Curse of Strahdanya | Ep. 42 | Blood Moon: Part 1

Your back beneath a blood moon and listening to Kersos Dredania, a legend of a venturous podcast. Last time, the Azran Expedition slaughtered my brides and faced me in my audience hall. It is all come to this moment. Every moment in the story so far has led to this confrontation. It's them or me. Who will it be? Or will we all die together? This episode is brought to you by our generous supporters on Patreon. We now also have a merch store where you can browse more than 20 amazing eventress themed designs. You can buy a shirt or become a patron yourself by following the link in the show notes. We are eternally grateful for your support. With that out of the way, let us proceed with the final chapter of Kersos Dredania. Blood moon. You stand in the grand audience hall facing Stredania. With each step the Countess takes the hate and venom on her face intensifies and you now realize change to the throne room that surrounds you. It's fate, but you see the glow of crimson energy running and splitting channels through the walls, the floor, the ceiling, like coursing rivers. The veins of raven lump pulse and glow brighter as its Countess faces you and raises her sword. But although the grand designs of the blood queen have come to fruition, my war endures. I am Stredania of House von Zorovich, first born daughter of Berov von Zorovich, Countess of Barovia. I am a warlord. I conquered this valley of death and have bent it to my will for centuries. I choose my side in the eternal battle between the darkness and the light and so have you. Our fates have let us here to this place, on this night beneath a blood moon. The only way this ends is in blood, but end it finally will. I am damned, yes, but so are you. All who are damned must die. And let us all die together. Countess Stredania von Zorovich grips her blade tightly as she steals herself with the grim resolve of a lord of death. Her eyes fill with murderous intent. There will be blood. I need everyone to roll for initiative. Yes! 20 to 25. Let me roll. 22. 23. 15 to 20. 10 to 15. 11. 9 to 10. 10 to 10. 10 to 10. 10 to 10. 10 to 10. 9. Yarks. And then, what did you get, Victoria? Six. I don't think that's actually the highest thing I should have ever rolled. All right, as Stredania's boots click against the stone of the floor as she walks toward you, I do need you to place her about one step off of the pedestal there, because she was moving towards you, and we will end her there. She stops and looks between all of you as she unsheathes her sword. You can see the filigree on it glint in the light. The sword is beautiful as it radiates with a dark magic. Shepard, how do you want to start this fight? All right, Sarnax, this is it. One last time, shoulder to shoulder. We are the monsters that monsters fear, and she will fear us. I cast Fremov Movement. All my good friends are next. I turn my eyes and my gaze to the light. To the countess, and I narrow my eyes, like the hunter that I am, as I select her as my prey using my bonus action to make her my slayer's prey. And that is my turn. Can you do that? Go move. Conna. I'm going to sidestep around Victoria, and as I peer around, I'm going to slide my Naginata down, and it's going to glint in the blood moon light, so it's bathing this battlefield. And I'm going to say, Sturdanya, what did you do to Sergei? And I'm going to run up into four attacks against her. I am. First blood. Tuck her down. That will definitely not hit. We'll say 13 does not hit. No. 26. Watch that. That hits. All right. That will be 17. Missus. Oh, that's a nine. Dirty 20. Missus. Holy shit. Holy fuck. 28. Hits. Okay. Two Daki-Datas left. Let's fucking go. So it's fucking 16. It's plus 10, so that's 26 points of slashing damage. Nice. I'm going to come down over the top of my head as I'm skidding to a halt in front of her, and then as I'm bringing around the side on the left, slide through the middle. You slice into her, and it looks like it barely nicks at her armor as she stands towering over you. As she looks down at you, her eyes illuminate with hatred, and you watch as the necklace, the choker around her neck begins to twist and bend as tendrils whip out around it. And you see that they are sinking down into the floor of Ravenloft itself, pulsing veins spiraling out around the castle as you hear almost like a shatter out on the balcony, stone against stone. The sound of what sounds like boulders being hurled at the side of the castle as the doors from the balcony into the room burst open, and in first, Vasily, followed shortly by Boris, the gargoyles come to life. You can move them towards the middle of the room as they break their way into the castle. They are both going to make their attacks. Oh, you're a lucky one. Holy shit. So like here? Yeah, so one of them is going to... Yeah, that's perfect. I'm assuming it's Victoria and Sarnax? It's Shepard and Sarnax. Shepard and Sarnax. And they are going to make their attacks. They're still not the whole hunk. Yes, first in. Oh, shoot. So one of them is going to be attacking Shepard, the other one against Sarnax. Yeah. Only one of Vasily's attacks hit Shepard. Two attacks against Sarnax. The ones against you, Sarnax, because both claws hit, I need you. You are grappled and restrained automatically. Nope, freedom of movement. Oh, freedom of movement. Fuck. Yes. Yes, let's go. Let me just double check, because you might have to spend five feet of movement on his turn, but yeah. Either way. 23 points of slashing damage. And eight points, 13 points of slashing damage for you, Shepard. 13, got it. Yes, there we go. You can't be restrained, but if you are grappled, you can just spend five feet of movement on that this game. And that is the lair action. Okay. I will use my action and I'll say, this is Estra Danya. We're doing a good thing for you. Now's the time, Curio. And I'm going to, my case will levitate up and it's set on the ground. It will pop up and in the case I will shout down, Lucas, like we planned, join me. And from the case, you will see a younger man with hair slicked back in a butler outfit. Oh my God. And from it emerges Lucas in physical form as my simulacrum. Oh my God. That's so neat. That's awesome. I will reach back into the case and I will pull out a Jade's circlet and I will throw, I will knowingly not at him, I will throw it to him. He'll catch it and he'll put it on his head and he'll say, Polyphomatus and he will start to grow into a massive version of himself. And I transform into a gigantic arcane shimmering Lucas. What the hell? Oh my God. Oh my God. Okay. Oh my God. And then I will use my bonus action to Misty Step back here. Oh shit. And I will have Lucas basically try to get right between this gargoyle and Shredania. And that is my turn. I look up and I'll say, pleasure to meet you in the flesh Lucas. You make excellent eggs. Oh God. Oh God. It is Shredania's turn. Holy shit. Shredania is going to look down at Kana as she runs the blade across her tongue licking it. You see a faint line appear where blood begins to spill out of her tongue as she takes it and she is going to slide down at you and make an attack with her black steel longsword and that is going to hit. Okay. 23 points of slashing damage and eight points of necrotic damage. And then she is going to attempt to make a melee attack against you as she swings her blade around. She's then going to take her claws and she is going to rend at you twice. One of them is going to do the damage. The other one that she is going to attempt to grapple you. Okay. And both of those are going to hit. All right. Oh no. Oh no. 15 points of slashing damage. 11 points of necrotic damage and then the second attack foregoes the damage as she grapples you. I don't know. She slices into you as she inhales the scent of your blood. She flips you around and presses you up against her as she looks out at all of you. Should I drain her first? She was so quick to come and spend time with me and attempt to save my brother. She seems like the perfect candidate for the first to go. Don't you think? Kill her. Kill her quickly. Innocence first, wickedness later as she turns her eyes towards Victoria. She's actually going to use her bonus action and bite. Okay. And bite. Oh boy. Akana. Of course. And that will hit. Okay. 19 piercing damage. Okay. 17 necrotic damage and your max hit point is lowered by the necrotic damage. Is that it? And that is her, yeah those are her three packs. That's her time grapple. Am I grappled by the gargoyle? And it says you can't be restrained but it says if you are grappled you can spend five to just this game. I will look at Shepard and say yes we are the monsters she shall fear and you shall fear and then fire will ignite. It's bursting the gargoyle's hands around me. I'm going to step, basically no longer be grappled and I'm just going to stand where I'm at. I'm going to stand where I'm at. I'm fine taking this guy. And I will pull out an ancient scroll from my robe and I will say Exithanter you will help us one last time. I will throw this scroll into my lantern and immediately it ignites and I radiate with fiery power and I'll look at Shepard and all of my friends and I will say you are all now vessels of the Fire Lord's fury. Garex has said I will reign flame upon me with great judgment and furious anger those who threaten to corrupt and devour my chosen and you will know I am the Fire Lord when I bring my judgment upon you and I will cast Holy Radiance. What does that do? You are all advantaged on all saving throws. You all attacks against you are disadvantaged and any undead that attempts to attack you must make a saving throw or be blinded. Shit. Wow. Oh my gosh, it's going to be this. And how and where is this radiance? It is on all of us. It affects all of us. These are a radius book. Is this a concentration? Yes it is. Oh boy. Holy shit. Holy shit. Can you repeat what it does again? So, advent on all saving throws, all creatures have disadvantage on attacks against you and when an undead tries to attack you flash with light and the attacker must succeed a constitution saving throw on each attack or be blinded until the spell ends. Holy hell. It's just a common saving throw. Is that your turn? Oh, and I will just lick out my lantern, a look of flame and the fire prince will just appear, will say not next to her and it will just be behind us. Okay, she is going to use a legendary action. She's going to look out towards you. Do you think Ludmilla told me nothing and she is going to cast a spell at you? She is going to cast a cloud kill at a fifth level in the area where you are currently at. Holy shit. Look at this cloud kill. It sounds scary. So, it's a 20 foot radius sphere so it's going to be centered over