Bones, Bones, Bones, Bones, Bones. Dive right
in to Legend of the Bones. There'll be no re
-rolls, no fudging the dice, no metacurrency.
The roll of the bones will determine the character's
destiny, and no one will be spared their fate.
None shall escape the destiny of bone. length
with the heroic work of the shield bearers on
our show before. We haven't gone deep into the
current head of the group, the man of the myth,
Captain Commander Aureon. Now in true luminary
fashion, no one has known about Aureon's childhood.
We only grew up in the streets of the city of
Califang, where the world lay alone. In his struggle
to get by each day, he found peace in practicing
the martial art of Eskrima. especially when it
concerned the mastery of short swords. He said
he would spend each evening watching the local
master of the arts spar from afar, practicing
the moves and stances obsessively. And then,
one day by fortune, a young Aureole found himself
drawn to the radiance in an ill, seeking purpose.
Purpose that he found among the ranks of the
shield -bearers. He threw himself into mission
after mission, traveling to various worlds during
events of chaos and calamity. The alchemical
fires in the First Taib War. The purple worm
quakes on Anchor and Sengar, the triple tidal
waves on Amizu, the spider's march on Nendu,
the ice rays of cyclones on Arnikek. Aria has
truly seen it all from the front lines, and he
has seen many around him fall in these events.
Every superior officer he had when he started
has died in the line of duty, until Aria himself
stood at the very top of the shield bearers.
And these deaths have haunted the man greatly.
It is known that he presses two darts of ash
to his forehead every morning, a symbol of his
unending... morning for his fellow fallen officers.
He fights on for them, for they believed in and
died for him, as he worked each and every day
to protect our conquered worlds from harm. He
even survived both the fall of Tythos and the
fall of Omizu, putting himself in absolute danger
twice to see as many civilians evacuated from
the storm's wrath as he could. So no, Arya may
not be a luminary adventurer, but damn it, he
might just be our world's greatest guardian.
No, he's not. Angel. Guardian. No, he's not.
Don't finish that. I gotta say the thing. For
the episode title. Fine. Angel. Thank you. Hmm.
So we know how he survived the falls of both
worlds. I wonder how those superiors mysteriously
died. You guys think he's a killer? He's a poisoner.
He is a poisoner. He is a poisoner. It's a hard
thing. Every time you've talked to Arya, though.
He seems like a man who's doing what he does
for self -righteous reasons. Yeah, sure. I mean,
maybe he thinks he's doing the right thing. Maybe
he thinks he is. Or maybe he's just a psychopath
like you. Ah! Oh, man. Summer is here, boys.
And you know what that means? It's been really
fucking hot. Exactly. Yeah. And that means as
well that it is. Wedgie season. That's right.
A bunch of hot, sweaty wedgies in our hose. Hot,
sweaty crack. Take that back. I said it wrong.
Oh, no. Oh, gosh. Although, with all the wedgies
we do, we might as well be wearing fancy thongs.
Am I right? We're always doing wedgies. Nah,
not always. Not always. Let's pick them. Let's
dry them. Let's pick them. So, we're all a bit
more tired. I was a bit more buzzed the last
time. That was so funny. So the likelihood of
a combat goof or two has gone up a little bit
for the next few months while everything is on
fire. And last week was, of course, no exception.
So let's talk wedgies. I know of three big ones
that are really easy to rectify. There's a fourth
one. We'll get to it a little later because it's
kind of a weird one. And I want to talk to you
guys about a ruling. But we'll get to that later.
So let's talk wedgies. One. My tired, dumb brain
didn't actually have the poison damage from Arya's
attack last episode. I said I did. I did the
10 points of slash to the blade itself. Didn't
have? I didn't have. Have. H -A -L -F? No, it's
have in this situation, right? Didn't have it?
Didn't have it? I couldn't tell if you were trying
to say I didn't have it. Like, I didn't. Oh,
have. Have or have. Literature nerds out there,
get on it. But the 16 points of damage it did
to you, Dresden, was the full roll I rolled at
the time. Not factoring your resistance from
your belt, like I said I did. So you should have
only taken 18 points of damage from the full
attack, not 24. So go ahead and give yourself
8 HP back. Oh, yeah. That's huge. Oh, it is huge.
And two, on the note of HP, Dresden, we got to
roll your level 7 HP. Yeah. I think you automatically
tracked on there, but let's do a roll here. We
undid the auto. We're doing this again. What
did you say? Was it a D10? Yeah. D20 up. What
was I doing? You can roll that. Yeah, that'd
be fine. Sure. No. We're done with wedgies. No
wedgies tonight. Not a single one. My pants are
dry and loose. I'm going fucking commando. You
ready? Yeah. Let's do it. Let's do it. One. Fuck.
What'd you get? Three. Oh, bummer. Oh, man. You
missed the jersey. That's terrible. Okay, so
with your con, that gives you a five for this
level. Okay, cool. Hell yes. And on the note
of HP, three. Salma, we've got to alter your
HP for level seven. yeah yes so so uh you we
should have had a static max roll for your first
level replacing the three with an eight i believe
yeah exactly i believe it was actually zilla
that confirmed that for us in the discord so
thank you zilla hell yeah and keep the train
going on the note of zilla I just want to point
out that we are using some new updated Dresden
token on this map. We also have a new Salome
token. All Zealots work, so check those out.
