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C1 Ep.18: In The Cage · Smooth Critical

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Welcome back to Smooth Critical. I'm your DM, Avni.
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Quick question, Avni, are you OK?
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I'm actually here. Are you OK?
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Are you OK of I'm not doing this?
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Are are you OK of me? OK, that's good.
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Then I don't have to do it I. No, no, no, no, no, no.
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OK, now I feel left out. Are you OK of me barely even
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caught that Let me get myself ready.
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I am surprisingly not very nervous for this match.
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I'm not sure. How you all feel?
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But I have a feeling that this will go super duper great for
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everyone. Well, not for the people that
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will probably die, but hopefully that won't be you guys.
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My three gorgeous gladiators. I have to say real quick before
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you introduce us, Himai, I was actually planning on doing that
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before you did it as well. Now you see like a copycat
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synced the. Synced minds.
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That's crazy. I was, I was so ready to do
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that. And then you did it.
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I was like, oh fuck, let's fucking go.
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All right, Well, we'll start with Himai.
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Hello, it's Abe. Harry.
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Hello, it's Bon. And Charlie?
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Hello, it's Bo. Incredible.
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All right, let's start our recap.
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You started in the cavern that houses the illegal gladiator
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matches. You decided to watch some
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matches and split up to kind of get a feel for the land.
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Bon and Bunty met a giant Goliath named Glorp and a crazy
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Canku woman named Vedu. Vedu explained that she killed
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Bearda and was responsible for the severed wings.
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She now runs the underground fighting circuit.
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At the same time, Beau and Abe went to the back of the Tavern
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for a drink. Unfortunately, a gang of people
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called the Chains Cartel were hugging the bartender, and when
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Abe tried to get the bartender's attention, the Chains Cartel
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turned on him. They got into a little argument
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and it seems like the Chains Cartel were going to throw Beau
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and Abe out. Fortunately, Bond from the
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balcony saw this and asked Vaidu for her help to save his
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friends. She agreed but said they had one
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strike and one more strike and they would be tossed out.
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She then also told Bond that she was the new merchant Guild
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leader for Noctavalis and her and her gang were released from
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the Shade Hold. Naryx was relieved of his
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duties. She also told you that the
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Imperatrix asked her to make sure only Ignovarum and
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Noctavalis merchants were allowed to trade in Ember Hold.
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After all of this, Bond headed back to his friends, told them
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about all this info and they made a plan for the fights.
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After getting assessed, Bo was ready for his fight when he
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spotted a strange man watching him before he disappeared into a
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crowd. And that's where we are now.
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Bo, you are getting ushered into this cage so once you step foot
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the door closes and locks behind you.
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It is a massive like I said before, it is a massive 80 foot
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square cage and the cage goes up 100 feet but does not have any
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lid on it. Before the fight officially
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starts, I'm going to nudge Abe to tell Bunty to just like, do
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something silly to try to distract Glorp.
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And I want to try to cast Bliss on.
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I want to try to clap. I want to try to.
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Get a start to the session. I want to try to cast bless on
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bow before the fight starts. I'm assuming they're mostly
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looking out for people casting things during fights, but I just
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kind of want to give him a little buff before the fight.
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Absolutely give me Sleight of Hand or Stealth with advantage
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because I think we ended last session with Bunty getting a
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gnat 20 on the distraction and so I will roll Glorp with
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disadvantage as well. All right, that is a 18.
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Great, that is A2 for Glorp so you're able to cast a spell on
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bow if needed all. Right.
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I think I'm, I was a little bit shook by seeing that guy who I
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think might have seen through my disguise.
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But as soon as I feel Bond's like familiar magic, it kind of
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shakes me out of it. And as I'm getting like into the
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ring, I want to cast a couple of things on myself.
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First, I'd like to cast False Life.
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Awesome. Is that concentration?
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Nope, it's just it gives myself temporary hit points.
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Cool, OK so I get 8 temporary hit points.
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Nice. Then I would like to cast Mage
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Hand and just make it invisible. I don't want anybody to
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necessarily see that. I cast it just so I can have it
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floating around in case I can use it for something in the
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match. And then lastly I'll cast Blade
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Ward on myself, which is concentration.
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Great, so mage hand is not concentration, only blade ward
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is? Yes cool.
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And sorry Bond, did you specify what spell you're casting on
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Bow? Bless.
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Yeah, bless. OK, cool.
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So that that gives Beau 1D4 to all of his attack roles and
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saving throws for the next minute.
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That sounds great as Beau gets up there.
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Do you guys want to place bets now from outside the cage?
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All right. We have about 1200 gold pieces.
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I think we should go hard or go home.
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I think betting high now gives us a lot of leeway to bet lower
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on me and Abe if we win. But, you know, high risk, high
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reward. Listen, Bo's not here to talk us
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out of this. I shoot a message to these guys.
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Don't you know, play, play something, play it safe.
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Only bet like 1000 of our gold. I'm going to look right, look
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you in the eyes, bond and be like for for much of my life
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after my parents left, I had nothing and I was fine.
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Honestly, me too man. Put it all in.
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Let's let's maybe, let's put 1000 in.
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Fuck it. So if you guys put 1000 in and
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Bo wins, you get 3000 gold pieces back?
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Do we get 3000 plus our initial or we just?
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Yes, yes, plus your initial. Yeah.
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All right. So you would get 4000 total if
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you win. Jesus Christ.
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Incredible. So you guys set your bet as Beau
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walks on stage, you haven't even looked at the other person.
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You see the other person steps into the cage on the other side
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and they are just clanging around.
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This person is wearing a giant helmet with three spikes coming
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out of it. Massive massive armor on
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themselves. They look like very fully
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protected. The armor also like carved out
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like where they're had like an 8 pack.
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You can't tell the race of this person because they are just
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literally covered head to toe in like very metallic armor.
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They wield a giant sword that is kind of humming and flashing
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with light. And they also wield a a giant
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shield that probably goes up from like under their chin all
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the way down to their knees, just like this giant shield that
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they're holding. And they're just standing there
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this this night. Can I do a check to see if they
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are actually level 5 or if they, like me, made themselves look
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worse than they are? Yeah, give me an insight check
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and they will roll something too.
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So that's a gnat 1. Yeah, they look level 5.
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In fact, they actually look Level 3, which is crazy.
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So maybe they try to buff themselves up.
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OK, interesting. All right, I'm going to look
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back at these guys and I'm going to shoot them another message.
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Can't trip. I'm going to be like just bet
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the rest of the money this wimp over.
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Here, there's a towering person wearing the giant armor.
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OK, so Bon, if you want to cast a spell anytime during the
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fight, you can do it at the end of the round.
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OK, sounds good. Also real quick, how big is the
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arena? Can you describe the arena?
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Yes, it is an 80 foot by 80 foot square cage.
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Beau and this person are on opposite sides right now.
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The metal poles go up 100 feet into the air, but there is no
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roof on it. The bars are close together,
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like wide enough that like a small creature like 1/2 linger
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bunty could definitely squeeze their way through.
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But like a medium sized creature or larger such as bow and
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whoever bows fighting would not be able to get through without
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some sort of like bending of the metal.
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So they are like trapped in there.
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There are two doors, one that bow went through on one side,
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one that this person went through on the other side.
