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The Mechanics Guild Ep. 11: "Knowledge is Power(ful and will eat you)" · The Mechanics Guild

• 0:37
  SPEAKER_01: You see on the ground a like a repository, almost like a cauldron, which is the only thing here that does not look like you remember it.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_09: Argo approaches and takes a peek inside.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_01: Inside the cauldron, written in arcane lettering, is uh a task.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_01: It says seven doorways, seven verses.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_01: Retrieve three elements, prove your worth.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_09: Prove your worth.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_05: I just want us to go hunting elements.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_08: Your doors go to.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_08: Please not the dragon door.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_06: We've been researching all these books and all these verses.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_06: I'm wondering if we can make sure we go through the ones that are safe.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_01: Uh these doors lead to Fraxon, Vogaya, Peral, Telouv, Sansfara, Tor, and Umber.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_09: What do you what of these immediately jump out to us uh as recognized?
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_01: All of them.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_09: What of these immediately jump out as hostile?
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_01: Many of them.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Darius, you guarded the door to Fraxon.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_01: A reminder that the door you guarded was a feral, wild world that was so dangerous that any humanoid life was presumed to be wiped out by the hostile environment.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_01: There is a it is an alive verse, there is a doorway, there is no council or ambassador because as far as the guild knows, there is no living civilization in that world.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_08: I remember that.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_08: I remember do not go to Fraxon.
• 2:24
  unknown: Yeah.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Vegaya is a well-known one.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_01: Um, it is a pretty urban world.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_01: It's actually very advanced with Arcanotech.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but is also very uh the humanoids there are dangerous in their own right.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_01: Specifically, that like a lot of the things in power are supernatural beings.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_01: There are vampires and werewolves and stuff just that are like walking around and in power there.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_01: Per Al, you know, had an apocalyptic event that no one's really sure what that was, but it forced everything to um build civilization.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_01: It basically like lifted parts of the continent into the sky.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_01: And so civilization only lives in these floating islands now.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_01: Everything on the ground is covered in a poisonous gas.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so like it exists and who knows what's down there, but other than death.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_01: Telouv, you know, is a very strange place.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_01: When souls perish, they don't go to Ivalani, which is that you know is where souls go after they die.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_01: They materialize as um as books that contain that soul's life, basically.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_01: And so Teluv is this like massive afterlife library full of souls.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_01: Sanspara is very um, it specifically has a lot of influence from Inomabra, which is the god of um progression and like intelligence and stuff.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_01: So it has led to a lot of complex inventions.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, it has a lot of constructs that are sort of like the entire working class's constructs.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_01: Tor is it is there's an active lava core that has covered the surface.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_01: And so it has like very, very hot temperatures, which has created a very industrial environment with efficient factories, but is like inhospitable dragons and fire elements, and yeah, very difficult to live in.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_09: Dragon World.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_01: Uh that's one of them.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_01: That's not the one that is like ruled by dragons.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_08: No, there's one that's like, yes, the dragons basically ate everybody.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_01: Uh that's a different one.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_01: Umber is like, from what you know, very dark forest, very weird magic, um, lots of like curses and things that are very unnatural.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_09: Okay.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_09: Here's what jumps out to me straight away.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_09: Fraxon, bad.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_09: Tor, bad.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_09: Everything else?
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_09: Well, Peral doesn't sound ideal either.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_09: I don't breathe poison very well, and I can't fly.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_09: If any of us could fly, we could get out of the poison.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_09: But seeing that that's not as much of an option, Vogaia, Sanspara, Tuluv, and Umber feel like some of our best bets.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_09: The two I'd most like to start with is would be Telouv and Sanspara.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_09: Thoughts.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_05: It feels like Telouv might have the most accessible information for where we're trying to find things.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_09: Sarah, is there anything bad that happens when reading the book of someone's life?
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_09: Do they possess you?
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_09: Do they get you?
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_03: You don't know.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_09: We don't know.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, you don't know.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_03: You don't know.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_09: Alright.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_09: Let's go to Tuluv.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_01: Great.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_01: You go through the door to Tulouv.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_01: Again, there are no world guards here.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_01: It opens for you.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_01: An interesting thing here is the doors that are established are typically near where the element in that verse was found because that's where the power is.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_01: And they're typically guarded on both sides.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_01: There's sort of like a passageway.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_01: You open the door, and this takes you directly into the heart of the library.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_01: As far as you know, this is not where the door, the actual door in the infinite hallway, leads into Elv.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_01: You are transported to this massive gleaming library.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_01: Nothing like you're on this the first floor here, the staircases up, there are no books directly on this one.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_01: You see on the like third floor up, because it all sort of you can see all the way up.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_01: There is this gleaming chest that I think even from where you're standing, you can tell is incredibly magical.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_08: Would it be that obvious?
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_08: Only one way to find out.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_06: I just I part of me is wondering how much of this is real and how much of it might be an illusion.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_06: Can I make some kind of arcanoche to our surroundings and the doors that we are going through?
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_01: It's hard to tell.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_01: Shit's weird, but you know, shit's been weird this whole time.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_09: Shit's been weird this whole time.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_01: So I don't think that you can pin down what about this is strange or real.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_01: And also, like, if this is the real to Louvre, you also haven't really verse hopped before.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_01: This is a new experience for you.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_01: So I think anything would throw you off a little bit.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_06: That's fair.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_06: Did we feel anything when we walked through the door, like physically?
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you would have felt this like again, as if you were going through a vacuum seal almost.
• 7:22
  unknown: Okay.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_09: So clearly magical chest, three floors up, no books on the floor we're on right now.
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_09: Staircases leading up.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_01: The main stairs, which I will say are like two curved staircases going up.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_09: Cool.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_09: Very like in Stardust, like Dargus, that's up to you.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_09: Left do we go?
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_01: That's all real initiative.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_01: Argo, that means you're first.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_01: You begin walking up the stairs.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I need you to make me a death check.
• 8:04
  unknown: Oh.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_09: A saving throw or just a check?
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_01: A saving throw, please.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_09: Okay.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_09: Uh oh.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_09: I have to hold on to this die.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_09: Uh 19.
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, great.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_01: You feel the stair below you shift a little bit.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_01: Um would you like to jump up or down?
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_02: Up.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_01: You are able to shift up as the uh stair splits and you see teeth within it.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_01: And the stair like grows legs, uh, basically, and and pops up on these spidly little legs with a gaping mouth with teeth on it.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_01: Stare mimic, stare mimic, stare mimic! Stare mimic, stare mimic, baby.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna stay in initiative order, so I will let you do a full round here.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_09: Okay.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_09: I give I give Liv a look.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_09: I don't feel I don't it doesn't feel right telling her what to do, but I give her a look that's like, you know you gotta stay away from this.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_09: Stay behind Darius.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_09: Um I'm going to I'm going to open with uh Ray of Frost, uh, an attack roll to attempt to slow this thing, uh, make it harder for it to chase anybody else down.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_09: And uh bonus action, I'll pop cups off my shoulder, and I will actually use his ballista version.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_09: I'm not gonna use his healing version right now.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_09: Um so he'll just hover on my shoulder and take these pot shots.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_09: So first, attack roll uh for Ray of Frost, that is a 19.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_09: I'll hit.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_09: Cool.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_09: Seven points of frost damage, and its speed is reduced by 10 until the start of my next turn.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_01: So what does that look like when you cast that?
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_09: Mmm.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_09: I don't think Argo has like a frost gun.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_09: If I may adjust the terminology here a little bit, I feel like it would more be like an ice bomb that he can throw.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_09: Sure.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_09: Uh so he just quick lobs like this, glowing like aqua blue.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_09: Um, it's a little ball the size of a like an apricot or like a peach, lobs it at the stair and it bursts with this brittle explosion uh and freezes the whole thing.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_09: Um, or at least covers it in frost, doesn't freeze it.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no, it it bursts on it, and again, this is like a white marble stair looking.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_01: Um it breaks on it, you see the frost spider uh and splinter out, contract around the stone, and the entire stone um bursts and becomes like less of a solid stone and more of like a fleshy what it the actual form of the mimic as it shatters.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_09: Oh, it's gone.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_09: Hell yeah.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_09: Um it's just a stare.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_09: I I'm glad it was uh a weak stare.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_09: Uh if that's the case with the rest of my movement, I'm gonna keep going up and seeing what other ones I can provoke, because I see no other way to move forward.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, okay.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_01: So are you like purposely provoking them?
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_01: If they exist?
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_09: Liv looks like she's concerned.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_06: Liv wanted to take care of one at a time and then see if we could visibly tell the difference in the stairs.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_09: Ooh.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_09: So slow and steady.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_06: Take care of one at a time, yeah.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_09: Okay, then instead, can I?
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_09: I don't know if you'll allow me an investigation or something like that.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so I hate okay.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna do rules as written here for a hot second.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_01: Which is technically rules as written.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_01: These things have false appearance, which is while the mimic remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from an ordinary object.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_01: Chill.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_06: Chill.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_01: So I it is a very cool idea and I want to honor it, but uh that's very good.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_01: This makes perfect.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_09: Alright.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_09: Uh I I I I actually I think I'm just gonna I'm gonna hold steady.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_09: I don't have the best dexterity to begin with, so I probably shouldn't push it.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, Darius.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_08: Great.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_08: I try to do a nimble dash up.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_08: Not trying to provoke them, just trying to skip, you know, three steps.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_08: You're skipping steps, yeah.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_01: You're skipping steps?
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, roll me acrobatics.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_09: So yes, I will roll you acrobatics.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_08: So proud.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_08: Finally, we've gone motherfuckers.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_08: I'm gonna make it so sick and nimble.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_08: 13 plus uh two fifteen.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so you sort of jump your way up the stairs very nimbly.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_01: Um, as you do so, you see two more stairs pop up as a mix, but they do not get you.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_01: You are you are very easy to like clear past them.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_01: Um but there are now two more alive.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm gonna say if you're doing a full 30 feet, you are further up the staircase, almost to the top.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_01: There are two in between you and the rest of your party.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_01: And Argo and Liv, you are below these two.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_08: Great.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_08: As I land, I pull my crossbow off my back, turn in a Jane Bonds-like move.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_01: Hell yeah.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_08: Fire to the nearest one guy.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_01: Roll me a tech.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_08: Uh uh, I roll an eight plus four twelve.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_01: That is.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_01: Ah! They're just little stairs.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_08: But they're big ED stairs.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_08: Uh big edies.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_08: A lot of stairs in this library.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_08: Eight points of damage.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_01: You fire this crossbow bolt at it.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_01: Um, it as it like popped up with the spindly little legs and it was opening its maw, the crossbow bolt finds purchase directly in the fleshy throat, and it also dissolves.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_08: Boom! Are we so hot, guys?
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_08: Yeah, you do you're great when you actually roll well.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_08: My next crossbow bolt will be aimed at the Argo.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, anything else on your turn?
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_01: Darius.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_08: Nope.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_01: Live before you can go bothered by the commotion that is happening.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_01: You see a couple things.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you see three more stairs come alive.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_01: One of them on the current staircase that you're on, two on the like next set of stairs.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you also see on the landing in between the two, two chairs become much, much taller, and the back like opens up into a mouth.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_02: Cool.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_01: Um so to visualize again how many BCs we have right now, uh, there are four stairs and two chairs.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_01: Four chairs, two stairs.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_01: Four chairs, two stairs.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_01: Uh four chairs.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_01: Four stairs, two chairs, four stairs, two chairs.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_01: Four time, two chairs.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_01: Um Darius, you are near the top, so the chairs are going to come for you.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_01: Two chairs.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_08: Wait, remind me.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_08: There's two chairs in the landing.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_08: There's two stairs.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_08: Four stairs.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_08: Two stairs above, and there's two below in the center one?
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_01: Correct.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_01: Two stairs, two chairs two chairs.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_01: That's the thing.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so the two stairs on the or the two stairs on the top.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_01: Why did I do this to myself?
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_01: Listen, we're doing iconic DD monsters.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_01: We had to do mimics.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_01: What do you want from me?
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_01: Um, we the two stairs on the top, uh, just stay there.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, the two chairs on the landing both are coming for Darius.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_01: They are both going to swing out at you with their chair legs.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_01: Which is Puny chairs.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_06: Which, hey, you might call it a kick.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_01: Uh what's your AC?
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_08: Well, it shines brightly because of Argo's enchantment.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_08: So it is now a 17.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_01: Cool.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_01: So uh one of them got a 10 and one of them got a seven.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_01: So uh they have created mouths, apparently missed eyes.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so they start like coming towards you and and smacking at you with um the chair legs, which seem to extend in a very uh inorganic, like, well, not inorganic, but uh it doesn't look like wood anymore.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_01: It becomes much more like fleshy and malleable than a wooden chair leg would be.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_01: Um and with you being armored, they can't find purchase with just this bludgeoning um as it smacks against you.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_01: But they are still focused on you.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_01: Um, the other two stairs at the bottom uh are going to focus on Argo, who is standing right there.
• 16:36
  unknown: Cool.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_01: Argo, what's your AC?
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_09: It is 17.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_01: Alright.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so these are both gonna snap at you.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um one of that is a 14, that's not gonna hit.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_01: Uh a 22 will hit.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_01: So one of them will snap at you.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but they're just stayed upstairs.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_01: So that's gonna be five points of damage.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_01: Piercing as it as it snaps at your heel and like, you know, rips a little bit of your pant leg.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_01: Ah uh live.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_05: God, I'm scared.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_05: I'm still so squishy.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_06: I have the exact same number of hit points as when I died one hit.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_06: Um incredible.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_06: I'm excited.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_06: Um I think I'm I'm not I don't think I want to play around.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_06: I think I'm gonna cast magic missile, which will give me the three.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_06: It'll give me three missiles.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_06: Um I don't have to roll for it, so it'll it just hits, which is nice when you want to take care of stuff.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_01: When crowd control, yeah.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_03: So I'll just go stare.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_06: Ah, got it, got it, got it, got it, got it, got it.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_04: So I'll go stare, stare, chair.
