D&D game in this world in that room, on the camera, as
they begin moving through the room, you see Regina, you see
Cat Franklin, you see Flint, and possibly a couple others,
depending on your guys's responses.
Move through, and then periodically, not periodically,
systematically work their way through every ward of the
prison. Grab every prisoner, bringing
them to the center of the yard, feeding them to Regina's mom,
and taking the zombies that they become and packing them away in
trucks. This whole thing takes about an
hour and then with their trucks. Freaking suck.
Well, there, so there is there. There's like fighting along the
way, but as soon as the zombie outbreak kind of starts to be
like occur, the zombies begin attacking the guards.
The guards are shooting back. That's all the screaming you
heard. As many of the as the
individuals that are doing this don't seem to be attracting the
attention of the zombies at all. Did somebody pick up that pocket
rocket? Somebody did.
Yeah, who did? Who did grab that?
Wasn't it? I don't remember.
I think it was Olivia. Yeah, I think it was Olivia.
Oh yeah, it was. Inside of the.
The space. It was attached to the portal.
I was too busy changing my pants, so.
Wait. Is is that the D&D characters?
Like, yeah, Mortal Pocket. Masking, that is their portable,
their portable base that they use.
Franklin does that. You are in the game with and.
In this realm. In this realm, they have
invaded. So I I turned to everyone.
I'm like, so why are they doing fucked up shit?
My character My character hasn't done fucked up shit yet, so.
Yeah, yeah. These ones are particularly
fucked up. I don't know.
Well, we figured out what happened.
So I think we. Got all our boxes, we could take
the van back now. Yep, updates.
The Sammy. Yeah, updates Sammy on what's
happened. So that's some next time thing.
Yeah, we're going to end up this here.
I'll end it here for us. As you guys watch this video and
see this occur, a door opens on the other end of the room and
stepping out of it is me dressed up as a wizard.
Hey guys. And that's what.
I'm sorry. Wait, wait, wait.
Just. Find out next time.
Yep. On Secret Invasion.
I just, I just turned and I'm just like, no, fuck you.
I let out a grumble. Hey, he wasn't the one to to.
I know we're ending it here, but he wasn't the one to make that
happen. Whatever the fuck that was.
What? Side to side?
Yeah, we get out of talk, guys. We're we're in danger.
Jess, do you remember? I'll shake my head.
Still a bear. Bear form.
Sleek musculature our. Flex and hemp to pose.
Nice. Performance.
All righty. Is that it?
Yeah, I think. This will be a very.
Good place to call it. That will be it for today, as
you guys now know what the extent of the Secret Invasion
really is. All.
Right. Well, appreciate it.
Yeah, thanks for playing guys. Yeah, it was fun.
Almost. Died.
Yes, I am for a. Second time almost died.
Out of all the times I got entangled or to grab other
things, I didn't take any damage.
Yeah, I mean it's big thing is that like it'll reel you in and
once you're in there and it bites you and you're in a shit
ton of like danger. But like as it's reeling you,
you still have the option to like get away, but those shield
spells probably saved you guys lives.
Yep all. Right, guys.
You guys have a good night. We'll see you next time.
Yep. Good.
Thanks, guys. Yeah.
Right. A grand and wonderful thank you
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