They're going to be in the Discord soon. Actually,
already, I hope, if I remember, I'm going to
have this battle map in the Discord under Battle
Maps. Check it out. It's really cool. And the
map itself is actually pulled from the pages
of our collab zine with Meg. The very ugly coyote
map that Rochelle drew up for us way back. I
got it all on here. I'm so stoked to finally
use it. it and uh yeah yeah also uh blast from
the blast uh round stuff i have a token of hers
on this map that was that was uh zilla's and
also the uh zebulon ornament the uh uh memorial
was uh you know designed by andrew drawn by zilla
over the fireplace boom so this entire map we're
looking at is like a collaborative effort from
so many people and that is so cool yeah for real
um Yeah. Super stoked. Super stoked. I can't
wait to kill Dresden on it. Out of the way. Before
we get Dresden with a beard art, you're going
to kill him? Yeah. Seriously? No. Before he has
that big, beautiful dwarven beard? We'll get
the beard art with a little halo. Because he'll
be sailing off to greener pastures. No. No. I
will live to see the day that I can braid my
beard. Summer may be here. Oh, man. But Dresden,
you're unlucky. Looks like your summer vacation
is over. It's a Kingdom Hearts reference. What?
Someone out there enjoyed that. Anywho, it's
my turn. The ugly coyote filled with fog. A last
-ditch effort by Dresden to hold off these assailants
that outnumber him, that threaten his family.
It is Ariat's turn. Now, I'm going to bring this
up before it comes up later on. I want to talk
about this now. There is one fourth wedgie, one
that I found earlier today, but it's kind of
an odd one. It involves Fog Cloud, because Fog
Cloud is weird. Basically, in Fog Cloud, everyone
is blinded, correct? They are under the blinded
condition. Now, this condition means disadvantage
on all attacks. but it also means enemies have
advantage on you. Do you see the problem with
this now? Yeah, it's just a... It just doesn't
change anything. Right. Now, I think it makes
sense to have advantage on a blind opponent,
right? If you're not blind, someone's blind,
you're going to walk up. They can't guard you
properly, and that makes sense. But there's just
something about the raw, the rules of written
idea of a thick, blinding fog filling an enclosed
space, changing absolutely nothing about melee
combat, barring stealth roles and hide actions,
and, you know, range and magic would be harder.
But, like, it just feels... Super wrong to me.
So, I don't know. For this combat, for this right
now, I'm going to keep what we're doing right
now. Everyone's disadvantage. Sweet. Because
it just feels stupid to be like, you're still
fighting normally in the cloud and nothing changed.
It's a little hard to know where someone went.
All right. Given that, Ariat's up. You can hear
footsteps. And finally, a confirmation of just
who it is you're facing as a voice. Calls out
behind the mask somewhere in the fog as you crouch
down by the fireplace. Dresden Kellig, I understand
your plight well. You are just protecting your
own. I know it may be hard to believe, but I
am doing the same. To create a world where shield
-bearer officers no longer die needlessly. No,
no. To create a world that has no need for shield
-bearers. That is my goal. Believe it or not,
that is why I am here now. You hear like some
rustling of fabric. You hear like a little whistling
sound hissing. And it sounds like metal and hollow
bouncing against the wood floor. I am sorry about
this. I will not harm the children, but I will
use them as leverage against Jules. He will convince
Ms. Cortez to speak out against her rebel movement.
And then the conquered peoples will step united,
hand in hand, into a safe new world. As this
voice booms out, you begin to notice a light
blue mingling with the gray haze around you.
Another canister has been dropped. And I need
you to make a constitution saving throw. Fucking
hell. With advantage. Because your fucking belt
is so good. This is a poison. So I call this
a poison. So yeah, this is. Yeah. Same roll.
14. 14. Okay. You're hiding down and you feel
that blue, that smoke goes into your throat.
You know that you're. You've moved to a safe
location. You know the cherry delights have all
hidden in the shadows that wreathe them, the
shadows of this monument above the fireplace,
but how long can you all hide? Your mind begins
to go hazy, blurry, fading out to dark. You can
hear Ariad continuing to speak, though it's sounding
farther and farther away as... Your consciousness
is beginning to fall further and further back.
My allies did not want me to act against your
group, but I have decided to act regardless.
They are afraid of you, of your friends. They
would be content to tarnish your reputations
and leave you alone, but not me. I want you to
know that I knew everything that was happening
on Tythos. The things you saw as the Laroche
family's staff. The things you were made to do.
I was aware of it all. The suffering caused by
the royal family. The worship of Zilmotte Schaub.
Yet with Cirilla as my superior, I could do nothing.
Say nothing. I could only wait. Wait for the
plan to be enacted. For the worlds to be saved
in one fell swoop. Now you and yours jeopardize
the plan. Our one chance to make a better world.
And I will wait no longer. The children will
not be harmed, Dresden Kellegg. But I think that
you will have to die tonight. I am so sorry.
That last word, sorry, is the last word you hear
as you begin to slip into unconsciousness. What?
What in the fuck? Unfair. Unfair. I call horse
shit. You got rid of the first one. But the ring
of obscuring is so clutch right now. I don't
even know what's going to happen. I guess you
don't see my turn. Interesting. Let me roll some
dice real fast as things happen in the mist.
Things that you aren't aware of. Do me a favor.
I need one more. Yeah, actually, I'll just roll
this myself. What am I doing? It's a constitutional
dwarf for somebody else that has advantage because
they are also a dwarf. This is important for
some reason. Fuck. You hear one more thing just
behind the sound of Ariadne's last words. A loud
dwarven snore. That's my turns. And we don't
know what happens during them. And that is very
fun for me. Dresden. It's such an interesting
thing. Right now, you have fallen into unconsciousness.
I am treating this as though you are under the
sleep spell. What is going through your mind
right now? Nothing. I'm sleeping. I'm unconscious.
