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Wish Hunter #13: Ever · DiceSized

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Welcome to Die Sized and welcome to Wishhunter.
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This is D&D audio adventure podcast where we tell bite sized
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dice roll twice told stories. This is me, your DM and friend
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Robert Whitehead. And with me, as always is my
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lovely table of friends and family.
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We, of course, have George. Hey, it's G playing parable and
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I'm flying with Dragons and fighting evil and sticking it in
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and running away for my boy Lamillion on the ground.
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What a good microcosm of Lamillion, which is epic.
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Epic. Oh, this guy's pretty.
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Wow, Yeah, wow. This guy's something else.
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Yeah, legendary until he's not. That is the million.
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But Parable, you are simply legendary in this fight amongst
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gods. And.
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But why am I here? Justice and vengeance or mercy?
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I don't know. You're still figuring it out.
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She's made of stars and she's full of embers.
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I still don't know. I've been told a million times,
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just a little guy, just a little guy.
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Although just a little guy, you do harness the power of you hit
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with that thunderous smite. What does that energy look like?
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I like to think as the search for knowledge just as important
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as knowing something. So I feel like Parable, in his
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exploration of this breaking of an oath, maybe for another, or
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maybe honoring his oath to find another.
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I think truth right now for Parable looks like the void of
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things. So implosion.
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Yeah, yeah. Out of the absence of knowledge
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right now. That detonation from inside of
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the Wish drinker was just excellent and all the visuals I
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needed. So, Parable, although you're
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just along this journey and it seems to be a harrowing 1 today,
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let's see who you have at your side.
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Next up, Maya. Hey, it's Maya.
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You can call me Maya. Dropping back into Zen, who is
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currently skyrocketing, yes, so riding her smoky nightmare wolf
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steed, also known as my smoky little guy.
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Smoky little guy and ready to change the fucking world.
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I had such butterflies in my stomach as I'm thinking of this
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like jet stream of flame that is going perfectly vertically up
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and like breaking through first the canopy next to the cloud
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cover and then finally amongst the fight with the wish drinker
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300 feet above in the air and well, not quite there yet, but
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you're on the way to rocketing there and it is cooler than even
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a rocket and Mario Kart because God damn that was a fun moment
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for me. Using the blessing from the well
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to turn Akuma into a big Smokey guy.
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This time you're. My big Smokey guy.
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Yes, let's just change the world.
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Yes, on our way to change the world.
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And make your broom jealous. True.
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Before we go and change the world, we got to get to the
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person that changed my world, Savannah.
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I'm going to keep right out of racking these up.
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I'm going to get better and better at these.
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You're cashing them in. Sav here, playing Cassie, and
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for someone who spends a whole lot of time with her head in the
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clouds now that she's actually in the clouds?
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Yeah. First time actually is easier.
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Set as time lurker, first time actual visitor, right?
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Long time lurker. Cloud 9 Cloud 9 is not exactly
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as fun as I first assumed it to be.
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Retweet Could you imagine if this whole time they're like
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cloud 9 and it's just a fucking dragon fight?
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Right, you get up there to relax and you just got giant lizards
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with wings clawing at each other.
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I. Don't know if someone like I
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feel like as a kid someone walked past and said, oh man, I
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just spent the whole day with Cindy and it was cloud 9 all
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day. And what they were talking about
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in my head was they were dragging, riding and fighting
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amongst the sky. There was a.
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Hafling cannonballing through the air.
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Has always believed that's just how it's been so.
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I was about to say, like, did we sign up for this?
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Who signed us up for this Mojo? Mojo signed us up for this.
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We're fallen told this is. What we've chosen to do with our
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free will, everybody. What are you doing with yours?
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Welcome to Cloud Line Airlines. This was supposed.
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To be a side hustle, yeah. Respectfully.
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Where we have long ago left side hustle territory, this is a
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lifestyle. We will be getting tattoos.
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It's funny, I can't tell whether you're talking about Cassie or
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you in terms of the podcasting or the D&D character.
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And honestly I'm down for tattoos as a character and or a
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you. Took the words right out of my
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mouth. Perfect.
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So both. And with that.
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Happy birthday Rob. Happy birthday Rob.
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Happy. Birthday, Rob.
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Who is also our DM and who is also our friend.
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Happy. Happy birthday.
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No stop. Let's do salt on the census to.
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You thank you for being our DM and also our friend.
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Happy birthday to you. I hate that I don't have the
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excuse to cut that because it's it is royalty free.
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Yeah, that's public public license.
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Feel to be 50. The last nine babies full hustle
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at this point we have aged. Well, by the time they hear
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this, you'll be halfway to 32. I'm 3023.
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Anyways on to a recap. Last time our heroes gained an
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ally in a fight against the wish drinker Sir Morris and coined
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golden after images to one another fought as one.
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An echo bound wish hunter of the second well had joined the
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fight. Zen caught the creature's
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attention with a hex and Cassie let loose her new wand of
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wonder. Though she aimed the wand upon
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the wish drinker, Cassie instead granted the errant wish of Sir
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Morris as he said. I'm, I'm just saying I wish we
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could fly and turned our two favorite wish hunters of the
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second whale into a giant wasp capable of flight.
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The Wish Drinker shifted in and out of cloud form, stepping up
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the sky, rising with vicious intent towards sin while its
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claws tore at her. The crystalline strands of the
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Wish Drinkers web closed in ceilings, in a way in a gemstone
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dummy plain prison. The flames within her flared,
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cracking golden crystal. Meanwhile, Parable channeled his
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anger toward a righteous and worthy vengeance, casting,
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banging upon the Wish Drinker and drawing its higher.
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Yet, as RYA granted what power she could to Cassie, the Wish
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Drinker was drawn to vanish and reappear directly in front of
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RYA, speaking with a discordant choir.