• 17:45
  unknown: Yeah.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_01: This is the acting exercise that I wanted all of us to do.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_01: Work on our tongue twisters and our enunciation.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_06: Stair, stair, chair! You know what?
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_06: Actually, I think I'm lying to you.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_06: I'm gonna do two to the stair that's closest to me.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_06: Okay.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_06: Cause fuck that entirely.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_06: And then one to the very next stair.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_01: The one that's snapping at Argo.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_06: Uh, so that's seven to the stair in front of me.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_06: Okay.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_06: What does that look like?
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_06: Um, it so like she um raises her hands in an basically like an empty like hug of like power, just like rising within her chest, and then she just like lifts her and her arms to each side, and they kind of like blast forward as if from her very core, and it goes two and then one.
• 18:40
  unknown: Yeah.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_01: Um shatters that first one.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, and then an additional three to the next stair.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, and that sort of absorbs that a little bit.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_01: You start to see it crack a little bit, but it is still alive.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_06: And then I'm gonna I'm gonna use my uh bonus action master of tactics.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_06: Um, finish that one off for me.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_06: Uh, give you the help action.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_09: Hell yeah.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_06: To whom stu you're very next.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_09: Hell yeah, let's do it.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_09: Uh let's um keep that keep that going.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_09: Let's uh I'm gonna pull out another one of those glowing aqua balls and and chuck it at that one that's uh right next to me.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_09: Okay.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_09: Uh that is definitely gonna hit.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_09: Oh, good.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_09: Um with Liv's Advantage, I got a net one out of the way.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_09: So I'm gonna keep the 17, so it'll be a total of uh 22.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, that'll hit.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_09: That'll hit.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_09: Uh almost double.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_09: Uh and then five more frost damage.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that destroys it.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_09: Sweet.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_09: And then um cups, hit that one.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_09: I'm gonna point at the chair next to Darius, and Cups will fire off one of its force ballistas.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_09: Uh ooh, nice.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_09: Natural 19.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_09: So I'm sure that'll connect.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_09: Uh and it will take two D8 damage.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_09: Uh oh, that's dog shit.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_09: Only four.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_09: Four force damage, if it matters.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, so Cups aims their ballista at this chair, shoots off at it.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and I think in that moment you recognize just how small Cups is compared to how large these chair mimics are because they did raise.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_01: You see a little chip of wood uh slice off from the seat of it as it takes the four points of damage, but it almost seems to not notice.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_09: It's okay.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_09: It's okay.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_09: You're still powering up.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_09: Um, the creature is also pushed five feet away from me.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, great.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_09: By that force, uh, Ballista, yeah.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_01: And it's the one that is in range of Darius?
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_09: Yes.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_09: Is that wait, does that rule point point of rule order?
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_09: Does that it's not voluntary?
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_09: Does that still trigger?
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_09: Taylor will know.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_01: If a creature is pushed, pulled, or dragged out of reach, then it doesn't engage, trigger anything.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_09: Sorry, Audi.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, we're gonna cut that.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so you push the chair out of the way of Darius's range because it is involuntary.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, it is not going to trigger an attack of opportunity here.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but Darius is still sort of a little bit further from you now.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_01: Anything else on your turn, Argo?
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_09: Uh, make sure I'm staying right in front of Liv.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, great.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_01: Darius, here go.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_08: I'm going to tell you what I w what I would like to do, and you're gonna tell me if I can do this or not.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_01: I love that you're just like, here's how I want to play DD.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_01: No, no, no, no.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_08: I'm telling you, no, I'm telling you what my action is going to be, and you're gonna be like, I would love to grab the little squirrely tentacle thing of one of them and throw it to the other one.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_08: So throw one chair to the other chair.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_01: So you wanna grapple and then improvised weapon.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_08: With a creature.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_01: With a creature.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_08: Yes.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_08: I mean they're flimsy, come on.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_01: They're not.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_01: They are like massive chairs.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but we you can attempt to grapple, uh, which is
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_09: Athletics against either uh athletics or acrobatics.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_09: Athletics, motherfuckers.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah, yeah.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_09: Let's try this.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_01: So you're gonna do athletics trying to grab this mimic chair.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_09: Now, Ati, before you make this roll and really lock this in, keep in mind a grapple check is taking the place of your attack rolls.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_09: Yes.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_09: So then I can't throw him afterwards.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_01: You'd have to do that on the next turn, yes.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_08: Uh yeah.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_08: I'm gonna slice my sword at this guy.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_08: Cool thought.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_08: Cool thought.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_08: So I'm gonna do an upward slashing.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_08: I'm gonna duck and slash up with my sword as I pull it out of its scabbard on my Well, wait.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_08: I was sliced down.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_08: Ladies and gentlemen, I should have grappled because yours truly has gotten a natural 20.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_01: Hey! That'll absolutely hit.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_08: Great.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_01: Roller damage double it.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_08: Uh.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_08: Uh oh god.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_08: This guy is gonna dissolve into nothing.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_08: Um, it's two d6.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_06: Acid sword?
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_08: No, I just mean I'm gonna like implode it.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_08: Oh god.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_08: It wasn't that good.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_08: Uh four plus two.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_09: Are you cooking with a great sword, man?
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_09: So you'll roll four d6 on this Nat 20.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_08: Wait, I thought it was two D6.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_08: I thought it was a roll and then double it.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_08: Yeah, you will well, you just roll the dice twice.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_08: Which one do you want?
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_01: You can either roll two d6 and double them, or you can roll four d6.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_08: I'm gonna roll four d6.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_08: I'm gonna roll so this is four plus six ten.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_08: Same as I got the same.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_08: 10 plus two 12 points of damage.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_01: You manage to break off one of um like the side, the sides of the back, and it splinters off.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but this thing is still very large and still very uh.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_08: Okay.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_08: Well, chairs I do.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_08: Yes, but I do uh get have great weapon mastery, which means I can have an extra attack after my melee critical.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_01: Great, hit this thing again.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_08: Ati, I'm so proud of you.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_08: Yes, but then does the minus five attack for 10 damage happen now, or I need to choose to do that?
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_08: Does that make sense?
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_09: You choose that before you roll.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_08: So sorry, that's a that's separate thing from the melee critical situation.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_09: Yes, yeah.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_09: The feet allows you to take a minus five to deal plus ten damage, because we're still in the 2014 rules.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_09: And then separate from that, as a bonus action, you can take a second attack after you crit.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_08: Great, so which I did.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_08: So slice down and slice right fucking back up across that fucking piece of shit.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_08: Um, give me another 20.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_08: Wait, can I roll T20s?
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_08: If I keep rolling 20, so I keep getting more attacks?
• 24:42
  unknown: No.
• 24:42
  unknown: No.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_01: You only have one button.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_01: It only happens once.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_08: I'm sorry, I'm not.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_01: No, you're fine.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_01: Happy for you to know the rules.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_08: Nine.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_08: Plus.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_08: Uh meow, meow, meow, meow, meow.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_08: Uh 13.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_01: That's the hits.
• 25:02
  unknown: Nice.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_09: Nice.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_09: Did you take the minus five for that?
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_09: Or are you just No, I didn't.
• 25:07
  unknown: Okay.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_09: No, no, no, no, no.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_09: That's okay.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_01: No, no, with the way he rolls.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_08: No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_08: We got we got we got shittier to figure out.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_08: Um eight plus two, ten points of damage.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_08: After my effective slice that attack, I stand up full uh height, slicing upwards in a diagonal mode.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_08: Probably across is this like a chair with like its legs have extended and it walks on all four?
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_08: So I've slicing its legs with the full power of my greatsword.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you manage to do that.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_01: It stumbles a little bit uh towards you, but it is still up and sort of shuddering.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_01: It is the mimic's turn, uh, and you are all up in its business.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_01: So it um the one that you have attacked is going to start biting at you instead of hitting.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_01: Uh that is a 16 to hit.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_08: Nope.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_01: Great.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and the other should-I did that!
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_08: Yes, by one because of the pauldron.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_08: Wait, we shouldn't-three a moment.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_08: It should like try and like we should make it a moment.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_08: I think it like rands to try and bite.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_08: I do a shift, but I bite right on the polder.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_08: I'm like, fuck, and somehow the polderum grows, glows, and pushes it back.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_08: Wait, I don't know.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_08: Is that what it would do?
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_08: What would it do?
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_08: What would it do, Argo?
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_08: I think he nailed it.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_01: That's it.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_01: Um, Argo, what is this enchantment that you've put on it?
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_09: It's uh, it's called enhanced defense, and I think it creates a, if I can flavor it, a like uh a percussive force to deflect blows that are targeting the wearer.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so uh this thing bites at your shoulder and bounces off.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_01: You know, like when you eat a jawbreaker, it clearly like bites down on just the pauldron and is repulsed away, um, and you see some splinters fall from it as it gets.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah, little chunks of teeth go fly.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_08: Yeah, as I as I take that blow, not blow.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_08: Take a second just to look over at Argo and acknowledge what just happened.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_01: I got your back! Hell yeah.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_01: Hell yeah.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_01: Seeing its its buddy there um get thrown off by your polygran.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_01: Not to be deterred, this other one is gonna try and hit you with its legs again.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_01: Um, that is not going to hit with a 13, so it comes at you.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I think they're still, they are making target with you, but I think because it is just not quite strong enough to get into your armor, um, it's just bouncing off of it.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_01: Liv, that's your go.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_01: Oh no, that's not.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry, there are stairs.
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_01: Um, we still have stairs.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_01: Uh wait.
• 27:47
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so there are the two that are above.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_01: They start clambering down um towards, I guess, Darius, you're still at the top as well.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_01: So two of these stairs are going to go after you.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think they'll hit.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_01: So they're both biting.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, nope, that's a seven.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_01: So biting and end of, you know, you're just dancing around these things.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_01: Um, that is a 21 to hit.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_01: So that one will hit.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so I think as you are focused on these chairs, these little stairs are coming around, biting one of them misses is weaving in and out of your feet, but one of them manages to get purchase on your heel uh for four points of damage.
• 28:23
  SPEAKER_07: I shout out, a little help here!
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_01: Working on it! And uh as you shout that, you also look up and you see um two more stairs beginning to descend.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_09: So there are now, like, within the vicinity of uh Darius, there's there's there's going to be six things around him.
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_09: Correct.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_09: Okay.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, Liv, it's here go.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_06: Gorgeous.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_06: I would like to take out my new fun funky shortbow.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_06: I wanna hit the stair in front of me.
• 28:59
  SPEAKER_06: And Darius is surrounded.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_06: Can I actually hit one of the chairs surrounding Darius?
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_06: I wanna help with that a little bit.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_01: Gorge! The one that he's already taken two hits.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, the one that's already taken some damage, please.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_06: Well, um, that's a 13.
• 29:19
  SPEAKER_06: Chairs are big.
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_06: That'll hit.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_06: Nice! Um, that's 10.
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_06: What does this look like as you kill it?
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_06: Yay! Um, it's me getting um basically like I'm in the back.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_06: Argo is very valiantly protecting me.
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_06: It's me um directly behind him.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_06: I sneak out to the side, I take out my bow.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_06: It's a little bit shinier than it used to be.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_06: Um, I aim it at the back of this chair as it's, you know, going to wallop my friend.
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_06: Um friend?
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_09: You're not here.
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_06: You're not here.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_06: I'm gonna have it shoot across the back so that some of the chair stuffing kind of goes.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_06: And then it's also mimic guts, so it might actually not be stuffing, but in my brain, that's what it looks like.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, I thought it'd be stuffing.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_03: That's grosser than I thought.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_03: It's still fine.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_03: Yay! It's stuffing guts.
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_03: Amazing.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_06: Gorge.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_06: And then with another, um, is sorry, I'm just looking at Master Tactics to see if it yeah, if you could, if the target can see or hear you.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_06: So I'm gonna shout at Darius and be like, um, watch your six and give him the help action on his next attack.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, okay, great.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, Argo, hero.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_09: So speaking of help action, that reminds me I've got cups on my shoulder and he can help me take more precise shots as well.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_09: Um, how many of these creatures are now around Darius?
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_09: And are they immediately like surrounding him?
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_01: There are three.
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_01: One of them is is beating up on him melee-wise, the other two are like below his feet.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_01: But I won't make this a disadvantage or anything.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_09: Okay.
• 30:57
  SPEAKER_09: I feel like between the help that Liv just gave Darius, um, I'm gonna shout, Darius! Really go for it! I wanna see if that advantage she gives you allows you to take that minus five to swing for the plus ten damage and mitigates, you know, the the the accuracy debuff.
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_09: Um, because with two two attack rolls, you might be able to really knock the shit out of this thing.
• 31:27
  SPEAKER_09: Which then means I'm gonna spend my time attacking the little fuckers that are biting at your ankles.
• 31:33
  SPEAKER_09: So I'm going to lob a couple more, uh, or just one more, one, one more ice bomb at these little stairs.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_09: Uh so I will use cups as my familiar, have him grant me the uh uh advantage because he can actually take the help action on his turn, and he's within five feet of me.
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_09: So I'll make this attack roll with advantage.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_09: Uh and so thanks to that, Will uh 17 hit AC?
• 32:00
  SPEAKER_09: Yes.
• 32:00
  SPEAKER_09: Great.
• 32:01
  SPEAKER_09: And so then that is another, ooh, nice! Eight points of frost damage at the stair.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_01: Cracked it open.
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_09: Awesome.
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_09: That uh brittle burst of like uh sort of snowy aqua uh drifts down and covers this thing as it lies and uh lies and dies.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_02: Lies and dies.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_09: And then my bonus action will be to again force Ballista at the other one.
• 32:23
  SPEAKER_09: Okay.
• 32:23
  SPEAKER_09: So I won't get advantage on this, but oh, but I still get a natural 18.
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_09: Let's go, Argo.
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_09: This is a good day.
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_09: Uh so that'll hit, I'm guessing.
• 32:32
  SPEAKER_09: Um, and this'll be force damage.
• 32:34
  SPEAKER_09: Roll better than that, please.
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_09: Okay, that's good enough.
• 32:37
  SPEAKER_09: Seven force damage.
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_09: Fuck you! Oh, cool, cool, cool, cool.