Is that supposed to be fucking funny? It's hilarious.
You know you acted fast. You have bought time.
You know someone else is fighting outside. Maybe
you bought enough time. But as you drift away,
as your body goes limp, do you feel like you've
done a good job? Do you feel like you've done
your duty? No. No? No. I'm telling you. Perhaps
Dresden's fight, it's not over yet. No, it's
not. It shouldn't be. It shouldn't be. uh it
just gives me some time to do some things that
you aren't aware of so let's hop back outside
where you are a little more aware situation salome
you have dropped one of these two riot mages
boom with lightning the other one stands before
you it is my turn i've thought a lot about this
now this one you got hit by one of their attacks
kind of shrugged it off and obliterated uh his
ally there. So he is going to drop concentration
and run. Kind of, sort of. This actually, this
spell does not require concentration, which is
pretty cool. So not going to run. Instead, you
just see, very suddenly, he vanishes. Almost
like a pop in the air. So can you move to a different
spot, though? Because I saw your marker go to
that spot. Oh, no, don't worry. That was my...
That wasn't... Oh, okay. Don't worry about it.
That was just an accident. You don't know. You
don't know where I am. Okay. That changes everything,
I guess. That's you, Salome. Yeah, cool. He just
looks at you in fear and then just... Gone. Where?
How? Why? You can roll checks. Then you can figure
out what happened. I'm doing a few rolls here.
I am completely stumped. Okay. Salome is going
to use this opportunity. She'll double move and
move 60 feet to the edge of the building here
overlooking the street. Okay. You could do a
seek action if that's something you want to do.
I used my action to double move. I'll let you
seek bonus action. Have I done it before? I don't
remember. I guess I probably shouldn't. What
is your passive perception, actually? Her passive
perception is massive. It's 19. Okay. That's
good to know. I would not have been able to do
any kind of hide action. Sure. And I did need
to go somewhere I could see. So, this is a little
weird, Salome. i want you to turn your attention
to the top of the map where you see a figure
in the upper window so you're standing on like
a one -story building across this china shop
it's probably about 15 20 feet up high um across
the way a similar somewhere sort of height up
on the second floor of the ugly coyote in one
of the bedrooms uh you see appearing within a
window or just a shifting of movement uh as a
black robed figure is moving there, you realize
this figure used Dimension Door. Gotcha. To move
across the way to get into the building and into
that combat away from you. Okay, good. So there's
more people in that fight. Yes. Yeah, okay. That's
what you see. All right. That's the end of Salome's
turn. Okay. You have no bonus actions? No meaningful
bonus actions. Okay. Salome seeing that. That
is the end of the first round here, of the night
at least. And I'm doing something else at the
end of this round. Another turn is being played.
I've been ruling other saves in the meanwhile
for all the other cherry delights in the room.
Anyone not wearing a mask. And somebody saved
with a natural 19 on the die. Oh, God. It was
Miskin, wasn't it? Mm -hmm. I wonder, let me
look at the stat block really, really, really
fast. Okay, rely on smell. I'm supposed to use
the stat block for this character, so I assume
I can rely on smell to find someone who is obscured
because I have phantom checks that rely on smell.
I think that's high enough with a passive to
be able to move in and find a non -hiding Dresden
who is unconscious. I'm going to assume that's
the case, and I'm going to run with it, because
I think this makes a lot of sense. And it's hilarious
that it worked out this way. And it's the only
way we have a chance. Sleep can only be broken
if an action is used to wake you by shaking you
or something like that, or if you take damage.
Now, this figure's not very shakable, so I'm
going to do one point of damage to your hand,
Dresden, as Jamal the Pangolin. Bites down hard.
Holy shit. Are you serious? When they can't bite?
Can't bite. What's it do? Honestly. How does
it damage? Are they scratching? What's the stat
block say? Yeah, you could probably scratch.
It's the cat stat block they say to use. A claws.
Okay. A real pangolin can't bite. A little rake
of claws. Oh, my God. On you. You feel this scratch,
a tiny little scratch, draws a little bit of
blood, and you kind of snap awake feeling that.
Your hand reaches over, running over the, like,
firm shell of the pangolin. who's like fully
shaking uh terrified but some innate wisdom some
animal instinct brought it to the one person
that could help you snap awake you hear the sounds
of chain nets being thrown and dragged uh to
the like just the head across the room from where
you are to where mulligan miskin had been where
you heard that snore from You cannot see anything
still. What do you do? So I'm awake, so I have
all of my actions. Actually, oh wait. That was
the end of the round that woke you up. I would
have turns. I don't think they're going to...
Am I going to do anything with these turns? Yes,
okay, actually, here's the thing. You wake up.
You feel this shaking figure before you. You
begin to stand. And just then... A figure begins
to resolve itself above you in the mist. Ariat.
The fuck? I did roll a check to see if I could
find you. What the fuck? They heard you didn't
have a hide action, so while you're obscured,
they could hear your movement. Seek check would
be my action, though. I don't know if I necessarily
have to use a seek check because he didn't do
hide, but because we're in mist and in the heavy
fog, I think it's weird to just say he gets you.
I'm going to say it was his turn to seek you
out. Okay. But because you are awake, you have
a chance to counterattack. As you see, a sort
of glint of metal where a little fog disperses
for a second as a weapon sweeps out. Spray of
poison. Some liquid falls across you as the weapons
are drawn from the sheaths again. ariat stands
above you above your form still lying on the
ground and probably he does not know that you
are awake right they heard what movement uh if
you don't have a hide action when dresden would
have moved into that corner they would have heard
him moving and hiding there unless you use a
hide action like you're not obscuring your sound
and dresden is uh sleeping in full plate armor
uh so like definitely you were loud enough that
they knew the direction you were in so right
like he's probably just taking his time walked
over there thinking that you were down sees the
slump form in the fog raises the weapons goes
in that's his turn as he's kind of raising up
to strike down at you as you're kind of lying
there you then hear the sounds of like again
more movement people being dragged away somewhere
outside the fog, somewhere farther into the room.