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Voices, ever first born of living wishes, greeted his
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little sister. It seemed to sneer at Rye's very
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nature. Zephandria crashed into the Wish
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Drinker then, tearing at it with bang and claw.
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The Wish Drinker struck back, piercing dragon scales and
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feasting upon Zephandra's very essence, tearing pieces away
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from one another. This clash of Titans was
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interrupted by a detonation from below.
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Zen burst from her prison, a stride akuma in nightmare form
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galloping up from below upon a fiery lupine steed.
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At the same time, RYA sent out a blast of rating energy at the
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Witch Drinker, which Cassie modified from wheel to woe to
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get past the Witch Drinkers defenses and Parable dashed upon
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air to slash and stab at the Witch Drinker, detonating A
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thunderous smite from the monsters very rib cage.
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The old Parable struck a mighty blow and sent it hurdling to the
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ground. The Witch Drinker saved itself
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by shifting to cloud form. Seeing the dire threat before
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them, Cassie sought aid through communion with her mother, the
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Goddess sign, Goddess of Luck and Omens.
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With Star Map and her mother's journal in hand, Cassie looked
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up once more and asked what is the Witch Drinkers greatest
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weakness? Soraya Sarian, once Cassie's
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mother and now sign goddess of luck and omens, answered.
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In her mind's eye, Cassie saw a vulnerable core at the center of
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the wish drinker, like a geode ready to shatter.
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Our heroes would just have to find the right place to strike.
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We rejoin our heroes now as Cassie has defined a perfect and
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quick way defeat the Wish drinker for good.
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It will require a much more skillful of a strike, so if you
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guys do go for that option, that will be an AC of 20 mechanically
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and I've already told you guys. But that will also have a damage
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threshold that you'll need to meet within a single turn if you
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want to go that route of success.
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But Cassie was able to completely communicate that
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amongst the group last time and we ended at initiative 0 where
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something happens. Who wants to roll our D8 for an
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errant wish effect that as you guys all throw these rampant
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energy is around the world is responding.
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Things cannot be done without consequence magically in this
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world. So let's see what happens.
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I love that you got your own little Tower of doom for.
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The Wish magic. For all of you players out
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there, it's such a fucking power move to as a player, bring your
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own tower, set it in your box and be like, I don't know for
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the big rolls. You know exactly when.
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You're the only ones at risk. Here.
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You got to know you have a lot at stake too you.
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Better be a little bit of a drama.
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Queen. I love it.
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I love it. Let's roll.
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That's a six. Fantastic this is.
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Are you or for us? Well, we'll, we'll see everyone.
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Is it distinction? Everyone.
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We don't like when Rob gets excited.
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Simmer down over there, birthday boy.
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Everyone roll a luck check below 5 puts you in the eyesights of
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this one. Nope.
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An 8. For Cassie, it's an 18 A. 3
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Brazil. I am rocketing towards whatever
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is happening. I'm I'm not.
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Jimmy's turned all the way up. Awesome, so that one's
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definitely going to be at Zen. Zen.
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Give me a Constitution saving throw here.
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I'll be another 3. Are you holding concentration on
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anything specifically right now of?
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Course I'm holding concentration on something.
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I'm a freaking warlock man. I axed your ass.
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That concentration breaks. That's all I can do, dude.
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So many people wrote Spell. This is concentration.
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Anyway, I'm so chill and I'm so fine.
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That concentration is broken, and as you flare with bright and
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brilliant light, you are also blinded as your own flames are
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starting to grow so bright and hot that you.
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Akuma Akuma, turn it down. Not Lantern mode, Lantern mode.
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I cannot. I saw I.
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Did I really? I did tell you to let it all
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out. I really did.
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I'm sorry. You know it's.
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Fine, I'll just, I'll just close.
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My eyes, it's fine. Is that the sun?
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Just literally like. Rocking up a fiery comet rising
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into the sky. I'm so sorry.
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I'm so. Sorry, I'm sorry.
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I'm just sorry, just. Blind and just going.
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Didn't slow down, didn't slow down.
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That would be mighty distracting to someone like the Wish
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drinker. Interesting, I don't think it
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will be. So I'm going to keep playing
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with myself over here because yes, that's what I said.
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And that is a layer action that occurs up next.
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Anyone else want to roll another D8 for me?
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7. O as the wish drinker screams,
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forcing more creatures out as if like a man seeking a weapon on a
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shelf. He's throwing creatures off.
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And you saw that giant boar drop and it splatters upon the ground
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and you see crystalline shards fly everywhere.
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And as it as if like a man desperately seeking a weapon to
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help them, throwing all these things away until three giant
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bats appear around the witch drinker as if unified, moving In
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Sync. They are definitely replica
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creatures and fully under his control.
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They look almost broken and as if they're struggling to fly and
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these bats will roll initiative. That will be 3 giant bats added
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to initiative, but they will be acting as one as these giant
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bats appear around the wish drinker ready to defend it.
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That is going to be Sophondria up next, who will rear back and
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try to get all four of them. She's currently grappled by the
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Wish drinker. Wait, no, no, he got pushed 10
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feet. Oh sick.
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Awesome. From the prone and the Thunder
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Smite. You're right, so with.
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Thunderous. Yes, with the Thunder Smite you
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were able to separate Sophandra and the Wish Drinker.
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So fucking sick to think about a halfling flying in the sky to
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fight between two monstrous sized beans and you see the wish
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drinker separated from Saphandra, giving her the space
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to rear back and try to let out another breath weapon.
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Does anyone want to roll her recharge die?
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D65 or 6 on the die gets you her breath weapon back.
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Tower this. Is going to be a thing.
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It's a Pagan tradition. Before.
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Unfortunately, as she reaches for it, you feel it welling in
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her chest and can see similar to the wish drinker, this lightning
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rainbow energy that seems to build at the base of her neck.