• 32:43
  SPEAKER_09: Cups like I think he um holds like one hand over me and like gives me another like magnifying glass that helps me dial in my aim for the the first um ice shot, and then I pass it back over to him as he fires that ballista to uh take out the other one.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_01: Hell yeah.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Darius, you've got one chair in front of you.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_01: The two stairs underneath your feet are now dead.
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but you have two more up on the staircase coming down.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_08: Yeah, but I use the um freedom of the legs that has been given to me to apply my great weapon mastery.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_08: I do a 180 turn with a quick swivel of one of my feet, kneel, and as and I'm thrusting my great sword right into the guts of the creature in front of me.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_08: Oh yeah.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_08: I'm uh taking that uh uh minus five of attack here.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_08: Yep, here we go.
• 33:35
  SPEAKER_08: So wait, so it's minus five for both of them?
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 33:39
  SPEAKER_09: Whichever one you would choose.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_09: Great.
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_09: Are they both bad?
• 33:43
  SPEAKER_08: They're not great.
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_08: Umits.
• 33:47
  SPEAKER_08: Oh yes, let's go, dude.
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_08: Oh, motherfucker.
• 33:51
  SPEAKER_03: Uh a little wobbly, but it hits.
• 33:53
  SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
• 33:54
  SPEAKER_08: Well, you know.
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_08: It was a risky move here.
• 33:57
  SPEAKER_08: Okay, uh, six plus ten, sixteen points of damage.
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_01: Nice.
• 34:01
  SPEAKER_08: You try on the fucking guy.
• 34:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you slice through this.
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_01: Uh the seat splinters.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_01: Um, realizing that this is not a chair, it is a mimic.
• 34:11
  SPEAKER_01: It doesn't like, even though it is split like that, it is still holding on um with like almost like fleshy tendrils between it.
• 34:18
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, so it is still up, but it is looking bad.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_00: Cool.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_01: And it's it's go.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_01: So it is going to you see that sort of tendrils that are holding it together erupt into more teeth as it tries to bite you, Darius.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_01: Oh boy.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_01: That is a natural 20.
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_09: Oh! Not today! Argo shouts as he casts silvery barbs.
• 34:44
  SPEAKER_09: Noted.
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_09: And tries to laser point into whatever he perceives to be the eye of the thing and cause it to re-roll.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_06: Okay.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_06: Wow, nice, nice.
• 34:52
  SPEAKER_01: Nice, nice.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, that's a 19 plus five.
• 34:57
  SPEAKER_01: So it will still hit, but it will not be a crit.
• 35:00
  SPEAKER_06: Not a crit.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_06: Good job.
• 35:03
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so it you feel where you have cracked this mimic and it is evolving to fit into this new shape that you have created uh as it sinks its teeth into you.
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_01: You are going to take 10 piercing damage as well as four acid damage as it sinks this unknown poison into you.
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_01: It's not gonna you're not gonna be poisoned, but uh you feel that sting in your bloodstream.
• 35:37
  SPEAKER_01: And it feels very unnatural.
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_01: Argo.
• 35:41
  SPEAKER_01: Uh nope, it's Liv's go.
• 35:43
  SPEAKER_09: Uh, I do, however, with Silvery Barbs, uh, in addition to that, I get to target another creature and give them advantage on a uh ability check, saving throw, or attack roll within the next minute.
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_09: So I'm gonna choose uh live for that, so that she can use that bow for some good sneak attack.
• 36:01
  SPEAKER_04: Ooh, I would like a sneak attack.
• 36:05
  SPEAKER_04: Twenty dirty 20.
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_01: Hell yeah.
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_04: 16.
• 36:11
  SPEAKER_01: Nice, nice.
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_01: What does it look like?
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_01: Let me kill it.
• 36:15
  SPEAKER_06: I'm just killing chairs today.
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_06: All I'm here to do is talk funny and kill chairs.
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_06: Um I take um two steps forward.
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_06: I um steady my short bow on the stair in front of me a bit, and I um use it to help me guide true through the butt.
• 36:39
  SPEAKER_06: Through the butt seat.
• 36:40
  SPEAKER_06: Through the butt seat.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_01: And uh yeah, you do that, it splinters.
• 36:46
  SPEAKER_01: Um, those like new teeth that evolved crumble to the floor.
• 36:49
  SPEAKER_01: Um your way is beginning to be more clear.
• 36:53
  SPEAKER_01: Sure.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_01: Anything else on your turn?
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_06: Um, are there any more little stairs?
• 36:58
  SPEAKER_06: I guess I can.
• 36:59
  SPEAKER_06: There's two, but they're on the legs.
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, they're on the top.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_06: So we've got all four of these done.
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_06: Then I'm going to slowly advance up like the side of the wall, basically.
• 37:09
  SPEAKER_06: Um, but remaining behind at least Darius.
• 37:15
  SPEAKER_09: And uh um bonus action.
• 37:17
  SPEAKER_06: Bonus action! I didn't have to use mine to give myself advantage.
• 37:22
  SPEAKER_06: Um, so that's another Master of Tactics to Argo.
• 37:27
  SPEAKER_09: Oh, give it to Dark.
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_06: I I've got to get another Master of Tactus to oh, you're right, you're right.
• 37:33
  SPEAKER_06: To Darius.
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_09: Swing true, our sword friend.
• 37:37
  SPEAKER_09: Hey, this is uh this is only our second time fighting, but like I feel the synergy.
• 37:43
  SPEAKER_08: It's getting better starting to.
• 37:44
  SPEAKER_08: It's getting better.
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_08: It's nice where they're more mushy chairs than big dragon.
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_01: That's in time for us to switch systems.
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_06: Uh you know what to say about mastery.
• 37:56
  SPEAKER_03: Hey.
• 37:57
  SPEAKER_08: Um what do they say about mastery?
• 38:01
  SPEAKER_03: Move on.
• 38:01
  SPEAKER_03: Move on.
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_01: Doesn't matter.
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_01: Uh cool.
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_01: Argo, that's your go.
• 38:05
  SPEAKER_01: You've got the two stairs on the upper thing, and then that chest that is supposed your in theory, your goal.
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_09: Rinse and repeat.
• 38:13
  SPEAKER_09: Help action from cups, advantage on the frost attack.
• 38:17
  SPEAKER_09: Oh shit.
• 38:17
  SPEAKER_09: Well, that's not great.
• 38:18
  SPEAKER_09: I rolled a five and a one, so I don't imagine a ten would hit their acing.
• 38:23
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah, that's fine.
• 38:24
  SPEAKER_09: Um cups! Yeah, just do what I could not! Uh oh my god.
• 38:30
  SPEAKER_09: He rolled in that one.
• 38:32
  SPEAKER_09: Wow.
• 38:33
  SPEAKER_09: Uh-oh.
• 38:33
  SPEAKER_09: We're we still're a little we're a little unsteady.
• 38:36
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah.
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_09: Cup explodes.
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_09: I'm trying to keep up with Liv as she's climbing these steps, and I'm just I'm losing my footing on the marble a little bit.
• 38:44
  SPEAKER_09: Uh, so that's a that's just a big whiff of a turn for for your boy.
• 38:48
  SPEAKER_09: Uh, but I will move up to stay with the team.
• 38:52
  SPEAKER_09: Ooh, and I'll I think I'll position myself closer to those stairs that are coming down so that they can't get to Darius without getting through me.
• 39:00
  unknown: Okay.
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_01: Great.
• 39:01
  SPEAKER_01: Darius, here go.
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_08: Great.
• 39:04
  SPEAKER_08: With the death of the chair in front of me, but I still feel the acid on me, so I sort of fall a little bit to a knee to hold myself uh and bite through the pain.
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_08: But I do pull out the crossbow and shoot at one of the things coming down the stairs.
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_08: Um, and I have advantage.
• 39:24
  SPEAKER_08: Um 13 plus 4, 17.
• 39:29
  SPEAKER_08: That'll hit 2 plus 2 is 4.
• 39:34
  SPEAKER_08: It is.
• 39:36
  SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, you hit it, you crack it a little.
• 39:39
  SPEAKER_01: Uh it's I mean, it looks bad because they only have seven hit points, but uh you do not take it out.
• 39:46
  SPEAKER_08: Doesn't matter because I'm gonna use an action surge filled with the disappointment of my hit.
• 39:52
  SPEAKER_08: I bring myself off to my feet and aim the crossbow again and shoot.
• 39:57
  SPEAKER_02: Ugh.
• 39:59
  SPEAKER_08: Fuck.
• 40:00
  SPEAKER_08: Uh a three plus a four-seven.
• 40:02
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 40:03
  SPEAKER_01: Boot! Just bounces off of the step uh and clatters down.
• 40:09
  SPEAKER_08: I still shout out, trying to cover up if I say stay behind me.
• 40:16
  SPEAKER_08: Incredible.
• 40:17
  SPEAKER_01: Um, all right, the mimic's turn.
• 40:19
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, Argo, you've moved up in between them now, so you are these two.
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_09: Don't stay behind me.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_01: Point of uh focus.
• 40:29
  SPEAKER_09: Uh I I extend my bracer that uh extends itself into a small shield.
• 40:34
  SPEAKER_09: Ready myself to take these blows.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, 17.
• 40:38
  SPEAKER_09: Uh, that will meet my AC.
• 40:40
  SPEAKER_09: Okay.
• 40:41
  SPEAKER_09: What is Meets it beats it.
• 40:43
  SPEAKER_09: Yep.
• 40:44
  SPEAKER_09: I think I'm gonna I'm gonna use another reaction and cast shield and raise my AC by.
• 40:48
  SPEAKER_01: You haven't used your reaction this turn, right?
• 40:50
  SPEAKER_01: This round?
• 40:50
  SPEAKER_09: Correct.
• 40:51
  SPEAKER_09: Okay.
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, so that's one of them.
• 40:53
  SPEAKER_01: Misses well, I think it it does actually bite at your bracer, and this sort of arcane like pulse goes off.
• 41:02
  SPEAKER_09: Same thing that happens off of uh Darius's pauldron.
• 41:05
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah.
• 41:05
  SPEAKER_01: It's that same kind of um and even though it yeah, manages to grab onto the bracer, you are protected.
• 41:11
  unknown: Cool.
• 41:12
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and then that means that a 12 is definitely not gonna hit.
• 41:16
  unknown: Cool.
• 41:16
  SPEAKER_01: Because the other one just fully whiffs and misses you there.
• 41:19
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so yeah, that that whiffs.
• 41:21
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and as you continue heading up the stairs, you feel the ground tremble a little bit um as two of the bookcases begin to come off of the water.
• 41:33
  SPEAKER_01: Those are gonna be big.
• 41:34
  SPEAKER_01: On the third floor up by the chest.
• 41:39
  SPEAKER_01: And they do not move down, they stay near the chest.
• 41:41
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and live.
• 41:42
  SPEAKER_01: That is your go.
• 41:44
  SPEAKER_06: Um, I can probably hit one of the bookcases from here.
• 41:47
  SPEAKER_06: Um, then in that case, I'm gonna use steady aim to give myself advantage.
• 41:53
  SPEAKER_06: Bonus action steady aim.
• 41:55
  SPEAKER_06: And then I'm going to aim at one of the big ass bookcases.
• 42:00
  unknown: Okay.
• 42:05
  SPEAKER_06: Ooh! 21.
• 42:07
  SPEAKER_06: That'll hit.
• 42:08
  SPEAKER_06: Uh 19.
• 42:10
  SPEAKER_01: Nice.
• 42:14
  SPEAKER_06: 19 points of damage?
• 42:15
  SPEAKER_06: Well, I rolled my my my sneak attack because I got uh damage on the on the roll.
• 42:20
  SPEAKER_09: Rogues are strikers, dude.
• 42:21
  SPEAKER_09: She's our damage dealer.
• 42:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, DPS.
• 42:24
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you shoot your your bow at this, it embeds into the bookcase, and you see, because it is not a real bookcase, it goes through the wood and through several of the books as if it is in fact all one material that is just shaped to become something else.
• 42:42
  SPEAKER_01: Um it is still fine and menacing and intimidating.
• 42:48
  SPEAKER_04: And I will stay here.
• 42:53
  SPEAKER_04: Argo, you're go.
• 42:54
  SPEAKER_09: Alright.
• 42:55
  SPEAKER_09: Car, would it be more beneficial to have advantage on each of your attacks from cups or to just keep doing what you're doing steady aiming?
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I can be a self-oiling machine if you would rather give it to Darius.
• 43:07
  SPEAKER_06: I can also take yours and then give him my health action.
• 43:10
  SPEAKER_06: We have a lot to go around.
• 43:11
  SPEAKER_06: Either way, we'll make it work.
• 43:13
  SPEAKER_09: Here's what I'm gonna do.
• 43:14
  SPEAKER_09: Uh, there are still these two steps, right?
• 43:16
  SPEAKER_09: So let me see if I can get these taken out.
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_09: I'm gonna I'm just gonna take this one raw.
• 43:23
  SPEAKER_09: Um Yes, awesome.
• 43:24
  SPEAKER_09: 18 versus AC.
• 43:25
  SPEAKER_06: Nice, very good.
• 43:26
  SPEAKER_09: Uh 18 versus AC and uh six frost.
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_09: I don't know if it's a little bit.
• 43:31
  SPEAKER_01: Is this the one that's already been hit?
• 43:32
  SPEAKER_09: Yes.
• 43:33
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that that takes it out.
• 43:35
  SPEAKER_09: Sweet.
• 43:35
  SPEAKER_09: Hell yeah.
• 43:36
  SPEAKER_01: One left that has not been hit.
• 43:38
  SPEAKER_09: Then uh let's just do that same thing with uh cups firing a What's a Not 20?
• 43:47
  SPEAKER_09: Uh so I rule roll two D8.
• 43:50
  SPEAKER_09: Well, the first one I already rolled two sevens.
• 43:52
  SPEAKER_01: Obliterates it.
• 43:53
  SPEAKER_01: Obliterates the stair.
• 43:54
  SPEAKER_09: Fucking splintered, shattered this step.