Maybe just a grunt. This one's heavy. And that's
that turn. Dresden, that's you. All right, I'm
going to use my bonus action for a second wind.
Ooh. 1d10 plus 7 HP. Okay. Pretty good stuff.
uh that gives me 10 okay almost back to full
i'm going to command my echo to come in behind
aria oh shit there's a table between you and
the uh the corner i imagine like he's like essentially
on top of the or maybe on the stool next to the
table and your echo just appears on top of the
table which is on top of fibro who's like underneath
just kind of looming suddenly behind him and
over him aria like feeling that sort of movement
spins around what uh what do you want to do we're
going to go in for an attack from the echoes
position hell yeah are you at the same time are
you going to stand up like so dresden half movement
stands up fully surrounded i have you are i have
so plus two Your poison is gone, by the way.
As you wake up, the poison effect is gone. So
it's just disadvantage with a plus two. Cool.
17. 17 hits. Sweet. Oh, yeah. Oh, shit. First
blood drawn on the captain commander. Holy shit.
For max damage, that's 14. Holy mother of God.
That is 14. Blood sprays all over the stones,
the fireplace. Is the Echoes the one that gets
a cut? Mm -hmm. Holy shit. This is attack number
two. Jamal the Pangolin gets blood sprays on
him. He just rolls away under the table. Hell
yeah. Second attack comes. That one's not going
to do it. That's only a 10. Okay. Second one
he's ready for. Ping parries the blade. I've
been sort of twirling in his hands. Holy shit.
We're going to unleash incarnation. Oh shit.
So I'm going to make one additional melee attack.
Okay. Whoops. Oh no. Yeah, natural one. But can
I really do a Nat 1 Horses in the ugly coyote?
On the Echo. On the Echo. On the Echo. On the
Echo. That's what Unleashed Incarnation is. Yeah.
Horseshoe Falls, Echo vanishes. No. It happens.
You're good. Fine. I won't do it to you here.
It's your home base. I'm nice. All right. All
right. Anything else you want to do there, Dresden?
Think. You said he's across the table from me?
Whereabouts is he? Where exactly is he? Remind
me. So, Aria is standing between you and the
Echo. He's, like, on a stool above you, and the
Echo is on a table behind him. It's, like, your
really cramped corner here. You're, like, or
on the floor. You kind of stood back up. So,
it's almost like a three -tier step between you,
Aria, Echo. Okay. So, if I wanted to, say, kick
the stool out from under him as maybe an object
interaction, would that allow me to run without
an AOL? Oh. That's interesting. That's kind of
fun. I'll let you do it for a butt. Goddamn.
Okay. Okay. All right. I gotta make a check here,
though, at least. It won't be a hard one. You're
kicking a stool. It's not bad. Give me a athletics
check. Okay. 15. 15. You, your foot. rockets
out hard metal greaves break right into the stool
the stool like the bottom of the stool just snaps
fully and the whole thing just kind of topples
you hear sort of start fall and you have an opening
to move okay how far is this table up here at
the top what's the distance basically across
the entire room yeah oh there's a whole room
uh it's about 60 feet hit the table okay You
know that the fog cloud, you know of it. You
know if you go about 40 feet one way, you'll
probably get breakthrough of it. Breakthrough
of it. You would be in one corner of it now.
I can only move the one though, so. Oh, gotcha.
I can't double move. Yeah. So in any case, he's
still going to run as far as he can. Hell yeah.
And then, so he's still in the fog, correct?
Yes, still in the fog, almost clear, but you
just heard breaking across the room, about five
feet away from the edge of the fog, and you know
that you cast this fog. You know roughly where
it will end. You hear the sounds of people being
dragged. You know the Cherry Delights are in
danger somewhere outside. Okay. Okay. Dresden.
I think that's it. Waking up, breaking free.
Now let's pop outside. Salome. Don't pause it,
but just real fast. I was reading and I looked
on the map and all of a sudden I can see somebody
outside. How'd that happen? That is just because
that's Fibro. So he was under the table and I
didn't want to put him on. He was token weirdness.
He's under the table. That echo is on. I just
don't want to have them laughing. I was like
listening and I thought I was listening. You
see Fibro skulks outside. His hands are maniacally
twirling. He pulls out his mustache. I did it.
I got them. It's me. The main villain. uh no
he's just chilling uh as you stand there salome
you kind of appear at the end you see that figure
blurb movement on the top window uh mask turns
to face you one snaps out i'm going to shoot
at you from the window oh that's right you did
move before me okay yes all right great uh oh
that's a pretty good 23 to hit hey yeah that's
gonna hit hell yeah just like glass shatters
as this like figure blasts right through it right
towards you as arcane lightning bolt uh fires
out uh oh okay was bad damage and rolled max
in the second one so that was going to be 12
points of lightning damage oh my god burning
into you by this figure you freaked out when
dresden did 14 points on you yeah that was on
me And then that figure. You would have said
the same thing if it was two. These ads have
brought me to half HP. Guess what? Holy fuck.
And that figure vanishes. They go deeper in the
room. You don't see them anymore. Cool. Great.
Yeah. Do something cool or I'm going to win.
Yeah, dude. For real. Your turn, Salome. Oh,
my God. Holy shit. My gloves are so fully off.