Sarnax. There's the 20 foot radius sphere that's right there. Yep. A sphere of poisonous yellow and green fog. In this case it will be red fog centered on this point and I need you all to make... Yep. So, it is there. Things will happen depending on your turn. I don't know if that affects Grapple. Okay. If you're Grapple you can still attack, right? Yes. Good. You watch as she points her finger out a cloud of red mist begins to billow in the middle of the room emanating from Sarnax. Victoria, it is your turn but it looks like you are in the zone. I need you to make a constitution saving throw, DC 20. Can I use my reaction to do a mage layer attack since she just cast a spell? Yeah. Oh, I rolled a 20. Okay. I don't have advantage against her. You will take half as much. So that would be 20, I guess either way. 29. Nope. You will take half of 20 so 10 points of poison damage. Is that it? That's it? That's just for the cloud kill. I'm going to lean back and try to slide my Naginata up and attempt to find purchase somewhere and I don't hit with a 20 trying to interrupt her spell with mage layer and try to shrug her off. She smiles into your neck or fangs still sinking deep into the veins. Do we make saves? Nope. It's at the start of your turn. Okay. Got it. So I can go. It doesn't go immediately. I mean, the gargoyles kind of attacking Sheppard and Sarnax and look between her and Stradonian. Let her go. She's not the one that you want. I'm here. And I will step forward. But kind of unsure what to do. I'll take a few steps backwards. And then I will look at the two gargoyles attacking them and I'll kind of look between them and loud like the sound of glass will breaking will shatter across the room. And I'm going to cast the Shatter Spell, twinned behind each of the gargoyles. Nice. Okay. Right. So painfully intense noise comes out and each creature must make a constitution saving throw. Natural 20. Because if they're constructs they're disadvantaged on the potchard. Yeah. Okay. Creature made of inorganic materials such as stone crystal and metal has disadvantage on saving throws. Okay. So the constitution, what's the save? 19. 19. They both failed. Okay. I'm a timer. Wait, do you need the twin? Isn't it an AOE spell? It's 10 feet though. Oh. They're too far apart. Oh, fair. They've won. They really look like they're little spiky boys. I don't think you can twin AOE spells, can you? I think the spell has the only target one. Oh, yeah. It is. It is. It's a 10 point radius. So if you put, do it at the column it should hit both of them, right? Yeah, it's 10 point radius. Yeah, it's a 10 point radius. Which means it's 25 feet across. So you could still hit the button. Yeah. You could still hit the button. Oh, okay. And then you don't have to use your spell. Well, then I will not. You can save that. Thank you. Okay. Great. So 9 and 9 is 18 is 26, 26 sort of a level is thunder damage. And then as a bonus action, I will and call up Bartholomew, my hello. Hey, yeah. All right. You do that. Yeah, you Bartholomew. And he will take his action to run towards Stradania and make a bite a hug. Good pooch. Good poochie. Good poochie. Not that I think he would pick her. He will not hit her. And that will be my turn. She is going to use two of her legendary actions and she's going to look out towards you, Victoria. Her eyes are going to ignite in red as she stares into you. You claim that you are the one I want, but really, it is you who wants me. I need you to roll a saving throw. I need you to make a wisdom saving throw, please. You want to twist it? I want to twist it. Twist it. Twist it. Thank you, Chad. Twist this. How much dice do I use? It's so nerve wracking. It's going to be totally fogged. 16, that's probably going to not do it. You immediately feel it overcome you. You are going to be a shiver as you realize you do truly want her and you are charmed by Stradonian. You trust her as a friend. She needs to be heated and protected by force if needed. You are not under her control, but you will take her requests in the most favorable way and you will allow her to bite you if she so chooses. Wow. You're right, Stradonian. I want you. Thanks. Oh, boy. And it is Ravenlauncher's actually a lair action. So she is going to, as she looks out at you, she smiles. You can see the joy that this brings her to watch as Victoria almost unwillingly begins to look toward her with longing. Kana in her arms bleeding, blood flowing from her neck. She looks up and she snaps her fingers and you begin to watch as the room around you begins to tremble as up out of the floors. Once again, you are met by the bloodstained ghosts. Oh, no. These fuckers. My favorite fellows. I don't like that. Please, no. Like wherever? They're going to go, they're going to spread around the room in an attempt to hit as many of you as possible. This is my more honest. Yeah, they suck. I do not like it. Nellices. And let's see. I guess that's it. One cluster of them is going to make their attacks on Clayton. Oh, okay. Is it an disadvantage for the Aurora? Disadvantage, everything is advantage, y'all. Okay. And if they're undead, yeah. And if they're undead, they need to make a con-saving throw or the blinded. I don't know if they're ghosts. I'm sorry, DM. I'm a cleric. I'm a cleric. I mean, I called them ghosts. Okay, so I'm going to stop rolling. So what do I need you first? So you need to make con-saving throws for all of them. If they're undead. Okay, so those are at normal. Yes. So the first one fails. Next one. What's the DC? I guess it doesn't really matter because it'll be disadvantaged anyway. So it blinding that it doesn't stop them from attacking. They're just blinded. So like, yeah. So for all intents and purposes, there's advantage regardless. So let's just ignore that part. So I just rolled an disadvantage to hit. Okay. The first three are going to attempt to hit. That's going to miss. That's going to miss. That's going to miss. Okay. Let's see. Another set of them is on Shepherd. Yep. That is going to miss. That is going to hit. And that is going to hit. Okay. Another one is on, looks like Kana. Yeah, basically. And Stradania's arms. It's not restrained. Oh, because I'm not restrained. I'm not restrained. Who? How much AC am I losing this time? 22 hits, yeah. 22 just hits. Perfect. So two are going to hit Shepherd and two are going to hit Kana. Yeah, one else is new. Very fucking good. This is for Shepherd. My AC is three. 15 points of necrotic damage. And I need you to make a con saving throw. Okay. Last one was strength. You now have a negative AC. You healed the enemy. I'm twisting it. You're going to need to make two of them, remember? She said just two. Because I haven't done the damage for the second one. Jesus. Okay. The first one is an, about 12. Nisses. So I'm going to lose AC there. You are disadvantaged on saving throws for a minute. So you're regressive. So you're straight. And then you are going to take 13 points of necrotic damage and another 14. That fails as well. But if you already failed, you're going to make the save again. What? No, you don't need to make the save again if you already failed. Okay. And then for Kana. So my AC is now fucking 16? No. It's... You don't lose HP. It's just a disadvantage on saving throws for a minute. So there are different effects? There's yeah. So all of the ghosts from each, like the horsemen, the brides, and Sredania, they all had different effects. Died. Died. And so Kana, you will do 16 necrotic damage. And I need you to make a constitution saving throw. I think we're okay. 30. And then 21 points of necrotic damage and make the saving throw again. What do you say? You are. You are able to shrug off the withering effects of these ghosts as they barrel down on you, piercing into your flesh as Sredania holds you stiffly against her. And that is that turn. And remember, next time those will be switched. Yeah, Clayton. I will... And Lucas. So... Oh, Shepherd. Oh, Shepherd. Oh, Shepherd. Remember, these are switched. Oh, okay. Sorry, I was confused. Who are you? Okay, so Shepherd. I'm going to throw two gargoyles bearing down on Sarnak's and I. I'm going to quickly reach into a satchel that I keep on my belt and throw what appears to be ash over the two gargoyles and say, all right now, I'm sending you back to the non-hells with the flick of my finger light the ash on fire and cast a fifth level banishment on both of the... Hell yeah. So is that you, E? No, but at fifth level I get to choose an additional target. Holy... So it's a Charisma saving throw at DC 18. And they're not disadvantaged because they're not undead. Correct. Okay. Yeah, it's just a saving throw. You're just, I think... They were disadvantaged last time because Shatter... Correct. And you said the DC's 18? 18 Charisma. Charisma... Oh my God. They fail. They are gone for one minute. That's amazing. Is that concentrated? Yes. Okay. Holy... But yeah. Well, now it's regular, I guess, but it's good. So if they're native to this plane, they're gone for a minute. I assume they're native to this plane. They are native to this plane. You watch as Shepard reaches out his hand and yells this out towards Vassilian Boris and you watch as in the blink of an eye both of them disappear from existence. You may remove them from the board. Shepard, since when can you do that? It's in my infernal board. Well done. Is that your turn? That's my herald turn, yeah. All right. She's out of latch and so on. Fire from wholly your health. So I'm still grappled by her so I can only use my action to break the grapple if I want to. You can attempt to break the grapple? Okay. I will attempt to break... Okay, grapple. I would use one twist on this. Okay. Just so you can get the fuck away. Yeah, yeah. Just so you can get the fuck away. It's a whole action too, right? Yeah. Shepard, I actually... Did you stay in Cloudkill? Oh yeah, I got a roll mine to begin my turn. Yes, and Victoria, did you stay in Cloudkill? I can't see the board so it's hard for me to tell. I did. I'm going to move out of this one. So it's both beginning and end of this one. If you stay in it, yes. What was the B.C.? 22. 22, yeah. What was the B.C.? So both of you need to make constitution saving throws. 18. Can I... That fails. Oh, it fails. Holy shit. 23. Okay, you succeed so you'll take half. You take the full amount. Cool. There we go. 31 points of poison damage, half if you succeeded. Got it. So I take 15 points of poison damage and then I'm rolling again. Then you're rolling again because you're ending your turn. Yeah, I should save with a 30. 