• 43:57
  SPEAKER_09: Who n stare's more like.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_09: Darius, you get advantages! I'm gonna toss cups over to uh Darius and uh have him be on his shoulder and give him uh the help action with that little shh um switch.
• 44:13
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah, that that little magnifying glass.
• 44:16
  SPEAKER_09: Um, Darius, feel free to either run in or we can I think keeping our distance right now is not the worst idea um so that we can ideally keep taking shots at these books before they get too close to us.
• 44:30
  SPEAKER_09: Argo's never been so bad mad at a book in his life.
• 44:33
  SPEAKER_09: Uh how fast are these shelves?
• 44:36
  SPEAKER_01: They haven't really moved that much yet.
• 44:37
  SPEAKER_01: They've moved off the wall, but they haven't like engaged in speed in a way that you would have be able to clock.
• 44:44
  SPEAKER_09: If they have a 30-foot move r uh speed, like am I 30 feet away from them right now?
• 44:50
  SPEAKER_01: You didn't go up the stairs, right?
• 44:51
  SPEAKER_01: I did not.
• 44:52
  SPEAKER_01: And yeah, you're you're 30 feet away.
• 44:53
  SPEAKER_09: Alright, I'd like to back up a little bit so it takes more than a 30-foot move to reach me.
• 44:59
  SPEAKER_01: Understood.
• 45:00
  SPEAKER_09: And that's my turn.
• 45:01
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, Darius, here go.
• 45:03
  SPEAKER_08: Great.
• 45:03
  SPEAKER_08: I can see the two bookshelves, right?
• 45:04
  SPEAKER_01: You can see the two bookshelves.
• 45:06
  SPEAKER_08: Great.
• 45:06
  SPEAKER_08: I shooted the one that uh Liv shot at with my my crossbow.
• 45:10
  SPEAKER_08: And I have a banish.
• 45:12
  SPEAKER_08: I'm gonna roll, yeah.
• 45:14
  SPEAKER_08: Uh uh 3020.
• 45:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it is.
• 45:17
  SPEAKER_08: Ooh, eight plus two ten points of damage.
• 45:20
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 45:21
  SPEAKER_01: Things similar, you shoot crossbow at it, you see that it lands sort of above where Liv's arrow is knocked, and again, goes through multiple layers.
• 45:31
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and you do see this bookshelf begin to like shift around to start to look at all of you.
• 45:40
  SPEAKER_08: Maybe it didn't want to attack us.
• 45:43
  SPEAKER_08: Maybe it just wanted to share its knowledge with us.
• 45:46
  SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
• 45:46
  SPEAKER_01: It does want to share its knowledge with you.
• 45:49
  SPEAKER_01: Because it is its Well, anything else on its turn?
• 45:51
  SPEAKER_01: On your turn?
• 45:52
  SPEAKER_08: No.
• 45:52
  SPEAKER_01: Before it shares its knowledge with you.
• 45:56
  SPEAKER_01: Uh you see.
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_08: Don't shoot books at me.
• 45:59
  SPEAKER_01: You see it um a limb begins to emerge that looks like a shelf.
• 46:06
  SPEAKER_01: And it pulls a book, a book, from it, and flings it at um it's gonna be a ranged attack.
• 46:16
  SPEAKER_08: Argo's nightmare.
• 46:18
  SPEAKER_08: Truly.
• 46:19
  SPEAKER_01: Books that bite.
• 46:22
  SPEAKER_08: Yeah, it does.
• 46:23
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it does.
• 46:24
  SPEAKER_01: Um so it flings a book at you.
• 46:27
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's minimum damage.
• 46:28
  SPEAKER_01: Don't worry about it.
• 46:29
  SPEAKER_01: Um so it flings a book at you, probably like hits you right in the chest.
• 46:35
  SPEAKER_01: Uh it is still with quite a bit of force, you know, wins you a little bit, and you're gonna take four bludgeoning damage.
• 46:42
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and then it does it again at Argo.
• 46:45
  SPEAKER_01: Flinging a book at you.
• 46:47
  SPEAKER_09: Not ideal.
• 46:48
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, that is a 22 to hit.
• 46:50
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah, yeah, that'll be.
• 46:52
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 46:52
  SPEAKER_01: Um real accurate with those books.
• 46:55
  SPEAKER_01: Oh no, and that's maximum damage.
• 46:57
  SPEAKER_01: Um, thank you.
• 46:59
  SPEAKER_01: So that is 11 bludgeoning damage.
• 47:01
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, come on, Dan.
• 47:03
  SPEAKER_01: A book at Argo.
• 47:05
  SPEAKER_01: Um, do you think Argo like tries to catch it or something?
• 47:09
  SPEAKER_09: Probably.
• 47:09
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah, yeah, that's the reason it hit because she's so busy being like, oh, I'll get this lands right in his face.
• 47:17
  SPEAKER_09: Um God, 11 damage is rough for me.
• 47:20
  SPEAKER_06: I bet those books are pointy.
• 47:23
  SPEAKER_06: No, sorry, take two.
• 47:25
  SPEAKER_06: I bet it's piercing damage because those books are spiny.
• 47:31
  SPEAKER_09: I'm glad I wasn't the only one because I was thinking of like killing a book and being like, show me your spine, I'll show you mine.
• 47:38
  SPEAKER_09: Stab! But sorry, no, no, no, sorry, no, no, no.
• 47:40
  SPEAKER_06: Actually, erase all of this.
• 47:41
  SPEAKER_06: Say that on your next one.
• 47:42
  SPEAKER_06: Say that on your next one.
• 47:43
  SPEAKER_09: Oh, cool.
• 47:44
  SPEAKER_09: Cool, cool, cool, yeah, you got it.
• 47:46
  SPEAKER_09: I'll forget.
• 47:47
  SPEAKER_09: Uh, yeah, no, for for uh rules purposes, it is bludgeoning.
• 47:50
  SPEAKER_09: Wait, I also love that your first attempt was these books are poison.
• 47:57
  SPEAKER_01: I had it.
• 47:58
  SPEAKER_09: Alright, please don't go somewhere.
• 47:59
  SPEAKER_09: Sorry, Shopping.
• 48:01
  SPEAKER_01: Um, the other bookshelf begins to lumber towards you all.
• 48:04
  SPEAKER_01: I think if you want to really use your battle tactics here, Clay, you can see that it is moving 15 feet on its turn.
• 48:10
  SPEAKER_01: Nice to a point where it can also reach you, and it's going to fling some books at.
• 48:15
  SPEAKER_01: I think Darius is still closest, so it's gonna fling one at Darius.
• 48:18
  SPEAKER_01: That's not gonna hit with a seven.
• 48:20
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and it'll fling another one.
• 48:24
  SPEAKER_01: That is uh no, 14 to hit.
• 48:27
  SPEAKER_01: That will not hit.
• 48:28
  SPEAKER_01: So it flings books, it's not quite close enough to you, so you just see books flying and you're able to duck uh and avoid them.
• 48:35
  SPEAKER_08: Nice.
• 48:35
  SPEAKER_08: Remind me why we like books.
• 48:39
  SPEAKER_01: These aren't books! These are real.
• 48:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's the thing, is when it hits you, it is fleshy.
• 48:45
  SPEAKER_01: Like that's that's kind of the gross part.
• 48:47
  SPEAKER_06: I will actually terrify.
• 48:49
  SPEAKER_08: I will admit that uh in the last hit, it does knock the wind a little bit out of me, and I fall to one knee and I spit a little bit of blood.
• 48:58
  SPEAKER_08: Yeah, same.
• 48:59
  SPEAKER_09: Uh Argo's definitely bloody.
• 49:01
  SPEAKER_06: He's got 10 HP left.
• 49:02
  SPEAKER_06: That's okay, guys.
• 49:03
  SPEAKER_06: I got these next ones.
• 49:05
  SPEAKER_09: Please do.
• 49:06
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah.
• 49:06
  SPEAKER_06: Please do.
• 49:07
  SPEAKER_06: It's your turn live.
• 49:11
  SPEAKER_06: I could take one book hit.
• 49:13
  SPEAKER_06: I'll take one.
• 49:15
  SPEAKER_08: If you one-shot both of these, I will make out with Argo.
• 49:18
  SPEAKER_06: I okay.
• 49:19
  SPEAKER_08: No, you won't.
• 49:21
  SPEAKER_08: That actually won't happen no matter what.
• 49:23
  SPEAKER_08: I will make out with cups.
• 49:24
  SPEAKER_08: Also, no.
• 49:26
  SPEAKER_08: I don't think cups have lips.
• 49:27
  SPEAKER_08: Cups can do anything.
• 49:28
  SPEAKER_06: Well then I might as well.
• 49:29
  SPEAKER_06: If I'm down here, I might as well study aim again and aim for the grosser of the two looking bookshelves.
• 49:38
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, nice.
• 49:41
  SPEAKER_06: Okay.
• 49:42
  SPEAKER_06: Um 18.
• 49:45
  SPEAKER_06: That'll hit.
• 49:47
  SPEAKER_06: Alright.
• 49:48
  SPEAKER_06: Come on, bitches.
• 49:52
  SPEAKER_06: Oh! 27.
• 49:57
  SPEAKER_08: Fuck.
• 49:57
  SPEAKER_08: I love when Liv doesn't get a one-shot in the beginning of combat.
• 50:01
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 50:02
  SPEAKER_01: I really, I really wanted it to be a little it's down to two hit points now.
• 50:07
  SPEAKER_01: So close.
• 50:09
  SPEAKER_06: Can I spit on it?
• 50:10
  SPEAKER_06: And I say, fuck you, and it takes emotional damage.
• 50:14
  SPEAKER_06: Fine.
• 50:16
  SPEAKER_06: You can spin as a free action.
• 50:18
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I'm gonna do it.
• 50:19
  SPEAKER_01: Throw in the book at it.
• 50:20
  SPEAKER_08: Throw in the book at it.
• 50:21
  SPEAKER_01: As you do hit it though, you see it like the shelves crumble and and the books, the flesh books um like fall off in a tumble, and it is basically almost completely collapsed over.
• 50:36
  unknown: Oh, good.
• 50:38
  unknown: Good, good.
• 50:38
  SPEAKER_09: It's just a blob of flesh.
• 50:40
  SPEAKER_01: It's just a blob of flesh.
• 50:41
  SPEAKER_01: Mimics are gross, y'all.
• 50:42
  SPEAKER_01: Um, they're weird.
• 50:44
  SPEAKER_09: Especially this thing's throwing its body at us.
• 50:46
  SPEAKER_01: Throwing its body at you.
• 50:46
  SPEAKER_01: It wants to share.
• 50:48
  SPEAKER_01: Not the first one.
• 50:50
  SPEAKER_01: Make turn.
• 50:51
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it is your turn, Argo.
• 50:53
  SPEAKER_09: Alright.
• 50:53
  SPEAKER_09: So we're at the we're at the landing of this, of these steps.
• 50:57
  SPEAKER_09: Could I like hide behind the the curve of the railing to get some cover?
• 51:02
  SPEAKER_09: Is that doable?
• 51:03
  SPEAKER_01: I'll allow it.
• 51:04
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah?
• 51:04
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah.
• 51:05
  SPEAKER_09: Then I think, I mean, I don't have a lot of HP, but I don't know.
• 51:09
  SPEAKER_09: Taking care of Liv is more important.
• 51:11
  SPEAKER_09: She's really putting putting up some good numbers.
• 51:13
  SPEAKER_09: I'm going to take the dodge action.
• 51:15
  SPEAKER_09: Okay.
• 51:15
  SPEAKER_09: And I'm going to stand directly in front of Liv.
• 51:18
  SPEAKER_09: So they cannot throw at her.
• 51:21
  SPEAKER_09: They have to go through me, and they will have disadvantage on attacks.
• 51:25
  SPEAKER_09: I will also, with my bonus action, have Cups take another force ballista shot.
• 51:35
  SPEAKER_09: Nice, that's a natural 19.
• 51:38
  SPEAKER_09: Uh, 2d8, 7 plus 4.
• 51:42
  SPEAKER_09: Sweet.
• 51:42
  SPEAKER_09: Uh, 13 damage at the one with two hit points left.
• 51:46
  SPEAKER_01: What does it look like when you kill it?
• 51:47
  SPEAKER_09: Fucking that last shot of force, it has that um, you know that the thing thing too in anime sometimes when someone like kicks a ball really hard, there's like rings of air after the uh, you know, the missile trail or whatever.
• 52:00
  SPEAKER_09: Um, it's it's that as uh this force blast goes straight through this thing uh and pages go flying everywhere as it falls uh uh onto its back.
• 52:11
  SPEAKER_09: I will also have my familiar cups uh scurry over to Liv and give her uh advantage on her next attack roll.
• 52:20
  SPEAKER_08: Darius.
• 52:21
  SPEAKER_08: Here goes nothing.
• 52:22
  SPEAKER_08: I'm gonna charge it out.
• 52:24
  SPEAKER_08: Um and I'm gonna slice it with my sword.
• 52:28
  unknown: Okay.
• 52:29
  SPEAKER_01: Um as you come up to that landing, you are able to get a better look of that chest as well.
• 52:35
  SPEAKER_09: Oh, what do I see?
• 52:36
  SPEAKER_09: It's another fucking mimic.
• 52:38
  SPEAKER_01: It is a massive chest gleaming with arcane energy, specifically coming from this crystal shard that is precariously perched inside the mouth of a mimic.
• 52:52
  SPEAKER_08: Fuck off.
• 52:53
  SPEAKER_08: God damn it.
• 52:56
  SPEAKER_08: Probably shouldn't have dashed.
• 52:57
  SPEAKER_08: Well, here we are.
• 52:59
  SPEAKER_08: Uh come on.
• 53:02
  SPEAKER_08: Uh 16 against that case.
• 53:05
  SPEAKER_08: Haya! Ooh! 11 plus uh two with 13 points of damage.
• 53:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you slash into it.
• 53:14
  SPEAKER_01: Um you take a chunk of book and shelf with you as you are in 1v1 with this bookcase.
• 53:22
  SPEAKER_01: The mimic's turn.
• 53:24
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you are definitely uh up with it here.