I wear gloves at work all week. I'm tired of
gloves. They're gone now. Black nitrils? Nah.
Bare hands. That's what I beat you with. Jerry
Wolf. I'm buzzed again. I can't even get across
the street. We're dead. This is a 30 -foot street.
I can't even get across the street this turn.
Dude, what the fuck? Without double moving. Is
that a weird size for a street? I was just kind
of guessing. I don't know. I mean, yeah, I don't
know. Two -lane wagons? I think that makes sense.
I don't know. I don't know what distance is by
just, like, thinking about them. I'm bad at that.
I have to, like, take a tape measure. Yeah, it's
tough. It's really tough. People are always like,
so effortlessly like, oh, it's a 20 foot tall
tree. It's like, what? What are you talking about?
It's madness. Yeah. No, bear in mind, if you
get the right angle, you can find, if you might
be able to see through the window where. Sure.
Yeah. Let me waste all of my movement to get
the right angle. Yeah. Yeah. Great. No, that's
fine. Thank you though. Just trying to help.
Yeah. Yeah. Just being a friendly fella. Oh yeah.
You're super helpful and friendly. Okay, I need
to do a little bit of something here. You want
to do it again? No, no, no, no. It's cool. I'll
do... That takes 10 minutes, so that won't help.
Just do that. Nah, I'm not gonna... God, I hate
to... I'll wait. Yeah, I'm sure I'll wait. This
is stupid. I'm gonna waste that. Or I could just...
Screw it. Cast your spell. We cut to, like, Dresden's
dead body. Cherry lights are all gone. Oh, he's
burned down for the fun of it. I don't know.
Dude, I literally don't know what the fuck I'm
going to do. Like, I kind of want to move to
the door. But I know that won't do anything.
And then I'm just going to have this guy harassing
me from above. Okay, well, I guess this will
help a little bit. I'm going to commute. Go on.
I'm going to speak the command word for my sensor.
Come eat! It gives a life. The sensor works.
Okay, so the sensor has been activated, and at
the start of each of my turns, I'll get 1d4 hit
points back. Is it all right if I roll that for
this turn, since I'm going to die otherwise?
I'm being mean. Okay, great. It's 1. One HP back.
Look at that. You deserve it. Look at that. And...
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Salome will fly 30 feet straight off the top
of the building here. So she'll get right here,
almost to the other end of the street. Okay.
Let me ask you, are you going for the bottom
floor or are you going for the top floor? Because
I want to put you on the other map in relation
to the top floor. If that's the case, it might
be more helpful visually for both of us. Yeah,
that's fine. Yeah, I was flying at the same level
as the second story. So right above the door
would be about right here. And with that, in
the exact spot on the upper floor, you would
see the figure that stepped right into the center
of the room. As you move to the other window,
you would have a view through. You could take
an action against this figure if you wanted to.
No, I can't because I already activated my sensor.
Oh, that was an action. Okay, cool. But you do
see them now. No, sorry. That's a bonus action.
Okay, great. That's okay. That's great. All right.
Went to the right spot. Call lightning. Do you
think this will work through the window? Let
me ask the rules. Think so. I mean, it's a it's
a pretty big cloud. It's 60 feet Around so I
would guess that there's probably a line of sight
I suppose if it says there's anything about like
it being like it can't be It's only undercover.
It won't work It doesn't say anything about cover
blocking it I'm just thinking that, like, from
the sky, like, if you're standing by a window,
you can still see the sky, right? Yeah. Yeah.
No, I think it's fine. Yeah, it sounds about
right. Yeah, you can use it. Okay. Nice. Then,
um... As you can see the figure, you can use
it. I almost imagine, like, it shoots down and,
like, you channel it off of you, like, your full
going Tesla coil. That feels so cool. Then how
about a deck save for me? A low one, if you don't
mind. It was a low one. I think I may have complied
with your wishes there. Do I have a good dex?
Nope. Okay. That is a 12. Okay, great. So you
fail. I'm in a bind, so I'm going to use my last
channel divinity to do 30 damage on this guy.
30 damage, huh? Yeah. And something that I forgot
last time that I'm going to do now. What? is
scrolling to find the name of it. You know I
hate that. Thunderbolt Strike. What? When you
deal lightning damage to a creature that is large
or smaller, you can also push it up to 10 feet
away from you. Oh, shit. I'm actually not going
to do that because he's near a window where I
can attack him with. That's a good point. My
lightning. Okay. But... I could have done it
last time. I should have done it last time. Pushed
that guy off the 20 -foot roof. Done 2d6 falling
damage. Yeah, true. So you're not going to push
the corpse 20 feet back? Oh, he's dead? Nice.
30 HP is exactly what I gave them. Oh my god,
thank goodness. I thought that it was going to
take me two turns because the first guy, I...
You know, I had to attack him twice, but okay,
but you did need to get pretty good a role in
the second hit with him but yeah, that was That
was clutch. So you just like go to the window
figure stops turns around sees you Just this
full glowing angel wings spread out like this
pure arbiter of justice. And this figure kind
of puts a hand up, like, stop. And like, I imagine
your lightning bolt goes right through the hand.
Yeah, she just reaches her hand out to shoot
the lightning. Yeah, right through the palm.
Right through the palm, right into the heart.
And this figure puts her funsies, does get launched,
20 feet back, smashes under the back wall. You
can hear a crash upstairs as someone goes flying.
