Hey, pants people. Do us a favor and go ahead
and check out Good Times Roll. Hi there, Whaley.
Hey, William. How are you doing this morning?
How was the black coffee? It was good. Nothing
much different than normal. Just routine. You
know how I like it. Right. I guess so. I guess
I do now. You've been with me how long and you
still don't know that about me? You seem to have
got maybe a little something going on with your
nerves there since it's big test day, but. Yeah,
I'm really excited to take this test. Really
excited? I've been waiting to get in this. I
nearly shit bricks when I was putting on the
headset. Really? Absolutely. We've been, what,
saving a couple years for this here? Yeah, exactly.
There was no study guide or anything. Did you
not study? All my peers were telling me, you
got a study guide? You didn't, you didn't like
study at all? Well, you know, I. There's a public
resources, I'm sure, that we both, as I was saying
earlier. I looked to the left. There's a big
library building. It's the building to the left
of the trials, and it says all information you
need to know to pass the trials. Oh, of course.
Sorry, I've been there. Clearly, I've been there.
I was talking maybe about, because you know what
they say. They say that you can't trust books.
You can't trust the digital books because the
government's been editing them and whatnot. You've
been hearing about that? I've been on five channels.
Billiam, this is hard to explain to you. The
corporation is good for you. The corporation
is good for you. Corporations prevent me from
planting my corn every season, so it's a little
hard for me to... I don't want to get into this
with you right now. You got a little pamphlet
I can take a look at before we walk in there?
Actually, I'll go, and then I run over. I'm going
to try to just see if there's something I can
grab right at the front of the library. mind
-wiping our worlds. Confused? I'm talking about
the Dawn Incarnates. You might know them as a
novelty, the old guardians of the Radiant Citadel
that roamed the preserve of the ancestors, spouting
nonsense and blessing new luminaries. Larger
than life, yet overall harmless, right? Right?
Wrong! It turns out these Incarnates hold power
over the diamond itself. They hold power over
you and me. We now know the diamond can touch
our minds, a circuit the Incarnates have held
onto for 250 years. Why? So they can pry their
gemstone claws into our memories? Force us into
subservience? We need to defend ourselves. We
need to call for an emergency meeting of the
Speakers for the Ancestors. We need to demand
that they try Sholi for her crimes post -haste,
and that they find a means to hold the Dawn Incarnates
accountable for what they have done, and make
sure they cannot do it again. And we need to
look to the one figure that has the power to
face down these threats and protect us. Atash,
the Hand of the Sunweaver. Too long have our
25, our 23 worlds been divided. Now more than
ever, we need one trusted figure, Atash, to take
the reins of our speakers, our luminaries, and
of the Radiant Siddha that both connects and
threatens us. Blanche, you fucking bozo. So that's
the play. Spread distrust. Distrust in the system.
What have you done, Blanche? Look what you got
with your beers. I forgot to bring a beer. I'm
sad. Are you a jealous loser? I'm very jealous.
I don't have a beer when I get home. I'm going
to drink in celebration over your smoldering
corpses. Yeah, but at least we'll get that autograph,
right? Get the autograph carved into your bones.
I like wrote that speech. Like, that was one
of the first things I wrote in this arc. Nice.
That line. I was like, that's such a cool line.
You're sick. Metal as shit. So I just do that.
I write a line. I'm like, I have to find somewhere
to drop that because I want to. It makes me happy.
I don't know. I don't know. Hell of a boss fight
we're in, guys. Oh, man. I've been so excited
for this fight. We almost didn't do it. It was
a die roll. We almost skipped right over this.
Yeah. I'm glad we did because I was really excited
for this. Hey, that lowers the blue line. Couldn't
have said that line. Yeah. Let's talk about boss
fights real quick. This is kind of fun. I want
to get your take on a... I don't know if we've
done this before, because I feel like some banters
have probably, at this point in the show, done
like 16 times. Favorite horror movie? Jurassic
Park. But... Oops. Punch the mic. Go ahead. Just
kick it. Snap the mic stick. But how did we talk
about this one yet? Boss battles and boss HP.
It's a very interesting thing amongst dungeon
masters. And I want to get your take on... certain
like ideas and certain kind of uh ways rules
some dungeon masters have to play them now i
know it's semi -popular uh at least a little
bit you know known thing that some dungeon masters
will forego having an hp number entirely their
boss fight is basically just be like based off
vibes yeah it's vibes full vibes it's like hey
everyone's fine cool we end the fight you know
we just go for a little while we say ah that's
about that's about right we end the fight here
um Personally, as a player, I would hate that.
No, I'm not yucking your yum. I think it's cool.
Everyone's got their style. I would hate that.
What are your thoughts? I like to live with the
real knowable possibility of danger and character
death. And that means so much less when the big
boss has no HP number. You know what I mean?
You know, let's let's say, you know, we're fighting
somebody and we do 150 points of damage. And,
you know, the DM is like, oh, let's keep this
going a little bit longer. And and a character
dies. And it's like, yeah, but there's there's
a reality where that boss could have been dead
already. And just because, you know, you said
it's not cool enough yet. There are consequences
and those consequences are the hard work of building
and flushing out this character is gone. Yeah.
And it feels like your tools you're getting from
leveling up, you're not utilizing. And the idea
is the players will never know. They'll never
know that's happening. So for them, it's like,
it's more for the DM. As a DM, I think that would,
that would bore me. I like. to feel as scared
as you do because you know despite all i'm rooting
for you obviously i want you to win this i really
want you to win this but i want you to win this
as close and as scary as possible that's your
goal as a dm isn't like you're not trying to
beat the players and you're not trying to like
give the players an easy time you're trying to
tow this incredibly fine line of they're shitting
themselves scared and they're really pulling
out every tool they have they're going to the
dregs of their you know bag of holding to find
the one little item the one crumb that can suddenly
turn the tide in a bad situation but you want
that to happen you want that to happen right
exactly but if your players aren't smart enough
and they're just sitting there casting cantrips
every turn and they do 25 points of damage you
can't say oh the bad guy's gonna roll over now
and die because it's been nine rounds and you've
done 25 points of damage you got a bunch of stevens
in your party and they're just Idiots. Side note,
I'm going to soundbite David saying, I want you
guys to win. That's what we're describing a death
scene. They'd be like, can your eyes close? I
want you guys to win. I want you guys to win.
I want you guys to win. I want you guys to win.