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And the ground is all stone. It's kind of jagged.
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It's very uncomfortable for your feet and the stone is just like
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soaked in blood right now. Me and Abe are going to kind of
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track bow so that we're within 60 feet of him at all times.
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Great there. Yeah.
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There seems to be a good amount of movement that is happening in
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this crowd as well as usual. So you can kind of make your way
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to Track bowl. That sounds like a good idea.
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OK, Bowl roll initiative. Thank God I got the one out of
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the way. So that'll be 21.
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Bo, the fight begins. You are 60 feet apart from this
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giant knight creature, this helmed person, I'll call them.
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OK I will fuck. Sorry now I have one spell slot
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left. So I'm trying to decide do I go
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all out and cast which bolt on him or do I save it in case you
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guys need it for the next round? But we put so much money down I
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kind of OK fuck all right. I cast witch bolt on him and I
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will plant my feet in the ground and I we're going to use steady
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aim I believe it's called. It's a rogue feature where I can
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make an attack with advantage if I don't move on that turn.
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So. Awesome.
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And don't forget the D4 from Bless.
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All right, that is going to be a 12 to hit this large armored
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guy. That surprisingly does not hit.
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All right, going to use my heroic inspiration.
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It's a reroll and it's another six on the diet, so Nope, there
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goes that. Does.
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So if you don't hit on the first time, can you still trigger
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which? Bowl.
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I will still get it on following terms, but it just doesn't do
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anything up front. Great, that was an action.
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Any bonus actions? No, not right now.
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Awesome, so on the helmed persons turn you see that they
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start hovering. Actually, how far, how much
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further away can I get from him? Well, you can't move if he did
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advantage already. Yeah.
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Oh, you're right, you're right. Nevermind.
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Also you, you are right up against the cage like you guys
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started, like right next to your doors where you enter.
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The cage potentially be like just mathematically the furthest
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you can get are the corners. It it doesn't matter.
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I can't bond was right. I can't move can.
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You bonus action dodge. Yeah, that's.
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Not a bad idea. I can't, not as a rogue and.
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The DM says that. Really rogues?
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Can't they? I can dash, disengage or hide,
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but not dodge. Oh.
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God. Because I can do that.
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Yeah, monks can. Yeah, you can do the dodge.
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So I can try hiding from him. Just in in the cage spot where
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you are. Yeah, if you want go for it.
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Roll. I don't know, roll with
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disadvantage and the DC is 25. OK to.
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Hide. To hide in an empty cage.
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Well, the first roll isn't going to Yeah, so it was a yeah, you.
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Got a 19 with disadvantage. That's pretty good.
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OK, so that is your turn. You try to hide next to.
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Well, describe to me how you try to hide.
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I guess I can't. I don't think I have any cover
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like no. So I just, I, I think, I try to
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cast invisibility on myself. I think maybe my magic is at
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that point. So I like, I, I listen to Bond's
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advice and I, I say, I wave my hands in front of my face and I
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say, you can't see me. And.
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As everyone sees you and honestly you are really, really
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selling the fact that you are a Level 3 or with really bad lens
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right now. Yeah.
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So if anything, you're really deep into your disguise.
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It's part of the plan, guys. It is this helm, the person's
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turn. You see that they start hovering
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off the ground so they don't have to step, and they start
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flying straight towards you, sword outstretched, and he is
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standing right in front of you. But that is his entire turn.
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OK cool, I have my short sword and my dagger drawn and I will
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just start making attacks on him.
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Awesome. And I will use a luck point to
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give myself advantage. Thank God.
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Hell yeah. So with the bless and
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everything, that is a 28 to hit. 28 definitely hits.
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So I'll roll for my second attack as well.
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Go for it. So this will also be with
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advantage since I hit on the 1st 123 to hit.
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That hits. So he runs up to me and I kind
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of flubbed it on the first attack, and I think that I'm
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invisible for a second, but then he appears right in front of me
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and it stops short. But as he gets closer to me, I
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think I'm just going to kind of nervously stick my sword out and
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then actually catch a chink in his armor.
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And then as I realize that I hit, I'm going to bring my
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dagger up and hit him again with that and I'll do 11 damage.
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Awesome with that. And then I'm also going to
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activate the Witch Bolt as a bonus action.
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Incredible. That would be another 6 damage.
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Six damage, pretty solid. OK Anything else?
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Any movement you want to take on your turn.
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Yeah, I guess. Or no.
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I I Yeah, I. Won't he will get an attack of
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opportunity but. Yeah, because I can't disengage.
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So Yep. You seem to make a bit of a dent
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in his armor, and he raises his sword above his head, really,
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really high. He's holding the shield with his
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left hand right out in front of him, and he swings the sword
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down on you twice. Chill out of me I.
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I just rolled and I want to be honest here, I just rolled 2 net
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20s no. OK.
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OK. Does blade ward do anything?
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I just oh. Yes.
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No it doesn't. I don't have blade ward up
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anymore because it was concentration and it it would
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only like subtract 4 from the roll or out D4 from the roll so.
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OK, well in that case, oh you're so lucky.
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The first attack does 12 damage and the second attack does 15
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damage as he stabs down into your shoulder twice with his
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giant sword overhead and at the end of his turn he's just
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holding the sword that is just looks shiny and polished as if
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it hadn't even struck you twice. And that is his turn.
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It is the end of the round. Yeah, I see this and I nudge ape
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again. Like, hard to make bunty tap
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dance again. Dance, dance, dance.
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Bunty Dance. In a scene far away, Bunty is
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dancing and he turns to Vaidu and goes.
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Ma'am, can I have a little dance with you right now?
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A little, a little tango, if I may say so myself.
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And she goes, you're so funny. And Bunty goes, hey glorp, can I
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just, like, climb on your shoulders because I'm not tall
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enough to dance with her? And Bunty's going to make a
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persuasion check as he attempts to distract them.
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I I, I rolled a Nat 20 again. I don't know, like what the fuck
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is up? All right, use those dice for
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bunty, don't use them for. Him bro, I'll get another set of
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dice. So yeah, roll with advantage on
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your Stealth or Sleight of Hand DC10.
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Yeah, they're both plus one. OK.
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All right. That is a 16.
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Incredible. So what spell are you casting on
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bow right now? I am going to use Divine Spark,
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so I'm going to point my holy symbol at him and then I'm going
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to heal him for one D8 plus my wisdom modifier.
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Awesome. That is going to be 6 + 4 is
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1010 HP back. Yes, it is Harry.
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He might. We all got the same degree, you,
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me and Harry so. Ouchy there buddy, you you hit
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pretty hard the. Person goes.
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Yes, I hit hard. You didn't do so bad yourself.
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How? How OK, how bad does he look
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after actually saying that? Is he just trying to?
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He's he's being polite. OK.
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All right. Is it my turn?
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OK, let's do this again. Same deal.
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I'm going to give my use a luck point, give myself advantage on
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this attack. I was hoping maybe I would get
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favored with a crit, but no. Another 28 to hit though.
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That definitely hits. And then my stagger.
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My dagger is an unnatural 20 to hit.
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And Unnatural 20 does hit yes, thank.
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Fucking God. That is his AC.
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That's OK. Interesting.
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So he definitely lied about what level he was at.
