Welcome to Terra Deusa, episode 3.
Trigger warning, this episode contains talk about claustrophobia and body horror.
And let's jump right into things.
Unfortunately, Felix is not here.
So, currently you are all just past the exit.
The Frenchman is on your tail.
You are still running.
And so far, no one else has moved to stop you.
Which is odd.
But...
That's strange. That's weird.
You're not really concentrated on that.
You're more focused on what's in these woods.
Because it's yours. It's always been yours.
And you need it back.
So...
Goddamn.
As we are all wandering around the forest,
what are we doing to try and find these things?
I do want to go to the corner to see if I can sense where the hell this thing is.
Yeah, absolutely.
Go ahead and make that with advantage.
Okay, that is a 15.
15 with advantage?
Yep. I rolled a 2 for the other one, so...
Ooh, that's rough.
Awesome, yeah.
So, it's underground.
You can sort of feel that the magical energy
that is drawing you closer to whatever these things are is underground.
So, you're looking for a cave.
Okay.
I'm just going to keep a counter over here
of how long until Jacques catches up with you.
You guys do need to move before then,
but every time you do move, I will re-roll this dice
and it will continue counting down.
Lucky you. That is a 6.
Every time you do something, like every time you make a roll
or wander around or look at something,
this is going to go down by 1.
If it gets to 0, Jacques finds you and, assumedly, takes you back.
Well, he's not even Jacques instead of Frenchman.
Ah, shit. Yes.
He said his name is John, but his real name is Jacques.
Ah, damn it.
That's on me.
You were in your own reveals.
I did.
You turned entirely attentive to something.
Everybody laugh. Ha ha ha ha ha.
No, no.
I totally did ruin my own reveal.
This is why you need sleep, kids.
This is why sleep is important.
You just slept. You just woke up from a slap.
Exactly. So I'm still tired.
Eat, sleep, eat.
So, it is underground somewhere in the forest,
presumably in a cave.
You begin to hear rustling and moving behind you,
whether that is the Frenchman, Gustave, Clara,
or just some random forest animals or something malicious
you can't quite tell.
But what would you guys like to do now?
I'll let Eros take a turn.
Woohoo.
Well, first, Eros is going to kind of explain, like, yeah,
I was walking from my house to the compound,
and I just had this feeling.
I think this is what we're supposed to be doing right now,
considering the weird behavior of the...
What's their names? The wise women people.
Oh, yeah, the prophets.
Yeah, the fools, the kidnappers.
Accurate.
And then I want to try and do a...
I think it's either survival or nature check
to see if I can figure out what direction
we're supposed to be heading to get to this underground thing.
Yeah, you can make either one.
A nature check will sort of be you using your, well,
natural intuition and sort of ranger guiding
to figure out where you should be headed in, like,
a general direction.
And survival will be, like, tasting water
to see where it goes downstream.
And doing this a little more wildly
might be a little more accurate,
but it has a chance of giving you completely wrong information.
OK, I'm going to do a nature check.
Beautiful.
That's an 18 plus 3, so 21.
Beautiful, yeah.
You begin to hear the rushing wind through the trees,
and you remember something your uncle told you
while he was still very much trying to turn you into a ranger.
And you remember that he said that wherever the forest
winds get stronger, there's bound to be some sort of end,
like whether that be a cave or just the exit of the forest,
when those winds come through and get stronger
and they're pushed into a more narrow spot,
it's very easy to follow that path
if you know what you're looking for.
And you do.
You put your fingers up, you look around,
see the wind going through the trees,
and you know that you should be headed north.
I still don't know entirely about the situation,
but I think we should go this way.
Vanna, can you talk to the wind?
Is that a thing you can do?
I'm curious, can Vanna do that?
I think not yet.
Like, I think that is something Vanna can do,
but I think that's your level 13, like, ASI ability.
Okay, okay.
Vanna just kind of looks at Eros like, what the hell?
Before literally taking off running yet again
in the direction that Eros indicated,
but taking off running to the left.
Running after them, I guess.
Beautiful.
So you guys are attempting to...
Yeah, Tikal, come on!
We need at least one logical young adult here.
Oh, yeah, that's not going to be found with Tikal.
I'm assuming Felix is also going to be there too.
Guys, Tikal is the youngest one.
I don't know what you're trying to get.
Responsible young adult, right?
Or adult.
Yeah.
Felix is there.
He's just like, he's in the trance, you know?
He's just following him.
He vied.
And so you all bound through the forest.
Are you doing anything to conceal your presence?
Why would we?
Should we?
That's entirely up to you.
Tikal is going to.
Awesome.
Yeah, give me a survival check with disadvantage.
Would that not be stealth if it's being...
No, since you were in the forest and not actively hiding from your assailant,
it's more covering your tracks.
Oh, cool.
With disadvantage?
Yes, with disadvantage.
Because you are a small, very loud, angry child.
Very nice, yeah.
That is a ten.
The other one...oh, yes, disadvantage.
It's going to be like the other ones, a fourteen.
I know.
See, you do it a bit.
You're not terrible at it.
You hide your presence.
Like a wild bear wouldn't be able to track you anymore, hopefully.
And you guys make it to an open clearing where the wind is very strangely sort of spiraling out of this cave.
And the wind coming out of it...
Tikal, it feels much colder to you.
And Eros, it feels much warmer to you.
Yippee.
Vana, you can almost see this wind.
More so just your Ergenasi kinship with it.