Crack of lightning, broken glass, all sorts of
sounds happening. Hell. Yeah. Good shit. Salome
is in the fight. And with that, unknowingly to
you, Salome, and maybe you have an idea of it,
Dresden, the wall of force outside the coyote
has dropped. Thank goodness. Nice. Nice. All
right. Yep. Okay. Here's what we're going to
do. You start to run. I cannot AOO you as the
chair moved, but as you move past Ariat, sort
of like restatus tool leaps off of it and goes
bounding behind your form coming after you. Can
the echo take AOOs? Yes. Okay. AOO disadvantage.
Because, yeah. So, okay. With no plus two though,
right? No plus two. Okay. Again, it's like, I
think blinded might not do AOs, but I don't care.
I'm doing weird rules. It's not blinded in this
sense. Now, an AO is it... I ask this every time,
but I use it so infrequently. Single basic attack.
Single basic attack. Yep. Okay. Cool. With whatever
weapon you already have, so Echo just... Yep.
Warp and flings out. 17. With disadvantage. Ah,
fuck, that's right. Yeah, unless you want to
give me that button. I don't have a button. You've
taken all my buttons. You've taken all my buttons,
Dave. Fuck. 17 would hit, but, you know. Yeah,
12 doesn't. It does not. Again, like, almost
so close. I go, Reese flings out to hit. Arya
weaves, like, just jumps full on over the attack.
Hits the floor, goes bounding after you. Swords
go wide. In movement, sheath in, sheath out.
Two different sheaths and two different sides.
Slides up behind you. I'm going to make some
attacks. I have to stop you. I have to stop you.
let's do this thing all my attacks at disadvantage
can dresden dispel the fog or um 16 to hit no
cracked no last attack 18 to hit no Oh, my gosh.
I can't get in. Oh, that poison was so gnarly,
too. Oh, man. Yeah, no. Oh, you don't even know
what that one does, but it's so fun. You know
how long my AC is? What? 20. Damn it. Yeah. It's
hard. It's the fog. That was a good -ass move.
You just feel this figure come behind you. Perhaps
you whip around the last second, Dresden. Shield
kind of goes out, and the figure just bounces.
off your shield three times. Can't get into you.
Hold it out into the fog knowing he's coming.
You can't get a good opening. You can't see you.
And that is my turn. It lasts for one minute,
the fog. I don't think it's been a minute, right?
No, you're good. That's him. Alright, let's...
Leave them there and start moving into the fog.
You hear movement, troopers, troop, troop, troop,
troop, moving up. I don't know if they can get
within range of actually the movement they already
had. No, they cannot. Okay. They spend their
turn basically just getting up to you. What,
they can see me? No, but they can hear the metal
clanging of Ariat's blades, and you feel figures
sort of resolve nearby around these troopers
coming back. Whatever they were moving, they've
left behind somewhere, but you are surrounded
in the fog. This is so stupid. You just feel
these shapes, huge, hulking bodies, wailing nets
and clubs appearing by you, but that's all I've
got. And that is going to be... Oh, man, if I
could just have gotten an attack. I could have
done a ranged... I couldn't throw a ranged net
in there. I don't know where you were. No, never
mind. Dresden, that's you. Okay. The fog is really
getting me. Like a lot of my abilities here I
can't really work with. Okay. So here's what's
happening. As a bonus action, I am going to swap
places with my Echo. Oh, nice. Nice, nice, nice.
You son of a bitch. Yeah. Amazing. Amazing. And
no one's over there. And then... You just appear
on top of a table. You hear, as you kind of swap
places, you can hear, like, fibro sort of snoring
softly somewhere under the table, but you land
on top of the wood, sort of shakes a little under
you. The echo suddenly standing surrounded. As
a bonus action, I'm going to drink my potion
of heroism. Like that was Dresden's right Ariat
knows what you can do if he sees the echo he
would go he would go after you Not the echo but
in the fog. It's a silhouette doesn't matter
Yeah, damn it Dresden. That's so clever. So Dresden
had the potion of heroism, right? That was for
Dresden if you want to be oh, yeah, I'm gonna
drink it Yeah, holy shit. So potion of heroism
one hour for one hour. I gained ten temporary
hit points and For the same duration, I'm under
the effects of Bless. No concentration required.
Holy shit. So, yeah. So I will get an additional
D4 for attacks that I make. Or saving throws.
You pull this potion out. Jules, I left this
for you. A gift from Handsome Jai. Left for you
to protect his family. You slam this thing. I
think your eyes close when you do. And we see
your eyes reopen. And around his irises, we just
see these golden halos. Shimmering light. You
feel, boom, power rushing through you. So, and
then, will he be able to silently go over and
crack the door? It's a saloon door, baby. Fuck.
You can know it. It means you can go right out
that thing. It's whatever. Okay. Just don't go,
bam, through it. I've already used my action,
so I can't wake up. It does say use an action
to wake up. Nah. Yeah, nah. Damn it. I was doing
a bonus action stabbing. I've already used my
bonus action. Too bad. Damn it. Next time. So,
yeah, that's my turn. I love the dude that's
so cool on top of the table. Drinks it through
golden eyes. You hear combat in the distance.
That is so damn heroic, Dresden. All right. My
mages are gone. That is going to be Salome. All
right. Salome is going to slowly float down to
the street. Doing a like superhero pose with
like her arms out and her toes touch first. So
this is your whole turn. Yeah. It's like 12 seconds
of falling. It's two turns. And she lands in
front of the saloon doors. As you land, honestly,
there's so much noise. I think you start seeing
people are appearing on the street. People will
see Salome, the sight weavers, like slowly falling.