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He hits me really hard twice. I say that to him and hopefully
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in the distraction afterwards of him responding and trying to be
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polite and pitying me, I sneak my sword underneath his shield
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and get in a couple of hits at him and I'm going to do 16
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damage with that. And once again I activate the
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the magical tether from the witch bolt and that'll do 11
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damage. Bo, anything else on your turn?
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Do you want to take any movement?
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No, yeah, I don't want to give him any more opportunities to
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attack. So as this happens, the helmed
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man whispers to you that. Was really good.
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That really hurt. Yeah, that really hurt.
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Good job. And backs away.
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You can take an attack of opportunity if you'd like.
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Does this feel like a trap? Does it like?
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You can insight check him, he's right now just kind of hovering
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backwards. Can I do an insight check
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without sacrificing any action economy?
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Or yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. OK, 18.
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It seems like he's gearing up for an attack.
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You don't think it's a trap if you hit him, but he's gearing up
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for some sort of attack that requires him to back up.
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OK. Oh dummy, I forgot to roll
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concentration to see if I kept which bolt.
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OK. Yeah.
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So the first attack I think was 11 and the second was 15.
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So you can roll that now. OK.
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So you need a concentration check of DC10 on the first on
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both of them. OK so I passed and I do have
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advantage on this from warcaster so I passed the first one.
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Awesome. Unfortunately, I do not pass the
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second one. OK great, so I'm going to bump
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him back up the 11 HP that you shouldn't have given for the for
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the witch bolt. Do you want to do something with
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your bonus action since you have just lost your witch bolt?
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There is nothing to do. OK, so this helmed man backs up
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30 feet. All right, I tried.
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I'm gonna, I'm gonna give myself advantage on his on the
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opportunity attack. Awesome.
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That is a 24 to hit. That hits. 12 damage, great.
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No, actually 13 damage. Ha ha.
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Is he dead? So you slash at him as he is
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backing up. Right now, he's definitely not
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looking super great. He points his sword at you and
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flies straight at you, trying to impale you between the bars.
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He only gets one attack when he does this special attack, but he
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gets to do it with advantage. I'm going to take a risk and use
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my reaction from the sidelines to use my wording flame.
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Awesome. And make him roll with
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disadvantage. And I know I I didn't have
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enough time to tell Bunty to do anything, so I'll probably just
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roll that flat. OK, go for it.
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That is going to be a 2, but I am going to use my heroic
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inspiration. Awesome.
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With his head in his hands right now.
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That's a Nat 20. That is a Nat 20 all right.
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Warding flame goes off. So a light flares in his eye
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right as he's about to hit, and he rolls with disadvantage.
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And the first die that I rolled was a Gnat 1.
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So this helmed creature is flying straight at you.
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That flash of light suddenly comes from the edge of the crowd
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and he kind of swerves a little bit and jams his sword and his
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hand through the bars right next to you.
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And everyone in the crowd has to back the fuck up like 5 feet as
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to not get impaled as his arms go through it.
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And at the end of his turn he just Yanks out the sword and
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turns to you Bo, so you're still within 5 feet of each other.
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You, you, you like that one. I call that a diversionary
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tactic. That's, you know, a trick of my
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of my Nah. That was really good.
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Yeah. You would have definitely been
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impaled if I got you. Look buddy, you don't have to.
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You don't have to pity me and shit, no.
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No, no, I actually really like you.
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How about this? How about we not kill each
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other? We'll just not.
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We'll just knock each other out. Sure.
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I'll, I'll make that deal, yeah. You just seem really nice.
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I don't know what it is. You can just kind of limp and
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you look a little sad and I think I just feel sad.
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For you. Thanks bud.
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Do you? Want to We'll get a Do you want
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to get a beer after this? Hell yeah.
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OK, cool this. Guy's actually kind of chill.
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All right, I'm sorry. I'm going to try to attack you
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now. It feels weird after that, but.
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I mean, this is how it goes. This is how it.
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Goes, yeah, you're right. All right, cool.
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I guess I can. I don't have any luck points
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left, but I guess I can use steady aim and just not move
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again. Go for it.
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From where I am so I'll give myself advantage again.
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Ease for the love of God. I just want a Nat 20 but I'm not
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going to get it now and it's unfortunately a 17 to hit so I
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don't even think I get them. Does not hit.
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Well, I'll try again with my offhand attack and that isn't
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going to hit either. OK, so you dink off of his armor
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twice. You're just.
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You can tell me if this is bullshit or not because this
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would be too overpowered, but could I use late mage hand
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Ledger main to just kind of like shift his helmet a little bit to
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the side so it obscures his vision a little bit?
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Give me Sleight of hand with disadvantage.
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This can be your bonus action and it will need to beat ADC 20
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because that helmet is firmly on his head.
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Fair enough. OK, that's 18 on the first roll
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and five on the second. So Nope.
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For a second, the hand starts to move the the helmet on his head
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and he kind of clamps it down with the hand that's holding the
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shield. And he looks at you, and he
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goes, I. Don't know what that was, but
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you're tricky. I really like you.
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And it is now his turn. So nice dude.
26:41
He lifts up his giant sword and is just going to go for two
26:45
regular attacks. That is a 16 on one of them and
26:51
a Nat one on the other and. That one hits, the 16 doesn't.
26:57
OK, sounds good. So I'm going to roll damage
27:03
where he had stabbed you in the shoulders before he keeps
27:08
stabbing down right, kind of where that muscle and that that
27:12
that very tense part of your body is and he hits you for
27:16
that's. The Spot.
27:18
And he hits you for 11 damage. How you looking though?
27:22
Bad. I got 13 points left.
27:25
He's he's not looking great too. He looks a little better than
27:27
you, but he's also not looking great.
27:29
It is now the end of the turn. Bond if you want to do anything
27:33
or all. Right, I'm going to ask.
27:36
I'm going to tell Abe to make Bunty do something again.
27:39
Bunty, shake your ass. Shake your ass.
27:41
Maybe shit a little. You hear in your head, I'm not
27:45
going to shit. In front of they do I respect
27:48
her too much, but I will dance. It's honestly that's pretty
27:52
fucked up that you don't respect me enough not to do that in
27:55
front of me, but whatever. That's an 11 for Bunty, which
28:00
means they're still going to roll, but they're going to roll
28:02
straight and you can roll with advantage.
28:04
OK, that is a 19 on the die plus one so dirty 20.
28:11
You're Gucci. What are you going to do?
28:13
I am going to cast Healing word of A1 spell.
28:19
OK, awesome. You know, actually I'm going to
28:20
cast it at a level 2, so I'm going to roll 4D4 plus my
28:24
wisdom. Awesome.
28:27
This is going to actually keep me in it.
28:30
So that is A1A2A3 and A3. Nice.
28:34
So that is going to be 9 + 4 is 13 HP.
28:38
Solid doubled my hit points. All right, Bo, it is your turn.
28:43
How? How does he look compared to me
28:45
now? He looks a little worse than
28:48
you. OK, and he's right next to me
28:51
still. He is right next to you, yes.
28:54
OK, I'm just, I'm going to keep, I'm going to keep banging away.
28:55
I'm I'm like, I'm so considering just being like, dude, throw the
28:59
fight and we'll give you 1000 gold.