But you can visibly see the change in current and that something is off with this wind.
Vana is going to one, glare.
Two, low-key hiss at it.
At the wind.
Give me an intimidation check.
See, this is about talking to the wind.
Just scare the wind.
It is Vana, so you know.
What did you roll on that intimidation check?
Sorry.
I rolled an eight, but I want to know if I can find a way to bowl with disadvantage.
Or with advantage, not disadvantage.
Holy shit.
No.
However, this is the wind.
So you give it your best glare.
This is the most terrifying glare ever to be offered to the wind.
And the wind.
It's wind.
Being wind does nothing.
However, if the wind were like a person or had some sort of sentience, as ageless as
it is, you feel it might almost be impressed.
That is a little concerning considering I rolled an eight.
You know, like a, like a, like you ever seen a really small dog get all yippee
and loud and scare away a very big dog.
Yeah.
Sort of that feeling.
But on like a cosmic level.
Vana would threaten the cosmic entities.
So you were not aware of the cosmic entities.
And Jacques is fast approaching.
And at the end of this cavern, you do spot that cave.
Sorry.
At the end of this opening, you do spot that cave.
And could everybody please make a wisdom saving throw with this advantage?
You.
One.
Two.
Damn it.
Yep.
So one was a nat 20, the other was a four.
Oh, I'm so sorry.
I got an unnatural one.
Oh, I almost feel bad.
But I don't.
So let's keep going.
So that one coming.
Yeah, you're all still in raptured by these mysterious forces pulling you down into this
cave.
And Vana, you feel sort of freer.
Like that's once you go into this cave and once you retrieve what's rightfully yours,
something will be fixed.
You will be free.
Oh, my God.
I'll no longer be held captive.
So what are you guys doing?
We are we at the cave now?
You're in the field where the cave is.
Do come we see the cave?
Yes, you can clearly see the opening to the cave.
It's got a few levels to it.
You could probably climb it pretty easily.
And if you needed a good vantage point, it seems pretty nice.
He is going to run straight into the cave straight into the cave.
Awesome.
Go ahead.
Give me a deck safe.
No disadvantage.
Should it be an acrobatics or athletics check for Vana like deciding to bounce themselves
up?
I'm going to need a little more explanation on what bounce up is meaning.
But let me resolve this 13 first.
Anyway, you can go up.
Awesome.
Yeah, you get in there and the small sort of pebbles start to fall and this one hits
your shoulder.
It feels wet almost like that what you were being hit with is not stone.
It is water.
Okay.
We might get like water torture.
It's not enough to like do damage or cause any sort of thing.
It's just kind of spooky.
You're freaked out a bit.
It's just going to be going.
Awesome.
Vana.
What is bounce?
You said that there would be like a nice vantage point.
So that implies that you can go up.
Yes, you can go up.
Vana is going to try and go up.
Bounce.
Okay.
Give me an athletics or an acrobatics check.
Both.
Either or.
We'll do acrobatics because at least that's a not one.
Awesome.
You stare at this cliffside.
It is mocking you with how low these sort of steps up are.
You go to bound up this cliff and as you do you jump face first through
the mouth of the cave into Tikal.
Tikal, can you make a strength save please?
That's a four.
That's four.
Awesome.
You both topple to the ground.
Do me a favor.
Take three points of bludgeoning damage.
And you begin to fall and tumble down further into the cave past the
mouth and into a jagged ravine.
Grave in taller than it probably should.
Eros, what are you doing at this moment?
Going after them and like making sure everyone's still together while
also being like paranoid and on edge as fuck.
Just wanting like new environment trying to take in every single little
detail.
Absolutely.
Go ahead and give me a perception check with advantage, please.
I love that.
Plus two.
So 21 again.
Awesome.
See ya.
As you're you're peering down there and as you're looking you catch all
this information you remember, right?
These are jagged cliffs.
There's a small pool of water and a grassy bed over top.
If we ever need to escape these sort of jagged edges would make excellent
cover.
The mouth of the cave where we came in on top of those at those vantage
points would give you an incredible combat advantage.
They make for excellent hiding spots if you are sort of camouflaged
because they are almost entirely shrouded in shadow from each other.
I hope it's to be disappointed by a lot of well shocks going to be
disappointed in all of us currently.
Jacques has broken through the tree line.
And you know what?
And I'll say you're the closest to the front.
Go ahead and give me a stealth check.
Okay.
With the green seems to be rolling better today.
So with advantage because you're in shadow.
Okay, sweet.
That's a 14 plus three.
Yeah, you slip away into the cave and you see him run off in another
direction Gustav and Clara more focused on getting him back then
finding you guys almost as if they already know what you're doing.
So you guys are making your way through this cave and it
I assume you're all doing this down the cave.
Yes.
Creating music that doesn't exist yet.
Yeah.
Do do do do do do do sort of bounces off the back wall of the
cave.
You realize that as it gets narrower, you all seem to be hearing
noises louder and louder and louder.
Sort of like a distorted echo.
You hear it as if it were through water like it's bubbling and
waving crashing and falling and you hear it like an old call of
dying animal like a last ditch through the trees to finally be
heard and Vanna you hear it like a whisper from every angle surrounding
you.
So would that be like similar to when Vanna spawned in or is that
a this is bad?
Your your this is fucked senses is going off a little bit right now,
but it's almost immediately overrided by I need whatever's in this
cave.
Okay, so I need to sense of self-preservation is going out the window in
favor of need.