• 53:29
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so it is going to make an attack against you.
• 53:32
  SPEAKER_01: I think at this point, yeah, it's biting because you're right in range.
• 53:35
  SPEAKER_01: Um so it's just gonna bite at you.
• 53:38
  SPEAKER_01: That is a 23 to hit.
• 53:40
  SPEAKER_01: Oh.
• 53:42
  SPEAKER_09: Um, bud, I don't know if I could do much to help.
• 53:47
  SPEAKER_08: Well, you know, it would it would be books that took me up.
• 53:51
  SPEAKER_08: It would be.
• 53:52
  SPEAKER_01: Oof, I'm sorry.
• 53:53
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, that is 10 piercing damage uh from the teeth and another five acid damage.
• 53:59
  SPEAKER_08: Oh, oh fuck.
• 54:01
  SPEAKER_08: Okay.
• 54:02
  SPEAKER_08: Um standing?
• 54:08
  SPEAKER_08: I'm still standing.
• 54:09
  SPEAKER_08: I'm still standing.
• 54:12
  SPEAKER_01: The chest for now is a huge monstrosity as it opens its maw.
• 54:23
  SPEAKER_01: Um, it is not trying to hide what it is.
• 54:27
  SPEAKER_01: It is almost inviting and like a very piranha plant-esque.
• 54:33
  SPEAKER_01: It does not attack, but you do see it's this like tongue coming out of it that is just sort of waving as a taunt.
• 54:46
  SPEAKER_01: Almost.
• 54:47
  SPEAKER_01: It knows that it has what you want.
• 54:49
  SPEAKER_09: And the d the element is where?
• 54:52
  SPEAKER_09: Inside it.
• 54:52
  SPEAKER_09: It's inside it.
• 54:54
  SPEAKER_09: It's inside it.
• 54:54
  SPEAKER_03: Chill.
• 54:55
  SPEAKER_09: Chill.
• 54:55
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah, that's neat.
• 54:56
  SPEAKER_03: Alright.
• 54:57
  SPEAKER_03: Uh Liv.
• 55:00
  SPEAKER_06: So I have agility, which means I can double my speed for one turn if I don't move on my next turn.
• 55:09
  SPEAKER_06: Is there something to going up, snatching it, and then coming back, or do we just keep wanting to walk?
• 55:15
  SPEAKER_09: I don't think we're going to be able to reach into this thing and get it.
• 55:20
  SPEAKER_06: No, I can't just try to.
• 55:22
  SPEAKER_06: Trust me, I was thinking the same thing.
• 55:23
  SPEAKER_08: Can you try?
• 55:25
  SPEAKER_08: Can you shoot it?
• 55:26
  SPEAKER_08: Can you shoot the element out of its mouth?
• 55:28
  SPEAKER_08: Is it?
• 55:28
  SPEAKER_08: Is it that probably is a crazy is it visible like that, Sarah?
• 55:33
  SPEAKER_01: Or it it is not like you can't knock it off.
• 55:38
  SPEAKER_03: No, like no, it is in the I'll just keep shooting it.
• 55:42
  SPEAKER_03: I'll just keep shooting it.
• 55:43
  SPEAKER_09: Because we still have the bookcase to contend to contend with first.
• 55:48
  SPEAKER_06: Ooh, that's a natural twin.
• 55:50
  SPEAKER_06: Nice girl.
• 55:52
  SPEAKER_09: That thing's done.
• 55:53
  SPEAKER_09: That's actually very nice.
• 55:54
  SPEAKER_09: That's actually really cool.
• 55:56
  SPEAKER_06: Okay, so this plus 10.
• 56:00
  SPEAKER_06: Uh uh 31.
• 56:03
  SPEAKER_08: Wait, so so so girl does hit a lot.
• 56:07
  SPEAKER_08: It's a monster head.
• 56:10
  SPEAKER_06: Good, good one.
• 56:11
  SPEAKER_06: That one was a good one.
• 56:12
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, what does it look like as you take it out?
• 56:13
  SPEAKER_06: As this thing goes to fling another one of its fleshy books, I think she aims it like right at it, and then it like pierces its flesh book, sticks it back to its own carcass, and then it falls backwards, um, like the wardrobe in Beauty and the Beast.
• 56:31
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly what I was thinking, yeah.
• 56:33
  SPEAKER_06: Over the edge.
• 56:35
  SPEAKER_01: Plummet.
• 56:37
  SPEAKER_01: And instead of cracking on the ground, it looshes on the ground.
• 56:41
  SPEAKER_04: Yep, yep, yep.
• 56:43
  SPEAKER_01: Chill, chill, chill.
• 56:46
  SPEAKER_01: Alright.
• 56:48
  SPEAKER_01: Only thing that is left is that that you are aware of right now.
• 56:53
  SPEAKER_01: The um is the central chest that is not really trying to not look like a mimic chest.
• 57:01
  SPEAKER_01: I believe the tongue is like out and everything.
• 57:03
  SPEAKER_01: And the element crystal that you were sent here to retrieve is inside its mouth.
• 57:08
  SPEAKER_09: Uh Darius, prioritize your own safety.
• 57:12
  SPEAKER_09: First thing out of his mouth as soon as uh as soon as he sees this thing start to wake up and freak out.
• 57:19
  SPEAKER_09: So, gang.
• 57:21
  SPEAKER_09: I feel like our best play here is just to keep using the amount of damage we get out of Liv's sneak attack to take this thing down as quick as possible.
• 57:32
  SPEAKER_09: Darius, there might be a chance there's some sort of uh like there might be like a consume attack.
• 57:40
  SPEAKER_09: This thing might try to wrap its jaws around you and like pull you inside of it.
• 57:45
  SPEAKER_09: Uh like first recommendation would be taking the dodge action to increase your dexterity um in reaction to those things uh and make it attack with disadvantage.
• 57:56
  SPEAKER_09: There's a dodge action?
• 57:58
  SPEAKER_09: There is a dodge action, yes.
• 57:59
  SPEAKER_09: It is a excellent action.
• 58:01
  SPEAKER_09: It means you won't get to take any attacks, that's honestly fine.
• 58:04
  SPEAKER_09: It may keep you alive, that's better.
• 58:07
  SPEAKER_09: I am going to have Cups make his usual ballista bolt attack against this thing, uh, with a Ooh, nice.
• 58:16
  SPEAKER_09: Um, 15 on the die plus five, that is a dirty 20 against its AC.
• 58:21
  SPEAKER_01: Yep, that'll hit.
• 58:23
  SPEAKER_01: Ooh, nice.
• 58:24
  SPEAKER_09: Um this thing will take 13 points of force damage, uh, and it will be pushed five feet away from Attila uh from Darius.
• 58:35
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, what is the size on that ability?
• 58:39
  SPEAKER_09: Like the range?
• 58:40
  SPEAKER_01: Or this is a huge creature.
• 58:43
  SPEAKER_09: There is no mention of size.
• 58:45
  SPEAKER_09: So my first assumption is.
• 58:47
  SPEAKER_09: I remember it being close to a ledge, so.
• 58:50
  SPEAKER_01: No, no, no, no.
• 58:51
  SPEAKER_01: It's in the center of this light.
• 58:52
  SPEAKER_01: Oh fuck.
• 58:53
  SPEAKER_09: I thought it was close to the left.
• 58:54
  SPEAKER_09: There are ledges.
• 58:54
  SPEAKER_09: We we could try to go that route if you're gonna.
• 58:56
  SPEAKER_09: You could try to push it down the stairs.
• 58:58
  SPEAKER_09: If you wanted to kite it over to one of the ledges, I could try to force it off.
• 59:02
  SPEAKER_09: Um that's uh, you know, that's only gonna give it uh it's a it's a small amount of uh um fall damage, though.
• 59:09
  SPEAKER_09: I don't know if that would be worth it, but it could be nice for creating some distance between us.
• 59:14
  SPEAKER_09: I will follow that up.
• 59:16
  SPEAKER_09: Uh ooh, I'm going to cast bless on all three of us.
• 59:23
  SPEAKER_09: So for as long as I maintain concentration up to a minute, uh all three of us will have a plus one d4 that we can add to attack rolls and saving throws.
• 59:36
  SPEAKER_09: Again, for as long as I maintain concentration.
• 59:38
  SPEAKER_09: So I'm I'm not gonna step myself very far into the fight, I wanna prioritize concentrating on that.
• 59:45
  SPEAKER_09: And, ooh, after he after after Cups fires that force ballista off of um uh Argo's shoulder, he's gonna mutter under his breath, Golly, we need a miracle! And then his like sort of fingers are gonna sparkle and glow a little bit as this ripple, this like light wave of golden shimmering light issues out of him and strikes both Liv and Darius.
• 1:00:09
  SPEAKER_09: This is him casting Bless with his uh his feet.
• 1:00:14
  SPEAKER_01: His uh I thought you meant feet as in the limbs of the.
• 1:00:18
  SPEAKER_09: He's casting it with his toes.
• 1:00:20
  SPEAKER_09: His toesies.
• 1:00:21
  SPEAKER_09: Sticking his little toesies out.
• 1:00:22
  SPEAKER_09: He's casting this with Fay Touch, so it's not going to cost him a spell slot.
• 1:00:26
  SPEAKER_09: That's uh that's his turn.
• 1:00:28
  SPEAKER_01: Um, okay, great.
• 1:00:29
  SPEAKER_01: Darius is your go.
• 1:00:30
  SPEAKER_08: I will take a dodge action.
• 1:00:32
  SPEAKER_01: You can do it, champ!
• 1:00:33
  SPEAKER_08: Which means which means that I will be ready to dodge.
• 1:00:39
  SPEAKER_08: Stellar.
• 1:00:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, and as a reminder, until Cups pinged him with force, um, you technically had not engaged with this thing yet, and it was not attacking you all yet.
• 1:00:51
  SPEAKER_01: It was just chilling there.
• 1:00:52
  SPEAKER_01: Um I mean, like it was menacing, but it wasn't actively attacking you.
• 1:00:56
  SPEAKER_08: It was licking its chops, but it wasn't chomping.
• 1:00:59
  SPEAKER_01: It was licking its chops, exactly.
• 1:01:01
  SPEAKER_01: But it had not quite sat down to dinner yet.
• 1:01:03
  SPEAKER_08: Um Can I also do a bonus action if I do a dodge?
• 1:01:07
  SPEAKER_08: I'm also gonna take second wind.
• 1:01:10
  SPEAKER_06: Um good, smart, good.
• 1:01:13
  SPEAKER_08: I'm learning, guys.
• 1:01:13
  SPEAKER_08: I'm learning, I'm learning, I'm learning, I'm learning.
• 1:01:16
  SPEAKER_08: I'm so smart.
• 1:01:17
  SPEAKER_08: Uh 1D 10 plus 4.
• 1:01:21
  SPEAKER_08: Come on, digital dice don't fail me now.
• 1:01:25
  SPEAKER_08: Uh I I gained 12 hit points.
• 1:01:27
  SPEAKER_08: Uh 8 plus 4, 12.
• 1:01:29
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, okay.
• 1:01:29
  SPEAKER_01: You're back up to 15, right?
• 1:01:30
  SPEAKER_08: Yeah, I am.
• 1:01:31
  SPEAKER_01: Great, that's one hit.
• 1:01:33
  SPEAKER_08: What do you mean one hit?
• 1:01:34
  SPEAKER_09: Girl.
• 1:01:35
  SPEAKER_01: Nothing.
• 1:01:35
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't say anything.
• 1:01:36
  SPEAKER_09: Um such a taunting thrasher.
• 1:01:40
  SPEAKER_03: Anything else on your turn?
• 1:01:43
  SPEAKER_08: Uh I take my distance, arc down, get ready to dodge, while also gathering strength and healing myself with sick on the wind.
• 1:01:51
  SPEAKER_01: Cool.
• 1:01:52
  SPEAKER_01: It is now the mimic's turn.
• 1:01:54
  SPEAKER_01: The mimic was so strategically placed in the center of this uh central rotunda.
• 1:02:02
  SPEAKER_01: You see it shift its chest like body.
• 1:02:06
  SPEAKER_01: Again, it is not attempting to blend into its surroundings like the other mimics in this place were.
• 1:02:11
  SPEAKER_01: The element crystal sparkles inside.
• 1:02:16
  SPEAKER_01: As I think that when cups hit it with force, where where was cups aiming?
• 1:02:22
  SPEAKER_09: Center mass.
• 1:02:23
  SPEAKER_09: Center mass.
• 1:02:24
  SPEAKER_09: Let's say the the lock.
• 1:02:26
  SPEAKER_09: The lock.
• 1:02:27
  SPEAKER_09: The latch, yeah.
• 1:02:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so because it's it's open, so the latch would be like at the top, and it knocked those force uh ballista knocked some of its teeth out.
• 1:02:39
  SPEAKER_01: So the mimic takes its long tongue, picks up that tooth that got knocked out, and blings it at cups.
• 1:02:47
  unknown: Oh no.
• 1:02:48
  unknown: No, no.
• 1:02:49
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna need cups to make me a deck save.
• 1:02:53
  unknown: Oh no.
• 1:02:54
  unknown: That's crazy.
• 1:02:56
  SPEAKER_08: Cupture taking a dodge action.
• 1:02:57
  SPEAKER_08: Cupture taking a dodge action.
• 1:03:00
  SPEAKER_09: Okay.
• 1:03:00
  SPEAKER_01: Well, cups have an AC.
• 1:03:03
  SPEAKER_09: Yes, so cups is really just my fine familiar that we sort of flavor also as the launcher of uh Argo's artillerist abilities.
• 1:03:14
  SPEAKER_09: Um, dexterity is a plus one.
• 1:03:17
  SPEAKER_09: So that's a six as a deck save.
• 1:03:21
  SPEAKER_01: This mimic flings this very sharp shark-like tooth at Cups.
• 1:03:27
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, this is going to deal eight points of acid damage.
• 1:03:31
  SPEAKER_09: Oof.
• 1:03:32
  SPEAKER_09: Okay.