I'm just fading into death. well that's the thing
it's like it's it's give and take you know what
i mean yeah the the game means less to me if
there's no set number if there's an imaginary
hp and the game means less to me if character
death isn't a real possibility the stakes have
to be real exactly like we're playing this real
if it's not then what the fuck are we doing then
what the fuck are we doing i believe in stakes
so bad i'm like yeah rival magic doesn't really
work i don't care next two point oh next one
same thing rather magic who cares I don't want
it that's fine I kind of wear it's high risk
high reward I mean like the drama the drama I
was about to say dramatics and drawings came
out weird but I wouldn't I wouldn't hate it if
it's not if it was harder to do it's very very
limited that'd be kind of cool you know but like
the whole at some point the original for a diamond
is nothing you know it just it just gets more
and more so easy to just not lose a character
forever and I don't know it's the way I mean
we're on if we're on episode 134 Really? Or maybe
this is 136. This is 141. What? This is 141.
For one, holy shit. And for two, Steven, how
are you so far off? I thought I listened to 136
or 134 like the other day. It was 139 released
this past Monday. Oh my God. Steven still thinks
we're releasing this in October. Oh yeah. Oh
yeah. It's Halloween, right? Happy Halloween,
everybody. Because our times suck, I need to
explain. I just said 139 just happened a few
days ago, and we're in 141. We're recording two
in one night, so we just recorded 140. It's a
twofer. Yeah, it's a twofer. That's right, yeah.
So get ready for a second episode of Energy,
real hard. But if a character dies that's been
around for a long time, and then you just say,
Uno reverse card, revive. I don't know. I'm not
a huge fan of... Yeah. No, I feel that. I feel
that. It's too easy as it stands is my big thing.
It's too easy. If it was limited or something,
if like, you know, a party got like one or something
and then it's like, oh my gosh, you know, where
do we use this? You know, what if one person
will die in the same fight? And then it's a cool
choice. I like, I like cool, scary, hard choices.
Yeah. But, I don't know. I mean, the fact is,
is the way that we're doing this is different.
You know, we're playing a game, sure. We're playing
the game our way. But we are telling a story.
Yeah. We are telling a story. And if there's
no stakes in that story, if it's not real, then
it's just a boring ass story. It means nothing.
Yeah. Like sometimes we're over here and we're
going to, we're going to whip out like, you know,
some, some. I'm going to be over there pulling
on my action figures and Arlan snaps the gargoyle's
stupid head. I love the narrative of it and I
love to paint a picture of everything that's
going on, but we are playing a real game too.
We're doing the sidestepping into the narrative
world and we're telling a story in that way.
We're reading off a story in some ways, but this
is also all based off consequences of your actions.
Everything you do feeds into everything else
and it's cool seeing the chaos that turns into
this organized something, this line, this beautiful
line, this path. If there's no better proof that
we're not like pulling punches to like tell the
story. Last episode where I blew half of my gold,
two buttons, an hour of game time and got nothing
out of it. It's true. That says it all right
there. If I was fudging, that's where I'd fudge.
That says it all right there. In my notes, you'd
be fudging, you did it. And I was like, yeah,
I'll probably get it. I know you'll still bet
two buttons. I'm probably going to fail that.
No, my wisdom's not that high, but just, you
know, sometimes it goes that way. But speaking
of October, before we get going. Happy October,
everybody. It's almost October. Is there something
you need to plug? Yes. The Vermont Anime and
Gaming Expo. We'll be there. We're going. We're
going to have fun and you will too in Burlington,
Vermont. Good voice. Maybe I'll be the next Storyteller
Rune. So yeah, you should join us there. It's
going to be fun. Come hang out. Come talk anime.
And you can tell us all about it on the Discord.
I don't know. All right, get to the episode.
Cut this guy off. Cut him off. Cut him off. Cut
his mic. I know nothing about anime, but I'll
be there having fun. Well, it's anime and gaming.
I'm going to tell you everything about anime
there, so don't worry about it. You're going
to have the worst experience. What should I binge
before then? We started MHA a while back, My
Hero Academia. I started it. I lost it. That
was the source that inspired me to make this
setting. Or make changes to this setting. I don't
know. I like that one. There's a lot of ones
I like. What happened to getting to the show?
Honestly, MHA kind of falls off, though. You
got me talking. What are we going to do now?
It really falls off later on. How about Lost?
Dude, we'll get to Lost. Let's get to the show.
Cut all our mics. Let's go. Let's open where
we left off. Boom, boom, boom, missed parts as
a Tyrannosaurus Rex, full -on Tyrannosaurus Rex,
comes blasting out of the sort of forest around
the park, down the path from whence you came
towards the sort of entrance of the park. You
see Jaune riding on top, screaming out his battle
cry, For Golden Tides! For Golden Tides! And
we freeze frame. And we hear a voiceover. Do
it, do it. I suppose you're wondering how I got
into this situation. Well, I'll make it brief.
We cut to an image of a Santa Claus clothed,
frost dirt and blood covered John Franklin standing
in a steamy sandcastle sauna clutching something
in his hand. Why did I write that sentence like
that? We all love some alliteration. It all started
a few days ago when I returned from a peculiar
and sudden adventure in the mountains of Moor.
Through some peculiar quirk of this teleportation
magic, or perhaps the will of the dead god that
rested within the mountaintop, I found myself
in possession of a figurine of power in the shape
of a noble Tyrannosaurus Rex. Now having made
a rather poor showing during that escapade, I
sought to train harder than ever in the heart
of the sphere, and to learn how to summon the
being connected to this figure. See a smash cut
of Jean driving a bright glowing sphere into
a sahagin -shaped training dummy. Felt by Jean
sitting in a library, his head swimming between
the figurine in his left hand and an open tome
in his right. These efforts, while fruitful,
were cut short by some troubling news. We cut
to a scene of Jean Ledoux in a darkened bedroom
watching a recap of the ugly coyote attack be
a crystal projection. We see the white knuckles
of Jean clutching royal sheets. See the news
reflected in his unblinking eyes. as we watch
Oren's network break down before the screen probably
cuts to a magical difficulties message. And so,
I bid a solemn goodbye to my damnable husband
of Ledoux, and set off to ensure the safety of
my luminary comrades of the Radiant Citadel.
Jean and Ledoux, we see them before the open
gate of the Sandcastle, sharing a kiss and a
long embrace, before Jean finally breaks away,
wipes his eyes, and begins his journey through
the beaches and jungles of Noiri. followed by
Jean stepping off the Bastide Jewel and onto
the very populated docking bay of the Passage
of Respite. We see a dramatic backshot, the top
of the Royal Diamond looming over him as he steps
out onto the head of the Sunweaver's fossil city.
When I finally arrived at the Citadel not long
ago, I had intended to move immediately to the...
ugly coyote. But just then there was a buzz for
the Passage of Respite, as an emergency transfer
was... Called to hurry, for I knew Sire and Jules
had gone the day before. I waited to see if perhaps
it was them that demanded the transfer when...