100%
That's something I'm right honestly.
Could you all make a quick con save to try and keep pushing on through
this narrow cavern?
13 18.
Awesome.
That is a 7 plus 4.
That's 11.
11 is not quite good enough.
One quick second.
That's a 4.
Beautiful.
So as the both of you pop out into this almost man-made room, it seems
like it's been carved with smooth spoons having only the slightest
edges in the walls.
Are we splashing in the water or are we falling straight on the rock?
You are popping out of a sort of skinny cork like entrance into a
large stone cavern underground illuminated by nothing.
What's slow to fall?
You're not falling.
Sir, I don't know how to tell you this, but that's not how gravity
works.
You didn't go down at all.
You entered the cave noting that you were at the bottom of a very
large area that was getting skinnier and skinnier tighter and tighter.
And as you finally push your way through it, you find yourself in
almost a sort of underground basements type area where you are
faced with nothing but a small tile in the middle raised from the
ground with about four cups of water in it.
This isn't terrifying at all.
Tika, let's go into stop at the cups of water and take a big long
drink of it because boy oh boy just running really tuck you out.
Yeah, go ahead.
Give me a purse.
What is this?
Well, what do I need you to do?
There's not sort of like oblivious check.
Give me a perception check with disadvantage.
My one number.
Okay, that is a 12.
12.
Awesome.
Yeah.
So you pick up this water scooping it in your hands and as you
do, you realize that there are several crystals in this water.
They seem to be very small sort of like the size of your palm
and that is not a small crystal.
They're very long and thin.
Okay, and as you go to like scoop up something catches your eye
and there's a sort of bright Navy blue one and as you look at it,
you see the waves, the beaches, the oceans, rain and still water
ponds and lakes and it's intoxicating.
You have to be there.
You have to have that.
She's five.
She's going to grab it.
Awesome.
This might now awesome wisdom saving throw.
Oh, come on.
I don't know what else you expected.
That is a six.
A six.
Awesome.
Go ahead and give me a Constitution saving throw.
Is that what I think it is?
No, we can't pretend that ones are sevens here.
You know, minus one to that D.
I do actually to console away.
No to Constitution.
It's a positive.
Okay.
Well still natural ones overwrite modifiers.
No, you you don't even brush against this thing before it
latches onto you and as if your blood was pumping both in and
out of it.
It breaks.
Rakes are a K es up your skin into your hand digging into
your wrist.
It is excruciatingly painful.
The call is going to start screaming and like screeching
and pain.
Give me a charisma check.
Fucker.
That's a four.
Awesome.
You are in so much pain that as you scream any energy given
to actually projecting your voice is immediately stolen away
from not rolling on the floor like a maniac and you are just
sat there silently seething as you clutch your wrist, but
you feel great.
You are in pain.
You are in an untold amount of pain, but you have truly never
felt better.
Oh brother.
That's not concerning at all.
Very concerning.
You're sort of the resident adult here.
What do you do in response to the call going to pick up water
dropping that water touching a rock and then being immediately
floored?
First of all, has like has massive Phosphor phobia.
So there's that but also like the concern having to deal with
keeping the other three safe and alive.
They're immediately going to go down and start asking to call
like every question.
Like are you in pain?
Are you okay?
And also try and get a general vibe check.
Awesome.
Yeah for the vibe check.
Give me a either in our car.
Yeah, you know what?
Yeah, give me a vibe check straight charisma roll.
Give me a vibe check.
New rule.
We do live checks of this household.
That is a 16 plus my Christmas floor.
So that is not not 20 not natural 20.
Yeah, so 20 with daddy issues shut up.
So with that dirty 20 filthy filthy 20 you look around and
this room is intensely magical from the walls that seem to
glow with nothing on them to the pool of water in the middle.
To the gems inside everything in this room is magical and
despite not being harmful magic.
It will still cause pain.
So if that is what you're trying to avoid pro tip don't touch
anything.
Well, I'm going to relay this information.
Please do not touch anything right now.
Just how I want to write the second why not.
However, when you do touch something regardless of the
consequences you get a sense that it'll stop hurting like
ripping off a band-aid but in a supremely magical and much
more dangerous sense.
So what can Vanna see?
You see to call walk over pick up some water take the
tiniest of sips before being absolutely for Lord.
They have a little blue mark on their arm now and honestly
to you looks kind of sick, you know looks cool as fuck and
as you're looking at it you realize that it is one of the
crystals in the water and that it would take nothing for you
to don't grab one, you know, just that's exactly what Vanna
is going to do.
Vanna is going to grab a crystal.
God damn it.
Audible Face Palm.
No hesitation like hands straight into the water gripping
it. Awesome.
So in the water there is a blue one which Tikal already
grasped.
There is a red one that is visibly boiling the water
around it.
There is a green one that seems to float while all the
others sink.
There is a did I say gray?
My apologies.
I'm green.
I did make sorry.
Thank you.
You got this.
There's a gray one that seems to sort of spin in the water
sort of like a compass quickly snapping between either of you
and you see a sort of sand colored yellow or golden orange
one and as you look at it you see storms both of sand and
land and everything you see winds harsh and calm.
You see calm breezes and violet tornadoes.
You see the last and first breath people take and you want
that.
That's the one Vanna is going for.
Give me a wisdom saving throw.
I'm going to use my actual dice.
That is a 18.
Awesome.
Yeah, so this is going to hurt like a bitch.