29:03
Honestly not a bad tactic. I'm just it's a debate of
29:07
whether I can make it through the next round, but I'm going to
29:10
have faith, so that's 24 to hit with my first attack.
29:15
It's. 16 damage offhand as well, so that one also hits and that's
29:28
just an additional one damage. OK.
29:31
So I think as he lifts his shield up to keep his helmet in
29:35
place, I kind of stab him like right in the armpit as he makes
29:39
that opening. And then I'm going to just kind
29:44
of very barely nick him with my knife and do an additional one
29:48
damage on top of that. Incredible.
29:51
He is looking super, super bad right now.
29:55
He is going to. He's not looking great right now
30:01
going. To say I'm actually, I'm going
30:02
to say throw the fight and we'll give you 500 gold.
30:05
I've got to say like under my breath to him.
30:07
He looks over at you and goes. Yeah, OK.
30:10
Yeah, I was going to lose anyways.
30:12
It seems like I'm not doing so hot, but I will take you up on
30:14
that. And he swings his sword
30:18
purposely and misses you twice, kind of hitting on the bars
30:22
behind you, and that is his turn.
30:25
All right. And I, I, I kind of make a big
30:27
show of taking the pommel of my sword and, and hitting it on his
30:31
helmet. But I don't hit it too hard to
30:33
like, try to knock him out, you know?
30:36
You can. He's not moving.
30:37
You just roll with advantage right now just to.
30:40
Like I'm still, I'm still making the attacks, OK.
30:43
Just to do it, do it, do enough damage for it to like, actually
30:45
look like you're going for him. Sure, it would be so funny if I
30:51
don't hit OK, that'll be a 22 to hit.
30:55
Yeah, so just describe how you knock him out right now.
30:58
Yeah, so I just kind of, I kind of do that.
31:00
I take the I guess I'll take both my my sword and my knife
31:05
and I'll I'll hit him on the sides of the head or the helmet
31:08
with the pommels and make it seem like I'm just knocking him
31:12
out. The whole helmet vibrates and
31:15
you can hear his head clonging back and back and forth inside
31:18
the helmet and he collapses to the ground in a heap.
31:22
And the crowd is going wild right now.
31:25
Just as this, this giant helmed man with a giant sword and
31:30
shield fighting this little little skinny orca with like a
31:35
bunch of shitty limbs. And everyone is going wild by
31:38
that. And you hear Bonnen.
31:40
Wow. That's the first first victory
31:42
for me. The first first victory to good
31:46
old gumbo lobotomy. Gumbo lobotomy.
31:54
You could have stopped that gumbo.
31:58
Let's fucking. Go Oh my God, gumbo lobotomy.
32:04
You know, the word gumbo came out and then I wasn't gonna say
32:07
anything else, but lobotomy just followed it.
32:10
That's so good. I'll shoot up a cantrip and be
32:13
like, we'll get that drink later, maybe not here and we'll
32:16
pay up. He's like completely knocked
32:18
out. But yeah, you get the sentence
32:20
thing. Oh.
32:22
He'll come fine. He's.
32:23
Actually, that close. He's actually that close to
32:26
losing that. You.
32:28
Absolutely. Knocked him out.
32:29
I didn't know if I was going to make it through the next round
32:32
or not. That's fair.
32:33
He had four HP, so he was really close when you bonked him.
32:38
So he is knocked out. You see that the Goliath that
32:41
had assessed you looks really disappointed because he had bet
32:44
lots of money against you. But you also hear some people in
32:47
the crowd being like, and that's why you bet on the underdog.
32:51
And people are just kind of like some people are high fiving.
32:53
A lot of people look upset, but people who look upset, it's not
32:57
like they lost so much money, but the people who won, they
33:01
like won big. So you guys get 4000 gold
33:05
pieces. So that's what 4200 is your
33:09
total right now. Yeah -500.
33:12
I'm so sweaty. We already talked about the
33:16
humidity like. So as Beau exits, the doors
33:20
unlocked for Beau to exit. The crumpled body of this helmed
33:25
person is just on the floor. His armor is dinged everywhere.
33:30
You can see blood coming out from under the helmets where his
33:35
head kind of got conked. You did non lethal damage but he
33:37
still smacked his head against metal really hard and you see
33:40
some blood from under his armor where you had jabbed him quite a
33:44
few times. He's OK, but the ground is now
33:47
obviously soaked with a little bit more blood, but not nearly
33:51
as bad as some of the other fights that you saw where people
33:54
were like cleaved in half. So All in all, decent fight
33:58
Beau. You exit and there is barely a
34:03
moment before Bon and Abe are kind of grabbed from the crowd
34:07
and shuffled into the fighting pits.
34:12
I'm just going to close my eyes as they're kind of dragging us
34:14
up to the OR like I guess shepherding us to the to the
34:17
door. close my eyes and just say, OK, I don't really know how
34:21
to do this. But Silvira is my first prayer.
34:24
It goes out to you. Please, please make sure that
34:30
bond and I don't die. I'm not ready yet and I don't
34:33
want to make that pact to the void.
34:34
Mommy, thank you to Silvira. Thanks.
34:36
That's very nice Bond. Do you do a prayer to Thesmira
34:41
as well as you enter? Yeah, I enter, and I say to
34:47
Thesmira. We've broken many chains before.
34:51
Now it's time to break some skulls.
34:53
In Amen credit. Amen.
34:55
I open my eyes and I hear that prayer and I'm like, whoa.
34:59
Please protect me. Please protect those.
35:03
Awesome. And I say my prayer.
35:05
I say my prayer of 800 gold on those two guys over there.
35:12
And I say this prayer to the guy who's organizing the bets.
35:18
I didn't, we didn't talk. I would actually shoot a message
35:20
at them and ask them how much money we they think we should.
35:23
That's fine to your. Description.
35:24
One to one? Yeah.
35:26
Pick. You choose.
35:29
Do you guys want to know real quick about how much it costs to
35:33
upgrade limbs? Because I know all three of you
35:35
were looking at that. Sure.
35:38
You you would have enough you there's 750 to bump everything
35:42
from a level 1 to a level 2, so 750 * 3.
35:48
If anyone was looking to increase it past level 2 then
35:53
it's an additional 2000 gold pieces per.
35:57
And if you were doing an upgrade from a different Kingdom, is it
36:00
like if it's 750, is it like 1000 or?
36:03
So level 1 and level 2 is equal across all the kingdoms.
36:08
If you're going from a level 2 to a Level 3 and that's when
36:12
you're trying to use it from another empire, then it's 1 1/2
36:14
time. So that would be 3000 gold
36:16
pieces. Got it.
36:18
Got it. OK.
36:18
You could bet probably 1000 at least.
36:22
OK, yeah, then I'll do a, I'll do 1000 gold.
36:25
As we as we enter, I'm also going to turn to Abe and say,
36:27
listen, I this might be a tough fight.
36:31
I don't know if I'm going to go down.
36:32
I don't know if you're going to go down.
36:33
So I think we might need to fight all out.
36:36
I can try to save some of my magic full revivified, but I
36:40
think it might be better spent in the battle.
36:42
Yeah, yeah. I mean, I, I prayed to Silvira,
36:44
so she hasn't let me down yet. All.
36:47
Right. All right.