And we see the Amethyst Conqueror Jules sliding
into place along the docking bay. And we see
Sholay Brass step coldly and confidently down
the ramp. Her eyes scan the crowd before her
as paparazzi diamonds flash and questions are
screamed her way. These eyes fall on a perplexed
Jean Franklin. An eyebrow raises as she moves
to meet him. We catch words exchanged between
the two, and we, as audience to this little flashback
montage, hear a snippet of Sholay's words. Your
luminary partners are about to engage in battle
against a foe that may rival the Storm Eye in
sheer, terrifying strength. If you wish to fight
alongside them, I can send the Amethyst back
to Hauri. Make haste to the city of Yanido, to
the Park of the Elders. At its center, you will
find them. Now go! In return to our original
freeze frame, Jaune's golden spear proffered
forward, charging, face locked in furious, glorious,
heroic, something, screaming. In a rush of action,
time begins to move again. Now, I have one very
important question for you both. Who wants the
character sheet for Jaune? And who wants a sheet
for the Tyrannosaurus Rex? I got them both right
here on paper, baby. It should go to Steven.
I mean, he's John Franklin. I think we'll each
take one, right? You can each take one, or one
of you can take both, whatever you want to do.
It's a lot of characters. Having three in one
fight's a lot. Having four in one fight's a lot.
If you're feeling like you want... T -Rex is
pretty simple. It's going to hit things. I'll
take the T -Rex. You know John Franklin better
than I do. Okie dokie. John's a little souped
up. We haven't seen him. He was a little updated
in the naked John Franklin shit I gave you for
the live show, but he never utilized his smite.
I assume he's learned those since. He actually
does have Divine Smite now. Okay. Level 7, so
he has 7 of those slots open. Sweet. T -Rex is
just a beast. Jeremy's making a face. Holy shit.
That's a lot of HP. That's a lot of HP. Did you
catch the name of the T -Rex? Holy shit, yes.
I did. The name is... Joan Francine. Named for
her papa. Joan Francine. Joan Francine. Joan
Francine. She's named for her papa. Yes. Come
now. Hilarious. Holy. You've outdone yourself,
David. You know what? If you laughed, I'd have
given you a button. Yeah, uh -huh. Sure. Holy
shit, that damage. Uncle Jean into initiative
at the top of the round, given that that's when
he entered. Oh, okay. Well, then I'm going to
need a couple minutes to read this sheet. Take
a few minutes. Holy fuck. Now, before we... dive
hard into this just got back um i do want to
touch on a few more details about the jasper
transaurus rex because it made some changes if
anyone knows a figurine that's already become
obvious uh this figurine typically uh will allow
it to summon a t -rex basically it's almost like
this thing calls to a t -rex that sort of be
on the plane it turns into that t -rex and this
t -rex will last for up to one hour or until
its hp is depleted Okay. Typically, it cannot
be resummoned, used again, until 14 days have
passed. We don't have that much downtime in this
campaign, so I did a little thing here. I dropped
it to three days. That's why it's back already.
Okay. In doing this, I also weakened it a little
bit. It is not the typical T -Rex stat block.
It's very strong still, but I did drop it about
a CR, took away some damage, took away some HP.
It's not, I mean, it's still very powerful, but
it's not, you know, shake the world powerful
like it might have been. One more thing that's
important to note. If you command the figurine
while it's in Tyrannosaurus Rex form, so basically
right now I'm going to say it has been commanded
to charge. It is charging through. Following
this charge, it might need a new command in order
to act on its own or else it will just sort of
defend itself, right? If you want to give it
a command, you have to roll a d20. On a one,
you lose control of the figurine and it becomes
hostile to you and your companions until it is
brought back to its figurine form. So it's a
little scary when it gets in. You know, you need
to make that roll whenever you command it. So
maybe a command that's going to stick, and it
will just kind of fan itself. So someone hits
it, it will hit them back, but it might not go
after certain targets unless you want to make
it do that. That's the scary part of this thing.
Okay. I want to say anybody in your party will
have command of it. I guess Jaune technically
is a summoner right now. I guess it should be
Jaune that commands it, but Jaune will follow
your commands. Sure. And you could swap it out
to somebody else and someone else can attune
to it and they can get it. Right now it's just
Jaune's because of him having it. In character,
you guys are probably really confused because
you had no reason to believe that figurine even
existed still. Right. So just so you know, T
-Rex happened. And with that, I'm going to say
it's the T -Rex's turn first because I think
it makes sense for it to fully do its turn before
Jaune does his since it is now at the edge of
this arena about... 60 feet away from Rathalon,
I believe. 50 feet away from Rathalon. Jean wants
to do something that's going to get in there.
So, Mr. Wolf, the T -Rex, is up. Sir, the cavalry
is here! Is the T -Rex's current command to charge
at a Rathalon? Oh, actually it is, right. It's
currently a charge at... We'll say it's a charge
at Rathalon, so it will attack a Rathalon if
it charges up to him. I think that's fair. I
mean, there's no... That's his command. Right.
I mean, it would be a little bit of a risk to
change the command. Yeah. You know what I mean?
Yeah. I mean, I'm concerned that John Franklin
appears to be riding him. He's riding on top
of the head. Right up to a rathalon. Right. He
is riding him, right? He is riding him. Okay.
Are you okay with this, Stephen? I'm okay with
this. Because we're going to go for it. Yeah.
We're going to go for it. I think we need the
big... Bad guy to go against the big good guy.
It's like bear, no size, wobbling back and forth.
He looks like he's going to fall off at any second.
He's like, ah, ah, ah. So he's going up to a
Rathalon. Okay. I believe you have 50 feet of
movement, don't you? Yes, 50 feet. So T -Rex
comes blasting and slides right up to the stone
form that, again, looks like utterly shocked.
Just turns its head in this direction, lets down
its guard for just a moment. And then the last
thing, it's trying to bring a sword up. Will
this thing? Get some hits in. Let's see. Yeah,
he has the multi -attack. He has the multi -attack.
So he's got the first bite attack. We're going
to go with that. All right. Oh, she, by the way,
her name is Joan Francine. Oh, yeah, Joan Francine.
This is going to be a 17 to hit. A 17. We'll
miss. What? Oh, it's 18. Fuck. It's 18. God damn
it. Damn it. It's 18. Goes to strike. And that
sword comes up just in time. Oh, it's a stone
sword. Boom. Holding in the T -Rex's mouth. Okay.
That was the bite. Okay, well, now we're going
to go with the tail. The tail. Let's see if we
can still get something in. That's a dirty 20.
Cracks against the legs. Boom! You hit with the
tail. Give me some damage. 3d8 plus 6. Holy shit.
Oh. If the target... Okay, what size is Arathelon?
Too big. He is gargantuan. I think it's huge
or smaller, correct? It's huge or smaller. Large
or smaller. The tail is huge or smaller. Gotcha,
gotcha, gotcha. Fuck. Yeah. All right, fine.
Fine. He's a big fella. So he will not get the
prone. Not get the prone. But other targets here,
if you want to change target, take that risk.