However, you know looking at it that this is going to be
worth it some sort of amplifier magically speaking.
That's all you can really grasp on it.
But if you're still going to like bite the pain and touch
it give me a con save Jesus.
Sorry.
Sorry my dice didn't land nicely.
So that is a 24.
Awesome.
For con that is yeah, the call seems like a little bitch to
you right now.
You go touch this rock.
It drags itself under your skin into your wrist embedding
into your body itself sort of just like the magic where the
rock and tell it off just behave 100% just like fuck you.
Be nice, but it hurts scolding a very awkward cat much less
than you'd think it would.
It's a call.
Why did that hurt for you?
She's just she's just on the floor rolling around in pain.
She can't answer.
She's an agony right now.
And then Vanna of all people is here being like, what do you
mean it's going on?
I'm going to make a quick roll.
All right.
Yeah, so you see as Felix your otherwise silent companion
for today go over and pick up one of the rocks and get a
good look at it before the sort of embedding starts happening.
And as it does you see this red crystal sort of spin dig
into his skin.
Spinny, spinny, spinny, spinny Beyblade and he screams
loudly not so much in pain.
Just screams.
You're cowards and weak.
So, Eros.
I guess this is my turn apparently.
Well, if you'd like.
Don't worry, Eros.
It doesn't hurt.
See, I'd like to believe that but I know my pain tolerance
shit.
What's a pain tolerance?
Okay, so basically like when you get hurt after enough hurting
your body sort of just wants to shut down and my threshold
is usually like very little.
Don't worry.
It just kind of tickles.
Kind of like when Clara likes to throw me.
Oh, that's not a good thing.
And I mean you saw what happened when Tikal got a hit on Clara.
I got a hit on Clara.
Oh, yeah.
And Eros is just going to take like a little ration bar and
stick it in their mouth and then touch the rock so that even
if they scream or bite down really hard, they're not going
to like hurt their jaw or bite their tongue.
Yeah, awesome.
Why is this five-year-old so smart?
You look at these rocks, these crystals and between the
gray one, whenever you look at it, you just hear screams
echoing in the back of your mind like the dredges of humanity,
just screaming.
But looking at the green one, you see calm fields, growing
forests, meadows and mudslides, both the danger, light, love
and life that comes with the earth.
And you want to be there.
You want to experience it.
You want to watch it.
This feels like your scene.
Yep.
Full scene ahead, touching the rock.
Beautiful.
Wisdom save with advantage.
And they got advantage that they prepared.
Wisdom save, that's going to be a 15.
Beautiful.
Yeah, give me a con save with advantage too.
Sweet.
That's going to be...
Oh, that's also a 15.
Awesome.
Yeah, it really does hurt.
You're more on the side of Felix and Tikal than you are on
the weird superhuman durability of Vana as this thing very
forcefully pierces into your skin, drags itself to your
wrist and is embedded there.
Now biting down on the rations trying to do breathing
exercises like wow.
Go ahead and give me a strength check to see if you shatter
this ration into a billion pieces.
Oh, wait.
Strength check.
That's a 16.
A 16.
Awesome.
So you don't and that window of clarity gives you an insight
as you hear something from the back of the cave groan loudly
stretching upwards.
A very large creature obscured by shadow.
Is it a dragon?
Not yet.
Come on.
Probably not.
Kind of funny if it was not going to lie.
It would be a little funny.
It would be funny.
Very funny actually.
And you see a small group of something.
They seem lanky in nature with sharp claws and sharp teeth.
Not a lot of clothes between them, but everything is covered.
Let me open up my easily editable thing here.
Probably should have set this up beforehand.
Give you one quick second.
While you're doing that, do me a favor and roll initiative.
God damn it.
Sweet.
That's a dirty 20.
Awesome.
So give those numbers one at a time starting with Vana.
Dirty 20.
Hello.
Just roll initiative.
What happened before I jumped into it?
You touched some rocks.
It hurt.
Roll initiative.
What?
Yeah, and Vana is thinking of all the calories in our beef.
The rock is in your skin.
Eros.
What's that initiative?
Oh, 19.
Beautiful.
Tikal?
18.
And Felix?
Girl.
That's four.
Let's go.
Beautiful.
Four.
He's at the fastest.
He's the most agile.
He's just folding.
Awesome.
So I'm going to try and do this.
Feel free to look at this if you will.
I will mostly just be using this to track your positioning.
I can't see it.
It's dead.
Oh.
Sucks to suck.
I can see your screen, but it's only on the Discord.
I know.
Hashtag peer pressure.
And paste the image.
There's no way we lose to rocks.
Like, there's no way.
No, we're not fighting the rocks.
The rocks are in us.
These are-
Rocks make hurt for everyone except for Vana.
Well, it did hurt, but Vana just doesn't care.
Rocks make much hurt.
So when the rocks like, lodge themselves into us?
Yeah, so we ran into a-
Woo!
Sorry.
We ran into a cave.
Tikal decided to drink water from the cave, found rocks,
touched a rock, started dying in pain.
And then Vana touched a rock and was like, wow, this doesn't hurt.
You're a little bitch.
And then I touched another rock and was like, ah, owie.
And then you touched a rock and you were like, ah,
owie.
And now there are monsters coming after us.
That one we had was so sweet.
Why didn't we immediately go into a cave?
Because that's where the-
Oh, oh.
Everything will be right once you do this thing.
Everything will be right once you do this thing feeling is coming from.
Okay.