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But it is not ready to be released as she rears back in
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and dies to attack the wish drinker with tooth and claw.
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Adam Seppi, yeah. The bite as she bites down does
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not hit as the wish drinker raises a mighty golden claw and
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the claw like grows to be large enough to catch the whole dragon
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jaw with one hand as it rips it to the side to Fondrea and then
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claws back in wiping twice natural 20 to hit with one.
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Get crude on. And a 16 that will not hit, but
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we will be hitting hard. That'll be 16 total damage with
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the claw attack as she swipes down a mighty blow at the
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Whistricker. How's it looking?
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Thank you, Cassandra. Hell yeah.
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Zen, did you see that fucker? And I, I know you can't tell
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this right now, that I was like so inconsiderate of you.
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Wait, does that mean no Zen could read my rock?
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I read the Rock. The rocks we are.
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Keep holding the rock, yeah? As you guys have continued to
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fight in the unclaimed lands, it's already this weird
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grayscale and neon mix of color and muted color as we've talked
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about the domains kind of rewrite what color should be and
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normalize it and naturalize it. And as you guys have continued
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to fight, those energies have been continued to be thrown more
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and more out of balance, further spurring these errant wish
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effects in the wish drinker seems to be without a better
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expression lapping it up as it's roars and it's viciousness
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continues to increase as it moves next.
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This time it surges back towards parable that is a 15 to hit.
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No. That is a 21 to. 15 doesn't, but
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the 21 does hit yes. As this claw comes down on you,
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please give me a constitution saving throw.
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As the claw slashes into you, it will do 14 necrotic damage and
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on top of that you are grappled by it.
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If you wouldn't happen to get an opportunity attack, would she?
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She would, but she's not going to use it because she has the
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reroll reaction and I don't think she will waste her
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reaction here. For the con save I got a 21. 21
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will definitely save so that damage does not reduce your hit
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point total, but it does obviously hurt to 14 and chronic
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damage to you. Okay.
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So Sophondria can roll any reroll, any of our like any die,
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any roll. Yes.
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So you you guys have one free re roll around?
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And it was early in the turn. You were so right.
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Yes, yes. Early in the round, but that is
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not done with the wish drinker yet.
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Parable. Now that you've been grappled,
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the wish drinker starts to try to feed upon you.
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Burns on the inside. Your skin is starting to ride as
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if veins are growing underneath and starting to overtake the
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veins that you have. You're starting to realize that
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with your divine senses active, there's a certain level of
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circuitry that runs throughout you.
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As a spellcaster. What you're looking at isn't the
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veins of blood work, it's the veins of your made, Craft said.
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Although it may be for a paladin, this thing is arcanely
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trying to connect to you on almost a spiritual level.
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As a paladin, you feel your soul being corrupted and stolen from
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you. I clutch the good book, look at
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my hands and just say I will continue, I will continue, I
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will continue taking a page out of Sin's book.
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Give me a charisma saving throw with advantage.
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I will say 1414 is not going to save you.
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I was with your +22. Oh, no 16. 16 is not going to
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save here. Yikes.
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That'll be 44 damage. What?
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It's very important that I ask, are you still up?
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Yes, I'm still up. Good to know your charisma is
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also reduced by 5. Can I counter spell?
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No, like permanently. You don't know how much.
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What's your charisma total score?
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My charisma is 15, dropped to 10.
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You lose a third of who you are as a person.
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It is greater than any loss that you have ever felt throughout
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all of your wishing experience, throughout all the times that
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your personality was reset. You're still you at the end of
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it, but something vital has been taken from you.
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Memories beyond memories. Things you held dear that you
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didn't even know you held dear. But they are gone.
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I don't think Parable says anything, but inside he's
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screaming. But I just remembered.
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The taste of that meal leaves your mind.
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No, I wanted to use a luck point.
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I think Saphandra is going to do that as.
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Saphandra does what? You did line in with thunderous
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energy and roars in a way that puts a dream upon the world, one
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that she prefers, one where you. That's where I smelt it the the
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meal. The meal disappears from your
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mind and suddenly it's back in front of you.
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Let's re roll that Christmas saving throw.
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Advantage or just one I'm. Going to say just one.
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That's a 24. Nice.
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You tell me what this is like instead of the wish drinkers
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influence coursing through your body, it drinking your very
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essence, and you're realizing now something that is vital to
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you, that you've never come fully face to face with the fact
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that the energy of wishes runs through your very veins like
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fire. It has always been there.
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You run hot parable, but also cold.
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Cassie and Zinn somehow seem to be these counterbalance points
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that fit you to tea as well. An imagined flame that burns and
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bites with frost. The blood of a jinn, you
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realize, as you have wish magic in your very veins, and your
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heritage rejects it. Terrible is going to.
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His eyes are going to glow like when he has divine sense.
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He's going to look down at the necrotic areas where his hands
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are starting. And he's going to take the bend
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plate and slice his palm and he's going to press it to one of
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the pages of the Good Book and fully affirm who he is with it.
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And I imagine fully spread like a whole handprint into the Good
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Book. Fantastic.
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Give me a religion check here. That is a dirty 20 that.
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My handprint stays. I would ask you to roll upon
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your good book table to see what spell effect ignoring
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duplicates. Yep.
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What spell effect fills that page?
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I've been trying to do this for so long.
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All right, Parable rolled A-19. What is a 19 on their table?
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The parable of summons. It's the spell guardian of
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faith. So sick I don't know even know
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if I've ever read that spell. I'm going to read it now because
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I am so excited. That is so cool.