23, so you'll take half of it. So, one more. So my grapple break check was 21, so I fail because the DC is 22. The DC is 22. Okay. And then I will bonus action. Can I like chug a healing potion while I'm grappled? I just mean, I can't move. Yeah, your speed is zero. That's the only thing. Okay. And then I will do that as I turn. I'm going to just zoom up. It's the next game which is all out of Legendary, so it is the actual Lair action this time. Sridhanya is going to use the Mists of Barovia as she raises her free arm. She is going to call in from the open window that was blasted with the open entrance that was blasted by the Silean Boris as you watch as the Mists begin to roll into the room, shrouding the entire throne room in Mists. It is lightly obscured. You are all vulnerable to necrotic damage. Any undead within the mist are resistant to radiant damage, and any light within the mist can be no brighter than dim, unless created by a spell of fifth level or higher. And that is what is going to happen. Oh, wow. Yo, boy. So you can determine how that works, but you watch as the mist rolls in. So I need you guys to remember, you're vulnerable to necrotic. Yeah. And that is for lair action. The bloodstained ghosts are going to make their attack. So the one behind Clayton is going to attempt to make three attacks on Clayton. Are they disadvantaged anymore? Yes, yes, those are disadvantaged. All three are going to miss. The one on, there's one next to Sarnax that is going to make its attacks. And that is also going to miss. That one is going to hit, and that one is going to hit. So two on Sarnax are going to hit. And then the next one is behind the ghost that's next to Lugas, who is in front of that? Kana. Just Kana? I wonder how. First one's going to miss. Second one's going to miss. Third one's going to hit. So one hit on Kana, two hits on Sarnax. Sarnax, you are going to take 12 points of necrotic damage, and I need you to make a con saving throw. And then 22 points of necrotic damage and another con saving throw, if you're not already affected. OK, con saving throw. I get a 20. That hit, that passes. OK. So if it's over 20, it's fine. That's like 30. It's 30, yeah. So I pass both of those. I need to make a con saving, a concentration. And yeah, I crush it. OK. And then you're going to take 15 points of necrotic damage. Kana. Is that 30 because we're vulnerable now? Yes. Oh, and so yours were due to double? Yeah, I did. Perfect. Thank you. Thank you for keeping the DM on. Of course. With that, it is Clayton's turn. So I will telepathically communicate to Lucas, and he will sort of swirl his hands around. And little arcane mokes will appear above his head as he uses his action to cast ground stars. And then he is going to whip one. He's a bonus action to whip one of those down at Shadanya. So maybe range spell attack. So he's in melee range, so it will be disadvantage. So pretty good. That is a 26 to hit. Yeah, that hits. So I can only do 40, 12 damage. Do you know where you see? Not really. It's over 20. That's all we know. It's at least 20. 40, 12. There you go. So it will do a 9, 15, 20, 26 points of radiant damage. I think radiant. Yep. Well, she's a resistant show in the middle school. And then what Clayton will do, I will pull out a drop of molasses, and I will shoot my hands out and cast the slow spell. And she needs to make a, actually everybody in a, oh six creatures. So I'm going to cast slow on her. And I guess there's two other ghosts. Doesn't really matter. And it's a whizz saving. Through save me. She passes. Ghost one is a slow. Ghost two is not. Ghost three is not. Ghost four is not. Ghost five is. So Ghost one and five are slow. Okay, perfect. So those are, those are two of, so one behind you and then one in front of Kona. Got it. So I will use my, my Misty step bonus action to blink back here behind the pillar. And I guess I need to make the con save for being inside the thing. Yes, please. I will do that. That is a, what is a 19. That, that misses or that fails. Thanks. 22 points of poison damage. Okay. And Lucas is going to stay there. He passes both with like over 27. And then Lucas will take two at the start and the end of the story. So we can take the same damage as well. We want to do the same damage roll for, because Lucas is his own creature. So. Right. But does he go on your turn? Yes. So then he would go at the start and end of your turn as well. Okay. Yes. So just take the same. Just have him do the same that you do. And next question. Stradania is going to look down at you, Kona. And she is going to make three attacks to her going to hit. All right. And she's making all of them with her long sword. She needs a con saving for each one. And it's basically three wisdom saving throws for each one. Okay. And what is the DC? The DC is 19. Sorry. So she's going to pass the first one. Complicated spells. Complicated spells. She's going to miss the second one. And she's going to pass the second one. So she is now blinded. And after the second one, she's disadvantaged on all attack rolls again. Or she's blinded in all of those effects. So she hits the first one and then I need to roll at disadvantage to see if I can attack to see if I can attack to see if I can attack. Sorry about that. Complicated eighth level spell. My fault. No, I'm going to do this round. So she will then hit two, but she misses one. Okay. Okay. We'll take it. And so you're going to take 20 slashing damage and seven necrotic damage. And then you are going to take 27 slashing damage and eight necrotic damage. And you take double necrotic of the necrotic damage. And you're going to add that last piece of 16. I go limp in her arms. Perfect. Wow, boy. And for her bonus action, she is going to... Hey. Holy shit. Come on, move. What time is it? It was like 16 minutes. She won even 35 health. She's only done anything to Kana. Yeah. And she's out the ghost. She told us this would happen. Okay. And then she is going to look out at you, Victoria, as you are staring back at her eyes. You're not with the melee rain. So... Not wedding. Can we go back to it? Drive a dagger into my heart, please? Yeah. She's going to look out at you and it's her bonus action. I... I'm going to rule that you would auto fail because you're charmed by her. But she... No, I'll let you roll it. Wisdom saving throw. And am I still advantage for Mora? Oh, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. Yay. I mean, you're doing this. Nine. And she is going to catch you with her begaling gaze as she stares deeply into you. Should she choose to attack you, she will be at advantage and I'll tax against you. Well, Victoria, snap yourself out of it. Out of what, sir? Can we get any damage to her? No. I have a fire shot here. No. Oh, God. My dog missed a point and you watched that as she continues to drink up the conas blood, the wounds that had appeared on her from conas a little bit from Clayton have completely healed. Wisdom. Sarna. I am going to... Sorry, sorry, sorry, I was going to do something and then everything changed when the Stradania attacked. It's round two, let's do this. I am going to say Fire Prince now and he is going to jump into the middle of the two ghosts next to Kana, Victoria and ourselves and just annihilate all of them. So he's going to teleport there and he'll explode when he ends up here. That's a bonus action. Like here's in the middle? In the middle, yeah, in between. So basically get rid of all those two ghosts. So these are just a lot. Get rid of those two ghosts. These two. Yes, those two. Okay. And then they'll be directly in between. Why are you getting rid of those ghosts? Because they explode and they do an A&E damage and you take half and they're meaning the quantity. Yes, they are many. They're the same ghosts as before with just a different amount. So then he explodes and then... This is what happens when you have a DM at your table. They just start doing things and don't tell you why. And then I will look at my friends and I will say, I will do my best to keep us alive. You must kill her. I cannot waste my energy on fire. And I'm going to cast Masscure Wounds. It is six left. Holy cow. I will roll that very quickly. Let's go. And which is 48, which is actually 5B8 because of my boy. Can I get Lucas as well? Yep. You're pretty much damage-free. A 24 plus 5 is a 29 points of healing. I'll take it. Next, the Q. She is going to use a legendary action. I'm going to move out of Cloudkill. Just out of here. You need to roll your thing. I'll take it. Is that out of it? What'd you say? Yeah, I think it was... Yeah, there was... We had a thing over it. I think it basically was like... It's going to go down in between the dollars. In the pillar. Got it. Con-saving throw at advantage. Oh, no. No, I failed. So it's regular. I'm going to roll. I'm going to roll. I'm going to roll. I'm going to roll. I'm going to roll. No, no, I failed. So it's regular. I'm going to roll it again. I apologize. Natural fucking 20. Got it. Got it. I'm going to take... Oh, exactly right. Got it. Got it. Got it. I'm going to just matter a roll like shit. That's... It's 12 points. So I'll take 6. 29. 29. Not great. And she's going to use her lair action to cast a spell. She is going to look towards you, Sarnax, and everything that you... And the radiance that you have conjured. And at a sixth level, she is going to cast Dispel Magill. Okay, she's on this roll. And she is going to 6. Okay. Holy aura is done. Spectoria. I'm prepared. Okay. So I'm going to roll my con for the start of my turn. Wiz, con. Am I still grappled by her? Yes. Okay. 23 for the con saving throw, for the missed. Yes, you succeed. So you will take half. Dispel magic, that's a spell, and I'm up. So can I use my reaction for mage lair or is it too late now? Hmm? Or what? You could, I guess. Yeah. If that's all right, you will be attacked, right? Yeah. And it's not an advantage, or because the aura... The aura's gone. The aura she's trying to do it now, so this would be before she would cancel the aura. So you're trying to stop the spell, right? Okay, yes. Well, you don't stop the spell. She just makes an attack when somebody casts the spell. Oh, yes. I thought it was a counter. So just roll normal. And you will take half of 16. But the whole way doesn't affect the attack, affect the attacks anyway. You know, all I was going to say was whatever the spell is, if it requires concentration and you land the attack, then the concentration rolls a disadvantage. Disadvantage. Oh, nice. Let's go ahead. 27. Dispel magic doesn't require concentration. But is she concentrating on the missed? She is concentrating on that. So she has to roll, because I'm about to hit her, she has to roll that concentration to disappear. For cloud kill. For cloud kill. So she can, you can heal yourself for that amount. Oh, I rolled a natural one. Oh my God! Oh my God. So she takes 12 points of Naginata damage as I come to being healed by Garrix and Sarnax. And I'm going to look up at her while I'm grabbing the spell. And I'm going to be able to get the spell. And I'm going to be able to get the spell. And I'm going to be able to get the spell. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. Basically, I want to use my action to grab Kana and try to rip her way and throw her to the floor. Okay. You'd have to use a strength contest. With my little bird arms! My little Victorian bird arms! Am I against strontar against Kana? Technically, Kana. Oh, interesting. What am I milling? I think it would matter to Pet on if you're resisting, then you automatically, if you allowed to happen, you automatically fail, but if she is trying to hold on, she doesn't want Victoria to do it and be against her dying. But if you're trying to hold on and be against you, it's very interesting. Yeah. What an interesting thought. She'd let it happen. I would let it happen. I'm not even trying. Yeah, so I would just rip you away and throw you to the floor and basically just try to get as close to Stradonias as I can. Perfect. Like body blocking. Wow. So you're not in front. That's wonderful. You're not in front basically. I guess. Yeah, that's just wonderful. Yeah, that's great. I really like that. My athlete's feet. Yeah, yeah, no, that's really good. I'm picking my love. And then, so I would like some input on this. My hound, when I call it, I target one person and I don't have anything, I think, to change targets, so I think he would continue to attack on his own, right? It is a hound of doom, so it basically keeps attacking until either the creature dies or it dies, I believe. Yeah, so it's not like I'm now charmed and don't want it to attack Stradonias. The dog's doing something. Yeah, the dog wants to kill Stradonias. Yeah, once something hits its own thing. Okay, so he'll make a probably ill-fated attack, bite attack, against Stradonias. Bring on three. Yeah, he can't roll above a four, so he does the one. Bad dog. Bad dog. Stradonias is going to use a legendary action. You watch as she looks towards you. Yeah, do I do any saving third to get out of her turn? You can at the end of your turn. And do we, at the end of our turn, can we also roll against the ghosts? Curse. Yes. We could do it last time. I didn't either. What is it? It was a con-saving throw and I failed. Sweaty. Yes. Please throw at the end of your turn. No. I'm a lot of pages. So what am I doing? You are rolling a wisdom saving throw. I would either way. Yes, a wisdom saving throw, DC 20. It was 15. DC was 15. Okay, I'm good. Yes, the ghosts are 15. Stradonias 24 most things. I am still turned. Okay, perfect. She's going to tour Tinnocratix until the end of, yes, until the next player action. Yes. Stradonias is going to look towards you, Victoria, and you see as her eyes well up with joy, you are so beautiful when you obey. And she is slowly going to sink down into the floor and pop up behind you, Sarnax. Oh, what the fuck? Oh, no. No. Can you, uh... Stradonias, break her arm on key. That would never... It's not her turn. Oh, no, it's a legend actually. Yeah, no, that was... And so now it was... That was Victoria's turn. It is Ravenloft's turn. Oh, my God. So... Roll into your turn. Go. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Oh, Jesus. Oh, Jesus. The walls of Ravenloft pulsing with veins. The throne begins to swirl in bloody eldritch magic, sending arching tendrils out from it. The tendrils lash out towards... You, Conna. Mm-hmm. I need you to make a charisma saving throw. I'm not highly liking it, though. What? And this is regular now because I am no longer disadvantaged because of the curse I saved on the curse. Yes. Yes. And we lost Holy War, so it's all straight against you. Oh, no. Twist it. Twist it. I... Twist it. I'm gonna get sucked into the throne and you're dead. What's worse than you have to let it run? Fuck her in. 12. The tendrils reach towards you, slithering across the floor as they grab on and wrap around Conna's leg and pull you into the throne itself. You are overwhelmed by horrific whispers as the will of Ravenloft possesses and overcomes you. Woo. You immediately regard your allies as murderous and you will stop at nothing to kill them. Oh, my God. This effect lasts for a minute and you can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of your turns. Woo. You watch as the tendrils, the tentacles wrap around Conna, her eyes go and inky black as she begins to throb and pulse with the eldritch magics that are pumping into her. You watch as her face falls, she looks between all of you with a murderous gaze. And that is Ravenloft, so shepherd. Alright, time to bring the Hellfire. And with Stradania behind Sarnax, I am going to try to fire three shots into the back of her head. That's great. I love all this juicy, juicy shit. Oh, no. The attacks in order are 26, 32, and 31. Oh, man. I gotta give it a go. I don't want to. I don't want to. I never want to. No, no. These are possessed claps, but they're claps on all of us. Oh. It's for 12, 13, or 18 for 19. And then the move one. Oof. That's five. That's 24. That's 10. That's 34. Plus 8. That's 30. That's 24. That's 48. Not great. Plus 10. That's 34. Plus 8. That's 30. That's 24. That's 48. Not great. 48 points of damage for three attacks. Two shots on her. What were the rolls that you got on her? It was 26, 32, and 31. The 31 misses. I'm sorry. What did you say the damage was? 48 total. Holy, holy. Alright. You immediately pivot and turn towards where Stradania had reappeared as you let loose three blasts from judgment and redemption, doing significant amount of damage to the Countess. She lets out a slight moan as each blast hits into her. She seems unfazed. She's going to use her last legendary action this round, and she's going to grab on. She's going to attempt to grab onto you, Sarnax. Yo, motherfucker's need garics. She's going to be in a bag. Yeah, 24 hits. May I use one of my blind attemptable? Sure, but I rolled the same thing. She's going to attempt to grapple you. I don't care for her. Yeah, she easily grapples you and pulls you tight to her. You wouldn't let me have your little samurai, so I will have your man of the cloth instead. He's holy blood will taste delicious. The honor of my God protects me, woman. Should I say divine? Hey, that's that. Conor. Oh, God. This is what it tastes like. So my nearest, I guess, enemy. Victoria. And the dog. The dog. The dog. Or the giant. Or the giant. Should I roll to see who I would hit? Sure. I mean, whatever you call it, I would do. What would Conor do? If you see they're all murderers towards you, right? You think that all of your allies are murderers to you. And there's a giant butler in there. Which is probably fucking terrifying. But hey, and there's also a horrible slavering beast monster as well. So whatever. And then there's poor bird like Victoria. And there's a poor bird. With her spindly utilize. Yeah. Make a persuasion check, Anthony. I think evil self-preservation Conor probably wouldn't go for the giant. So I will decide between a dog or a worker. So a dog is even. So Victoria's odd. I did just bore you to the ground. That makes the most sense. Paul, take it. How dare you come between me. My feet. I'm going to roll an attacker four times. Oh, no. Oh, yeah. Just real poorly. You do not get to twist to try. That's for one. That's for one. That's for one. Whiff. That's funny. Why? It's for one. Oh, Jesus. I hope a 16 doesn't take it. It does. Oh my God. Dude. No, with major armor is in an 18. There's fucking blood everywhere. No, her deck is a one plus two. Dear God. I am really sorry. Squish squish. It's 16. 13 plus two plus one. That's three hits. These are d10s, right? How many times did you hit? Three. Roll three saving throws for me, please. Wisdom saving throws. We're damaged on this. No, not anymore. Oh, wisdom. Oh, thank God. Wisdom. I've got a 10 in 18 and then 20. An advantage. I'm sorry, an advantage. You know, the difficulty, every time you take the damage, you feel your connection, this charm to Stradonia slowly start to fade, but she is your love. She's everything you wanted until that final hit and as you stare into Cona's blood thirsty eyes, your senses come back to you. What are you doing? These are your friends. You are no longer charmed. Hey, first take a huge person. He does all you fucking do. So that's 10, 12 plus. And the violence in TVK. 27 damage. Points of slashing. What are you doing? Snap out of it. Doing what is right. And yes, that's right. Bonus action. You're gonna eat the saving throw at the end of your turn against the throw. So before my turn ends, I'm at 29 hit points. Like with Evil Cona, self-disposable. I would say no. You are on a murderous rampage. Your goal is death. So I will not second wind and I will try to repeat the saving throw. This is charisma. Oh, wow. Do you want to do a switch? I don't know. I would. So you need to get a 19 to pass. So you would need to roll a 18. Wait, is it DC-19 or DC-F? You don't know what DC-F is. A lot of it was 20. I'm telling you. Yes, I said Stradania's were 20. This is Ravenloft's. One twist. What did you get? Oh, I got a 7. Are you sure? Ravenloft's a 7? How does it work? Ladies and gentlemen, everyone watch this. I'll just roll it. No! Yes! I'm actually yelling. Oh, action economy! Victoria, as Kana slices into you one time, two times, on the third time, you feel yourself coming back, you reach out, you slap her off the face. Kana, get a hold of yourself. Kana, as the impact hits, you feel yourself shrug off the effects of Ravenloft. The pulsing veins within the walls no longer retaining your hold on you as the tendrils slither out from your body and you are once again yourself. Yeah, babe. Are you all right? I don't know what happened. Oh, God, I feel like crap. That wookie woman. That wookie woman. If Derek was here, he would have done a wookie girl. He probably is doing one at home. Give us a text, will see. I don't know what to do. I don't know. Who's turn was that? Can I? I like reaction just like collapse and hug Victoria. I'm just like quietly weeping her shoulder first. I'll hug her back. Six seconds. I'll get that annoying back pat that nobody likes. Shredania will look out at all of you. So the lair actions happened. You watch as the myths of Varrovia begin to fade from the room. You were no longer under the effects of the darkness. But as the darkness still looms over the room, you watch as she with her one extended hand, she reaches out and she begins to make your shadows dance beneath your feet. As she channels the shadowy betrayal, I need all of you to make a strength saving throw. As your shadows attempt to constrict. Shredania is making us do this? It is a lair actions us. Is it called by Shredania? Because I get an extra D6. Shredania is making me