Nope. Nope. I want to see that one happen so
badly. Absolute bloodshed. Oh my gosh. This might
hurt a little. That's going to be 16. Oh, that
hurts a little. Not the best, not the worst.
Not nothing. Terrible. You got a good crack in
there. And the tail comes out, smashes against
the leg. You see a bunch of stone breaks off,
bursts to flame. Hell yeah. That's T -Rex's turn.
All right. Jaune is on the head that bites down.
He's suddenly just hanging above Arathlon. I
think the sword is like locked in the T -Rex's
mouth. Jaune sees an opportunity to make a move
here as the T -Rex has been stilled and he can
sort of stand properly on wobbling legs. Spear
out. What's he doing? Standing up, spear out.
He's going to issue a nightly challenge to Arathlon.
I don't understand what's happening and I don't
know who you are. But I challenge you! Wait,
how does he not know who he is? He played with
his action figure. I guess he'd recognize him.
He doesn't understand why there's a statue of
an undead. I guess, yeah. For him, it's like
he was told by Sho, like, hey, there's a big
scary guy. And he shows up. He just remembered
a Rathal on the way here. So I guess he's probably
figured something. Yeah. So that is a... You're
right. You're right. You called me on it. Just
like, I don't know what's happening here. But
a Rathalon brass, the supernova. I... will outshine
you the fisher king has come to claim you nice
um so it doesn't give a type of saving throw
it just says a dc 13 saving throw oh for nightly
challenge i believe it's charisma they're not
doing that's weird to me i'll let you look whichever
stat is lowest oh it shouldn't be charisma then
i hope you know i'm gonna say I don't know. I'm
going to say Wisdom. I'm going to say Wisdom
because I don't know and that seems like a safe
option for it. We'll just go with that. I like
that. His charisma is probably like plus 12 or
some stupid thing. He has a very high charisma,
but I think between the two, this feels more
Wisdom -y as you're kind of like, it's like his
mental effect he's trying to hold against. That's
fine. It's a low save anyways. I'm expecting
him to make it, but... maybe not as a 10 oh my
god it's dc 13 holy shit i did not expect that
to happen okay so what that means holy shit is
that um wait i could damn it do i burn a thing
it's too late i already said it it's too late
that means that uh um Sorry, reading real fast.
That means that this creature is vulnerable to
Jaune's spear attacks. Holy shit. And while vulnerable,
he has disadvantage against targets other than
Jaune Franklin. That's gnarly. Yeah. You get
to reroll the saving throw at the end of each
turn. Okay. All right. Still, for this turn,
Jaune now has... Holy shit. That was his action?
Yes, that was his action. Okay. Does he even
have... I don't think he has a single bonus action.
He has a nice little reaction there, but I guess
that would also work on the T -Rex if it came
down to it. He could guard the T -Rex. Kind of
wild, but why not? That's the only one he's going
to be five feet away from while he's riding.
He swaps little positions for this so he's under
the T -Rex. It doesn't work on the T -Rex. It
doesn't work on the T -Rex. So hold on. Can Jaune
still command the T -Rex if he's off the T -Rex?
Yes. Okay. So that's an option. Yeah, since he
summoned it, if he speaks a command, it will
follow that command probably. All right. Real
fast, though, just point of order. Action economy,
what would it take for Jaune to get off of the
T -Rex? Just movement or? Movement. Okay. I'm
not there yet, but. He can either climb down,
which will cost a little more movement, or he
can jump down and take some damage. Cool, cool,
cool, cool. Noted. Okay. And if I do something
crazy with this thing, there's no saddle, so
I might just, like, roll. If the T -Rex gets
hit, I might just have Jaune rolled or fall off
anyway. I want it to, like, grind down the back
of the T -Rex if he gets off. Just pull Legolas,
that shit. Yeah, exactly. All right, Jaune's
spear out, light shines. Orathlon sort of stony
orb eyes suddenly start glowing that same light
and they fixate on him. That line, I will outshine
you. You can see it struck a nerve. Rage forming
in the throat like the heat of a volcano. And
that's Chester. Chester. All right, Chester.
Holy shit, Jules, is that a T -Rex? Yeah. You
were there. No, I wasn't. Oh, no, you weren't
there. Holy shit, we were. What the fuck? I want
to shoot the guy! Wait, it's been so long. He
wasn't there. Was he there? He was not in the
live show, no. Damn it. No, he wasn't in the
live show. No, yeah, you weren't there. Yeah.
It's the T -Rex. It was Jaune and Akio. Akio
wasn't there. No, it was just Jaune. Jaune and
Ringbell. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, that's right.
I was thinking about... Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can't
believe you guys remember the T -Rex. Yeah. All
right. Chester is going to go for that little
gargoyle bitch. Ooh, okay. Closest to us. Okay.
Yeah. That's what he's going to do. The one that's
sort of between, now between, yeah, next to Arathlon,
next to the cat stone, which is also floating
right beside the T -Rex, a whole kind of cluster
of activity there. You're firing into that cluster.
Give me that roll. That's going to be 15. 15
hits. Nice. Great. Okay. I mean, if you miss,
it's not so bad either. Yeah, it's not the worst.
Right, exactly. Yeah. Fuck. For only seven. Seven.
Piercing. Hey, seven ain't nothing. Yeah. Boom.
Crack. This thing gets hit hard. Already took
a little hit from the stone, I believe. I just
want to crit and max damage. Right? We all just
want to crit, baby. Yeah. All right. That's Chesta.
Crossbow goes out. He's going to load the next
one. And that is Arathelon. I don't like it.
I don't like it. I mean, I have to fight. I guess
I have to fight Jean now, right? Oh, God. You
should fight the T -Rex. I'm going to make two
attacks on Jean Franklin. Fuck. Who's standing
on top of the T -Rex because I got challenged
and I had disadvantage on anybody else, so that
sucked. There's not really anything I can do
about it. I need to start using my resistances
now because now I'm a little scared, but here
we go. Two attacks with my massive stone flame
dome. The first one, I believe, is actually...
Check. No flanking. Nope. Yeah. That is probably
going to be a miss. Thank goodness. With a 15.
Oh, yeah. Bad roll. It's a natural 20. Ouch.
It's a natural 20. Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch.
This is going to hurt. Oh, shit. A lot. I'm going
to need a pen to keep track of HP. I'm going
to need a pen to keep track of what I'm rolling
here. This is crazy. Here we go. Oh, my gosh.
Hang on a second. Bludgeoning part was not great.
It was only 11 points of damage. Okay. Now the
fire part. Oh, sorry, no. 11... No, sorry, it
wasn't gray. It was only 17 points of damage.
Right, I had the plus. Silly me. Now the fire
part. Sorry. Involuntary reaction there. Oh,
my God! Oh, fuck. Stop. Classic John Franklin.
Classic John Franklin is going to take a million
points of damage. You need to do some math here.
What did I say, 21? Holy shit. No, sorry, 17.