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Guardian of Faith. A large spectral guardian
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appears and hovers for the duration and unoccupied space
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that you can see within range. The Guardian occupies the space
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and is invulnerable, and it appears in the form appropriate
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for your deity or pantheon. An enemy that moves to space
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within 10 feet of the Guardian for the first time on a turn or
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starts to turn there makes a Dexterity savings throw, taking
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20 radiant damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a
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successful one. The Guardian advantage is when
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it's dealt a total of 60 damage. So great, but not great for
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right now. That's fair, that's fair.
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You do have three giant bats that have just appeared.
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Oh yeah, that. You know are not as resistant
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and liking a radiant damage, so there might be a use for that if
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you so choose, but that energy just fills you.
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So sick. And that is all the wish Drinker
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can do with its turn. So that is Zen up next.
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Blind is a bat. Blind is a bat, you still can go
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for an attack, it'll just be with disadvantage and I would
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allow the nightmare to give you the help action considering with
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your 90 feet of fly speed you're able to get there without a
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problem. OK.
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And I'd roll with disadvantage. Yes you would roll with
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disadvantage, but I would allow you the help action from your
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nightmare slash akuma to give you to cancel that.
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Fun physics thing. Your great, your big fireball is
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hot air there. Maybe we're all just rising on
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accident. Right up to it.
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You also have a blade of flames so I love thinking about how you
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don't have to be that accurate as you are just a roaring comet
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rising through the sky. That's what I was thinking.
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And like when we started our trajectory, we were going just
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like straight at the wish drinker.
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So I think if I can with my movement of 90 feet on akuma,
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can I get 2 within 5 feet of the wish drinker?
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I think yes, actually, because especially with Parable having
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dropped it, it would have dropped immediately on its turn,
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but then Cloud stepped back up as a legendary action to get
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back up. It's somewhere between 150 and
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300 feet. I'm not going to work that out
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more than give me an Athletics or Acrobatics check and you can
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add the nightmares, strength, or decks.
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Oh, huge. OK, 13.
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Yeah, 13 will do it. 13 gets used to the West Drinker as the
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nightmare surges beneath you. So I think Zen is just going to
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say akuma. I think we we like got too close
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to the Sander like. My girl boss too close to the
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sun. I've good boss too close to the
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fireball and just just fly directly at him.
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Get as close as you can and. Akuma can see.
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She's going to grab her scimitar completely blinded, but like
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still has the like after image kind of burned in her head, you
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know, and like you get like a strong camera flash, but you can
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still kind of see that's I've imagined that's like what she's
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envisioning. Just holding on to that.
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Like this is the last thing I saw in the summer to do.
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That's so sick to think about having that close your eyes
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after image and then making your world that until.
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Meditational you are. You've seen edges and shapes and
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the sunlight flickering through your eyelashes as your vision
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slowly but surely comes back with every moment, but you are
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truly blinded. Truly blinded, she's going to
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hold her scimitar and just say Agnes and it's going to light up
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into flame. Fantastic.
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And then when we're in range, I think she'll just like, let me
25:40
know when I can swing at him. And she's just like zoning into
25:43
her forms in the backyard, running through her forms just
25:47
like, OK, I got this like on on go.
25:50
Just do your forms. Just do your forms.
25:51
Just do your forms. You've done this a million
25:52
times. Just do your forms.
25:54
I'm going to take a first swing. Fantastic.
25:59
What does an 11 get me? Nothing, I know that, but
26:02
they're sting blade. Yes, yes, I'm not doing it
26:04
again. Two attacks will help.
26:08
Face jail. Well, I am blinded so.
26:11
Yeah, be nice to yourself. Then nine.
26:13
Now I'm going to do it. Unfortunately not, as.
26:16
It makes sense, she's blind as hell.
26:18
As you rise like a fiery comet and Okuma says we rise like the
26:22
sun. And you unfortunately miss just
26:26
barely as the wish drinker shifts to the right.
26:30
I don't think I hit anything. Akuma maybe, Maybe let's get
26:34
farther away, but we don't really have much more movement
26:37
speed. I tried my best.
26:39
Akuma, do you got anything? And then I think I'm going to
26:41
have Akuma on the Nightmare's turn.
26:45
Do Akuma's breath. Fantastic.
26:48
Yeah, absolutely. As Akuma let's loose its breath
26:51
weapon. That will be Dex save.
26:54
Dex save DC-13. Which you would have had
26:56
disadvantage. On 14, OK, perfect.
27:00
That is A10 all told. OK though. 8 fire damage.
27:06
You can see as this fire damage hits, it does not affect it in
27:11
the same way that it did before. It almost greedily snatches it
27:16
out of the air and smashes it against its own face.
27:19
That as you see some of the shadow disperses.
27:22
A crystalline skull that sizzles and a large jagged smile that
27:28
just shows a lot of teeth and a lot of painful joy as it adds
27:34
the flame to its wish fire head and like a Hades kind of slicks
27:39
back it's flaming hair. You can see that the damage that
27:42
you did to it, as if a swordsman who has a facial scar.
27:47
He emphasizes it, saying, look what you did to me.
27:52
Look what you've made me learn to do.
27:54
He no longer has a vulnerability to fire, but he will take that
27:58
eight damage just clean. Like regular damage, yeah.
28:01
Did you hit him? He's.
28:03
Looking at us like he like kind of like a bad guy in AI.
28:07
Don't I don't think you know about mob horror flicks.
28:10
You've never seen a scary movie, have you?
28:11
Those don't exist. In the no bad dreams bad dreams.
28:14
Anyways, I have enough scary movies in my head.
28:16
Yeah, yeah. But did it?
28:18
Did it hurt him? No.
28:20
It not at all. Well, a little bit.
28:22
Just he's still looking at me so pissed.
28:24
OK. Yes, you did.
28:26
You did hurt him a little bit, but Akuma is just like wait.
28:29
What the fuck did he? Just do bad thing.
28:33
That is going to be the giant bats up next, who will move as
28:38
one to surround a parable. Perfect.