• 1:03:33
  SPEAKER_09: Cups shatters into many tiny spoons and measuring cups and scatters all across the floor, uh, all across the staircase that uh Argo is standing on as he screams uh in panic.
• 1:03:48
  SPEAKER_09: No! Attilio, your dream has finally come true.
• 1:03:53
  SPEAKER_08: I know.
• 1:03:54
  SPEAKER_08: Does Cups make uh an R2D2 screen?
• 1:03:57
  unknown: Oh my god.
• 1:03:58
  SPEAKER_09: Yes.
• 1:03:59
  SPEAKER_09: And it sounds like this.
• 1:04:00
  SPEAKER_09: Editor put it in.
• 1:04:03
  SPEAKER_06: That wasn't a good one.
• 1:04:04
  SPEAKER_02: Exactly like that.
• 1:04:05
  SPEAKER_02: That was good.
• 1:04:06
  SPEAKER_06: I have a better one.
• 1:04:07
  SPEAKER_06: Come back to me.
• 1:04:08
  SPEAKER_06: Come back to me.
• 1:04:08
  SPEAKER_06: Come back.
• 1:04:09
  SPEAKER_01: We'll fully we'll fully this up later.
• 1:04:12
  SPEAKER_08: Is Cups dead?
• 1:04:12
  SPEAKER_08: Is Cups dead?
• 1:04:13
  SPEAKER_08: No, Cups is not dead.
• 1:04:14
  SPEAKER_01: No, no, cups just needs to be tinkered back together.
• 1:04:17
  SPEAKER_08: Okay, guys.
• 1:04:19
  SPEAKER_01: See, that's the beauty of reskinning a fine familiar, is that you can just keep recasting it.
• 1:04:23
  SPEAKER_01: There's no such thing as a dead familiar.
• 1:04:26
  SPEAKER_08: Which means cups is like there's a core of cups flying around somewhere.
• 1:04:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and basically it does take it's a ritual cast, I think.
• 1:04:34
  SPEAKER_01: So it's not something you can do in the heat of battle.
• 1:04:36
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 1:04:37
  SPEAKER_01: Um yeah, cups shatters, the mimic shifts its weight again and settles back in to its mount here in the middle.
• 1:04:47
  SPEAKER_01: It does not move.
• 1:04:48
  SPEAKER_01: Um even though it can, it does not seem to care unless you come up to it.
• 1:04:53
  SPEAKER_09: It really wants to be just in that spot.
• 1:04:56
  SPEAKER_09: Is there anything on the ceiling above it, like a big trap?
• 1:05:00
  SPEAKER_09: Mouse trap?
• 1:05:06
  SPEAKER_09: That's a trap.
• 1:05:09
  SPEAKER_09: This is a cartoon now.
• 1:05:11
  SPEAKER_09: That's a handsome 22 for your voice.
• 1:05:13
  SPEAKER_01: There's no there's no trap above it.
• 1:05:15
  SPEAKER_01: Uh there's it's just a beautifully painted ceiling that is like a mural on the ceiling.
• 1:05:21
  SPEAKER_09: Um, but there's no invisible piano hanging down.
• 1:05:24
  SPEAKER_01: There is no there is no anvil.
• 1:05:27
  SPEAKER_01: There are no ropes.
• 1:05:29
  SPEAKER_01: No, it just uh, but it doesn't move, it settles in, and that is the end of its turn.
• 1:05:33
  SPEAKER_01: So it is Liv's go.
• 1:05:35
  SPEAKER_06: Gorgeous.
• 1:05:36
  SPEAKER_06: Um, I still have line of sight, yeah?
• 1:05:38
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 1:05:38
  SPEAKER_06: Alright.
• 1:05:39
  SPEAKER_06: Not interesting, but effective.
• 1:05:41
  SPEAKER_06: Uh bonus action steady aim for advantage, and then just go shoot it with with a bow.
• 1:05:47
  SPEAKER_01: And you are shooting it like critical mass, or are you aiming for the crystal?
• 1:05:51
  SPEAKER_01: Six.
• 1:05:52
  SPEAKER_05: And see, this is why I don't like cooling in a box.
• 1:05:56
  SPEAKER_09: It's not the box's fault.
• 1:05:57
  SPEAKER_09: Oh, you are doing because I'm gonna
• 1:06:00
  SPEAKER_06: I fully blame the dice tray no matter what happens because it didn't let my dice roll organically.
• 1:06:04
  SPEAKER_06: That's organic.
• 1:06:06
  SPEAKER_06: Are these dice organic?
• 1:06:07
  SPEAKER_01: The dice wanted to go further, farther, faster.
• 1:06:09
  SPEAKER_06: Organic?
• 1:06:10
  SPEAKER_06: Got them at the farmer's market.
• 1:06:11
  SPEAKER_06: Um, that's only an 11 to hit.
• 1:06:13
  SPEAKER_08: Are you cute?
• 1:06:15
  SPEAKER_08: Are your dice local?
• 1:06:16
  SPEAKER_08: Are they non-GMO dice?
• 1:06:18
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so you shoot at it, ping.
• 1:06:20
  SPEAKER_01: I think again it's it's this huge organic, fleshy thing that just looks like a chest.
• 1:06:25
  SPEAKER_01: Um so I think wherever you were aiming, it just reflects off.
• 1:06:30
  SPEAKER_06: Both of those immediately, To Jain.
• 1:06:34
  SPEAKER_01: Right, sure.
• 1:06:35
  SPEAKER_06: That's it.
• 1:06:35
  SPEAKER_06: That's kind of my turn.
• 1:06:37
  SPEAKER_03: Uh all right, back to Argo then.
• 1:06:41
  SPEAKER_09: Even after that shot that went wide, there's a moment of like kind of stillness, right?
• 1:06:45
  SPEAKER_09: As this thing like shows no sign of approaching us or anything.
• 1:06:50
  SPEAKER_09: It's just got this crystal hanging out.
• 1:06:52
  SPEAKER_01: Just as a crystal right there in the mouth.
• 1:06:54
  SPEAKER_09: Alright.
• 1:06:55
  SPEAKER_09: Well, I'm gonna try and reach in and grab it.
• 1:06:57
  SPEAKER_09: Well, you're pretty far, though, no?
• 1:06:59
  SPEAKER_09: Not with my hand, that would be insane.
• 1:07:02
  SPEAKER_09: I'm gonna catch cast mage hand, glide that little thing over, uh, and then try to gingerly pluck it from its so here's What does it look like for Argo?
• 1:07:13
  SPEAKER_08: Is it like literally a magic hand or is it some device?
• 1:07:16
  SPEAKER_09: Oh, that's such a good question.
• 1:07:18
  SPEAKER_09: Because Mage Hand likes so much about this spell is that it is spectral in some way.
• 1:07:23
  SPEAKER_09: Um I don't think this is something that could be uh like a go-go gadget in any way.
• 1:07:31
  SPEAKER_09: Unless it's just like one of those, you know when you go to the dentist and you get those like sticky hands that you just like fling against the window?
• 1:07:40
  SPEAKER_09: Unless that's it.
• 1:07:41
  SPEAKER_09: Like, alright, fuck it.
• 1:07:42
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah, we just figured it out.
• 1:07:43
  SPEAKER_09: It's one of those.
• 1:07:44
  SPEAKER_09: It's just one of those that's really accurate, and he flings it across the room, snatches onto this uh this gem, and tries to put it.
• 1:07:52
  SPEAKER_01: Um so we're gonna do a contested check here.
• 1:07:55
  SPEAKER_01: Um we're gonna do your decks versus this thing's strength.
• 1:08:00
  SPEAKER_09: Ooh, okay.
• 1:08:01
  SPEAKER_09: Okay.
• 1:08:02
  SPEAKER_09: Wow.
• 1:08:02
  SPEAKER_09: Oh shit.
• 1:08:03
  SPEAKER_09: Shit like good shit?
• 1:08:04
  SPEAKER_09: Like good shit for me.
• 1:08:06
  SPEAKER_09: 13 plus two, 15.
• 1:08:08
  SPEAKER_01: 19 plus 5 for a 24.
• 1:08:11
  SPEAKER_01: So God.
• 1:08:13
  SPEAKER_08: Does that mean we get an we get a flying Argo towards the thing?
• 1:08:16
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so you fling this sticky hand into it.
• 1:08:21
  SPEAKER_01: Um, ooze meet ooze.
• 1:08:24
  SPEAKER_01: As the hand goes uh towards the mimic.
• 1:08:27
  SPEAKER_01: And because so rules is written, mage hand, they are visible.
• 1:08:32
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I know a lot of people play that mage hands are invisible.
• 1:08:35
  SPEAKER_01: They are visible, y'all.
• 1:08:36
  SPEAKER_01: Read the rules.
• 1:08:37
  SPEAKER_09: They are only invisible for the arcane trickster.
• 1:08:40
  SPEAKER_01: Correct.
• 1:08:40
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so even though it is visible, it is not tangible, but it is still existing in this space, at least in terms of refraction of light and whatnot.
• 1:08:49
  SPEAKER_01: So the mimic as you reach into it does sense that chomps down on your mage hand.
• 1:08:59
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to say it doesn't pull you towards it because, again, there is not actually a tangible link here, but it does dispel the hand.
• 1:09:08
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and the mimic's mouth is now closed with the element inside.
• 1:09:13
  SPEAKER_09: Oh, it's not gonna taunt us again?
• 1:09:15
  SPEAKER_01: Not yet.
• 1:09:16
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe to maybe on its turn.
• 1:09:18
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sure it will eventually.
• 1:09:19
  SPEAKER_09: Okay.
• 1:09:20
  SPEAKER_09: The next spell I'm gonna cast is a little tickle-tickle-tickle around the uh the back side of the treasure chest.
• 1:09:26
  SPEAKER_09: See if it'll uh spit it out.
• 1:09:28
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 1:09:29
  SPEAKER_09: But that's all I got for this turn.
• 1:09:30
  SPEAKER_01: Hilarious.
• 1:09:32
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna do the acheo spell.
• 1:09:33
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, Darius, here go.
• 1:09:35
  SPEAKER_08: I don't know, man.
• 1:09:36
  SPEAKER_08: I don't wanna mess with this thing.
• 1:09:38
  SPEAKER_01: It is your entire task.
• 1:09:40
  SPEAKER_08: No, but I feel like I'm gonna charge it and then get wiped out.
• 1:09:43
  SPEAKER_08: Like, I feel like.
• 1:09:44
  SPEAKER_06: You don't got nothing ranged.
• 1:09:46
  SPEAKER_08: A crossbow?
• 1:09:48
  SPEAKER_08: Sure.
• 1:09:48
  SPEAKER_08: I'm gonna pull the crossbow out and try and shoot it.
• 1:09:51
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 1:09:52
  SPEAKER_08: Can I shoot at its lock?
• 1:09:54
  SPEAKER_01: You can, yeah.
• 1:09:56
  SPEAKER_08: I don't know.
• 1:09:56
  SPEAKER_08: I'm trying to figure out if there is a strategic place to shoot at it.
• 1:10:00
  SPEAKER_08: 21.
• 1:10:01
  SPEAKER_01: Yep, that is.
• 1:10:02
  SPEAKER_08: Uh nine points of damage.
• 1:10:03
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 1:10:03
  SPEAKER_01: The bolt goes straight into the padlock as if it is a key.
• 1:10:08
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and you see the mimic does recoil a little bit and opens its mouth a little bit.
• 1:10:14
  SPEAKER_01: It is not fully open now, but it is open just a little bit.
• 1:10:17
  SPEAKER_01: You can see that element inside again.
• 1:10:19
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, it is mimic's turn now.
• 1:10:22
  SPEAKER_01: Um.
• 1:10:25
  SPEAKER_01: You have put a bolt into its heart.
• 1:10:28
  SPEAKER_01: Um, it begins to open its mouth wider again.
• 1:10:34
  SPEAKER_01: And you can see that element inside of it.
• 1:10:36
  SPEAKER_01: The element inside looks like it is beginning to crack.
• 1:10:42
  SPEAKER_01: Um who all is within 15 feet of it?
• 1:10:53
  SPEAKER_01: Is anybody within 15 feet of it?
• 1:10:57
  SPEAKER_08: I don't think so.
• 1:10:58
  SPEAKER_08: I don't think so either.
• 1:10:59
  SPEAKER_08: I think I pull away enough last time.
• 1:11:01
  SPEAKER_01: So you see it begin to shift its mass again, so much so that it almost like stands up on its legs a little and then sits back down very heavily, and a um a wave, a 15-foot radius wave reverberates out of it.
• 1:11:15
  SPEAKER_01: So no one needs to make a dex save because of that.
• 1:11:17
  SPEAKER_01: But you see it begins to shake the walls of the entire place, and books are starting to fall off, and you also see some like chandeliers begin to shake up on the ceiling.
• 1:11:27
  SPEAKER_01: So it's gonna keep doing this and potentially cause a very hazardous environment.
• 1:11:34
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but it is still not moving past its spot here in the center.
• 1:11:40
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and Liv, that's your go.
• 1:11:44
  SPEAKER_06: Can I can I try to cut his tongue off?
• 1:11:48
  unknown: Oh.
• 1:11:48
  SPEAKER_08: You're pretty far away.
• 1:11:49
  SPEAKER_08: With an arrow?
• 1:11:52
  SPEAKER_08: Oh my god.
• 1:11:53
  SPEAKER_08: I don't know.
• 1:11:54
  SPEAKER_08: I think it's a pretty big thing.
• 1:11:57
  SPEAKER_04: That'll be tough.
• 1:11:58
  SPEAKER_04: That's cool.
• 1:11:58
  SPEAKER_04: That would be tough.
• 1:11:59
  SPEAKER_01: It's a very thick tongue.
• 1:12:00
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if you could do it with just one arrow.
• 1:12:03
  SPEAKER_01: If you roll me a natural 20.
• 1:12:09
  SPEAKER_06: I do have advantage.
• 1:12:10
  SPEAKER_01: And I do mean a natural 20, not a dirty 20.
• 1:12:13
  SPEAKER_06: No, yes.
• 1:12:14
  SPEAKER_06: No, I understand.
• 1:12:15
  SPEAKER_06: No, I understand.