So like, we ran into the cave because we thought we found, like, what we lost there?
Yeah.
Yep.
Okay, gotcha.
And the rocks are what we thought we lost.
Awesome.
So rolling first in the initiative is Vana.
You cannot see these creatures nor do you know where they are or what you're looking at.
But, you know, they don't seem very friendly.
Fireball.
Can you cast Fireball?
That's a third level spell.
Oh, wait, Firebolt.
Sorry.
Awesome.
Yeah.
Roll to hit.
Okay, okay, okay.
Just wait until Vicky Vana learns how to work though.
That is a 17.
17 to hit?
Yep.
Awesome.
17 does hit.
One second.
Which one are you aiming at?
Good question.
Z, C, or X?
Yes.
Let's aim for X because it's the closest to Felix.
Awesome.
Yeah.
What range on that is 10, 20, 30.
No, 120.
Beautiful.
So 17 hits.
Go ahead and roll damage.
Okay, let's roll the damage.
Two.
Beautiful.
Awesome.
So this guy is X.
This guy is C and this guy is Z.
Beautiful.
Next is C's turn and they are going to...
Well, first I'll narrate what's happening.
You see these three green spindly creatures pop out of the shadow.
Eros, you recognize these as trolls.
Everybody else, you're like, the fuck are these?
You guys are severely confused, never having even seen a beast or monster before.
Wait, do trolls have a weakness to fire in this?
Maybe, perhaps.
You don't know for certain, but you know that fire bolt seemed to work pretty well.
Speaking of which.
You sort of swirled this magic and see that as it passes through the gem, it gets bigger.
It burns brighter and hits a little harder.
Does it make hurt?
It doesn't augment your damage yet, but it feels a little easier to cast.
And as you streak this fire bolt through the air, illuminating the trolls,
provoking them further, it collides with one of their faces, sort of charring it instantly,
but the creature does not move.
What's like this thing in the middle of the map, by the way?
That's a large pedestal where all the crystals are in.
Crystals?
Yes.
The ones that are now the side of our skin.
The rocks you touched and, you know, the slurp-slurp rocks, sorry.
Slurp-slurp rocks?
Slurp-slurp rocks.
Yeah.
You know?
Hell no.
Anyways, first up is C, then X, then Z, and C is going to take two big steps towards Eros.
Rude.
They can't take ten feet of steps in one walk.
So 30 feet of movement is normal.
I can't step ten feet in one walk.
Not like one big step.
They aren't just like hooking their leg up.
You said two steps!
They do not move five feet per step.
Yeah, they move ten feet.
Now imagine a gulp with very long legs.
They rush towards Eros.
They are going to take two swings at you.
Does a ten hit?
No.
What about a 21?
Jesus!
Yes.
Awesome.
Guys?
But only by five.
Oh, only by five.
You have a 19 armor class?
Go ahead.
Wait.
Nope.
I did my math wrong.
Yep, very wrong.
Yeah, you did.
19.
Okay, I need to roll?
Go ahead and take six points of slashing damage.
Wonderful.
Thank you.
You see this troll from Leap out of the shadows, slashing at you once,
missing completely as you duck out of the way, catching you with the back of
their other hand, scratching your leg a bit, but not dealing any significant
damage.
And with that, Eros, it is your turn.
Uh, cool.
Originally, I was just going to, you know, I'll go with my plans still.
I'm going to fire the long bow at this person, the troll.
The one closest to you?
Yeah.
Yep.
Awesome.
Yeah.
Roll to hit with disadvantage because they're within five feet.
Oh my God.
I got two 20s.
No fucking way.
That's like a quad crit.
I'm so fucking happy about that.
Incredible.
Anyways, so that's going to be a 25 to hit.
Gee, I wonder.
That hits.
Eros deserves to multiply their damage by four.
Let me find my DA real quick because I don't know where it is.
Okay, so that's going to be a seven plus my damage is that's going to be 10.
10, 10 doubled because you crit.
Oh, wait, how does crit working again?
Double damage.
I've not crit.
Okay.
So yes, 10 doubled.
That's going to be 28 damage.
So you wind back.
See the troll slashes you in the leg and you use this as a chance to pivot fully wind back
your long bow and shoot them between the eyes at point blank range.
That we say get wrecked.
It sticks into the head and they look honestly dumbfounded like they've never been hurt this
bad before and you see they almost begin to weep but some sort of primal fury keeps them.
Do you have still shaking from my bad roll?
But okay, what are you saying?
Yeah.
Are you doing anything else moving won't provoke opportunity attacks because this guy is severely
wounded.
So if you would like to see the movement.
Yeah, I'm going to get as much distance as possible from see like just back it the fuck
up and also let everybody know that hey, by the way, these are trolls.
So you just want to back up all the way to the wall.
Yeah.
Yeah, that works for me.
Sure.
Nothing over here.
You.
Okay, fine.
I'll move a little bit to the left.
So I'm like in the column between.
Yeah, right there.
Beautiful.
Awesome.
Yeah, I just wanted to make sure and you're going to ask if like trolls are like.
Naturally hostile or not.
Yes, I think these ones are.
About to cry.
Well, to be fair, five-year-old they shot him in the face and with that it is X's turn.
X is going to move one to five ten fifteen twenty going to be moved between to call and
Felix and take a swing at both of you.
Oh, cool.
Felix does a 19 head.
Yes.
18.
Yeah.
Awesome.
19 and 18 is actually too smooth.
For Felix go ahead and take four points of slashing damage.