28:42
We love that. Great.
28:44
Within 10 feet, huh? Yeah.
28:47
Huge. As these giant bats go to attack
28:50
parable 3 attacks coming at you right now.
28:53
That'll be a dirty 20A. Dirty 20 and 19 what?
29:01
Are these within 30 feet of me? I will say yes.
29:05
I would like to use my cosmic omen of woe on that 19.
29:10
Sick. OK, cool.
29:11
What does that look like? Whenever a creature I can see
29:13
within 30 feet of me is about to make AD 20 test, you can take a
29:15
reaction roll to roll 1D6 and subtract the result.
29:19
From the total. I'm going to see if I can bring
29:21
that down. Awesome.
29:22
Below parables AC 3. That drops it to 16.
29:29
Need to beat it. 16 is my AC. Damn, you are unable to pull
29:34
this bat back, but you hold your hand out struggling trying to
29:37
get it away from Parable. You were just quite unable and
29:41
that will be all told 16 damage to you Parable from all three
29:45
bats. Wow, I thought bats were cute
29:48
before now. I have guardian immediately
29:52
after creature within 5 feet. Do you takes a disengage action
29:54
or hits a target other than you? I can make an opportunity attack
29:57
on the creature. Am I within 5 feet?
29:59
Because I'm like right up? No, you just attacked, Yeah.
30:01
Doing some melee. Yes, the bats just hit parable.
30:04
So if you. Up slice and dice.
30:06
Yeah, you're, you're in the mix. I would say you're because we.
30:09
Used all our movement to get there but didn't have any to
30:11
move away so I'm still like in the sauce.
30:13
Cool, give me a reaction opportunity attack.
30:17
Does a 25 hit. Bitch, it does.
30:22
OK, well, I'm gonna roll some damage on your backs for hands,
30:24
yeah. This is my sassy scimitar, yeah.
30:29
For some reason she's able to hit this like because the senses
30:32
of protecting her friends like let's her so cool feel.
30:36
I don't know, she's maybe still just haphazardly swinging her
30:39
knife at her sword as well. Hits it on the backhand.
30:41
Accidental melee hits it for 8 slashing, 3 fire, and because I
30:47
hit you with my opportunity attack, that means halt.
30:50
When I hit a creature with my opportunity attack, the creature
30:52
speed becomes 0 for the rest of the current turn.
30:55
Nice. Bye.
30:58
How we looking? How's that bat looking?
31:00
Crushing. Hit my friends again.
31:02
Do it. 11 total damage to this thing will hurt badly.
31:07
On that reaction, that's amazing.
31:10
I don't think we got the wish drinker too badly, but we did
31:12
scare the shit out of that bat. I hit something.
31:15
Wait, you didn't? Oh, you can't see right?
31:17
Yeah, still can't see Wild. I'm just out here on a dream.
31:20
You're like having you like made the perfect slice.
31:23
It was just like, you know, you were, you're blind, so.
31:26
She's just continuing to do her forms and just happens to hit
31:29
something. So perfect.
31:32
But Next up is Raya as she will look towards Cassie, give you a
31:36
wink, Cassie, and then kind of do a swan dive backwards, flying
31:40
with her wings to deliver a touch of lay on hands to
31:45
Parable. Having been taught such a skill
31:48
over dinner and Parable, what are you rocking for HP 28?
31:53
She's got 35 to give so. Yeah, if you want to put me back
31:58
up, 32 hit points would be amazing. 32 puts you at full.
32:01
Yep. Cool.
32:02
Yeah, 32 hit points I think goes to you parable and she will keep
32:07
just a few to get someone up with the bonus action later on
32:10
maybe. Amazing you interact with us in
32:13
any way as you, like you said, are fighting with Dragons and
32:16
angels and an Angel delivers your own brand of medicine to
32:21
you to heal. Yeah, I think it looks like
32:23
Parable scrambling with his pen blade and seeing bat wings.
32:27
So it's just like webbed wings slapping in front of him and all
32:30
sudden, you know, Rye's wings Breakthrough sick.
32:33
And it just captures my vision. And I think there's an
32:36
acceptance moment where Parable kind of learn something in the
32:39
moment about what it means to be supported by good friends and
32:44
finds a moment where he connects with that act of giving and
32:50
service. He sees it reflected back at him
32:53
and he realizes he's done that so many times.
32:56
And for it to bolster him so much, he finds a belief in
32:59
himself, seeing his abilities reflected back at him.
33:02
Going through every day saying good day, good day, have a good
33:04
day, have a good day, have a good day.
33:06
And then the time that someone says, hey, I hope you have a
33:09
really nice day and it just hits really hard.
33:12
You're like, oh, that's why I say it.
33:14
Awesome. Adding a little bit to the
33:16
world. Raya is not done as she, like
33:19
Dragon Ball Z, lets out blasts of radiant light to a piece.
33:25
Amazing. One from each hand to strike out
33:28
at the the. Bats.
33:31
Yes. Are they a 23 to hit and a 24 to
33:36
hit? Dang. 22 total damage to the
33:42
bats will only destroy the one that you tried to hold back
33:46
Cassie. That one is incinerated and.
33:50
And I'm within 10 feet, so I get 10 temporary HP.
33:53
Awesome from what? Darwin's blessing.
33:58
So cool, so cool, so just oh come on, what just happened?
34:04
This is the first time. OK so this is the first time
34:07
this has happened. You do a subtle thing like wish
34:11
drinking just a little bit as you pull on the essence of wish
34:17
energy that made this thing. And you're reminded of all the
34:20
scripture that says if you touch this fucking shit, if you are
34:23
ever a corrupted by a mobis, then you'll never know who you
34:26
truly are. You'll never know who your own
34:28
emotions from the ones that you've absorbed, and you might
34:32
never be one with the lighting. I think it's kind of funny too,
34:36
because she doesn't know what just happened.