36:47
Cool. Yeah, and I neglect to mention
36:50
that it was the cleric that saved him last time, and not so
36:53
far, but. Yeah, it's OK, as long I don't
36:55
mention has something to believe in, that's probably for the
36:58
best. So you too enter and your
37:02
opponents enter at the same time.
37:04
You see there's a very elegant looking female high elf just
37:09
kind of hoity toitying around there and you see this very
37:14
small bully Wug. You guys haven't come across
37:18
bully wugs so far. They are these toad frog like
37:22
creatures who walk on 2 legs. They can talk, they can do
37:27
everything like that. They're just they're pretty
37:30
small and they're pretty cute. And this little bully wug walks
37:35
up. He's wearing an entire outfit
37:39
made from like, leaves and grass, and he wears a little
37:42
mushroom helmet on his head, and he turns to the high elf and
37:48
goes, golly, this is going to be some fun times, don't you think?
37:53
Yay, read it. I turn to you, Bon, and I go.
37:56
Imagine if Bunty was like that. And with that roll initiative.
38:06
It's going to be 13. 14. OK, so top of the round is this
38:13
bullywug. This bullywug wastes absolutely
38:18
no fucking time, pulls out a little stick, like just a stick
38:23
you would find on the ground. It has like ants and everything.
38:27
And he points the stick at you guys and goes sphere and a giant
38:36
1 foot diameter ball of acid streaks and explodes in a 20
38:41
foot radius at you guys. Each creature in that area makes
38:44
a Dexterity saving throw. 16. 19.
38:50
Both of those pass, and that is very, very good because let me
38:54
read the rest of the spell. On a failed save, a creature
38:58
takes 10D4 acid damage and another 5D4 acid damage at the
39:03
end of its next turn. On a successful save, the
39:06
creature takes half of the initial damage only.
39:10
So you guys only take half of 10 D 4 right now and let me roll
39:16
that up for you guys. Also just have to say that it
39:18
pointing at us and saying sphere was so cute.
39:21
Sphere. He looks really cute right now,
39:24
pointing a little stick at you guys.
39:27
The spell is vitriolic. Sphere.
39:29
Oh. Fuck, that's a good one.
39:31
So that is going to be 26 damage halved to 13.
39:39
OK, on it's bonus action, it is going to leap 30 feet into the
39:46
air and attempt to hold on to the metal bars and hang on 30
39:53
feet up on the air. So it is going to roll to hang
39:57
on and it's able to use its sticky hands to grab on.
40:03
So it is now 80 feet away from you, 30 feet into the air,
40:07
holding on to the metal bar, 30 feet in the air.
40:10
Do I have to say it? Spiderman.
40:13
Toby McGuire, Act one, Spiderman one.
40:15
Incredible. And actually, the bully blog
40:19
turns to you guys and goes. My name is Peter.
40:25
I don't know why you said your name, but okay.
40:27
That is his turn. Next to go is Bon.
40:31
So he is now what, 4030 feet up in the air?
40:34
20 feet up in the air. 30 feet up in the air, 80 feet
40:37
horizontally. Well, that's perfectly fine with
40:40
me. I'm going to cast.
40:41
Fireball is a 20 foot radius sphere, so I'm going to do it
40:47
centered on a point where I cannot singe the entire crowd.
40:51
Incredible. So I am going to cast Fireball
40:55
and they both have to make deck saving throws taking 8D6 on a
41:01
failed save. Great, the Bullywug is going to
41:03
go first. Surprisingly, there has no
41:06
advantage to it or no bigger upgrade to its deck save.
41:11
That is a six for the Bullywug. Oh yeah, and for the High Elf,
41:16
that is going to be How does the High Elf have more?
41:19
And we're having fried frog legs tonight.
41:21
Damn, that's a gnat one for the high elf.
41:24
So they both fail right now. All right, so that is going to
41:27
be 86 fire damage. Oh, not good.
41:31
Don't be so disappointed of me. I was hoping this would be a
41:36
closer fight but not if you fry my guys BBQ woman.
41:42
Listen to that. We're going to cook them at
41:45
Gumbo Lobotomy's new. Orleans Cafe.
41:49
Oh my God. Please, Mr. Lobotomy was my
41:52
father. My friends called me Gumbo.
41:56
All right, so I create a massive fireball centered on a point
42:02
right around the right, right kind of between them.
42:06
A huge emanation of flames engulfs the entire stage,
42:10
leaving a massive wave of heat emanating out into the crowd and
42:14
they both take 20 damage. Woof.
42:18
OK. I'm going to use my movement to
42:21
get 30 feet closer to all of them.
42:24
Awesome. Anything else you want to do
42:27
this turn Bond? Yeah, I'm going to cast
42:29
fireballs. Again.
42:32
Bitch, I don't know that I let me let me double check
42:35
something. I don't know that I have any
42:36
other bonus actions that are Oh. I just thought of knees face
42:42
drop a little. How far?
42:44
How far away were they from us? They were 80 feet away
42:49
horizontally. No, I I think I'll end my turn
42:51
there. I'll move 30 feet up.
42:53
Cool. OK, Abe, it is your turn all.
42:56
Right, I'm going to use my, I'm going to, I'm going to look at,
43:02
look at where Bon has gone and I'm just going to move all the
43:05
way up to the high Elf. That is your movement and bonus
43:08
action. OK, yeah, so I'm up there.
43:11
I'm going to use the charter feet to make an attack on the
43:14
High Elf. I'm going to come in and I'm
43:16
going to do a drop kick. So here is what's going to
43:20
happen for Abe with his first gladiatorial fight since
43:25
Cloward. Abe, if you can't tell, has not
43:29
been doing so hot since he kind of witnessed these fights going
43:34
on. So Abe, you're still frightened
43:37
by your last gladiator battle. You have had fights since, such
43:40
as the pirate fight, the fight in the bar, the bandits on the
43:44
side of the road. But you didn't have an active
43:46
choice in participating in those fights.
43:48
You had an active choice now to participate in this fight.
43:51
And you know that it's going to help your party long term.
43:54
Mechanics wise, A will be rolling with disadvantage on
43:58
attacks. He's just a little too in his
44:00
head. And yeah, he's just, he's not as
44:04
controlled with his attacks as he usually is.
44:07
I mean, you heard Abe, he did that little prayer to Sylvira in
44:10
the beginning some like he's never prayed before.
44:12
Like this is this is a lot for you, Abe, right now.
44:16
But Abe, if you get the bloodied condition, which is half of your
44:19
HP, you can start rolling straight.
44:22
Because I think that Abe knows that when he's down to it, he's
44:26
got to lock the fuck in. But up until you get the
44:29
bloodied condition you will be rolling attacks with
44:31
disadvantage unfortunately. Makes sense.
44:35
All right, I'll roll again then let's see.
44:40
It's a 22 to hit. 22 definitely hits that high elf.
44:46
I'm also going to use my extra attack, which I will roll
44:50
disadvantage on. OK, that's a 14.
44:56
That was a 15 and a 14 that time, and so that's a 21 to hit
45:00
on the extra attack. 21 hits, roll your damage for both of
45:03
those and are with the charger attack.
45:06
Are you going to do extra damage or are you going to try to push
45:08
her? I'm going to use my extra
45:12
damage. Awesome.