And to call take five.
You see as this troll who just fucking appeared as far as you guys are aware leaps between
the shadows diving between you both of its sharp claws or for attack as it quickly slashes
the both of you and is going to use its last bit of movement to escape.
So the both of you will get an opportunity attack there.
Yay opportunity attack.
That is just a melee attack unless you have something like hellish rebuke.
Nah, she's a opportunity attack is just going to be a little stab stab.
Awesome.
Yeah, both of you roll hit.
Yes, that's a 22 22 hits.
Am I able to make it an opportunity attack with like my sword or will it be a punch?
No, no, you can make it with your red sword.
I got in that 20th.
Why do I even speak?
You know what?
Double damage, double damage.
Double damage.
Scary children.
Yeah, these are so horrifying.
First, um, to call you see this guy jump back.
So you take the very knife that landed you in hot water with Clara your stolen kitchen
knife, a bit of a personal possession at this point.
You love it greatly.
You've named it Tika like Tika, but also the thing Vana uses.
Yeah, and you jab it into this guy's sort of Achilles tendon.
Oh, shit.
Just his foot as he stumbles over.
He looks up to see this is X.
He's a scary children.
He looks up to see Felix and what is that damage?
Hey, wait, he looks like originally going to be kind of like, wait, is it kind of human
or I don't know if I should kill him.
But the second it like slashes to call he's like whipping his sword around to slash it,
which is 16 damage.
Oh, 16 damage doubled.
Yeah.
Oh, so this thing's dead.
You see it slash to call and you hear your mother's voice in the back of your head just
going protect them be strong as you wheel this sword around and cleave this monster
clean in half.
God damn.
I like this clap in the background.
And you murdered this thing on its turn.
So to call that's you.
What is this a pond or like a fountain?
A small fountain.
Okay, sleigh because I got I got big ideas here.
I'm so worried.
This is even worse than the rain stick.
I'm so afraid.
Okay.
So I'm going to have to make an acrobatics check for this.
But decal is going to go right on top of the thing.
Okay, so go on it.
You're going that's going to be 10 20 30.
That's all your movement.
Yeah, you'd move to the space behind it.
I can't jump on top of it.
It's right on the it's right at the fountain.
So I can't jump on top of it.
Go ahead and give me an athletics check.
And if you get anything above a 19, I'll let you why not?
Acrobatics, that's not acrobatics.
Yeah, sure.
Acrobatics.
You can backflip off this thing to fucking drop kick it.
Be my guest.
Come on dice.
I believe in you.
Not another that 20, please.
Give it another roll.
That's a 19.
Meets it makes it.
So you pirouette.
I know that's not the right term.
Fuck you.
I know that's not the right term.
Fuck you.
I know that's not the right term.
Fuck you.
It is now.
Right.
Thank you.
You flipp off this thing wrapping your arms around the neck of this creature, taking teacup
and just stabbing it, I assume.
Well, I was going to go right at the neck.
Go for it.
Roll the hit with advantage, of course.
First, you are going to need to make a grapple check.
So that is just a strength check.
Contested 17.
That's a five.
Awesome.
So it immediately throws you off of it, but as you're falling off, we'll say you get your
attack on.
Okay, that's an 11.
An 11?
11 does not hit.
Yeah, I did think so.
As you are being thrown off this creature, go ahead and take seven points of bludgeoning
damage.
You fall on a sharp ass rock, this thing throws you back, you nick it slightly, but not enough
to do any damage.
Man, that was going to be so cool.
And you hit your head.
That was going to be so cool too, guys.
That was going to be so cool.
And with that, it is Z's turn.
And Z is going to...
Ah, poo.
Go there, make both slash attacks.
Guys, Tikal might die tonight.
Ah, Tikal.
So that's an actual one.
An actual one and an 18.
18 hits.
Awesome.
Actually, no it doesn't.
Silvery barbs.
Fuck, that's a six.
What does silvery barbs mean?
Imposes disadvantage.
You motherfucker.
So you see as this thing goes to slash into called Missing Hornet, catching itself, dealing
one point of damage to itself.
And as it goes up, from the back of the room, you see that Tikal is not doing so hot.
So you throw out some last ditch magic and this thing literally trips over itself, falling
backwards.
Those two smooth mirrors.
And with that, it is back to the top of the turn order and Vana, that's you.
Wait, what about Felix?
Oh, yeah.
I'm so sorry.
You are right.
Felix, that's you.
Of course I'm right.
Yes.
If you want to vault over the pond, that is a DC 15 athletics or acrobatics check.
I'm pretty sure you can just walk around it.
You could also just walk around it, but it's really cool, you know?
Felix is going to do the exact same thing that Tikal did and try to bash them from the
top of the sword.
Awesome, yeah.
Go ahead and give me an athletics check with disadvantage, please.
Okay.
Did we not watch the first fight episode of Fantasy High?
It's the table rule.
Yeah.
That's a 15.
That's exactly what I was thinking of, by the way.
Beautiful.
Awesome.
So you don't get onto the creature, but you sort of prop your hand up, throw your way
across.
You make it.
It's not a very large sort of fountain.
Yes.
Go ahead, roll the hit.
Does a 17 hit?
17 hits.
Yes.
You're going to try slashing it across the chest.
Beautiful.
Which is a six damage.
Awesome.
How would you like to do this?
Oh, it's dead now.