• 1:12:16
  SPEAKER_06: Please.
• 1:12:18
  SPEAKER_06: That's kind of that's kind of the DM way of saying don't do it though.
• 1:12:21
  SPEAKER_01: Not necessarily.
• 1:12:23
  SPEAKER_08: But who of us could roll up 20 if not?
• 1:12:26
  SPEAKER_06: To be fair, it is usually me.
• 1:12:28
  SPEAKER_06: Then the di my d yeah.
• 1:12:30
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, god.
• 1:12:33
  SPEAKER_06: If I don't get the 20, do I still hit?
• 1:12:36
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, it'll still hit.
• 1:12:37
  SPEAKER_01: You just won't cut the tongue off.
• 1:12:38
  SPEAKER_06: Then I'll just then why not?
• 1:12:39
  SPEAKER_06: I'm just gonna still go for it, do damage to him, and if I cut off his tongue, how cool would that be?
• 1:12:43
  SPEAKER_06: How cool would that be?
• 1:12:45
  SPEAKER_06: Incredible.
• 1:12:46
  SPEAKER_06: Um, steady aim to give myself the bandage once more.
• 1:12:49
  SPEAKER_06: Come on.
• 1:12:51
  unknown: Ah!
• 1:12:52
  SPEAKER_06: Well, there's a 15 and a 14.
• 1:12:55
  SPEAKER_06: That was real close.
• 1:12:56
  SPEAKER_06: Can I use my tides of chaos to try and roll one more time?
• 1:12:59
  SPEAKER_03: Sure, fuck it.
• 1:13:03
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, 17.
• 1:13:04
  SPEAKER_06: Well, oh.
• 1:13:06
  SPEAKER_06: Anyway, that's still a seven.
• 1:13:08
  SPEAKER_06: I know.
• 1:13:09
  SPEAKER_06: I feel I you know what?
• 1:13:10
  SPEAKER_06: I still feel better about it.
• 1:13:11
  SPEAKER_06: Uh, so that's gonna be a 22.
• 1:13:14
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, that for sure.
• 1:13:15
  SPEAKER_01: That for sure hits.
• 1:13:16
  SPEAKER_06: Uh, 11 points of damage.
• 1:13:19
  unknown: Okay.
• 1:13:20
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you loose that arrow and it embeds itself into the side of the tongue there.
• 1:13:26
  SPEAKER_01: You see the element wobble a little and like shift, not in the mouth further, but just like a little bit on the tongue.
• 1:13:34
  SPEAKER_01: Um, it does not crack anymore.
• 1:13:36
  SPEAKER_01: It's just being moved a little bit.
• 1:13:38
  SPEAKER_09: Alright.
• 1:13:39
  SPEAKER_09: So, what seems to be causing the cracking?
• 1:13:41
  SPEAKER_06: The mimic.
• 1:13:42
  SPEAKER_01: It probably was when it bit down on it.
• 1:13:44
  SPEAKER_06: Got it.
• 1:13:45
  SPEAKER_06: So maybe we want to keep the mouth open this from here on out.
• 1:13:50
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, Argo back to your go.
• 1:13:52
  SPEAKER_09: So, the biting down, that was when we struck it in the lock.
• 1:13:56
  SPEAKER_01: That was no, that was when um you lost the contest between the with the mage hand.
• 1:14:00
  SPEAKER_09: That's what I thought.
• 1:14:02
  SPEAKER_09: Okay, yeah, I just don't wanna I don't know how many more of those it will take.
• 1:14:07
  SPEAKER_09: Uh I just feel like the only good thing to do then is just throw a ray of frost at it.
• 1:14:12
  SPEAKER_09: Um with the intent of trying to like ice it and lower its speed and its reaction time, making it a bit easier for us to grab the thing if we can.
• 1:14:22
  SPEAKER_09: Uh that's a 14 plus five, nineteen.
• 1:14:25
  SPEAKER_09: So it will take it takes six points of cold damage, uh, and its spell or its um speed decreases by ten feet.
• 1:14:35
  SPEAKER_01: Great.
• 1:14:35
  SPEAKER_01: Roll me a D100 at least.
• 1:14:37
  SPEAKER_09: Oh no.
• 1:14:39
  SPEAKER_09: Oh jeez.
• 1:14:41
  SPEAKER_09: 38.
• 1:14:42
  SPEAKER_01: You do that ray of frost, you see the frost sort of begin to creep on it as if it is made of a wooden substance, even though it is not.
• 1:14:50
  SPEAKER_01: Um it reduces the speed mechanically, which at this point you also haven't seen it move, so you don't even know what its speed is.
• 1:14:58
  SPEAKER_01: Um it does not seem to freeze the hinges or anything.
• 1:15:03
  SPEAKER_01: It seems like it still can move as it has been with its mouth.
• 1:15:08
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, Darius, it's your go.
• 1:15:10
  SPEAKER_01: Or anything else on your turn, Argo.
• 1:15:12
  SPEAKER_09: Nope, I um I lost my my dear sweet boy, so there's less I can do.
• 1:15:17
  SPEAKER_01: Wizards become a lot less helpful without a familiar.
• 1:15:20
  SPEAKER_09: You bites your tongue.
• 1:15:22
  SPEAKER_09: Hey, I don't think that's true.
• 1:15:23
  SPEAKER_09: I'm concentrating on spells.
• 1:15:24
  SPEAKER_09: I'm I'm I'm adding to the game.
• 1:15:26
  SPEAKER_03: That's true.
• 1:15:27
  SPEAKER_03: I'm doing things.
• 1:15:28
  SPEAKER_03: Darius, here go.
• 1:15:30
  SPEAKER_08: I see the ray of frost.
• 1:15:32
  SPEAKER_08: I see it ice around the creature, and I kinda get, I think, what Argo's trying to do.
• 1:15:37
  SPEAKER_08: So I make a mad dash to grab that thing.
• 1:15:39
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, make me a dex check.
• 1:15:41
  SPEAKER_08: Uh, six plus two.
• 1:15:44
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 1:15:45
  SPEAKER_01: I rolled a natural twenty.
• 1:15:47
  SPEAKER_01: Well, why'd you do that?
• 1:15:50
  SPEAKER_07: Do I get like sucked into it?
• 1:15:51
  SPEAKER_07: They just go.
• 1:15:52
  SPEAKER_07: Stop.
• 1:15:53
  SPEAKER_07: And like half of my legs are like, ugh.
• 1:15:55
  SPEAKER_07: That's one way to get it.
• 1:15:56
  SPEAKER_01: It's funny that you say that.
• 1:15:58
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think it's so good.
• 1:15:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, describe to me what happens if you go up to to grab this thing.
• 1:16:02
  SPEAKER_01: And then and then I'll take over the narration.
• 1:16:05
  SPEAKER_08: Great.
• 1:16:06
  SPEAKER_08: Uh I catch what Argo was recomm was thinking.
• 1:16:10
  SPEAKER_08: I make I run up to the creature, extend my arm in to reach and wrap my fingers around the element.
• 1:16:17
  SPEAKER_01: You grab the element.
• 1:16:19
  SPEAKER_09: Firmly grasp it.
• 1:16:20
  SPEAKER_01: Firmly grasp the element.
• 1:16:22
  SPEAKER_01: As you do, you feel a warm pulse go out from it.
• 1:16:26
  SPEAKER_01: Argo and Liv, you both see this as well.
• 1:16:29
  SPEAKER_01: That um, you know, like when it's really, really hot, you like to see the air.
• 1:16:34
  SPEAKER_01: Um, that's what it starts to look like coming out from somebody coming into contact with this element.
• 1:16:44
  SPEAKER_01: A timer has started.
• 1:16:46
  SPEAKER_01: And as you see that, this mimic, who got a natural 20 plus five for a 25 on its strength, takes its very long thick tongue uh with the one arrow sticking out of it.
• 1:17:04
  SPEAKER_06: What'd that tongue do?
• 1:17:06
  SPEAKER_01: Wraps it around Darius's waist and pulls Darius completely inside of it.
• 1:17:14
  SPEAKER_01: So, Darius, mechanically, this is not going to do any damage to you yet, but you are now swallowed.
• 1:17:21
  SPEAKER_01: So you are blinded and restrained.
• 1:17:25
  SPEAKER_01: You have total cover against attacks and things outside of the mimic because you are in the mimic.
• 1:17:32
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 1:17:32
  SPEAKER_01: You will take four d6 acid damage at the start of each of the mimic's turns.
• 1:17:41
  SPEAKER_09: That doesn't sound really great.
• 1:17:42
  SPEAKER_09: It doesn't sound great.
• 1:17:45
  SPEAKER_09: Can I offer myself as tribute instead?
• 1:17:48
  SPEAKER_01: You can.
• 1:17:49
  SPEAKER_01: You can also, I will say this mechanically, above board here, if you do enough damage to this mimic in one turn, it will have to succeed on con saves in order to keep something inside of it.
• 1:18:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 1:18:04
  SPEAKER_01: Great.
• 1:18:05
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 1:18:06
  SPEAKER_09: Great.
• 1:18:07
  SPEAKER_06: So I can't shoot it.
• 1:18:08
  SPEAKER_06: This is easy to throw up, baby.
• 1:18:10
  SPEAKER_06: Shoot it! Rolling natural twenties, I think.
• 1:18:13
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 1:18:14
  SPEAKER_03: It's now the mimic's turn.
• 1:18:16
  SPEAKER_03: No, I don't think so.
• 1:18:18
  SPEAKER_03: I think so.
• 1:18:18
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and listen, the element is no longer in the mimic's mouth either.
• 1:18:22
  SPEAKER_01: It is with Darius inside.
• 1:18:24
  SPEAKER_01: Like, Darius has a hold of it.
• 1:18:25
  SPEAKER_01: And again, that timer has started.
• 1:18:28
  SPEAKER_09: Is it glowing or anything?
• 1:18:29
  SPEAKER_09: It definitely should have been main.
• 1:18:31
  SPEAKER_09: Fuck.
• 1:18:33
  SPEAKER_01: Um, alright, so top of the order, you're gonna- I said 46, so that's 14.
• 1:18:38
  SPEAKER_09: 14?
• 1:18:39
  SPEAKER_09: 14.
• 1:18:40
  SPEAKER_09: You're still kidnapping.
• 1:18:41
  SPEAKER_09: One hail flip!
• 1:18:43
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, that's all you need, baby.
• 1:18:45
  SPEAKER_09: Did you die to acid damage?
• 1:18:47
  SPEAKER_09: Are you dissolved instantly?
• 1:18:51
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I don't think so.
• 1:18:52
  SPEAKER_03: I think you I think you have some time.
• 1:18:55
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you they gotta dissolve the bones.
• 1:18:57
  SPEAKER_03: Just gonna be some death saves that are not saved.
• 1:19:01
  SPEAKER_09: Yep.
• 1:19:02
  SPEAKER_06: What happens if we kill him?
• 1:19:05
  SPEAKER_09: We get to meet his adult.
• 1:19:08
  SPEAKER_09: Yes, our Harriet Dazard.
• 1:19:10
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah, Arius Dazard.
• 1:19:14
  SPEAKER_01: Oh.
• 1:19:15
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my gosh.
• 1:19:16
  SPEAKER_01: I'm dying.
• 1:19:17
  SPEAKER_01: So that happens on its turn.
• 1:19:19
  SPEAKER_01: The only thing that was directly engaging with it is now inside of its stomach.
• 1:19:23
  SPEAKER_01: It does not move.
• 1:19:25
  SPEAKER_01: It does not go to anybody else to attack.
• 1:19:27
  SPEAKER_01: Outstanding.
• 1:19:27
  SPEAKER_01: It just digests.
• 1:19:30
  SPEAKER_05: You just live with your go.
• 1:19:33
  SPEAKER_06: I don't wanna go.
• 1:19:34
  SPEAKER_06: I wanna go home.
• 1:19:36
  SPEAKER_06: Do I just Okay, what can I do more the most damage with then?
• 1:19:40
  SPEAKER_06: And that you know what?
• 1:19:41
  SPEAKER_06: You know what I will do actually?
• 1:19:42
  SPEAKER_06: I will.
• 1:19:43
  SPEAKER_06: Someone's gotta get up closer to it because that's the only way it opens his mouth is when it feels physically a like proximity.
• 1:19:51
  SPEAKER_08: So it's chewing now.
• 1:19:53
  SPEAKER_08: It might be fine.
• 1:19:54
  SPEAKER_03: Mm-hmm, Daria.
• 1:19:56
  SPEAKER_09: If you want to delay your your action, I'll run up to it on my turn.
• 1:20:01
  SPEAKER_06: Dude, I haven't taken a hit yet.
• 1:20:05
  SPEAKER_09: Dude, that's gonna break bad for us so fast.
• 1:20:09
  SPEAKER_06: You're right.
• 1:20:10
  SPEAKER_09: So fast.
• 1:20:10
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, you're right.
• 1:20:11
  SPEAKER_09: I mean, I I only have 10 hit points myself, but like we've seen how much it turns on a dime for you.
• 1:20:18
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, but maybe maybe not this time.
• 1:20:21
  SPEAKER_06: Maybe not maybe not this time.
• 1:20:24
  SPEAKER_06: You know what?
• 1:20:24
  SPEAKER_06: Can I shoot it! Shoot it! Shoot up! I'm just so scared because if you both go down, then it is just fine, I'll just shoot it.
• 1:20:36
  SPEAKER_06: And if you go down, then I'll go up there and I'll say like, give me my friends back.
• 1:20:42
  SPEAKER_09: Do you want me to run up to it so that you like does anything get better for you if it if its mouth is open?
• 1:20:49
  SPEAKER_09: I think it's I don't think so.
• 1:20:50
  SPEAKER_06: I'm just trying to get him to throw him up.
• 1:20:53
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah.
• 1:20:53
  SPEAKER_06: Is honestly my only um my only play right now.
• 1:20:57
  SPEAKER_06: I just said we must get it, we gotta get him some air.
• 1:21:00
  SPEAKER_06: So oldie but goldie.
• 1:21:02
  SPEAKER_06: That's gonna be 17 to hit.