make a saving throw. Well it's your shadows but I will say that it's fine. It's her magic. I will never have it. I say hold on. 18. I fail whatever it is. 26. Shepard, you watch as the shadows begin to writhe around your feet as you are able to kick them away as your friends feel your shadows wrap their arms around you. You are grappled and restrained for a minute. You can attempt to escape as an action. And fire bursts around me banishing my shadow. Oh I hate this. Thank you Shepard. Thank you. I don't know what the fuck that was. So Shredania couldn't even grapple you. No but he has to use a movement. Five feet or 15 feet. Is it a little concentration? No they are not. Freedom of movement is not. It's like Morty Bond as well. The ghost is going to move it's going to move around the pillar and there are three of them left I believe. Where is it going? Towards you Clayton. There's no wizard back here. There's no wizard. Go away. Two of them are going to make their attacks. So I need you to make a contribution saving throw. Meaning that they hit. All you shield. And my AC is like a... Yeah okay so they'll miss. Missed slide. Alright it is now Clayton's turn. Also Lucas gets around and then Lucas is going to stomp on over here. Right away so... Burst! And then magically in his hands he's going to summon a silver cray with a teapot on it. And you take the teapot off and smash both down on this Rodania. Yeah the fuck yeah. Four hot water on her. Attack rolls. Get it. The first one is 27 and the second one is fucking moon. Not as good. That is an 18 to hell. It misses. So the first hit was that. So it does 66 plus 7. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Yeah 16. 16 steal out. 10 20 10 20 26 30 30 33 points of bludgeoning damage. And it must succeed a DC 21 strength saving throw will be knocked from. Oh wow. Would you like me to tidy up her gore? Strength. 21. Oh she falls. Wow! I'm not expecting this as Lucas Rust. Sorry what am I thinking? What the fuck? Then he's going to bonus action. Did you get the damage? Yeah I took the damage. And then he's going to bonus action send him at her. Oh the stars. Which is disadvantage because he's a melee range. She done that first. I mean look we're all messing up. I've got like 8 pages of crap in front. 18 to hit. So then I will say Lucas I will need a ball where you'll have him for a second. Monomoxima and I'm going to cast Arcane Hand and one of his hands will basically detach and punch you. Oh! I don't know. I don't know. I can't wait to play feelies again. Oh my god. 20 misses. Oh wow. By the gobs. So you can put or go on if you just put an Arcane Hand. Oh! Lucas' hand. Yeah. Does that mean he's missing his hand? That is so funny. Okay. And that is my turn. Tritonio. Sorry. And then I'm grappled. But if I misty step away do I just misty step out of the shadows? Teleporting? Your shadows attached you so now. It plays with your shadow still grappling you. You have to use your action to try and I'm going to misty step 1, 2, 3, 4, all misty steps here next to my old buddy Zuka here. What is that? That will be my turn. Alright. It is Tritonio's turn. You watch as some of her wounds begin to heal. She is going to She is going to She is going to She also don't know. She is going to make two of her sword attacks against you, Sarnax. Oh! And both are going to hit. So where do you want to go, Necro? Correct. No more Necro. No. She said no. For the moment. We're still grappled by our shadows. I'm not going to go down here probably. 33 points of slashing damage for the first hit. That's nice. 14 points of Necrotic damage. The second hit is going to be 33 points of slashing damage. Got it. And 14 points of Necrotic damage. As she slides her blade into twice. In the back, right? Yes. This is so familiar. I look very weak. Oh, dear. She is then going to She is then going to Besides you, is there anyone within 5? Yes. Look at this hand. I need you to make a constitution saving throw for me. Me? Yes. I am not a vandalshelmets. Ooh, it's pretty fucking good though. We should twist it. It's a 26. That succeeds. You do not take Hold on. Yeah, you do not take The additional damage. You don't take the additional damage if you save. You watch as she holds up her chalice. You feel the blood inside your body begin to boil and rumble inside of your chest. But you steal yourself against her magics and it is unable to take hold. I told you the armor of my body is not a weapon. I am not able to take hold. I told you the armor of my god. She is going to use her bonus action, however. You are You are grappled by her. I am grappled because I am not using my movement to free frame. She is going to bite you. Oh, that's great. This is it, ladies and gentlemen, everyone watching. I have been queen. 16 points of piercing damage. I am out. And? Oh, I need to see how much my HP is. And 8 points of necrotic damage. So I still have 8. Wait. 16 and 8. That's still enough. 24. That's exactly 1 over kill. She sinks her fangs into me and I am like. You watch as Stradania pierces once and then twice into Sarnax's back. A horrific mirror to their altercation inside of the Amber Temple. Seeing that it doesn't do quite the right amount of damage. She needs to take his life. She bends down and she sinks her fangs into his neck. You watch as Sarnax's chest moves up and down as the blood pumps from his body deep into her throat. Healing her for a bit of it. Actually, so. Alright. You watch as the blood pumps from his body deep into his throat. Alright. You watch as his eyes roll back into his head. His body goes limp in her arms. Just as quickly as this happens, you watch as she begins to spit and retch the blood. Not red, but black as you hear the flapping of Raven's wings. Right as you're on the precipice of death. You feel yourself come to your countess. And it's my turn. Too sure? How's everybody? I don't want to tell you. Probably better than you, but I think y'all know. I'm with her. What? I'm with him very good. Thanks. I am going to look at I got ya. I'm going to be very, very weak. And I'm going to reach out my hand and she's still grabbing me. Flame! Prince! Save me! And he's going to fly over and teleport me. 30 feet away. I'm just going to basically go back to 30 feet away from where Sarnax sits. Back this way? Yeah, back that way. Actually, behind Lucas. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 are here. And then I put the Fireprints next to me. And that is my bonus action. And I am going to ... And Nikki, I move myself back because I couldn't have missed these steps. These are my bonus actions for the Archangior. Okay, thank you. I'm going to say Raven Queen, Morning Lord, Garex, all of the gods, please see us through this. And I will light will once again radiate and I'm going to cast another Mass-Fuck-Your-Wounds on everyone. So I will roll that while I'll do that. Okay, she is going... Why don't you roll that because that determines her legendary actions, which she just got back at the end of return. So... Come on, come on, come on. Please roll hot. I really can't roll like 2, 5, 10, 18... Actually, not terrible. 18... 24... 29... and then 34 points of healing to everyone. Thank you, Sonax. Over. That's an out. And that is my bonus action. How much was it? 34 points of healing to everyone. Okay, that's pretty huge. She is going to use a legendary action. Make sure I hit that. And she is going to... That's a messing track. Yeah, I did. She's going to make another attack on Sonax. I'm... I teleported away from her. Oh, you did? Yeah. Okay, so she's going to use her legendary action. She's going to use two legendary actions then. I need you to make a wisdom saving throw. Me? Yes. Oh, you're a bandage. Yep. You're a feast. Okay, I... Oh, actually, hold on. Is it 20 enough? It is not. Can I put it to a step? Yes. I want to put it, whatever this is. Natural fucking 20. That'd be a 31. Thank you, thank you so much, Chad, for the twist. Stradonia looks towards you. Her eyes narrow. You feel... You feel a shift in yourself as you see with one hand, she begins to flick what appears to be a small filigreed mirror. And for a moment, you feel as if you are moving, but you steal yourself and you are able to hold your position where you stand. That is her legendary... Victoria. Oh, right. Lucas is what? Can I see through him? What am I seeing here? You can see through him. He's sort of like a big guy, but he's kind of shifting with arcane magic. He still made the magic. Like, I guess, how does he act as far as cover or... So, for all intents and purposes, he's shaped change into a gigantic cyclops step. So, he's still a creature. He still takes up space. He's still physical. Because he has a simulac. He's just very clearly... Yeah, like, could I shoot something between his legs or like... It's up to Niki. Yeah. He's tall enough. Okay. He's a big fucker. He is a big fucker. He like, has the duck. Yeah, he's big. So, I will turn and look at Stradania. It's a slant. All this hatred you feel. We can take you away from this. And I will pull from my pockets of my dress a spell scroll and tear it in half and cast Finger of Death. Ooh! You'll see the scroll start to swirl with black energy and it will radiate towards her like a dagger almost. So, negative energy will course through her and you miss make a Constitution saving throw. Natural 20. Oh, man. Yeah, she's gone a pass. Yeah. Okay, so it is 7v8. Okay, one more v8 and she'll take half of them. Is that your plan? What? Use your fingers. Do Finger of Death. Do Finger of Death. Do Finger of Death. Do Finger of Death. Do Finger of Death. Do Finger of Death. I think he's a little derrick. No, I know. I'm like, half of 45 necrotic damage. So, 22. And it's necrotic, you say? Yes. So, I will cast that out and then as a bonus action you'll see my own shadow wrap around me, grappling me and then my body will start to fade into that shadow and I'll enter my humble form. Ooh! My little fucking form, let's go! I'm like, I imagine there's like like a fucking ring race in there and there's like a fucking ring race in there in their actual shadow form when you wear the ring. And, okay. So, grapple and restraint makes my movement zero. So, even though I can move through creatures I have no movement. Correct. Well, it depends. Unless you can move through the things you can do. If you can move through the things you can do, if it counts as a creature but it's your shadow, it depends on the nature of the match. As a result of both those conditions that that to me says I can't even see if I can breathe through it. So, I will stay where I am and then Houndie Boy will move as far as he can towards her. Could he make it 60 feet towards us? Yes, oh, yes, I would. You just thunder. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, wuff wuff, I can't even follow him here. He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And he will again make it all faded. Right there, yeah. attack. I mean, he is a hound of ill omen, so it means ill omen for him. He didn't realize that. Yeah. Oh man. Why did you summon me, bitch? The bell tolls for me. A four, again, he literally does not rule higher than four. It's not my dice, it's the dog. Uh oh, now Raven lost. So nothing happens, he walks over menacingly. Yippee. It's lover's honor. She is now, well, wait. Yeah, you get Raven lost. Saving drill for the Shadows? Oh, yes, for Shadows. That's the end. What is that? I'm sorry, I'm sorry. This is strange, so. Oops. That's not the one. I am still restrained. Well. Thank you though, for making. Your dog attempts to bite in on Shredanium, but is not able to find purchase on her as the windows in Raven loft undulate with the throbbing of the veins inside of the walls as you watch as the windows themselves shatter all of the stained glass windows around the throne room reflect horrific blinding colors as they erupt and fill the room with a color almost out of space. I need you all to roll a constitution saving throw. Come on, I'm in damage. Oh my god. Big money. Oh fuck yeah, I got 26. 27. 23. 29. What did Lucas get? Oh. Fucking Lucas. He is plus 13. Nice. So 28. You somehow through sheer luck are unable to look away from the almost enchanting colors and you forgo the blind. Oh wow. You're enchanting the light. You see it. Shedridge. Oh man, he did. I'm going to make three more attack on her down there. Shepard's back here. We just can't get her. No, it's fine. I'm just trying to stay the fuck away from her. Pretty good. That's going to be a 35. That hits. This one might be 23. That hits. And then the last one's another like 28. So her AC is from 21 to 23. So it'll be not rolling very well here. Yes, Cedar. 21, 22 or 23. Correct. Not over gaming it or anything. But we're not over gaming it. Oh yeah. Almost max. 12 plus 5 is 17. I think it stopped rolling. I think these sixes are good though. I got to keep them. I'll just stick with these sixes. Oh. That's another 10. So that's going to show. 20 to 26. 50 points of damage over three attacks. That's amazing. You let loose, blast after blast after blast. They sink into her body. You're finding the weak places in her armor. Any area of exposed flesh. And just as the last hit lands, she's going to use her last legendary action. She's going to use her last legendary action. She's going to use her last legendary action. She's going to use her last legendary action. She's going to use her last legendary action. And you watch as she sinks down into the floor, pops up behind you and is going to land a sword attack. Oh, no. Shit. That is going to hit. She's the master of that. Oh, well, I'm going to roll for concentration. Oh, the Gargoyles are dead. They're coming back. Oh, no. We'll see. We'll see. Oh, no. Oh, boy. Oh, jeez. Oh, boy. Oh, jeez. Oh, jeez. Oh, boy. 29 points of damage. So I have to get higher than a 14? Higher than? 14 twists. 29 points of damage, you said? Yes. That was a lot of damage. Nice. What? It is mixed up between 22 flashing and 7 necrotic. I got a 21. So I'm eating concentration. So, no, Vasilean Boris are still in the pocket dimension. And it's been two rounds of keeping track. Yeah, I'm writing it down. They've been sucked to hell. They've been sucked to hell. They've been sucked to hell. It was sucked to hell. Happy birthday, Sam Raimi. Thank you for having me back, Pat. That was the best punishment for you, Sam Raimi. That was Shepherd's turn. So, yes, as you let loose those blasts, she sunk into the floor, transported through the stones of Ravenloft, appearing behind you and piercing into you with her blade. That was her last legendary action. And it's a lair action. So she is going to... Ah. You watch as the walls begin to shift and shake, as bloody mirrors begin to fill the room. I need all of you to make a wisdom saving throw, please. We're good at that. Oh, thank God. Oh, that's where I'm inviting. I didn't even know this one. Yes, I wanted to do it. As a wise man once said. For a Vanish, I'm listening. Yeah. For a Vanish, I'm listening. Woo, thank God. I still have a little past blood. Oh, baby, nice. Let's go. You know what? I'm going to let it ride. I got a fuckload. I got like, going to do something. 21. I got a 14. I got this. But you got a 15. Well, you should probably twist. I will give up. No, you know what? I feel so you don't have to. You know what? It's a lair action. Let it happen. I'm going to let it happen. Oh, jeez. So who has failed? What's the DC? What is it? I'll let it happen. Okay. I'm good. I'm good as well. We failed. Fabulous. Yeah. You'll die then. Guess we'll die. You felt something similar to this before in the shifting mirrors at Stradania's hip. But this time you're unable to steal yourself against it. As the mirrors begin to twist and turn, warping the room around you, you are now teleported directly next to Shepard in front of Stradania. What? What the hell? Where are you at, Connix? I'm next to Victoria. You are teleported to the very corner of the room at the very back next to where Richie sits. Oh my gosh. Connix. I'm in Victoria. So Connix is there. Top right. And she's on you. They're all over the place. Great. The Bloodstained Ghost is going to move in and make its attacks on... I don't really care about that. He already has way too much health. Look at that guy. One is going to hit. Two. Two. Okay, but what is your... 26. 26, right? That's fabulous. Last time it's been 26. Of course we have Glaten Shield AC Memorize. We have it, Memorize. We've been fighting for... I got exactly 26. 19 plus 7. Right. Wait, it's disadvantaged because I have four sides. I'm sorry. The thing is you're on the side. The Ghosts go into their thing and they pull a card that says Rax and then they pull a card that says No You. 20 damage on the bloody Ghosts. I'm not too concerned about you. Lucas is going to turn. Yes, Lucas. He is going to pull down an Arcane Moat and shoot it at Stradania for a 23 to hit. Yeah, that hits. Okay. Then that will do 412. 35,000. I smell the blood of a vampire one month. One month. One month. That's pretty damn good. Right away, sir. Yeah. It's equal. 22, 33, 34 points of radiant damage. Nice. Please be careful with my hands. 34. Oh my gosh. 33. Right? Sorry. No, 34. I'm using a pen. I'm just really busy headcanoning Lucas right now. I'm just like a headcanon, I'm sorry to all the players. So he can only go 40 feet. So I think I'm going to leave him right there. So he's going too far. And then in his one hand that still is existing, he's going to materialize a teacup and he's going to chuck an extra card. And it's going to shatter on her and I will make a ring. Well, you'll attempt to shatter. Attack. Yeah, I will attempt. You can certainly try. That's going to miss or presumably with the 19. Yeah, that misses. Orbit misses. We know that would be the case. And that is his turn. It hits shepherd and stick. Yeah! It was a hit. And then... God, that's a horrible insurance. Crackle insurance. I always move more of a coffee man. Yeah. Sorry, I'm going to call up. I'm going to arcane hands. It's like 25 or 30 or number 60 feet. Oh, shit. Holy shit. So basically I'm going to take my hand and I'm going to move it over and I'm going to send it 60 feet right towards Jordania. Oh, punch her. And basically it's going to be a fist and it's going to come in. It's going to hit her in the side. We'll see if it hits. I'm advantaged on that because that is my attack. My what? My attack. 25. Jordania said I need to get my keys. Oh, me. I never get to. Does it 25 hit? My keys hit. My keys what? A 23 hit. So a 25 is going to hit. Okay. So 48. So one. Oh, wow. That's almost minimum damage. So that's 7 force damage. Wow. Lucas. That is just rough. Yeah. And then it would have been better attached to me. I love this. I love this. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm done. I'm done. And then for my action. I will. Thanks a lot. After Dina Mint. Yeah. Let's try this again. I'm going to pull out some molasses and cast slow. All right. So she needs to make a. What is the blood on there? Resistant. I know I'm trying. The first three hours. What is it? It's a whiz saving throw. She's going to use legendary resistance. That's what we like to see. That's my plan. I am a god. You serve a god. True. And that's what you're. Because I'm restrained by shadows still. You're restrained by shadows still. You repeat it again in your return. Oh, strength. No, because that was the lair action. So the shadowy betrayal is gone as the reflections came up. Yes. I'm just going to shimmy. I'm not going to leave the ghost range. I'm just going to get a little closer. I don't know. You don't have to be five feet from them. Oh, you're right. So I'm just going to kind of get in the center of the. The same. The other same. Just in case. So that is me. Perfect. Stradonia is going to turn her head and look. Look towards you. Sarnax. Oh, she always does. I wanted you to be close when I did this. Oh, no. And she's going to turn her blade towards shepherd. And she's going to make. No. She's going to make. Two attacks on shepherd and one on armed strike. Natural 20. I would like to use my last thing. I stand there and I'll say, no. And I will use the last of my blinding things to make a disadvantage. Still going to hit, but it is not natural. So both of her long swords hit. Unarmed strike also. And she's going to use her on our own arm straight to graph. Oh, no. Oh, God. Yeah, I'm going to have a little few tabs because it's a virtual individual head. Right. Yeah. So for the. For the unarmed strike. It is. 16 points of slashing damage. Oh, no, no, no. The unarmed strike. She's for going to damage. Sorry. Take that. She's grappling. So I don't know why I rolled these. I need to. I know he's always talking. Yes. She wanted you to see a she damaged shepherd. Oh, thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. I'm done with my wording flares. 21 points of slashing damage. And. Eight to necrotic. Sorry. Five necrotic damage for the first long sword. And then. It's. It's. It's. It's. 26 points of slashing damage for the second long sword attack that follows with. 14 points of necrotic damage. I rolled well. So is that all together? Like, like, so the second one is 26 plus 14. That's more. Yeah. So I have to get that ball in 20 on the second one. I can do it. I can do it. Okay. There's one's a 30. 