45:13
So on the first attack only, I run in very fast and I do this
45:18
drop kick and then I kind of use my arms to launch myself back
45:23
off the ground and I sweep at her feet, kind of kicking her
45:26
shins. Awesome.
45:28
And how much damage is that? 15 points of damage.
45:31
Incredible. She is looking super hurt right
45:35
now between both Bon and Abe's attack.
45:39
She's in the bloodied condition right now already.
45:41
I was just going to say, Bon, you noticed that like I look a
45:45
little stiff like some of these movements you've seen me do
45:50
before. But as I kind of launched in the
45:51
air, it doesn't look as as good as it has looked.
45:54
And as I'm launching myself off the ground, I look a little
45:57
stiff. Got it.
45:58
Yeah, that's my turn. Awesome.
46:00
OK, so it is now this High Elf's turn.
46:05
This High Elf is going to cast Tasha's Hideous Laughter and
46:13
with a bonus action is going to make you roll the Wisdom saving
46:18
throw with disadvantage to. Who?
46:21
To Abe. Excuse me?
46:22
With disadvantage in that 20 please.
46:27
OK, it's a 16. That's a 19.
46:30
OK, a 19 is not going to pass. So Abe.
46:34
Yeah, Abe, you are now prone, incapacitated, and laughing
46:42
uncontrollably. At the end of your turn, or each
46:45
time you take damage, you can make another Wisdom saving
46:48
throw. What kind of joke did she tell?
46:51
I kind of collapse and then I start saying, he said sphere.
46:59
Yeah, as she cashes Tasha Hideous Laughter, she just
47:03
repeats the word sphere and it sends Abe into this giggle shit.
47:07
Fist this giggle shit fit. All right, She's going to move
47:12
30 feet away from Abe, but still hugging the wall and Abe cannot
47:18
make any opportunity attacks on her.
47:21
That is her turn. Top of the round is this bully
47:24
Wug. The high elf turns to the bully
47:28
Wug and goes, I think just hit him.
47:31
He's going to get to make another save against it, but I
47:35
think I think just hit him. You'll get to do it with
47:37
advantage and the bully Wug goes.
47:40
I can't wait to hit him with my staff and the bully Wug jumps
47:45
down and is going to smack you with his staff and he's going to
47:50
get to roll with advantage that is 23 to hit that hits that is
47:58
going to do so. He slams down and slams the
48:02
staff right into your stomach as his first attack.
48:05
That is going to be 8 bludgeoning damage and an
48:11
additional 7 poison damage. As you see, Green starts to seep
48:18
off of his staff onto you. Got it.
48:21
So Abe rolls at this point, right for Tasha's?
48:24
Yes, yeah, Abe, you can roll another Wisdom saving throw.
48:29
With disadvantage. The target has advantage on the
48:32
save if it's triggered by damage, so you have advantage.
48:35
You have to beat DC 20. Fantastic.
48:37
All right. We got the Nat one out of the
48:42
way. So that's a 17A natural 20.
48:45
A natural 20 that just passes so on the bullywugs second turn he
48:51
is just going to or second attack he is just going to roll
48:54
straight on you I. Mean, I think he still might be
48:56
prone. No, yeah, I guess he hasn't
48:59
stood up. It doesn't really matter.
49:01
I did roll a Nat 20 OK. Can I use my reaction when I'm
49:05
prone? Yes, yes.
49:07
OK. Great.
49:09
So he hits you with a Nat 20, Are you going to use deflect
49:13
attack? Definitely.
49:14
OK, so that'll work for the bludgeoning damage, so let me
49:18
roll that right now. Nice.
49:21
I'm rolling really well. Me too, yeah.
49:26
I need it so I will reduce whatever the damage is by 17.
49:32
OK, great. As he smacks you with the staff
49:36
this time it seems like it's going down even harder than
49:40
before, but you're able to kind of push it up from you.
49:42
So you take two points of bludgeoning damage because I got
49:45
a 19 which is actually the Max that he could have rolled on the
49:50
bludgeoning, and then you still take poison damage.
49:54
So the staff still makes contact with you and poison seeps off of
49:58
it and you take an additional 7 poison damage.
50:02
Additional So I took nine points of.
50:03
Damage, yes. 2 bludgeoning, 7 poison, Yeah.
50:06
Jesus Christ. OK, He, he brings it down and I
50:10
try to catch it. Essentially, Yeah.
50:12
It's still hard enough that it it hurts me.
50:14
It bruises your palms a little bit and the poison seeps onto
50:17
your hands. Yeah.
50:19
How close are they to the edge of the ring?
50:23
Bo if you were trying to kind of track them like Bon was doing,
50:27
Abe is very close to the edge of the ring.
50:30
If you are going to cast anything reaction, you can do it
50:33
anytime during the order. If you're going to cast any
50:36
other spell, you have to wait till the end of the round, which
50:38
is after the high elf. OK, then I will wait.
50:42
Cool. All right, Bon, it is your turn.
50:44
All right, so one of them is still 50 feet in front of me.
50:49
Yes, and one of them moved 30 feet to the side, so I'd say
50:52
probably 75 feet away from you diagonally all.
50:57
Right, I'm going to use my bonus action to misty step 30 feet.
51:03
Up towards the bully Wug. Towards the bully Wug and then I
51:07
am going to run 5 feet towards the bullywug and use another
51:12
third level spell slot to cast Spirit guardians.
51:15
Oh shit I love spirit guardians. Can you tell the people what it
51:20
does? All right, so Spirit Guardians
51:24
cost it. I don't know.
51:28
I can't talk tonight, so protective spirits fly around me
51:34
in a 15 foot emancipation. Emancipation.
51:39
Proclamation I. Know it's gonna be like honest
51:41
Bond. All right, so spirits fly around
51:46
me in a Spirits fly around me in a 15 foot emanation.
51:54
You see a bunch of bluish white spirits flying around me,
51:57
looking like different halflings and drow, very vaguely, and
52:04
they're going to appear kind of angelic.
52:08
I can designate as many creatures as I want to be
52:10
unaffected by it. So I'm going to choose everybody
52:13
in the crowd around me, and also Abe, of course.
52:16
And basically, whenever somebody enters the space or when they
52:22
end a turn there, they must make a Wisdom saving throw.
52:25
On a failed save they take 3D eight radiant damage, or on a
52:29
successful save they take half as much damage.
52:32
They also have their speed halved within it, so they move
52:35
half speed within it. So if they have a speed of 30
52:38
feet, they have to be within 15 feet of me to get to me,
52:43
otherwise they will not be able to get to me.
52:46
Incredible. So these spirits are emanating
52:49
around me and since I'm now 15 feet away from this guy, he has
52:55
to make a wisdom saving throw. The DC is 15.
53:00
He gets a 12 for the Wisdom saving throw.
53:03
All right, so he's gonna take 3D eight of damage.
53:06
Awesome. That is gonna be a 2, two and a
53:10
four. So that's eight damage as the
53:12
spirits just kind of like berate him with radiant damage, and
53:17
then I'm going to use the rest of my movement to run 25 feet
53:23
towards the other person. Yeah.
53:25
And this is called the lawn mower tactic.
53:29
And make her do the the same. Same wisdom saving through.
53:33
Awesome, OK let's see her role. She gets a 7 so she'll also take
53:39
damage all. Right.
53:41
So that is going to be a 65 seven.