34:38
Like you didn't see this bat akuma.
34:41
Akuma. Yeah.
34:42
What was that? I'm feeling good.
34:44
What just happened? I don't know.
34:45
I think we you. Can see Please tell me what just
34:47
happened. Well, I think we destroyed
34:49
something, but then. We destroyed something.
34:51
Well, no. Something was destroyed and then
34:53
we made use of it. Brian just destroyed that bat.
34:56
And as the energy courses through you, your vision comes
34:59
back because it ended on your turn.
35:01
So this right now you're, Oh my God, you're like healed by the,
35:04
the essence of a dead being. I mean, I guess I'll use its
35:10
energy for good Zen. Zen, if you get any brighter, we
35:15
won't be able to see. I'm so sorry.
35:19
You're going to blind us all. That is good timing is that is
35:21
parable up next. But at the end of Raya's turn,
35:25
the wish drinker is going to use a legendary action two of them
35:29
actually to wish drink one more time.
35:33
And that is going to be a he's only able to do this because
35:39
you're actively grappled from that attack from previously.
35:43
So it's like, it's like you're the body is literally surging
35:46
against that corruption and it surges back with the legendary
35:50
action here. Wow, 19. 19 will save here, You
35:57
will still take some half damage here, I'll roll that up real
36:00
quick. But you are once more able to
36:03
surge back against it, holding on to all of your personality
36:08
yourself. In the same way that Zen self
36:11
was almost pushed out of her on Promise Day.
36:13
On the same way that yourself was erased in your historical
36:17
times with Count chance, In the same way that Cassie's self is
36:20
almost forcibly erased by all of the Screaming Star song she
36:23
hears in her mind. It is not this time as you hold
36:27
true parable that will be. Though I walk an arduous path, I
36:31
am not alone. That is 38 days halved to 19,
36:39
correct? Yes, all right.
36:43
Oh, I also need you to roll a Dexterity save and throw Parable
36:48
here. Because the giant bat, it's as
36:51
it was destroyed, it shattered. And you might also have to do
36:55
some shrapnel here, pick on someone your own size, forcing
37:00
you to pay attention to it. You are unable to look back at
37:03
the shards of glass that head your way.
37:05
That is a 25. A-25 is more than enough to
37:08
somehow run instinct dodge the shrapnel that comes from the
37:14
giant bat destroyed by RYA. I think it looks like Parable
37:18
doing tucking his knees in and just getting as small as
37:21
possible and even doing a little twist and an aerial like a side
37:24
roll. As you do so, you, in your tuck
37:27
and roll, see that RYA is unable to avoid it and will take 21
37:35
slashing damage. Dang, that's from the bats.
37:39
Yeah, from one of the one of the bats that she destroyed.
37:42
And now, Parable, that is your turn, having ended off the wish
37:47
drinker once more and dodged the shrapnel of a giant gilded bat.
37:53
Does the wish drinker need to make a Dexterity saving?
37:55
Now it's a little, it's far enough away it's a 15 foot
37:58
radius for the safe. You and Ryan, I think we're the
38:01
only ones. Oh, the other giant bat does
38:03
need to though. Fuck.
38:04
Yeah, and he's frozen in place, too.
38:07
Shit, you're right. I was also going to say that
38:10
because I was within 5 feet to hit before reassuming, I'm also
38:14
within that 15 feet. Yeah, give me a duck save.
38:20
I failed it even with my modifiers, so I got.
38:25
A66 is not going to save that will be 19 damaged and the bat
38:28
does save and will not take any. Wow, come on, Dice.
38:34
Then you are shredded with golden crystalline shards.
38:38
Right when I got my eyesight back.
38:41
Burn them, burn them away. Let's fucking do it bearable.
38:45
That is you next. And I am currently grappled.
38:48
Yes, bearable. You are currently grappled.
38:50
All right, and it's an. It takes an action to try to.
38:54
Challenge that. It would be an action to try to
38:55
escape. Can I possibly misty step?
38:58
Absolutely. That will get you out of the
38:59
grapple. Awesome.
39:01
OK, I am going to in full halfling small little guy
39:07
energy. I am going to just think small
39:10
and I'm going to collapse it on myself and appear behind the
39:13
wish drinker. Yeah, absolutely.
39:15
As you make a little wish to yourself, not fully letting it
39:19
out, but just a wish to be anywhere but here, you contain
39:22
that to however far away are able to escape from the grasp of
39:26
the wish drinker. Awesome.
39:27
I think with the distance being 30 feet, it looks like me
39:33
teleporting that distance, but then I'm going to rush.
39:35
Awesome. Which?
39:36
So sick. And I am.
39:38
You hear la million. That's from far, far down below.
39:42
I think my, I think my friend's done it.
39:44
He stuck it in and he ran away. He's going to do it again.
39:49
This is for you, buddy. Yeah, he's going to dash back in
39:51
and he's going to take two attacks with his pen blade.
39:54
With the vulnerable core in mind, I'll just ask you if you
39:58
roll above a 20, whether you want to go for the strike at the
40:01
core. Oh, I have advantage from Becks.
40:05
Oh yes, you do have advantage from your last attack that hit
40:08
the wistrinker to give you advantage on your next.
40:11
All right, so I'm going to attack with my rapier first,
40:14
spinning through the air back at him after the misty stepping,
40:17
kicking off the Sky 23 to hit. 23 will definitely hit.
40:24
Do you want to go for the core? I think coming from behind the
40:27
wish drinker with this attack, with my rapier, I try to stab
40:31
directly into the center of this chest.
40:33
I think parable's still blind the idea of where this core is,
40:37
but I think it's just a feeling like he's been feeling that
40:39
pulsation of energy. That's a Nat 20.