13. Concentration. Which I plus three to. I can do this. That was the natural 20. So. That's the downside. So that first one's going to be good for the 13. Now I have to get above the 20. Oh, come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. That's 17. I meet or beat it. Yep. So that is me. I roll a natural. I roll a total of 20 for my second. She stabs into you, stabs into you. But your concentration will not drop. You are a monster slayer. This is what you do. And you are trained on your. And your eyes are trained on your prey. She is then going to use her bonus action to bite you. This podcast is brought to you by our Patreon. Become a patron today at patreon.com. And don't forget to smash legends of a ventress and gain access to tons of exclusive perks, including a monthly movie night and a weekly patreon exclusive campaign set on the high seas shroud over salt marsh. You can also go to the crooked moon dot com to pick up your own copy of our first published supplement, the crooked moon, a folk horror tome for Dungeons and Dragons fifth edition. And don't forget to snag all the extra goodies like dice, miniatures, plushies, a tarot deck and more. Thank you. Ah, yes, she will hit 18 piercing damage. and 10 acrobat damage. And your HP maximum is reduced by 10. Whoa! What else is new? Sarnax can see that I look really, really bad. So I have to roll a 14 or higher loss. 28 divided by two is good. Yep. You got this. You got this. Eight plus three is not good enough. I like it. I'm gonna quiz. Let's quiz it. Take the chat. Quiz it, thank you, chat. We need this. Action economy, action economy. 14 plus one plus three is 17. So we're good. Yep. Hey! Hey, thank you, chat. Oh my God. Thank you, chat. And that is her turn. Your push. I bet you, yeah. I'm gonna eat. I'm gonna fuck up this. My turn. Yes. I am going, oh no, no, Fire Prince can't get over here. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I just need to, I am going to look at her and say, get away from him. And I will burst out and cast Mass Cure Wounds once again. Let's fucking go. Let's go. What level it will determine. Anyway, I'm going to just do that at a physical level. Sorry, it's really bad at this. You got nails on. It's like those nails. Oh, and finally, God, all my D8s always roll one, two, eight. What about the Argonauts thing? 15, yeah, no, I'm adding that now. 15, I'll look that up. Thank you, see. 15, 20. You guys are mine, let's keep his arms. 23, 27, 27, 30, 32, 32 points of healing. And I forgot for my bonus action, I'm finally going to say, Fire Prince, you can still aid us. And he starts blinking around healing people. So right now, I'll do the beginning and the end of my turn. He's going to heal a random ally each time. This, do you know what I'm saying? All of my allies are healing. To get to detailing, he is healed at the best of time. Oh boy. Oh boy. This is going to heal. Oh my God, it actually heals Shepherd. Yes! It actually heals Shepherd. For, thank you guys. I would like to read that. That one's from the big fast. 14 points of healing. And then, this one is going to heal, it heals Shepherd again. For, my faith is with Derrick's today. Oh my God. 16 points of healing. Oh, whoa. 16 points of healing. What is that? He blinks and then goes back to where he is. You feel this fiery dragon that is just purely made of flames, pure elemental. I just burst and you feel your wounds start to cauterize and singe as luck, Derrick's, not luck. Derrick's is watching over us, Shepherd. We will win. That's my turn. She is going to use a legendary faction and you are going to, she is going to. Oh shit, I'm going to be healed. I'm so sorry. Zoom through the floor and appear behind Shepherd. If she's not already there, I can't remember. She's in front of Shepherd. She is going to be behind him. I'm so sorry. And she is going to make an attack on Shepherd. Here comes the Shepherd attack. And that is going to hit. It's a 32. I'm sorry, I'm so. She hit you. Okay. With this one attack. 25 points of slashing damage. It's a 13. Lower. And 14 points of necrotic damage. 9. Okay, I need a 19. You got this. You got this. Nailed it. 22. Okay. That is a legendary. Sarnas. Oh no, you win. Victoria. I'm rolling like hot fire. Yes. I am going to turn and start walking very deliberately towards her. So. 30 as far as I can go. But as I'm walking, I've been, I started. And in my pocket, I'm going to tear a piece of paper or scroll that's stated in there. And my, my eyes will turn black and start to cry black down my face as I cast. I bite at you. I live heightened. So you will have disadvantage on your first day. Oh my. Oh, yeah. Come on, come on, come on. I'm going to use the legendaries. Yes. It's like a good. Baby two and one. God. Huge money. Money, money, money. Okay. So do you. Thank you. You are resisted. So you resisted. Okay. Then. I am so. But it's still up so you could move it to other things. Yes. But not. Not this round. Yeah. I want to do something with my. Yeah. It's something that you like to cast and it stays in the air and you can move it to multiple things. It's like a big, big, big button yourself. It's fucking. It's the best. It's really like a. Do you still be a favorite spell? Are you playing? No, you don't need it. It's a spell. It's not a physical thing. Oh, it doesn't. Yeah. I can't use my bonus. Then you find out she has 12 more. Legendary. Seriously. I'm waiting for the day that one of our DMs is like. What do you mean? She's got more than three. Like I won't be surprised. I think he's had some with more than three. Have any? Nope. I'm waiting for the day. And today might be that day. I'm gonna be that day. I know. I will not be surprised at all. That will be the end of my term. Do I have any rules to make? I guess I don't. No. Does she take half damage or no? For who? No. It's a CC. It's a CC type thing. And then my. It's how it's all fire. 10, 20, 25. It's controlled. 50 just make it to Stradonia. And again, impotently bite it first. Ha ha ha. Slava. Poochy. Poochy, you can do it. Come on, just one. Big money. 21. That hit. Ah! Yay! We did it! Marsolomies! You did it! We got the AC! Gotta give it up for Marsolomies. I know! I know! I know! So many Marsolomies! You're not Pooch! Big boy! Gotta give it up for Marsolomies. Wait a minute, I forgot what we're clapping for this week. Sam Reem's birthday. Oh, that's right. Nabi Berkey's birthday. Nabi Berkey's birthday. Okay. We know he's in chat. He's a lurker. More time fan. Yeah, big fan. The thirteenth piercing damnage. And I know she cannot be knocked to pearls. She can't either. And it's magical pierces. There's a shadow we have. That's awesome. Thank you for how Stradonia lets out a very weak yell, not expecting Marsolomies to run over and nip into her and cause she kicks the hound away. Her eyes train to you. Once again, I need you to make a wisdom saving throw. But... But... But... But... But... But... But... But... But... But... But... But... But... But... But... But... But... But... But... But... But it's really— That— That— That— That— That— That— That— That— That— That— That— That— That— That— That— That— That— That— That— That— That— That— That— That— That— That— That— towards someone that would attack her. Fuck. Oh no. Magic man. No! Maybe. More maybe in particular, good William Tees when he's about to blow her away. She's concentrating. I'm a big fan. Look. Up, up, up. And yes, so that is a legendary action. Check it out. That's the number of two. No, that's number of the... Yeah, no, that's number two. So it is then Raven Law's turn. Okay. Okay. Conn is still in the court. You're so far as the duck's corner. Let's check the comic here. As the fight progresses, the veins and tendril shooting through the walls of Ravenloft get larger and more active. As all of a sudden a loud chord is struck on the piano in the corner, the grand piano of the throne room starts to erupt in an immanating eldritch melody. I need you all to roll wisdoms. Oh my god. We'll get that. We'll see. Oh hell yeah. Oh, I killed it. 25. 32. I'm going to stick with 19. 20. Great move. Killed it with Lucas. The sound of the piano is striking these eldritch chords, music that is so unearthly outside this realm of existence. It's almost hard to concentrate and focus on the sound, but you all do. And you shrug off the effects. Oh. The piano. Thank you. You're right, Sarnax. I can feel you, Garex. He's here with us. Yes. Yes. I'm going to make two attacks on Stradonia. What is that? That's 28, 29. That's it. Yeah. You know where he's 21. Oh yeah. Yeah. 12, 13, 14, 15. 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 16, 17, 27. 27 plus 12. No, plus 16 is 43. 43 points of damage in two attacks. 43? 43. Yeah, that was a big one. Yes. And then I am going to use my bonus action to quaff a potion of Supremes healing. That's the big one, right? Yes. And that is going to be my turn. So I am not going to move because I don't want her to stab me. So I'm going to roll my health. It's going to take me a while. But yeah, that's my turn. She is going to use her last legendary action and she's going to turn towards you, Sarnax. Let me make sure actually my, nope, never mind. She can't cause Charm was too. So that was her last legendary action. Nope, she's good. Conor. Conor. Conocam in the corner. Conocam. Give her a big round of applause. Gotta give it up. Gotta give it up. She's in the corner, but she's down, but she's not out. You gotta admire her warrior spirit. I have the words. I'm going to pat myself down and make sure that I'm attacking. You fall to one hit, aren't you? God, you take psychic damage and pull him on hit. Strav wins. Strav wins. Strav wins. That's it, Mike. Our next giveaway is going to be Mike. Who wants it? Who wants it? Who wants it? He's not the DM, I'm the DM. I'm sorry, who wants it? Maya—— it drops to one—— I'm gonna look over at the throne and do I get a sense that she's still healing? Like was I conscious when she was or like how she's maintaining? I would say you know enough about vampires to know that when she drinks blood, what she's done, as and that they generally have a natural rejuvenation to themselves. So it's not something that's coming from the throne or anywhere else. It's just vampires in general. Okay, I dealt with enough I would say. Vampire booze. I did use my ex-monitious tree already. So unfortunately I can't do that. I'm going to just use my action and my movement to get 60 feet closer to everybody. And as I'm running, I'm just kind of like tightening up my sash and pulling out a superior healing potion. And I'm... Get to the flame, Prince Connor. Get to the flame, Prince. Yeah, so I'm trying to get to the flame, Prince. On it. There you go. That's 60. That's, you can move five more feet. But yeah, you're kind of trapped. I'll stand next to the professor. I'm back. And I will heal myself for... Get in there, how are you doing this? Really? I'm just about to put me in the corner. I'm putting my pain in you for a day. Damn it, Mishou. I've taught you too well. Get out of my head. Once again, Shredonia reaches up into the air as she begins to control your shadows. I need you to make a strength saving throw. Oh no. Oh man, that was almost... All of us? Yes. Oh boy, strength. Yes. That's my first thing. Oh my God. Did I actually succeed here? Nope. My saving throws are just hot fired. 