No, you didn't say 21. It went from 11 to 17
to 21 real fast, man. 17. Final answer. No, wait.
Hang on. Hang on. Because it was a... Hang on.
15. Final answer. I promise this time. Okay.
Okay, 15 was the bludgeoning. Okay. Fuck. Let
me, this is hard. Hang on. This is math. Hang
on. I'm very tired. Second episode. Episode two.
Give me that. All right. So, help me out. What's
eight plus eight plus eight? Because I rolled
three max. 24. 24? Thank you. Fuck. Six would
be, what's that now? 30. 30. Okay, 30 more damage.
That is 45 damage total. Holy fuck. He has 60
HP. Oh, he's still alive then. Jaune comes charging
in, challenges him, and Arathne, like I said,
hot rage. Sword comes sliding up. Jaune tries
to put his shield up in time, but the power of
this attack absolutely rocks him. I think he,
like, wobbles with the T -Rex and just takes
this nasty strike. The first one, he parries.
The second one comes down perfectly, crushing
into him. Fire rips over his body. He's engulfed
in flames from the sword. Pressed down against
the T -Rex's head. Down on one knee, but still
trying to hold strong. Jaune is in rough shape.
But that's my turn. Okay. What level is Jaune?
He is, same as you, level seven. Seven? Okay.
Yeah. And that's Akio. Oh, God. I'm so not ready
for Akio's turn. I gotta drop Jaune. I gotta
drop Jaune because that effect is so good. Yeah.
So... Why did I give him that? Idiot. Idiot that
I am. All right. I'm looking through, and I can't
see anything better to do than two attacks with
Ichigenka. Let me go real quick and make sure.
Oh. What? I made a mistake. Sorry. Forgot to
add the tigers into initiative. Oh. Oh, no. You're
good. Never mind. I forgot my notes. I had initially
got 15. I put down a 5 because I seemed more
reasonable. Just die already. Ooh, okay. One's
going to hit for sure with a 19. The other is
definitely not. So we got one hit with... Oh,
wait! 19 is a crit! Improved... Critical. Extra
critical stuff. Oh, holy shit. Wait, wait, wait.
Extra critical, which means... Is it 20 since
you can't get it? Or is it... Oh, yes. With a
20... Okay. Ichigenka does extra damage, but
even still, improve critical. So that's double
the damage die, right? And that crit is coming.
It's coming. And that is double the damage die.
Okay. So it's going to be 2d8 plus 6. Okay. Ooh,
Akio's getting some serious music. I can't roll.
12. 12 damage. 12 ain't bad. Another slice rips
through. Stone leg. Molten sort of magma following
the sword, but Ichigenka is unfazed. The noble
samurai's blade. Holy shit. Anything else, Kyo?
No, he's got no bonus actions, so that is it
for him. I'm going to gargoyle your ass. Fuck.
Yeah. Wait a second. Go for it. All right, here
we go. Gargoyle on Ichigenka. I guess a gargoyle
on the cat rock because, I mean, gosh. Or the
T -Rex. T -Rex is a pretty big deal. We'll get
to that. First, we're going to hit you. I really
don't know if I want to waste my warding bark,
so I don't think I'm going to. It's a good thing
you didn't, because I rolled very low. Both attacks.
Two techs flash out, and Akio, fully kind of
running on adrenaline, spins around, ping, ping,
parries. Gargoyle sort of slides back, couple
of fingers go flying off as the blade strikes
stone on the other side, sliding across. I'm
going to have this gargoyle actually move a little
bit to go around and start wailing on the bigger
threat, the T -Rex. I've got to get rid of this
thing. Interesting. Okay. I mean, one's just
a flying rock. I feel like that's not the biggest
problem here. Ooh, I don't know. That first attack.
12 on one, 13 on the other. T -Rex AC. Oh, shit.
Sorry. 13 hits. Okay, I got T -Rex's HP in here,
so I can just sort of do that myself. Must be
nice. Sorry for the space out. I was thinking
about what I was going to do next move. I wasn't
paying attention. If you don't get a next move,
I do eight points of damage to the T -Rex. Okay.
Good solid claw. Behind you. What? There's a
permanent marker. Can you grab it for me? I need
to keep track of Sean's HP. Oh, right. I can
do that, too. I have my thing as well. God damn
it, David. Hell yeah, I'll do that. Can you do
the same thing for the T -Rex? Ooh, look at that.
15 left. That's rough, buddy. Yeah, I got T -Rex
on here. Okay, cool. I'll keep track of them.
Okay. That is the Gorgoyles. How much damage
is that for the T -Rex? Eight total. Okay. All
right. That's Blanche. Gorgoyles striking out.
Okay. Blanche is going to first use her bonus
action to cast a spell. Okay. All right. We're
casting shadow blade. Oh, empty hand, empty sheath.
Oh, that's so, yeah. Casting shadow blade at
third level. And then we're going to make two
attacks with it. So it's just the plus eight
now instead of the Ichigenka's plus nine. Okay.
I mean, the light is still pretty good here.
If you can find a way to dim it, you can get
advantage. But right now it's still, it's like,
it's like high noon. I don't have any magical
abilities to do that right now. Split the mist
around. It's still high noon. Oh my God. Oh,
I'm so excited. So that's a 15 and a 17 on the
gargoyle between Blanche and Akio. So plus two.
Yeah. I just add the flanking as I was. Talking
about it. Two hits. Okay, sweet. This is going
to be gnarly. Yeah, it's going to be super gnarly
because Shadow Blade at third level is... Is
it 3d8, I think? Ooh. Yeah, it's 3d8. So that's
6d8. That's pretty good. 6d8. Holy shit. Does
anybody have any d8s I can use? That's like one
attack from my dude. I have a bunch here. Or
even if I can just get... Do you want three?
If I can get one more, then I'll roll them twice.
Cool. 16 on the first hit. Wow. Holy shit. 15
on the second hit. Holy shit. Wow. It's actually
still up, but barely. Whoa. Barely up. All right,
sweet. Oh, damn, that's actually really cool.
Okay, you strike in. What's it look like as this
blade strikes out as you do some serious damage?
What's it look like when you hit stone with this
thing? Yes, that's your armpit. Shut up. So you're
just taking a stance. Get into character over
there. Let's pick on him. Look at the nerd. I
have a sword in my hand. She starts to... Blanche
starts to summon this blade. And it looks like
water from the depths of the ocean. And she whispers
to herself. deep sea current and slash slash
does massive damage as low as blanch her charge
is here perhaps reinvigorated perhaps terrified
by jean sudden inclusion into this fight dies
in didn't even really like acknowledge jean i'm
too busy in the fight hey that's how it is you're
in the fight you're in it it's like surprising
that he's here and you're probably happy but
also like he just took this nasty blow and for
blanch it's probably another one of those complications
yeah um Yeah, right, exactly. Like taking the
time out of the fight to be like, hey, what are
you doing here? Yeah. There'll be time for talk
if you live. That's your turn, Blanche? That's
Blanche's turn. Okay. Now is the tigers. Oh,
the tigers. Let's see here. Distance -wise. Ooh,
only 40 feet, huh? I kind of forgot about the
tigers. That ain't great for me. It's all right.