After he vaults himself across the little fountain, he's going to use the momentum of
the fall in order to swing his sword down an undiagonal angle from the top of his left
shoulder to the bottom of its right chest.
Beautiful.
So as you springboard off of this fountain, you unsheath your greatsword for the second
time, beating this creature down as you drag your sword diagonally across him.
And you see all of his insides very suddenly become outsides as he stops breathing.
And that is two.
For two?
Felix out here killing all the trolls.
Felix is out here running numbers.
He's doing good.
The calls just getting herself killed and it feels like falling in their footsteps.
Everywhere you fail, he succeeds.
Go ahead and Vana, that's you.
Top of the turn.
Okay, um, oh, the only offensive spell I have is fire bolts.
So I'm just gonna be casting that again and again.
With that angle, you would have a chance if you missed to hit Felix.
You might want to be fine.
Like that's actually crazy.
Okay, take your movement.
Take your movement and go there.
Vana is going to move to the side.
Awesome.
If you go a little bit further, he'll be fine.
Because now you're in Eros's path.
Oh yeah, move one more.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, that is a 15 to hit.
15 does hit.
That is the armor class.
By the way, if you guys rolled the armor class of a creature while you're fighting it, I
will tell you that that is the armor class.
Meets it makes it.
That's a two for damage.
Yeah, sure.
Pretty good damage.
Are you kidding me?
It's a D10.
That's really bad.
Sarcasm.
Oh.
And Eros for probably the final round.
That's you.
Okay, I'm gonna close the gap to meet the two in the middle so that I'm not gonna accidentally
hit them.
And I think I'm gonna use a magic missile this time.
Awesome, yeah.
So.
I'm glad Volana moved out of the way now.
It's true.
Okay, so first one is a two, second one is also a two, and the third one is a 19.
So only the last one hits.
Yep.
And then the damage.
That's a four plus one, so five.
So you throw three magic missiles, two of which miss entirely, right?
The kind of thing that may or may not have just hit the ceiling.
But the last one hits them square in the chest, and they stumble backwards a bit, bumping
into the end of the cave.
Not a very impressive turn, but you guys are closing in on this creature.
It is beginning to draw its last couple breaths.
Yes.
It is reason to be afraid.
Yeah.
And with that, Tikal.
That's you.
Yay.
Okay.
Well, she's mad now.
Awesome.
So.
That's a low guard.
True.
She's just gonna.
Just stab, stab, stab.
Yeah.
Awesome.
Yeah, go ahead.
Stab, stab, stab.
Yay.
Thank you.
Is it just one roll that hit?
Yeah.
All right, let's go.
That is a 17.
17 hits.
Yay.
Four points of damage.
Awesome.
Kill it, meow.
So.
Tikal, as you go and you stab, stab, stab into this creature, you get one in the leg, one
in the chest, one in the arm, but it ain't doing shit.
But very suddenly, you see a quick flash and from its, from out of its neck and through
its hand, you see a very thin silvery blade.
Oh no.
What?
Do not take the cursed weapon.
With one more sort of flash of light, you see it fall to the ground.
And die?
And die, yes.
It is dead.
No.
Why are we so violent?
That's all we learned, guys.
And with the stab, stab, stab, stab.
And as it clatters, falling to the floor, you hear clapping.
What?
Well done, my children.
You are fantastic.
I thought it was going to be hissing.
As you see the Frenchman.
Jacques.
Formerly unnamed, the Frenchman.
Fitting his blade poised and dripping in that oh so recognizable pompous stance of his.
What would you like to do?
And can Felix investigate the fallen blade?
It was his blade.
Okay.
It is in his hands.
Is going to be investigating the water once again?
Yeah.
Once the gems have been removed, it seems like normal water.
There's still one more gem in it.
A great one, echoing the sounds of scream and some loud popping noise.
You can't quite place your finger on it.
It's sort of a bang or a pop.
It sounds hot, but it's sort of like a ballista.
Or a pan.
What happened if you ate the last gem?
Vanna's going to go and pick it up.
Awesome.
Nothing happens.
Can they just like toss the stone in the air and like play catch with it?
Yeah.
You could just take it.
You toss the stone up in the air and that's unfortunate.
As you do, a small bird, seeming to be a pet of sorts, swoops in and grabs it.
What is that?
If anybody would like to try and kill this bird, I will give you one action to do so.
Like one reaction each.
Can Tickle throw her knife at it?
Yes, Tickle throw her knife at it.
Come on, I don't see you hunt all the time.
You can do it.
It's a 10.
One sec.
I'm looking something up real quick.
What the fuck?
Guys, it's a bird.
It's just a brand new bird.
I don't know.
I'm trying to grab the bird.
It's a little too high up.
Unfortunately, despite your best efforts, you are not 15 feet tall.
I would like to cast Web on the bird.
Is that a deck save?
Let me read real quick.
It is a strength check, actually.
My spell save, which is...
Okay.
I figured it out, by the way.
So yeah.
Strength check for bird.
20.
Not Nat.
Damn.
So yeah, that's...
Hang on.
I accidentally muted you guys.
Yeah.
No, that's...
It'll escape.
That doesn't work.
Don't worry about the spell slot.
You'll need it.
You throw out this Web, but this bird just sort of spirals, thinning through it, and
escapes out into the night.
Jacques is still right behind you.
Okay.
Well, now that's done, can I try and take the arrow out of the skull of the troll so
I can have it again?
Don't worry about ammunition.
I know.
I still want to do it.
Awesome.
Yeah.