I mean, just destroyed this window. And they're
like scared. People look. taking in your like
radiance and they kind of begin to like whisper
so i'm smiling uh a lot of them just growing
more calm she's like a family you see someone
walks to the china shop like oh no my shop salome
stays focused though and she has her her hands
in like a mage's battle stance and she's looking
at the door she calls out children come out to
me i'll keep you safe Or I'm coming in. And I'm
going to hold. Okay. I'm going to wait and see
what happens. Salomon, you don't know what's
going on in there. You don't know. It's just
fog. Yeah, it's just fog. You have no idea what's
happening inside. You call this. That voice rings
out. Dresden, you're very nearby. You hear that
voice. Oh, he hears it. Just outside the door.
Yep. And you're going to hold your action. Okay.
Yep. Going to wait. That's Ariat. 16 on the echo.
Nope. Oh, thank goodness. If I don't kill this
echo, I'm going to full -on riot. Oh, my gosh.
Nope. Oh, my gosh. No way. Did you not hit the
echo? I did hit the echo. Wow. I'm rolling shit.
I mean, I'm still in the fog. I'm just like,
swords. You just hear ping, ping, ping, ping.
My other guys are going to try to hit the echo,
I guess. I was going to say, we at least get
to waste another turn. Damn. Club attacks on
the echo. Come on. Okay. Oh, it's a disadvantage.
Hang on. Fuck. All right. No, no. Three more.
No. Damn, I think that hit your phone. It did.
Oh, my God. What the hell are you doing? What
is going on, David? I dropped my phone on the
cabinet right off my... Right out of the port
of pain. Dropped down. Probably cracked my phone
screen. This is as heavy as hell. Is your phone
on the floor? Yeah, his phone's on the floor.
No, yeah, it's on the floor. I'm not checking
sports, Steven. Why is your phone on the floor?
Because I'm in the moment. Don't you have pockets?
I'm in the game. You got a cheeky little pocket
on your sleeve right there. Three more attacks,
you son of a bitch. Oh, oh, oh, I got the echo.
That's a 18 to hit. Yeah, that hits. Yes, okay.
And he's gone. Of course, though, that was the
second attack. The very last attack. Well, it
was the first attack of the second guy, so he
gets one more attack. But, like, the echo vanished,
and that guy's like, what? He doesn't know where
you are. He didn't see where you were. Yeah,
that's it. I'm not going to do anything. He's
going to like take a step back out of the fog
and look around the room. And they heard Salome.
They heard Salome. He'll start beelining towards
the door. Fuck. 30 feet towards the door. Not
quite there, but like getting close. Just kind
of looks like he peeks out of the fog, looks
at his ally, kind of puts like a hand on him
and wants to signal. I'll handle this and just
kind of starts moving that way, grabbing his
weapon, ready to go. And that is all I got because
that echo play was incredible. Um, when is, when
is Dresden up in right now? Okay, great. Then
I'll, then I'll let Dresden do Dresden before.
So Dresden will move toward the door. Okay. run
into this guy you move into you you move to the
door uh you strip collide with this person in
the fog they kind of turn towards you uh but
you have the initiative here yeah i'm gonna manifest
my echo right behind him and we're gonna attack
the fuck out of him oh my gosh so right in front
of the door now we have like to the left of the
door dresden to the right of the door dresden's
echo and this guy right in front of the door
just yeah you guys are wailing on him hell and
i got i get a d4 Yeah, right. Holy shit. The
Bless. Yeah. So it's still disadvantage, but
with Bless now. Yeah. Amazing. Yeah. Well, wait
a second. Where does the fog end? It ends right
outside the door. So that gray area, can you
see the gray spot? So where did he poke his head
out to see this guy? Yeah. Where did he poke
his head out of the fog then to look back at
his guy? They were at the very edge, basically,
because he was next to this guy up top. I see
what you're saying. Do you guys see the gray
circle, right? No. You don't see the gray circle
the whole time? No. Oh, shit. That's why I've
been really confused. Oh, my God. This is my
fault. All players. Now look at this. That's
the fog. There we go. Okay. Okay. I thought you
saw it. I just assumed it was like, no, I was
there. Yeah. So he was up by there. So that's
the fog. You see the fog. Okay. You were like,
you were like right past Ari. Well, okay. Episode
and a half then. So I got, so. Oh, it's like
more like two episodes. I want to, I'm going
to avoid a wedgie. Okay. And I'm going to proceed
with honesty. You certainly aren't Steven. Manifesting
my echo says within 30 feet in a spot that I
can see. I didn't know that we were still in
the fog there. I thought we were on the edge
of the fog on the outskirts. Wait, hold on, hold
on. Manifesting? Yes. Oh, okay, so you can move
him, but it's just this one. Okay, yeah, yeah,
yeah. But manifest on the space, you can see
it. At the time that I manifested him, I thought
we were outside. I'm going to give you this.
I'm going to give you this. I'm going to let
you manifest it in the spot right next to you,
and you can move it from there. Because I think
you can see right next to you. I can see the
form. Yeah, you can see. It's not like you're
blind. You're looking in the fog. You can see
the ground next to you. Okay, that works because
it's no action to move him. Yeah, so he appears
and it's part of your movement, but you didn't
move your whole movement. See, we got there,
guys. We got there by being open and trusting
and honest. Yeah, Andrew, go catch us. Catch
our pants down. Not looking at our wedgie. Disadvantage
plus two, right? Yes. Plus a D4. Yes. I got a
shot. You got a shot. You certainly have a shot.
Wait. Isn't it just... Doesn't the flanking negate
the disadvantage? No. Flanking is a bonus or
disadvantage is a disadvantage. It's a whole
thing. You're a whole thing. It's true. First
roll was a 19. That would have been enough. Second
roll was a fucking three. How did you get a three?