53:47
Much better. Wow.
53:48
All right, so I run up to her and my spirits just start to
53:54
overwhelm her and she's gonna take 18 points of damage.
53:57
She is like spinning in a circle right now trying to figure out
54:01
like what's hitting her and what's actually happening.
54:04
She's just surrounded by your spirit guardians right now, just
54:07
beating the shit out of her and she is looking very, very unwell
54:11
at this point. And at this point, I think if my
54:13
math is correct, she is about 10 feet away from me.
54:17
So that first five feet of movement she's going to make if
54:19
she wants to get further away from me.
54:21
You said she was up against the wall.
54:23
So I think it's going to be kind of hard to get out of my
54:26
emanation unless she really just like hugs the wall.
54:30
But we'll, we'll, she's. Pretty stuck in.
54:31
Layman's terms, she's fucked. Yeah, Bon, Anything else you
54:37
want to do, please say no. I got nothing.
54:41
That's that's my action, my bonus action, my movement.
54:44
Incredible awesome Abe, you are prone right now.
54:47
If you want to stand up, you use half of your movement to stand.
54:51
Yep, I do that. Use half my movement to stand
54:53
and then I'm going to be like, huh, I look at the bully bug
54:59
kind of like blink a couple times and I'm like, I feel
55:02
really good, thank you. And then I'm going to use my
55:06
bonus action to activate my spectral arms.
55:09
Great. Are you bloodied right now?
55:11
I am at one health point. Holy shit, holy shit.
55:16
Hit the shit out of me. Yeah, but you also buried that.
55:20
I mean, I was like, we'll, we'll, we'll get to that when we
55:22
get to. That, Oh my God.
55:23
Yes, I'm at 1 HP. Fucking know that.
55:26
Wow. Why didn't you say something?
55:28
I mean, I just. Kind of was.
55:31
It's like, we'll, we'll get to it.
55:32
We get to it. Looks like Charlie might want to
55:33
do something at the end of. At the end of the turn, Oh my
55:37
God, Charlie's got a spell slots.
55:39
Abe is locked in. Abe has one hit point and it's
55:43
just like, I got a fight for my fucking life right now.
55:47
I'm going to fucking do it. Like, let's go.
55:50
Yeah, I am going to because I've, I've not used this ability
55:56
a lot just because I've forgotten about it.
55:58
But every time I activate my spectral arms, the targets that
56:02
are within 10 feet of me have to take two times my martial arts
56:05
time damage so. Just like flat no save and.
56:09
That's actually a very good point.
56:12
Deck saving throw. Deck saving throw.
56:14
Otherwise it's half of the damage.
56:15
OK cool. So he's going to get deck saving
56:17
throw that is 17 on the deck saving throw.
56:22
Does that pass? That passes, yeah.
56:24
Does he take half on a yeah? Yeah, he's going to take half,
56:27
but it's 15 points of damage, so you could do whatever you want
56:31
to do. 8 or. Seven we round down damage so
56:33
rounded to seven damage. Yep.
56:36
So I just kind of I say this and then there's this like blast of
56:41
of air as the spectral arms pop into existence around me and
56:47
then going to attack without disadvantage now.
56:51
Great. And are you so good?
56:52
Are you hitting to kill or are you hitting to knock out?
56:56
I am not hitting to kill. OK.
57:00
Nice I I rolled one attack which was a 23 to hit.
57:05
Definitely. And then on my second attack I
57:07
rolled A Gnat 20. Both definitely hit roll your
57:10
damage. I'm going to take both of my
57:13
fists up the the spectral arms 10 feet above my head and smash
57:18
them down like an ape on this bullywug.
57:21
And those are going to be both of my attacks, and I'm going to
57:23
do 21 points of damage. Oh my God.
57:27
You knockout this bully Wug. So this bully wug wasn't doing
57:32
was doing OK before like had bruises everywhere from where
57:36
you had been punching. But the moment you just slam
57:40
your arms down, you pretty much like flatten him to like a
57:45
little pancake on the ground. He is not dead, he is knocked
57:48
out. You see slow breathing, he his
57:52
nose is bleeding, his face just looks like it's kind of been
57:55
like caved in by you and he is just wheezing on the ground
58:01
right now. And I kind of put a fist like
58:05
pointed at him and I say thank you.
58:10
He made you lock in. He got me bloodied.
58:13
Yeah, he. Made me lock in it.
58:15
Is anything else you want to do on your turn?
58:17
Sorry. Yeah.
58:18
So I used half of my movement to get up, which was 20 feet, like
58:23
20 feet of the 40 feet. And I am how far from Bonn and
58:27
this? She's 30 feet away from you.
58:30
OK, I'm going to get just outside of Bonn's, like spirit
58:34
guardians, like on the other side.
58:36
So I should be still. Yeah, I'll get within 15 feet of
58:39
Bonn, but on the other side, so I'm 30 feet from her.
58:43
Yeah, so she's she's up against the bars right now and then Bon
58:48
is outside of it. So you're either going to,
58:50
you're going to come in on like a side angle from her.
58:53
Wait, is she in the corner? She's not directly.
58:56
In the corner this is a square. Yeah, she's not directly in the
58:58
corner. She's like 10 feet away from the
59:00
corner right now. Cool, cool.
59:03
So my distance to her is. It is 30 feet, just straight
59:06
horizontally. To her.
59:08
OK then I'll stay where I am. And I look at Bo and I say hey
59:14
gumbo, hey gumbo, hey gumbo, and I wave and because I realize I
59:19
actually can't say anything if we're to keep our ruse up.
59:24
He was waving at the crowd. So much just drew so much
59:27
attention. Who?
59:27
Who me? Do you do you say?
59:30
Hey, Gumbo? Yeah.
59:32
I do. I mean, I said it.
59:33
OK, say that I said it. So give me just give me a
59:40
straight persuasion check right now, so. 14.
59:48
You hear in your head, Bunty? Goes So I was able to distract
59:53
Venu quite a bit during like the fights and whatever, but like
59:58
she wants to know if you know that guy and she also wants to
1:00:01
know what happened to Bo. I didn't say anything, I just
1:00:05
did a little dance, she seems. A little distracted by like she
1:00:10
was super into my dance and now she's like not as super into my
1:00:13
dance and she's kind of wondering what's happening with
1:00:16
you guys. So just kind of like.
1:00:19
So I keep yourself code word in my head to bunty and I say
1:00:24
liquid Thunder. You need to do it now.
1:00:27
Give me a persuasion check. Just flat, right?
1:00:30
Now persuasion check to make him shit.
1:00:33
And. Vomit and piss at the same time.
1:00:37
I can't say anything but consider that this could just,
1:00:40
like, make everybody dislike Bunty. 19.
1:00:44
Bunty with another Nat 20 goes. I'm not going to do that.
1:00:49
I respect her a lot and also this is her home.
1:00:52
Actually, I don't know if she lives here, but this is like her
1:00:55
place of work and like what if you guys came into my place of
1:00:59
work and then shit everywhere? I would not be happy at work.
1:01:03
By the way, I'm a Barber, OK? Your your moral framework is
1:01:06
very strange. I'm not, I'm not here.
1:01:08
I can't say that, but Bunty has literally gone into people's
1:01:12
places of work and shit everywhere.