Go ahead and give me a strength check.
I know.
This is just going to be flat roll.
That's a 13.
Awesome.
Yeah.
You take it out.
It's a little splintered.
It's not going to be as effective, but you got it.
It's pretty good.
Did we get the bird?
No, you did not get the bird.
Damn.
No.
So can I use Shapewater to get the bird?
No.
The bird is gone.
Where is the other people that were chasing us?
Nowhere to be found.
It seems like the Frenchman is the only one who found you.
Okay.
Well, T-Coll is just going to go and walk behind the Frenchman and just stand at his
leg.
Awesome.
He, you know, scruffs your hair a little bit.
He's like, you did well.
Now children, before you go, I would like to say a few things if you will let me.
Where?
Wherever you're going, I guess.
I don't assume you're too keen to go home.
They're home.
That sort of issue.
Well, you see, the problem is we took you from your homes, from where you were, and
I have realized over the years that that was a mistake.
Maybe kidnapping children was a bad idea.
So.
Oh, you stink.
Oh, guess who grew upset of morals, everyone.
I'm trying to be better.
I'm simply asking for a chance to prove.
They will prove exactly that, prove that I have realized the error of our ways.
I have a home.
It is secluded.
It's in another country.
But we'll be safe there.
We won't be found by the prophets.
There are omniscience sort of doesn't go beyond the borders of this little area we're in.
So if you will come with me, I can.
I can't guarantee your safety, but I can guarantee.
No more porridge.
Good food.
Good.
Yeah.
There we go.
Felix, do you think that Gustaf and Laura would want us to go with you?
I think they're going to stay here.
Why?
They are stuck in thinking you're necessary.
There's a lot of mistakes that brought us to where we are.
But chief among them is that making you guys strong and powerful at all costs was the most
important thing for our survival.
Yeah, it's not really your fault though.
The adult oracles are the ones who are telling you guys what to do.
No, like I actively kidnapped you.
This is entirely my fault.
I'm just only four.
That is wrong.
You are like seven.
I'm just only six.
Okay.
For fuck's sake.
All right.
Watch your language.
Yep.
Sorry.
That's me.
That's not me.
I'm growing.
I'm improving.
I'm trying to be better.
Did he really have to go with?
I don't know.
Vanna is going to go over to the Frenchman and just kind of be beside him surprisingly.
Awesome.
I just kind of pat his shoulder.
Jacques is-
I love that the seven year old can reach this man's shoulder.
Oh no, I fully assume.
He's going to push down the Avanadina.
Actually, you can get an athletics check.
You need to piggyback Vanna for them to pat him on the shoulder.
Yes.
That's a 14.
14 is good.
Make this roll with advantage.
Me?
You're essentially being given the help action.
Okay.
16.
That's a not 20.
So strength?
Yeah.
Wait, which one of us gives advantage?
To call.
That's a 17.
17 is good enough.
You hop up on his shoulders and you're like, we're not Frenchmen.
He's like, this is very strange.
I had not thought about the fact that you grew up with no social circle, so we're going
to be very, very strange children and even stranger adults.
Where are you going to end the video?
Social circle?
Oh my God.
All right.
Well, we'll put you in school, regular school in like-
What school?
Jesus fuck, let me finish.
I know language.
Sorry.
Just follow me.
You're regulating yourself.
So with T'Kal having boosted Vonna up, can he just like bear, like grab onto the Frenchman's,
grab around the Frenchman's neck and kind of dangle from there?
Yeah.
I guess so.
And that is exactly what's going to happen.
Beautiful.
I was going to have to take suffocation damage for that one.
It's like, if you would follow me, I have a boat set up.
We can leave.
I've set up a small home in a community in Ruhem.
This definitely is not a kidnapping.
This is entirely up to you.
Whether you want to stay, train, be strong and attempt to fulfill the prophecy or come,
be normal for a little while and be a little more likely to die trying.
I think Vonna's shown what they're choosing.
Yeah.
He's really only trying to convince Felix at the moment.
Eros is actually just going to stare at Felix.
He's kind of like, he doesn't want to get further and further away from his mom.
He doesn't know where he's going.
He doesn't know if this will actually be his home.
But the only thing that he can believe in is the other prophesized heroes who have always
been with him and have never lied to him.
So after Eros seems like he's going in the direction of John, he'll just follow behind
them.
Awesome.
How much time do we have to make this decision?
Right here and now.
You have your family.
You are going home.
Permission?
No, you are not coming with me.
You're going home with all the love in my heart for all of you beautiful children.
You have a family.
You're going home.
And he sort of takes you, uh, tick all, grab in one hand and I assume Vanna in the other.
Felix, what time?
Well, Vanna's currently clutched around his neck somehow.
Vanna's like half dead right now, by the way, guys.
Vanna's at 12 hit points.
Oh, that's rough.
So as you exit the cave, you see before you Gustav, no one else, not the prophets, not
Clara, no muscle to try and drag you back.
Gustav is muscle.
That's Gustav with his greatsword, not the one he uses for training, the one he uses.
Felix's eyes are going to like widen.
Vanna's going to wave.
Are you, are you, are you coming to the next home with us?
I'm well, no, but I am here to take you home.
And with that, I will see you all tomorrow.
Girl, do you want to be regained spells, flots and health or just, um, take a short rest,
not a long rest.
What does a short rest do?
Basically nothing.
Oh, poo.
Thank you for joining us in Terra Deusa.
See you next time.