Honestly, I kind of forgot the tigers were pretty
far away. Damn. Okay. I was really hoping that
I would delete that gargoyle. Wait. I might be
within 40 feet of Blanche. Oh, 45. No. Suck it.
Crap. Suck it. Crap biscuits. Okay, hang on a
second. Can I think cool here? 20 feet creature.
Hit the claw attack. Same turn. Does not give
me more movement. All right. I mean, they're
going to have to double move. This sucks, but
it's what it is. One slides up, comes probably
sliding out, mistrailing its body, kind of emitting
off of the stripes on its form. This gray tiger,
a huge form, slides up behind you, Blanche. Another
one's going to move up behind the T -Rex, kind
of flanking with a Rathalon. And the third is
coming up. Wait a second. The third is only 40
feet away from old Chester. Oh, you suck. Chester
spins around with a crossbow. I just think I'm
leaping onto him, and I'm going to make some
attacks, or at least an attack on Chester Meeps.
And because I moved up, I'm going to make a pouncing
attack, which might be worse. Fucked up everything
I was going to do for the next turn. Of course.
Chester is going to be a 22 to hit. Oh, my God.
I rolled really good. It's not an indication
of me being insane. It's just a really good roll.
David, before we get too far, at some point,
I need you to re -roll that save for Nightly
Challenge. You re -roll at the end of your turn.
Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you. Okay. I
also forgot to do my legendaries. Thank you for
reminding me of that, too. Goddamn. I'll beat
Chester up. I'll kill Chester, then I'll go do
the things. Great. I'll do some homework. Great.
Ooh, okay, not a great roll though. That's only
five points of damage. I need Chester to make
a strength saving throw. I'm sure he's great
at that. Yeah, I got muscles. Oh, Jules, yeah.
Stay away from my friend. Hey. He's like fully
kind of embracing this as the thing that jumps
on you, trying to make sure he's a bulwark for
you, Jules. Tiger jumps down, rips in, but he
puts his, like, sort of, I think he holds the
very heavy sort of ironwood stalk of his crossbow
up to brace against the attack. Only takes a
little bit. Only five points of damage. Big tweener.
Twelve. And is launched backwards. Knocked prone
on the ground. So he doesn't actually move, but
he's knocked prone. Oh, and because he's prone,
I can make one bite attack as a bonus action.
That's pretty cool. I just read that. That's
going to hit. Once again, shit damage, though.
Only four points. Minimum rolls on, almost minimum
rolls on both those. Yeah, we're not going to
get that lucky again. No. Nope. Just took some
hits, but he's, come on, hey, hey, you beast.
Sort of fighting against this thing. Holy shit.
That is my tigers. And that is Jules Feroche.
This is a crazy fight with a lot of stuff happening.
This map looks insane right now. Down to the
south, we have a tiger facing off against Chester.
Jules right behind him. We look up and see a
Rathalon locked with a T -Rex. John Franklin
on top of it. A cat -shaped rock fighting a gargoyle
right next to its feet. Right behind the T -Rex
is one of these big tigers. We zoom up from a
Rathalon and see Akio, gargoyle, Blanche, tiger
on a line. This is so stupid. Insanity. This
flanking bonus is everywhere. You get a flank.
You get a flank. Everybody gets a flank. Everybody
gets a flank. Let me roll that save now. It's
a fail. Oh, my God, really? I roll them like
shit. Oh, my God. No, you are not, sir. You know
what? Because I failed, let me take a legendary
action in the attacker's turn to beat Jean Franklin's
ass again. It's a miss. Okay, thank goodness.
Glad you're rolling like shit. I rolled the same
thing twice. It's not a good thing. He just goes
to strike out. Jaune kind of like, that first
hit got him good. But he raised his shield the
second time and wham! This thing strikes hard
against the shield. Almost blows off the T -Rex,
but he holds strong. Weapon goes wide. Flames
singe at the turtle. But he's standing tall.
He gets back to one foot. No longer kneeling.
And that is going to be Jules. Okay. Big turn
here, Jules. There's a lot of shit happening
all over the place. I know. Oh, my gosh. David,
I know. I wouldn't want to be you right now.
I know. I think I'm going to stick to... That
would suck. I think I'm going to stick to what
I was originally going to do. Whoa. No pressure.
Whoa. What's going to happen? I'm freaking out.
Realistically, I'm not going to kill this tiger
in one shot. It's going to come back around again.
Like, the same thing is going to happen the next
round. Like, Chester is going to have to get
up. Yeah. Yeah. It doesn't matter what I do.
The biggest thing with Chester that's important
to know is his range capabilities are cut down
heavily on his turn if this thing is in 5 feet.
If he can get distance before... Sure. Like,
the game isn't so big with him because he has
disadvantage on attacks if enemies are in 5 feet
of him. If only he had a way to gain distance
from enemies. Oh, shit. I forgot about that.
Yep. And that's happening before the Tigers'
next turn. So... Anyways. Anyways. Anyways. Jules
will... I have one fourth level spell slot. Oh,
baby. Oh, man. What's it gonna be? I think...
Oh, my gosh. It's going to be Healing Word. Whoa.
On to Jean Franklin. Whoa. Oh, I mean, he's tanking
that hard for everyone right now, right? Yeah.
that ain't bad yeah he he also does have some
ability to heal himself does he he does okay
you know that about john you know he has leon
hands oh that's right that's five per level so
he can get a huge burst total of 35. yeah i forgot
about that okay strike that struck it down rathlon
killed it this is so tense yeah every move is
critical. Every failed roll is a stab in the
gut. So, he is going to... Tiger's intelligence
is pretty fucking low, right? Oh, it's gotta
be. He's wearing glasses. You don't know. Is
it four or less? Oh, so you would know, like...
The way intelligence typically works is, I think
it's like above four is having some level of
sapience. So any beast typically is going to
have less than four. Less than four, okay. Okay.
And that's common knowledge. You'd know that.
You should get that instinctually. Sure, okay.
All right, so I'm going to cast blindness, deafness
onto the tiger. He is wearing glasses, so that
might not work. Yeah. All you need is mage hand.
You just pull the glasses off. It's just as good.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I'm going to do that. I
like that. Level three. I like that. Okay. Level
three. That's a good move. It's a good move.
What does level three do? Does that make it more
targets? It's a con save. Con save. That is going
to be a six. Fail. Real bad roll. That tiger
is blind. So the tiger is blind. And you have
to continue to roll those saves at the end of
your turn. This is going to suck. I'm going to
forget so many saves. What does upcasting blindness
deafness do? At higher levels, Third or higher.