1:01:15
Yeah. And the fact that he.
1:01:16
Respects multiple terms. Yeah, he respects Vaidu.
1:01:19
He doesn't respect anyone else. OK, Abe, anything else you want
1:01:23
to do on your turn? No, that's that's my turn.
1:01:25
OK, it is this high elves turn. So does she if she moves she
1:01:31
gets hit or what? What's up with that?
1:01:34
If she ends her turn in the thing, she gets hit.
1:01:37
OK. But it's going to cost her
1:01:39
double. I don't, I don't think she can
1:01:42
get out of here like with the area that she's in right now.
1:01:46
She's kind of trapped. She's not in the corner, but
1:01:49
she's she's definitely trapped. So she is going to cast a spell
1:01:57
on you, Bon, she is going to cast polymorph on you.
1:02:04
Right now she's. Gonna cast polymorph on me holy.
1:02:07
Shit, and you need to give me a Wisdom saving throw.
1:02:12
Oh, that's a good one. Yeah, a lot of these are.
1:02:14
Good at those. That's a Nat 20, which makes it
1:02:19
a 28. Fucking hell, she attempts to
1:02:23
cast polymorph on you. You start to think like you are
1:02:30
just a really nice golden retriever.
1:02:32
You start getting really, really happy and you start and then all
1:02:35
of a sudden you snap back out of it and you're like, I'm a drow.
1:02:39
Where's? The ball that is unfortunately
1:02:46
her turn. Can you give me the damage on?
1:02:52
She has to roll a wisdom saving. Through Oh, she has to roll
1:02:54
another wisdom saving through OK, thank God.
1:02:57
DC16. That is a 17.
1:03:00
All right, so she passes. However, she's still going to
1:03:03
take half damage. That might be enough to get her
1:03:06
down. Let's see, are you going for the
1:03:08
kill or are you going to knock her out?
1:03:10
I am going to knock her out, but I rolled A7 in terms of damage
1:03:17
so my spirits just kind of hit her lightly.
1:03:20
I think that goes down to three. Awesome.
1:03:23
Yeah, she is not looking well at all.
1:03:27
Bond it is or sorry. Bo, do you want to do anything
1:03:32
at the end of the turn around or no?
1:03:34
Has Bond taken any damage? A little bit, not a lot.
1:03:38
OK. I think we're probably fine.
1:03:41
I don't think I'll need to. Awesome.
1:03:44
OK, Bon, it is now your turn. I am going to take so she's 10
1:03:51
feet ahead of me. Yeah, she's 10 feet in front of
1:03:53
you right now. I'm going to step back 6 feet
1:03:57
and then walk back 6 feet. OK great, she makes another
1:04:00
Wisdom saving throw you absolute son of a bitch.
1:04:07
She she gets a 14 which does not pass your spell save DC.
1:04:13
Do you think you can do for damage?
1:04:15
Do you really think you could do it?
1:04:17
I rolled. I rolled an 8 on the.
1:04:19
First, OK. So I'm going to describe what
1:04:21
I'm wholly going to do because I don't want that to just be it.
1:04:24
I'm going to run up and also hit her with my Mace.
1:04:28
So I'm going to it's like. So unnecessary.
1:04:32
That is a 15 to hit that. Is that it exactly hits.
1:04:37
All right, so we know I've dealt the damage.
1:04:40
I am going to run in. She's going to pretty much go
1:04:42
down. As she's going down, I'm running
1:04:44
back and I just clang her across the head and I say my friend Bo
1:04:50
is the only one who's good at telling jokes.
1:04:52
You didn't even say anything. He just said sphere.
1:04:55
And then he started laughing. And Bo is on the sidelines
1:04:58
laughing to himself about Sphere.
1:05:01
You, you, you knock her out between you and your spirit
1:05:06
guardians just beating on her. She falls to the ground, and as
1:05:10
her eyes flutter shut, the last thing she says is.
1:05:14
Sphere. And that's where we're going to
1:05:16
end our session. Incredible, you guys like like I
1:05:24
was vitriolic Sphere was supposed to do like crazy to you
1:05:27
guys. But alas, that was that would
1:05:31
have fuck. I'll take it.
1:05:34
Bo Bo oh. My God, Bo rolled like.
1:05:38
Absolute dog. Shit, I know one.
1:05:40
Of these days. One of.
1:05:42
These so bad so that I could roll so good because I had to
1:05:46
roll with disadvantage and I still made attack roles that
1:05:50
succeeded, Yeah. Maybe 1's happened more recently
1:05:53
than I can think of. I can't think of the last Nat
1:05:56
twenty that I've had, but I've had so many terrible roles.
1:06:01
For this session. I I I rolled three in a row.
1:06:04
I rolled three in a row. Me I I don't know if I've had
1:06:07
any of the Nat 20s recently. Charlie.
1:06:10
I rolled 2. Yeah, I rolled a Nat 20 once
1:06:13
this session. Jeez.
1:06:13
Well, Charlie, you'll get him next time, buddy.
1:06:17
I. Don't know.
1:06:19
You still. You still.
1:06:19
Won you still wanted to. Get a new set of dice for the
1:06:23
first time in my life but. Do you only have one set?
1:06:27
Is that what you've been rolling with?
1:06:28
Hey, I'm a I'm a purist. I don't care if all the luck's
1:06:31
been drained from this guy, I've got so many good memories with
1:06:35
him and bad ones at this point, but.
1:06:38
Hey, yeah, I, I, I appreciate the commitment.
1:06:41
That's really, that's definitely something, you know, awesome.
1:06:45
Well, what a what a fun session that was.
1:06:48
That was really an eclectic group of people that you guys
1:06:51
got to fight and, and I don't know, between last session and
1:06:55
this session, just like very fun to see what this like illegal
1:06:59
fighting pit is like. Like I kind of mentioned it off
1:07:02
hands, not knowing if you guys would want to go to this or like
1:07:05
the actual gladiator matches. But I've I think it was like a
1:07:09
few sessions back. Bond was like, no, we should
1:07:11
definitely do the illegal 1. So I've had very fun building
1:07:14
this little cavern. Hell yeah.
1:07:16
And almost throwing you guys off of a 400 foot Cliff, but you
1:07:20
know. I'm also I'm sorry guys about
1:07:24
giving up the 500 gold, but I do think that we just made a friend
1:07:27
for life. Oh no no, no.
1:07:29
This guy's so chill. That's OK, I was using spells
1:07:33
left and right. Hold on, let's let's find what
1:07:38
his name is. And so when he comes back up,
1:07:41
you guys can talk to him. His name is.
1:07:45
He's actually his name is Lumbo Gobotomy.
1:07:51
His name is Yeah. What gumbo la Bo to me, Yes.
1:07:58
Huh. Really good.
1:08:02
Save save it for next session. Yeah, save it.
1:08:04
For the intro next. Session.
1:08:05
Yeah, no, I just, I just screwed myself.
1:08:07
I won't be able to think of anything next time.
1:08:09
Well, we can. We'll, we'll go, OK.
1:08:11
His name is Rourick RORIK. Oh hell yeah, that's a cool
1:08:15
name. Yeah, and wonder if he wants to
1:08:18
join us on our trip. We'll see.
1:08:22
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1:08:41
Goodbye. Harry, I saw your little dances.