• 1:21:04
  SPEAKER_01: Bad hits.
• 1:21:05
  SPEAKER_06: Um, 13 points of damage.
• 1:21:07
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 1:21:08
  SPEAKER_01: It does not begin regurgitating.
• 1:21:12
  SPEAKER_06: Boo.
• 1:21:14
  SPEAKER_06: Boo.
• 1:21:15
  SPEAKER_06: Reaction, I spit on it.
• 1:21:18
  SPEAKER_06: From special damage.
• 1:21:21
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think that a mimic has blood, but if it did.
• 1:21:25
  SPEAKER_06: Aw, thanks.
• 1:21:27
  SPEAKER_06: Thanks.
• 1:21:27
  SPEAKER_06: It looks blood.
• 1:21:28
  SPEAKER_06: It looks like it would bleed if it could.
• 1:21:30
  SPEAKER_06: That's fine.
• 1:21:31
  SPEAKER_01: It would be bleeding pretty heavily if it could.
• 1:21:32
  SPEAKER_01: We're close.
• 1:21:33
  SPEAKER_06: We're close.
• 1:21:36
  SPEAKER_09: I guess the best thing to do is to do as much damage to this thing as possible now.
• 1:21:43
  SPEAKER_09: The best way is with cups, but you saw to that, didn't you, Sarah?
• 1:21:49
  SPEAKER_09: Wow, we gotta.
• 1:21:51
  SPEAKER_01: It's almost like this is, you know, the finale or something.
• 1:21:54
  SPEAKER_09: Oh my god.
• 1:21:56
  SPEAKER_09: I'm thinking about casting Thunderwave on it, but it's an area of effect spell that centers on me, pushes things away.
• 1:22:02
  SPEAKER_09: It's really a get-off me spell, but I'm wondering if the percussive force and the loud sound and everything, like the crashing boom, is enough to shake this thing off its foundation, enough to erupt Darius from its innards.
• 1:22:23
  SPEAKER_09: Live if I don't make it, I want you to have my books.
• 1:22:25
  SPEAKER_09: And I'm gonna run over this thing and rip like a like a like a cord on my chest um that spins a gear and uh like a whistle like quickly rises and then a huge explosion bursts from uh Argo as he casts Thunder Wave.
• 1:22:46
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 1:22:47
  SPEAKER_09: So this thing's gonna make me a constitution saving throw, which I should have thought about sooner.
• 1:22:52
  SPEAKER_09: It's probably got a decent con.
• 1:22:54
  SPEAKER_09: Why?
• 1:22:55
  SPEAKER_09: Uh boo.
• 1:22:57
  SPEAKER_09: Too bad.
• 1:22:58
  SPEAKER_01: Uh that is a 15 plus four for a night.
• 1:23:01
  SPEAKER_09: No.
• 1:23:03
  SPEAKER_09: DC 13.
• 1:23:05
  SPEAKER_09: Um, okay, so it's still just gonna take half damage.
• 1:23:08
  SPEAKER_09: That's kinda also why I needed to do it.
• 1:23:10
  SPEAKER_09: I just needed some damage to go through.
• 1:23:12
  SPEAKER_09: That damage is good though.
• 1:23:13
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah, so they can't do that.
• 1:23:14
  SPEAKER_09: So it's um uh 13 damage halved to 6.
• 1:23:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 1:23:20
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah, that's a bummer.
• 1:23:22
  SPEAKER_01: Oof!
• 1:23:23
  SPEAKER_09: Yeah, uh, it's not pushed, so I'm right next to it.
• 1:23:27
  SPEAKER_01: You sure are! It is Darius.
• 1:23:31
  SPEAKER_01: Hit me instead! Darius, um, I'm gonna have the element act on your turn.
• 1:23:36
  SPEAKER_08: The element.
• 1:23:38
  SPEAKER_08: Oh my god, am I evolving?
• 1:23:39
  SPEAKER_08: Am I becoming a DJ?
• 1:23:40
  SPEAKER_06: Oh my god, it was an evolution stone the whole time.
• 1:23:44
  SPEAKER_01: The whole time.
• 1:23:45
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you feel that warmth from touching the element um begin to burn.
• 1:23:54
  SPEAKER_01: Almost like a searing pain.
• 1:23:56
  SPEAKER_01: It's not not a bad searing pain necessarily, but it is like something is testing you and your ability to hold on to it.
• 1:24:08
  SPEAKER_01: I need you to make me a con save with advantage.
• 1:24:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 1:24:12
  SPEAKER_08: Nice, nice.
• 1:24:13
  SPEAKER_08: Con saves are good.
• 1:24:14
  SPEAKER_08: I like con saves.
• 1:24:15
  SPEAKER_08: Do your best.
• 1:24:16
  SPEAKER_08: Pick the good dice.
• 1:24:17
  SPEAKER_08: Bless.
• 1:24:17
  SPEAKER_08: And you have blessed.
• 1:24:18
  SPEAKER_08: Blessed, blessed, you're blessed.
• 1:24:19
  SPEAKER_08: You have blessed, I have blessed, you're blessed.
• 1:24:20
  SPEAKER_08: I have blessed, I am blessed.
• 1:24:22
  SPEAKER_08: 3020.
• 1:24:23
  SPEAKER_01: So, yeah, you feel you feel this warmth, and then you are a soldier, you are very in tune with your body.
• 1:24:30
  SPEAKER_01: You feel it travel through your veins, this warmth.
• 1:24:34
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you may recover 1d8 hit.
• 1:24:37
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, sure.
• 1:24:38
  SPEAKER_07: Whatever you want, baby.
• 1:24:40
  SPEAKER_01: Um live in Argo while this is happening.
• 1:24:43
  SPEAKER_01: You see that heat expand again.
• 1:24:47
  SPEAKER_01: The entire like air begins to get wobbly.
• 1:24:51
  SPEAKER_01: You have one turn before this goes off.
• 1:24:53
  SPEAKER_01: Oh god.
• 1:24:54
  SPEAKER_09: What does that mean?
• 1:24:56
  SPEAKER_01: That means if you're not touching it when it goes off, you might be stranded here.
• 1:25:00
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, we can't get back through the door we came in.
• 1:25:03
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, I thought we just gotta get it and get back.
• 1:25:06
  SPEAKER_09: Oh, fuck.
• 1:25:08
  SPEAKER_09: God we know how they work.
• 1:25:10
  SPEAKER_08: Cool.
• 1:25:12
  SPEAKER_08: So you gotta be touching it.
• 1:25:13
  SPEAKER_08: Neat.
• 1:25:14
  SPEAKER_08: Is there anything I can do?
• 1:25:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 1:25:16
  SPEAKER_08: Burn.
• 1:25:16
  SPEAKER_01: You you can attack from in there.
• 1:25:19
  SPEAKER_01: You are blinded and restrained, but you can attack.
• 1:25:21
  SPEAKER_08: Which means what?
• 1:25:22
  SPEAKER_08: Which means what?
• 1:25:23
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so restrained means like your speed is zero, so you can't move, but you can make a speed.
• 1:25:30
  SPEAKER_01: Um attack your attacks will have disadvantage.
• 1:25:33
  SPEAKER_01: And attacks against you have advantage.
• 1:25:36
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but you can attack.
• 1:25:39
  SPEAKER_08: Um, okay, I'm gonna try and wriggle my way a hand towards my sword and try and slash some anything.
• 1:25:47
  SPEAKER_08: Fucking fucking wriggle my thing and um fucking wriggle it.
• 1:25:52
  SPEAKER_01: Wriggle it?
• 1:25:52
  SPEAKER_08: Fucking wriggle.
• 1:25:53
  SPEAKER_08: Wriggle?
• 1:25:53
  SPEAKER_08: Wriggle it.
• 1:25:54
  SPEAKER_05: Wriggle, wriggle, wriggle, wriggle, wriggle.
• 1:25:55
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 1:25:56
  SPEAKER_05: Wriggle, wriggle, wriggle, wriggle.
• 1:25:58
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that word that we all know, wriggle.
• 1:26:00
  SPEAKER_03: Puta la concha tu madre weon.
• 1:26:02
  SPEAKER_08: Any deal.
• 1:26:06
  SPEAKER_08: A two plus four, a six.
• 1:26:08
  SPEAKER_08: Oh my god.
• 1:26:09
  SPEAKER_08: A puta mad anyway on.
• 1:26:11
  SPEAKER_01: So I did say, I did say at the top of the mimic's turn you get 46.
• 1:26:14
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's so let's.
• 1:26:17
  SPEAKER_08: Oh, it's bad.
• 1:26:19
  SPEAKER_08: Four ones.
• 1:26:21
  SPEAKER_09: 24 damage later.
• 1:26:24
  SPEAKER_01: 17.
• 1:26:25
  SPEAKER_08: Yeah, I'm I'm gone.
• 1:26:26
  SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
• 1:26:27
  SPEAKER_01: That's alright.
• 1:26:28
  SPEAKER_01: That's alright.
• 1:26:30
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm I think Argo and Liv, you don't see no.
• 1:26:33
  SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
• 1:26:34
  SPEAKER_01: So on your next turn, we'll start rolling Death Saves.
• 1:26:36
  unknown: Yeah.
• 1:26:36
  SPEAKER_09: Ati, we won't, I'm sure we won't use this, but just there's never been a better moment for it.
• 1:26:41
  SPEAKER_09: Can you give me a yeah, that's me.
• 1:26:44
  SPEAKER_09: You're probably wondering how I got here.
• 1:26:46
  SPEAKER_08: Yeah, that's me.
• 1:26:47
  SPEAKER_08: You're probably wondering how I got here.
• 1:26:49
  SPEAKER_09: Great, great.
• 1:26:50
  SPEAKER_08: Editor, cut that all out.
• 1:26:52
  SPEAKER_06: Can I get one uh reaction?
• 1:26:55
  SPEAKER_08: It is scream.
• 1:27:02
  SPEAKER_03: That's okay.
• 1:27:02
  SPEAKER_03: Somebody'll use that.
• 1:27:05
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so Argon Liv, you do not see this happen.
• 1:27:09
  SPEAKER_09: As far as you know, you just again see that warmth, that heat radiating out of the It doesn't change what I think is the only strategy now, which is get in the chest.
• 1:27:19
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 1:27:20
  SPEAKER_09: Often my strategy.
• 1:27:21
  SPEAKER_09: Good for you, babe.
• 1:27:22
  SPEAKER_06: Um, I will just get up on it.
• 1:27:30
  SPEAKER_06: I will I will run towards it as fast as I can and make myself big so it thinks I'm a target.
• 1:27:38
  unknown: Oh no.
• 1:27:40
  SPEAKER_00: Like a bear acting like a bigger than you can.
• 1:27:42
  SPEAKER_06: I say, let me in! Like a bear?
• 1:27:46
  SPEAKER_06: Just like trying to fake it out until it opens.
• 1:27:50
  SPEAKER_06: And can I hold my actual action to like jump in?
• 1:27:53
  SPEAKER_01: Um so basically at the top of its turn, we'll resolve that.
• 1:27:57
  SPEAKER_01: Argo Yurko.
• 1:27:58
  SPEAKER_09: Oh god, oh god, okay.
• 1:28:02
  SPEAKER_09: I don't like this, I don't like this, I don't like this.
• 1:28:04
  SPEAKER_09: And we're just gonna leap into this thing.
• 1:28:07
  SPEAKER_01: Grab Liv's angles.
• 1:28:09
  SPEAKER_09: Yep.
• 1:28:10
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 1:28:11
  SPEAKER_09: Because we can't see the element.
• 1:28:14
  SPEAKER_09: Just try to do that.
• 1:28:16
  SPEAKER_01: Darius is holding the element, and Darius is in the stomach of the mimic.
• 1:28:20
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, Darius, it is your turn.
• 1:28:25
  SPEAKER_08: Okay.
• 1:28:26
  SPEAKER_01: Let's do your death save first.
• 1:28:28
  SPEAKER_08: I got I definitely failed.
• 1:28:30
  SPEAKER_08: What'd you get?
• 1:28:31
  SPEAKER_08: Six.
• 1:28:31
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, that is one failure.
• 1:28:33
  SPEAKER_01: You have three, you have three failures before you are dead.
• 1:28:36
  SPEAKER_01: Oh god.
• 1:28:37
  SPEAKER_01: Argo and Liv, you jump into this mimic.
• 1:28:41
  SPEAKER_01: It is dark and squeezy.
• 1:28:45
  SPEAKER_01: Slide down this tongue, this esophagus that is not actually real.
• 1:28:52
  SPEAKER_01: It is this weird shape of a thing.
• 1:28:54
  SPEAKER_01: You feel the heat before you see it.
• 1:28:58
  SPEAKER_01: And as in the in the dim light of this crystal, you see Darius slumped down, eyes closed, sword draped at his side, but you still see this element in his hand almost fused to it.
• 1:29:13
  SPEAKER_01: Not actually, but it is still very firmly within his grasp.
• 1:29:18
  SPEAKER_01: You see Darius's veins glowing as he touches it.
• 1:29:25
  SPEAKER_01: And then everything goes bright.
• 1:29:29
  SPEAKER_01: I need everyone except for Darius to make me a con save.
• 1:29:33
  SPEAKER_09: Bless.
• 1:29:34
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, that's a five.
• 1:29:36
  SPEAKER_03: Plus bless?
• 1:29:37
  SPEAKER_05: Uh my bless was a one.
• 1:29:39
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, great.
• 1:29:40
  SPEAKER_09: I rolled a three.
• 1:29:41
  SPEAKER_09: Uh 19 on the die, plus three, twenty-two, plus two, twenty-four.
• 1:29:45
  SPEAKER_01: Hell yeah.
• 1:29:46
  SPEAKER_09: Good.
• 1:29:47
  SPEAKER_01: The gravity of falling down this mimic's throat shifts as you feel yourselves all crumble onto the stone floor of the infinite hallway.
• 1:29:58
  SPEAKER_01: As the element has transported you back to the cauldron that you began with.
• 1:30:07
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• 1:30:19
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• 1:30:22
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• 1:30:29
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