It was a natural one. I rolled a two on the four.
Plus two. Sorry, five. I was going to say, I
don't think there's a way. A horse on the street
starts charging towards it, but then a barrier
and then he just bounces back. I can't horse
them. Second attack. No, it's the barrier of
this being your home base. I'm not doing it to
you. The horse thinks better of it. It's like,
nah, I'm under control. It's fine. Solidly, the
side waver's there. 18. On the second. 18 hits.
Fuck yeah. I mean, I don't think I'm going to
be able to take him down with this, but... You're
getting a hit. Jeremy, I need you to think...
Oh, there's going to be 12. I just need you to
think if Dresden's going to say anything on his
turn, because that's going to dictate what I
do or do not do after your turn is done. You
do hear attacking right outside the down. Yeah,
he is going to... You know that whoever's helping
you is just outside. I knew he was going to say
something. I haven't thought about yet what he's
going to say. Let me ask you a question. Let
me ask you a question, Dresden. Do you recognize
the voice? You were there on the road. Do I?
When you were on the road with Jules, when you
were flying up with Jules, you remember this
angel broke apart, came up, and said to Jules,
I'm sorry, but I must share this burden with
you. Something like that. Right. Well, yeah,
and then Jules went unconscious for a long time,
and you were pretty pissed off about it. Do you
think you remember that voice enough to recognize
it? I think I remember that voice, but I don't
think I ever knew her name. You don't know her
name, but you know it's her. Actually, you saw
her on TV. Oh, okay. Well, even still, it doesn't
matter who it is. Yeah. It really doesn't matter
who it is to Dresden. I'm sure it's just perplexing
to be like, oh, wait, it's that person that made
Jules go unconscious for a while. Sure. Like,
she's here helping. That I saw on TV, and it
works for Atash. Yeah. Yeah, it's a really weird
twist for Dresden. You knew someone was helping
you. You probably never expected to be one of
Atash's celestials. So, again, Dresden doesn't
care who it is. He's going to scream out, Enemy
just inside the door. Kid's still inside. Holy
shit. Is that going to activate your raid action
there? Yeah, I guess so. What? I mean, it's going
to be fun. Shit. You're in a fog over the saloon
door. You're staying in the street. What are
you going to do? Salome is going to cast one
of the few spells that can dispel fog of cloud.
Cloud fog. Fog cloud. Fuck. um all right okay
it does require dropping concentration but uh
she's gonna cast god damn this is gonna kind
of suck she's gonna cast gust of wind so a line
of strong wind 60 feet long and 10 feet wide
blast from you in a direction you choose Each
creature in the line must succeed on a strength
saving throw or be pushed 15 feet away from you.
Wait, so everyone that's on the door is getting
blown away? Wait, hold on. She's outside the
door. How wide is the door? It's five feet wide.
It's as wide as the one dude. Correct me if I'm
wrong. You're not wrong. It's going to come through
the door. It's going to funnel in through the
door at five feet. I don't like it. And then
go straight ahead where that one guy is. It's
upsetting. I feel sick. I'm not wrong, though.
You're not wrong. I'm not wrong. You're not wrong,
you son of a bitch. If it's any consolation,
the drops call lightning. Okay. Storm begins
to dissipate as you just kind of, what's it look
like? Put your hands together, come at me hostile
and blow the door down? Exactly. Yeah. That's
exactly it. I love it. You know what? I love
it because saloon doors start battering in the
wind as you just blast through. You say this,
um, hell yeah. And the fog. begins to disperse
in the room as this guy goes flying back uh does
it just automatically get rid of all the fog
uh well hold on let me or just in the line it
doesn't say super i think it says disperse let's
have fun and say it moves the fog like like back
a ways I want to move some of the fog. No, disperse
means it's gone. Yeah, you're right. It's gone.
Okay. Yeah. Fuck. Also, it's a circle, so I don't
know how to make that work. I mean, this way,
the things kind of open up. You have an alley
here. There is no way I would have been able
to help you otherwise. Yeah. You have backup
now. You guys got to go 15 feet back, though.
Save, right? Strength save, yeah, which is...
Don't worry about it. Scrolling, scrolling. He's
not going to pass it. 15 feet? Correct. And prone?
No. I don't think so. Let me triple check, but
does he have to be consciously running away to
get an AO? Yes. Fuck. He does. Uh, yeah, it doesn't
say anything about being. So you just see like
you like. Coming out of the door, blast open,
throwing the wind, the wind sort of moves the
fog back, revealing the room inside, revealing
actually in the back corner you see Miskin and
Mulligan are like both manacled in nets and like
sleeping at the bottom of the stairs. They were
preparing to make away with those two at least
who they did find. Nobody else looks to have
been found. Shadows, still a dimly lit room,
still shadows lingering over the other chariot
of lights who are in hiding. But as you blast
this door, as the wind courses through, this
figure, sort of stays themselves. Shield goes
up, right? Shield goes up and just gets blasted
backwards, sliding across the wooden floor, 15
feet back. And Salome, you look into this room,
you see Dresden and you see Dresden, both just
inside the door. Okay, so she's gonna step up
between the two. Oh my God, that's so cool. The
three heroes standing at the doorway. And that's
the end of her turn. That's the end of your turn?
We see Ariat inside. Fog is gone. Swords out.
Looks up towards the three of you. The two other
riot troopers kind of stand tall. Shields out.
Cherry Delights bound in nets. Cherry Delights
hiding in shadow. the three of you stand tall
before it all ready to fight this out ready to
protect the guardian angels that you are so say
something cool dresden's modest he's humble daddy's
home