I can target one. Oh. It's more targets, right?
Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. I can target one additional
creature. Thank you. Stop it. Within 30 feet
though, right? Don't you do it. No. It just says,
well, yeah, yeah. Range is 30 feet. Right. Do
I have anybody within 30 feet? Oh, yeah. What
about that gargoyle? The gargoyle. What about
the gargoyle or? The other tiger. The other tiger.
Oh, my God. Definitely the other tiger. Arathalon.
Arathalon. Oh, my God. He's going for a Rathalon.
Going for a Rathalon? Holy fuck. Going for a
Rathalon? Holy shit. Okay, cool. Holy shit. Disadvantage.
Whoa. What's the DC? What's the thing? I don't
want to say. You can look. Constitution. Disadvantage.
That's the point where it might even be worth
it to just do the other tiger. I don't know if
his con is going to be crazy high enough that
it's not worth trying. I'm going to taunt you
because I think this is fun. If you cast on a
Rathalon, probably have pretty high con. I'll
roll disadvantage. And I will forego, I'll tell
you right now, my legendary resistance on this
save. You're casting your highest level spell
slot. You're giving me two buttons. I'm not casting
my highest level spell slot. I'm feeling pretty
good anyway. Oh. It's. Yeah. Okay. Still. I will
forego it because I feel confident. And I want
this to be a difficult choice for you. But you
might blow it entirely. Yeah. No tiger. Okay.
I would do two tigers. Okay. All right. That's
great. Now that's a fun way to use. Tiger. I
like that. I like that. I like barter. And I'm
not using the buttons either. Yeah. Okay. I think
that's good. I think that's good. Tiger number
two is a maybe with a 14. Nope. Oh. Thank God.
Fucking fail. Okay. Okay. Two tigers are blind.
Holy shit. And then with a bonus action, he is
going to cast Bardic Inspiration onto Jean Franklin.
Jean glowing. Nice, that's great. Golden mode
around him. Let me take a D8. Oh, look at all
these D8s. Can somebody lend me another D8? Dude,
I have three sets of dye over here that I just
have out for various reasons. This is going to
be my D8 reminder. Oh, and look at the green
color. That's going to remind me of Jean. That's
pretty good. Especially where Jean has... And
Arathelon is, he's going to do double damage.
Nice. Yeah, so the Bardic helps a lot with Jaune
there. Hell yeah. All right. Okay, then Jules,
is that your turn? That is Jules' turn. Then
it's time for the Cat Rock. Hang on, hang on,
hang on, hang on. Yeah, okay, that's Jules' turn.
Meow. Yeah, so I've already, I used my bonus
action, so Cat Rock doesn't do shit. Oh, it just
dodges. Gotcha, hell yeah. Still dodging, still
kind of holding this round. Yeah. Does Jules
want to try to get it? If you know what Chester's
going to do, does Jules want to try to make some
distance? No. Okay. Not yet. Okay. Not yet. Not
yet. He's blind. Yeah. Oh, shit. Good point.
Not yet. Yeah. I don't know where you are. That's
Joan Francine, the Tyrannosaurus. Oh, wait. First
things first, though. Top of the round. Let's
do a lair action. Boo. Boo. Let's see. Do I have
those on my sheet? Do I have those on my, like,
encounter builder? Oh, no. They're not. Let me...
Okay. This is fitting. This is very fitting.
I'll use this one. You see, like, that sort of
crowd around. We just saw a Rathalon kind of,
like, holding against Jaune. Attack sort of gets
blocked. He pulls back. You see, as he pulls
back, he sort of smiles. and flexes his muscles
as he does the light above and his name just
sort of flashes and you see almost like questions
phantom questions being hurled all around the
stage and you see bright flashes as camera lights
phantom camera lights begin to shine all around
i need two of you and i'm going to pick the tyrannosaurus
and akio to make Dexterity saving throws. Oh,
God. As Flash is up here. Of course. Right in
your faces. The one category that he has a plus
zero. Oh, I forgot about that. Oh, no. That's
eight for Akio. Okay. That's double for the T
-Rex, 16. T -Rex just passes. Akio is blinded
for this round. Oh, God. So a full -on Flash
banged in his eyes. And then the cake, just like
that, the lights stop. Layer action completed.
Let's move into the round with Joan Frenzy. Okay.
Who is not blinded. Going for the first bite
attack. Okay. Hitting the statue. I wanted the
T -Rex the most with this. Damn, this is going
to hurt. That's going to be a 25. That's gonna
hit. This sucks. Oh, I need to... Dude. Oh, shut
up. Sean's thing was so brutal because I know
I need to take this T -Rex out, but also Sean...
Holy shit. Hang on, I gotta get a D12. What?
If you don't have a D12, you can substitute D6s.
You can substitute D4s. Just roll 2D4 and that'll
be the... Okay, so it... Damn it. Okay. All right,
so... The damage for this bite is 3d12 plus 6.
Oh, my. Do you need another d12? I have a d12
here. No, I'm going to roll one individually.
Oh, okay. Yeah, so that he can sweat. No, my
petard. I'm hoisted by it. Ah! Oh, I'm sweating
so much right now. 31. Yes. Oh, no. Yes, yes,
yes, yes, yes. 31. Got a 10, 10, and a 5. Oh,
just don't rip the claw. I got teeth ripping.
Just don't. Shrieking out that. Holy shit. That
sucks. And then we're going to go with the tail.
Okay. That's a 24. Can I have that D8 back, please?
No. And this is a 3D8 plus 6. Oh, my cool boss.
24. Why did I not write that you were resistant
to non -magical damage? Why did I not write that?
No. Holy shit. Oh, yeah, you're not huge. That's
right. Never mind. That sucks. That is bad. Good
thing Dave is just making up the HP along the
way. Yeah. Damn good thing. Let's add 600 to
that. Oh, my gosh. T -Rex coming in clutch. Dude,
I need to drop that thing so bad. You gave us
the T -Rex. Dude, the T -Rex is like the Megazord.
Comes in right when we need it. Legendary action.
I have two options here, right? Two very interesting
options. I reroll my breath attack and I get
it. I can then proceed to fire breath Jaune and
the T -Rex. But you'll also get the cat behind
them. Yeah. Plus, you know what? I'm going to
try to take out Jaune because I need to take
the T -Rex out. I got to get rid of that heroic.
I got to get rid of that whatever it's called.
The challenge. Nightly challenge. Nightly challenge.
Okay, we're going for Jaune. Roll an attack on
Jaune. We get another attack on Jaune? Legendary
actions, dude. Dude. I'm a cool guy with cool
things. I was hoping that I'd be able to, like,
heal before. That's why I didn't heal you. Fuck.
He rolled a nat 20. Another natural 20. Jesus
Christ. Jaune has 15 HP left. Dude. Jaune. I
don't think there's a chance I can overkill him.