40:48
And I think in this moment, Parable is going to think on
40:52
where he's come from. He's going to click the pen
40:55
blade one more, drawing the rapier out.
40:57
It's feeling like he didn't connect exactly with where he
41:00
needed to, and he's going to spin and backstab with his long
41:04
sword as hard as he can. And I think he just twists the
41:09
handle, having the wider blade out and with his eyes outward
41:14
looking at the sky. And he's going to harness that
41:18
camaraderie had as a paladin with Igor, the friendship he's
41:22
found with Zen and Cass. The.
41:25
Destiny he's felt joining the wish hunters, and in this moment
41:30
he's going to think back to the beginning of this journey and
41:34
he's going to use his blessing. It's a smite.
41:39
Oh my God. Oh no I can't.
41:42
Bonus Action. Bonus action.
41:44
Even if it's a blessing. Cut into there.
41:47
This is going to be a massively important damage role.
41:51
You need to do 50 damage this term I.
41:54
Don't know if I can. Not with that attitude.
41:57
I know you've used your bonus action already, and I know that
42:01
under the 2024 rules Divine Smite is now a spell and a bonus
42:09
action, but I loved Divine Smite when it wasn't to.
42:14
Please give me an arcana check and I might allow you to divine
42:20
smite or religion. It's a dirty 20 for religion
42:26
holy. Shit yes absolutely you are able
42:31
to unlock the use of your divine smite and here you see the wish
42:38
drinkers core is vulnerable and as you strike at it preparing to
42:42
smite, you see that it's core is not the wish drinkers radiant.
42:48
Excusing armor, a smite would definitely help here.
42:51
I think I our blessings are amulets.
42:55
They were kind of just bestowed upon us.
42:57
We never. Or the charms that we have.
43:00
Yeah, the the art. The art that we have.
43:03
Yeah, if you want it to be. I think you absolutely took a
43:05
little bit of energy crystallized in form from the
43:09
well as you left with a blessing.
43:12
Whatever it came as is a piece of jewelry, ring or amulet.
43:15
I think that shatters in this moment.
43:18
And Parable keeps looking, but he squeezes the pen blade
43:23
tightly and he just starts clicking it.
43:26
Oh shit, are you using? You're not using a regular smite
43:28
that you have, you're using your fifth level blessing.
43:31
I'm using my fifth level blessing that I got from.
43:34
Shit and you're picking a smite. Banishing Smite to be specific.
43:38
Oh. Fucking K wow plan BAKA plan
43:43
banish. So you OK, let's see it.
43:48
Are we OK with this as an action economy?
43:52
Yeah, Yeah, OK, absolutely. I just want to make sure we're
43:54
all solid. We've rolled the rolls to roll
43:56
the roll. Thank you for the religion
43:59
check, that was awesome. Vanishing Smite.
44:03
The next time you hit a creature with a weapon attack before the
44:06
spell ends, your weapon crackles with force.
44:08
The attack deals an extra 5D-10 force damage to the target.
44:12
Additionally, if this attack reduces the target to 50 hit
44:14
points or fewer, you banish it. If the target is native to the
44:18
different plane of existence than the one you're on, the
44:20
target disappears, returning to its home plane.
44:23
If the target is native to the plane you're on, the creature
44:25
vanishes into a harmless Emmy plane.
44:27
While there, the target is incapacitated.
44:30
That remains there until the spell ends, at which point the
44:32
target reappears in the space it left, or in the nearest
44:35
unoccupied space if that space is occupied.
44:38
OK. First of all, let's see the
44:39
damage again. This is going to be very
44:42
important because 50 damage will destroy the core.
44:44
And one of them is a crit and. Then this thing.
44:47
If you're going to steal any more hope from this world, take
44:51
mine. And I thrusted in and just think
44:53
about being a paladin and everything that I've done up to
44:56
this point. And yeah.
44:59
As you stab into it, part of you revels in your connection to the
45:06
Wish Drinker in this moment, and once more you feel the blood of
45:10
genies, the blood of the noble gin running through your veins
45:15
like storms and fire, and you feed upon the Wish Drinker in
45:22
this moment. Roll your damage.
45:24
Do I fully feel that connection to the gin?
45:31
I think it might be. It's up to you about how much
45:35
Parable is recognizing it and fully coming to terms with it.
45:37
But he is definitely feeling a kinship with a tem, a kinship
45:41
with the beans that he met in the desert.
45:43
The elemental beans who worked and were worked by the
45:48
primordial energies of that run rampant in this world, similar
45:51
to you. And you for long have weathered
45:55
them, and there must have been a reason.
45:58
I think parable, without even realizing is going to say by my
46:01
last breath and push the sword further.
46:05
Beautiful as Jin's last breath holds the greatest of their
46:10
power. You vow by it and let's see if
46:14
it does the trick. So I have the rule damage for
46:17
the first attack. First attack, second attack
46:19
which was a crit and you can crit on the smite.
46:22
Yes. That's nine damage, noted The
46:30
grit. It's just doubling die.
46:36
That's a 10/3 plus. 3. I'm a 25910 three and three.
46:44
Put 25 damage to destroy the core do.
46:49
You want to tower deem this. Do it over here so the table can
46:52
see I'm getting off mic. What is it?
47:02
What is it? I don't think it's enough. 22-M3
47:07
dam and short. No.
47:10
And that's all of OK. What can we do?
47:11
Are we sure? Yeah.
47:13
Count nice. Yep.
47:16
OK, what can we do? I did, I just curse that with
47:19
the tower. Nope, no.
47:21
We just have to be created. One at a time I should have
47:24
rolled them one. At a time, that's what was meant
47:26
to have, but we could do this. I have anything that does
47:28
anything. Can Stephandria?
47:33
No, you already used her. Yeah, the blessing I think
47:37
should have used it for to negate prophecy die.