I'm going to roll into your roll a bunch of die.
I'm not going to bother. I mean, I'm just going
to take him down because I'm not going to do
math. He's down unless I overkill him by rolling
max on everything, which probably isn't going
to happen. Let's find out. I'm not going to even
do numbers because I want to get the shit going.
I don't give a fuck. I'm going to heal him next
time. What the hell? That is going to be an unconscious
amount of damage to Jaune. Mm -hmm. That's as
far as I care to math that. 100%. He goes unconscious.
Ooh. Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. That's really fun. He
falls off the T -Rex and immediately takes one
point of death fail. You suck. Right? Wait, but
he's next. So you can roll a one here. Oh, my
God. And he could just die permanently. You suck.
Holy shit. Let's narrate this because we're in
Scary Town. Jean, same whole thing, standing
tall, holding, holding. This thing strikes up.
Boom! Hits him hard, bleeding. Jean needs to
go woozy. Sir, I'm here. Sir, I came to save
you. As his blow hits, as his body is charred,
as blood seeps down, dripping onto the head of
the T -Rex, he goes unconscious, and he falls.
He will take one automatic fail for taking damage
post going unconscious. Now, I could go for Jaune
again to kill him, but there's no reason Rathlon
will not. Oh, yeah, sorry. It's not his turn.
But anyway, I need this T -Rex gone. But so I'm
reading. Holy shit. I'm reading Rebuke Evil and
Nightly Challenge. It doesn't say anything about
it ending when they go unconscious. I'm going
to assume I wrote it badly then. It feels like
that should be the case. Right? he's it's almost
like a channeled thing i'm going to let me see
that you're a channeled thing let me see that
real quick you know what let me ask you a question
here right either uh well hold on hold on hold
on i have it goes away and goes down and it's
no longer affecting him or it doesn't and i'm
going to permanently kill jean franklin right
like on my turn because he's right so so so because
i need to get rid of that effect on me let's
let's read the let's read the words and i have
an idea nightly challenge is something i made
up so it's gonna sound a little weird i know
but i have a way out just listen to me i have
a way out okay give me your way out so so nightly
nightly challenge is an alternate to the rebuke
evil um effects It says, instead, make all creatures
that fail the saving throw vulnerable to his
own spear attacks. While vulnerable, these creatures
have disadvantage against targets other than
John Franklin. He can't make a spear attack.
Right? So I guess he's maybe not vulnerable to
a spirit test. We'll just say it ends on unconscious.
I think that makes sense. It's like a channeled
ability. I think it would end on unconsciousness.
I think that's fine. I'll just add to the text
because that seems more reasonable. It would
be weird to be like, and he's unconscious, but
it's still happening. He's still channeling his
paladin oath powers. He's fully unconscious.
He stops glowing. He falls and he's making a
death saving throw. Okie dokie. Holy shit. Jaune
crashed into the ground. He already has Bardic.
Oh, he does have Bardic, yeah. If you roll a
one, though, he will die permanently. Can I use
a button? You can. Be sure. Yeah. A one, and
he is permanently dead. It's happened before.
It has happened. It's happened before. Do you
remember Oh My God's a one? Yes. I remember.
Wait. What do you mean wait? I covered the die.
I didn't see the result. Wait what? My hand's
over the die. Eh, never mind. First roll is a
three. So the second roll is cracked. It's leaning
17, but it's not fair is fair. It's cracked.
Roll it again. Nine. I'm going to use my bardic.
Ooh, the bardic. Save it. That's a four. So 13.
Bardic saves it. For a save. Okay. He gets one
point of save. That is a clutch. bardic right
there because if he takes one more point of damage
it's really bad very very very bad oh wait hold
on hold on hold on on a saving throw you gain
temporary hit points equal to the number rule
Plus four. I don't think temp HP brings you up,
but that still can stop me from doing over damage
if I hit it. That's pretty cool. So what did
you roll on the product? Four. Four. So that
plus four. So you get eight temp. Eight temp
HP. And if he gets back up, we'll say he keeps
it. He keeps it when he gets up. Cool. That's
pretty awesome. That's really awesome. As he
kind of falls, he like is like holding on. I
think it's like he drops down and his hand just
reaches out towards you, Blanche. He falls unconscious.
He's falling and he hears. The waves in and out.
And then beyond that, he hears the sound of a
lute. He hears, I think he hears unstoppable.
You son of a bitch. And as he hears it, that
golden moat surrounds him. A small shield covering
over his body. His heart beats in tune with the
music. All right. Okay, that's Chesta. Okay.
So he can just get up, right? He uses all his
movement? Yeah, it's half his movement. Okay,
cool. So that thing is blind, right? It is blind.
It is blind. Okay. So just remember, blinded
means I get disadvantage of my attacks. You get
advantage of attacks against me. Yep. Okay. He's
just going to go with his warhammer to this tiger.
Ooh. Yeah. He's going to get up. He's standing
to fight. Hell yeah. Okay. I'm into it. What
does he say, David? Put you on the spot. No,
I like this. He like... Stands up. I think he's
a part of it. It's almost like he starts to almost
disappear a little bit in a misty step. And then
he kind of braces himself. He looks over his
shoulder and sees that Jules is standing there.
No. No running. No running. We fight. I'm a sidekick.
Whips out his hammer. Come on, beast. He's going
to slide down this thing hard. Going to get whacked.
18. 18 hits. For nine. Nine. That's pretty damn
good. Holy shit. Warhammer cracks against the
tiger's skull. It kind of roars out, and it's
sort of knocked backwards. Chesta kind of pulls
the hammer back, sort of slides a little bit,
coolly in the sand. I keep my mic a little bit.
Say that again. And then he's going to miss his
step behind Jules. Or no, he's going to... I
used all my movement to get up, right? Half of
it. Half of it. Cool. He's going to go behind
Jules. Okay. He hits the tiger once. Would he
go behind Jules, though? Would he do that? No.
I don't know if Chester would. He might disobey.
I think he would at least go next to him. I think
he'd go next to him. I think there's a battle
in his head of his old tendencies to hide and
his want to be part of the fight and be somebody.
His near -reckless want to be somebody. to keep
Jules safe. And so Chester and Jules stand tall
together as this blinded tiger regains its composure.
Looks around, seeking for flesh. But he's blind,
so he doesn't see anything. Shut up. He smells
it. He's like, there's flesh over there. I smell
flesh. As that's happening, as he fixes his glasses
up on his nose, we slide over to Ol' Rathalon.
The great statue. Jean Franklin, unconscious
and dying. T -Rex still standing tall. And the
question, what am I going to do with my very
nasty turn? You see as the frogs are falling
off him, he's glowing a little hotter. Fire radiating
from a burning soul trapped within this statue.
He smiles. Raise his great sword. And we'll call
it there.