47:40
Can't use my luck roll to reroll the image, right?
47:44
No, I'd have to reroll the attack.
47:48
How much damage did you do to all told?
47:50
25 + 22. Plus 2247 damn 47.
47:55
So we need 3 damage and we calculated all that, right?
48:00
How many did you double the spite dice?
48:02
No. Dude, here we go.
48:03
All right, There it is there. It is double the smite dice.
48:06
Oh my God. OK.
48:08
Smite dice we. Rolled that again.
48:14
It's. A good word.
48:16
I should have given you 10 D 10. The defining spirit or mood of a
48:20
particular period of history, as shown by the ideas and beliefs
48:23
of the time. Smite Dice.
48:27
Smite Dice. Push it over the edge.
48:34
So that's after doubling the crit dice.
48:38
What is your total damage? All good and told Parable
48:44
somehow did 87 damage with the banishing smite on the crit.
48:52
And everybody was like, it's not mathematically possible.
48:56
Like just wait. OK, George, Yeah, I, I I'm just
49:00
left right now with the shattered blessing in front of
49:04
me. And Parable's eyes have not
49:06
broken off the horizon. He's he's not even looking.
49:09
He just keeps saying by my last breath.
49:12
As you say, by my last breath, you become the wind.
49:19
You are behind him, you're stabbed to the back, is through
49:23
his back, into his chest, through his core.
49:26
And as your blessing lifts from your chain, breaks you unknown
49:34
to your eyes, but to the world's eyes, they see a corresponding
49:38
light break from the Bush drinkers chest as the core
49:48
breaks into 1000 thousand pieces.
49:54
And parable, please give me a Dexterity saving throw.
49:59
Oh no. Wow.
50:05
Processing that's happening instead of reacting, I don't.
50:07
Even know if I want to say it, I was just about to say I think
50:09
this is the moment Parable's oath just fully shifted.
50:12
Yeah. I think he's he's.
50:15
Realizing that the vengeance is upon the world, and that doesn't
50:18
necessarily mean that it's a vengeance.
50:20
Yeah. Wow.
50:21
I think he finds truth in the actions he took and he doesn't
50:26
see vengeance in it at all and he sees a balance.
50:30
Yeah, absolutely. Instead of seeking vengeance,
50:32
writing a balance about the world.
50:34
Absolutely. That's a 15.
50:42
You are not at risk of being sucked in along Oh my God thing.
50:47
As it begins to collapse in upon itself, you can see the
50:53
lightning energy running along its veins begins to stream out
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along the web. And like partial screams you
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can. You can almost hear the souls
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that have been partially consumed shooting back to nodes
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throughout the network so that like the Matrix, they can wake
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up in a pod rather than in the belly of the beast that is
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clapping in upon itself. As the energy is shunted from
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its body and was sent throughout the node and the network and the
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rest is siphoned. Has a massive multi colored
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cloud up that rises above like a mushroom plume of air.
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I'm imagining an ear curling scream like cutting the air like
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the first ones we heard. It actually begins with a
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coughing hack as the wish flame had begins to slowly sizzle and
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and fuzz out and suddenly it's a bare crystalline skull similar
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to Rs at the end of his days. It is this thing is barely held
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together. It seemed strong from the
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outside but that's because it had built up literally scar
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tissue. If a wizard were to look at this
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and and analyze it with a wish lens they would see this thing
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is a massive scar upon itself as something corrupted.
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It's from the very beginning, and as it dies you can see
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hacking and spitting the flames of it's being.
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It looks towards it's sister. You dance through existence like
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it's a game of dice. Sister.
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I was forged to delay the end. I was to bear the weight of the
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end of all things. Good luck with it, he says.
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Luck, notably with a sarcastic venom.
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Go ahead, tilt the odds at all you can turn fate's wheel.
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But when all your luck runs dry and the world begs.
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For one more. 2nd. It won't cry out for you, won't
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cry out for me. And he, like a demon being
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expelled from a body, at the same time as he is forced from
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himself, he is destroyed by the strength of your banishment.
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You banish any sort of existence that could further corrupt the
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world away, like sending a nuke into space.
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You will not let the wish drinker harm this world once
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more. Oh, I like it.
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What if we just heard on the the as he the very last fade, we see
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the silhouette of a young man and you just sit here.
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Checkmate. I fucking love that.
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Absolutely you do. My favorite Herbert actor.
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You want to do it. Checkmate.
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And with that, we will end our session.
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Yay. Can I also just make a little
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note that because the witch drinker died, Zen A just got her
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sight back and then gets his energy after he dies?
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Oh Jesus Christ, she's like, I don't know if I want I got this
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one. I love parable sin.
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Your arms are so buff. Can I give it back?
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Can I give it back? I wanna give it back.
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I don't want it. I love Parable kind of coming to
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this place where he's like, he's very interested with the balance
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of the world and he's getting really familiar with drinking
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wishes. You're just fucking soaking up
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the energy of souls and shit. Oh God.
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And gosh, you guys, that was a fantastic encounter.
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And I, I think, I don't know if I could have had a better end
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for the wish drinker other than one last note I think is that
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Riot does respond as if she is responding to her brother, but
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he is long gone. She says you were you were made
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to help them survive. I was made to help them thrive.
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Time might hold the world together.
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And she looks to you, Cassie, as if asking this and saying it
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more to make herself more certain.
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But it's luck. And uncertainty that makes life
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worth living, right? And I think there we will end
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our session. Wow.
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Good stuff y'all. Damn.
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I don't say too much right now because we're definitely gonna
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have a lot to talk about in the after show.
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And of course I have to say my stuff here.
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This has been a bite sized dash roll twice told story told by
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yours truly, Rob Whitehead, and brought to life by my players G
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Bye. But what happened to the Wasp?
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Yeah. Save it for the F show.