20. Should I twist it? I have 60. Uh... I will choose to fail and I'll continue to heal. I mean, you have the strength. Twist it, twist it, twist it. That's it. You gotta go, you gotta move on your turn. You gotta go. I gotta start doing damage or she's never gonna die. Has this happened to Lucas too or...? Yes. Oh my God, only got one thing. Lucas has a shadow. 17. Oh, so Doggie should do it too. The Doggie's made of shadow, so he's not real. That's true. So I would say the Doggie doesn't. He's real to me. So Victoria, Kana, Clayton and Lucas, you all feel yourselves entangled by your shadow, potentially, unless Maya's using a second one. I'm not, I'm just gonna use a second one. I'm just healing. Do I have a shadow if I'm a shadow, we form myself? Yes, you do. Yep. Oh, that's good. Yep. Get wrecked. Get wrecked, get wrecked, fam. And the Bloodstained Ghost that's still there is gonna turn around and run towards Victor Kana this time. Somebody kill that damn thing. And it's going to make, yeah, the Bloodstained Ghost. Make a hitter from there, so it's gonna make some noise. Oh no, it doesn't have to. All right. Two of its attacks hit. All right. And it's a beautiful. Scream and trash. Trash. No. Trash, trash, trash, trash. 24 points of necrotic damage. Oh geez. Just heal. And... Ah! You were left. Oh yeah. Sorry. Where the hell's where you're doing? And then 17 more points of necrotic damage, and I need you to make a con save. Attack me! Oh, easy. 30. I need you to make it again for the second hit. That was a mistake. If you didn't have a dice tower, you would've got, that's cocked. That makes sure it's on. 23. You are able to shrug off its withering, its withering touch as it lashes out at you with its spectral form. Yeah, you do take the damage. My ears. Lucas, get in there. I mean, he's just like shrugs. He's like, I'm fine, throw another teacup. So he's going to throw a teacup and he's going to throw an arcane bolt. So let's do those real quick. So the teacup, let's do that first. You mean the mode or you mean the actual arcane bolt? The arcane bolt, yes. How much damage does it do? This is what it do. The arcane bolt. The arcane bolt is 40. Twisted. Oh my god, I'm so stupid. This is the teacup, which is 40, 10 plus 7. Oh, twisted. Twisted. Twisted. Yeah, it might as well. Big chat. We need to start doing like real damage or else we're going to put the hell out. I'm going to do real damage. I'm just going to get a 22. Oh my god, I just did it. I just did it. So 40, 10. They're all different diet amounts. Like I say, shepherd, twist. Shepherd and Lucas get auto-twisted. Yeah, I chose liver. Shepherd and Lucas. Who would have thought that this was fucking Lucas, the fucking magic butler. Starting to get sick. The VR damage dealer with shepherd. The only other damage dealer. 29 points of magical bludgeoning damage. You said 29? Yeah. Magic butler. And then the arcane bolts or the arcane moats. This is Dunkey Dragons. Nice. Should I twist this one too? Twist it. Just go to twist. Thank you, chat. Thank you, chat. It looks like it's an 18. There we go. That hits. So now there's 40. Oh, you. These are rolling better. I guess I'll roll a better richer. That was great, Nose. I'm going to roll one more. Hey, what can I do about this? This is a horrible 10, 15, 16, 17 points of force damage. And then for my bonus action, I will have my arcane hand punch Shredanya. So it's going to punch her. And I'll roll for that. Don't roll for shit. That's good. Don't roll for shit. Don't roll for shit. Don't roll for shit. That is a 21. Oh, nice. That's a very hits. And then that will do. The hit. That's a 48. That's a 20. 21, 21. So I'll give them a lead. The plus seven is 25, 29, 30, 31 points of force damage. And then for my action, I think I should come and save some stuff. So I'm going to say I'll call us. I'll put my finger out and arcane bolts will fire out. First one. The final battle, Professor. Don't save anything. First one. He's saving his spell slots for next week. Yeah. For the actual. That scared me for a second. I was like, oh, duh. One hit. Oh, my God. I'm prepared for next week. 21 points of force damage. OK. What's that? And you know what you're doing is you let loose your bolts, your arcane blasts shoot forward as the last one hits. You see a bit of blood begin to drip down Shredonia's face. She's looking bloody. Oh, shut up. Really? No. Bullshit. I don't believe it. No fucking chance. This is a trick. Shredonia is going to your who's grappled. Time. Yeah, no, no, no. Physically has me, but I'm not shadow of grapple. Yes. But she's like physically physically grappled. You OK? She's going to make her first attack on you as she leans down and she is going to make a bite attack into you. Thank you for that. Yeah, that's going to hit. Yeah. Maintaining game state. Thank you. Thank you. Wow, I couldn't have rolled. But I could have rolled worse, not by much. Nine points of piercing damage. OK. Oh, no, no, no, no. What am I doing? I'm rolling for the fucking gargoyles. That's not Shredonia's. By yours is way worse. No, no, no. That's the easy girl. The easy girl, you know, they're the banished. The banished is no wizard here behind the pillar. You know, they completely ignore that. I have different things. Go and check behind the pillar. There's no wizard back here, no way. No way. No way. Who's Chiezo, these? Is it Sienna? No piercing damage? Yep. Oh. 20 points of necrotic damage and your max HP is lowered by that. And you will see as she regains, as she begins to bolster herself, not quite getting over the bloody threshold. But she's 17 plus points. 37, 37 and a half is. 37. The 18. 18. I don't know where. National point. Fuck yeah. And he's not happy when they're not on attack rolls. But I know, I know. But I'll take it. I mean, this, the concentration is pretty big. It's pretty huge. It's like a 12. So that, that was her bonus action. She is then going to zoop in. She's going to drop you as she, as she lowers herself into the floor, travels through the stone. Clayton, she's going to pop up behind you and make an attack. Oh no. And that will hit. Smell the girl. Shield. What is your thing? 26. Oh, she just vanished. Fort. Keeps wanting to say Fortnite. It will miss. She will then, she will then lower herself into the ground and she is going to zoop towards Kana. Okay. She's going to make an attack on Kana with a natural 20. I can't stop that. Wow. And she's going to make her second one on her as well. And that will also hit. So we'll do the national 21st. Can we start playing the Titanic music now? That's only, that's only for a TPK. We're not talking about that. She's bloodied. We can do this. Wow. 52 slashing damage for the crypt. Oh, god. That's going to put her down, folks. I hear her. There's no way. It's like going to be over 100 damage. 22 damage for Necrotic. That's for the crypt. That's not for the second hit. Then she's going to do 23 slashing damage and 16 Necrotic. So this is just BB down as long as it's not. They're combined hit, so it doesn't count as a crypt. You were up when the second hit. So you were just at death saving for us at this point. So I'm going to grasp at the professor's briefcase. And I look up at him as I go. Save us, professor. That was far too easy. And she's supposed to be the one that protects you. And she's going to drop Conor Hart on the ground. So I'm asking. That was her turn, though, right? That was her entire turn. All right. Do I have a sense of how fucked Sheppard is by Necrotic? But she does either legendary actions back now that I'm in her town. So if you're looking at me, you would see that I'm real beat up. But I'm not nearly as bad as I was. I don't look as damaged as I did when you healed us last recently. But what you notice about me is that overall, I just look more frail and gaunt in my eyes or kind of sunken in a little bit. Yeah. Yeah, I look ill. I look weak and tired. OK. And I'm banged up pretty good, but I'm not on like, I don't look like I'm on like hanging on by a thread or anything. Got it. OK. I will I will look at Shraddanya and I will say, yes, she does protect us and Garex the Fire Lord protects her. And I'm actually fire prince gets to go. And if it heals Kanna, oh, it will super back up. So one number. Kanna is a 10. Oh, wait. Yeah, she's nine to 10. That's me. That's neither. Unfortunately, it's going to heal Victoria, though, for Victoria for 16 points of healing. Well, thank you. And then I so I will, as I say that, I will cast use my last seventh level spell slot to cast Heal. Now on Kanna with your 60 feet of me, right? I need to get within 60. Yeah, you're sure I'm going to move as far as I can 30 feet towards I guess I can move myself. I just don't like my sleeves. Can we do one, two, three, four, five, six, I guess. I'll go there and then I will get any points of healing. Plus you get a little extra from from fire biz. A little bit extra, three extra. Heals 83 points of healing. Wow. That's wow. God, you just did everything I'm doing here. We physically could not do this without a dedicated feeling. And oh, wait, Shredania is right there. Fire Prince, save our protector. And I am going to Zup Kanna and you actually know you're you're fine now. I am going to who's looking the roughest about everyone who wants to get away from Shredania? I guess you all are pretty good. So I'm going to prove Victoria away. Are you still are you sure Victoria is charged? I'm charged. Oh, and I look fucking fabulous. So you just healed the friend that's about to I bite one of you. So I am going to super 30 feet away. Do I do I get the sense that she's oh, yes, you need that I can't take the witch away from us and 30 feet as far away. You believe you would say such a thing to you? I'll be back. Rich is the fucking go go all the way that fucking way. So even farther away from me, get the fucking car. Get the fuck out of here. Here to the throne. 30 feet. And then he will teleport there. No. Yeah. Yep. OK. That's it. That's my turn. OK, so I have been zipped. I am charmed and I am still restrained by the shadowy or did that drop? Yes, that dropped on the layer action. Or did she do it again? Yes, so you technically currently are restrained. OK, you can transfer your I bite somebody. Yes, who was the last person that dealt damage to Straton? Clayton. OK, Lucas, Lucas. OK, I would say you're still a sentient being. So you would know Clayton, Cass Lucas, so you could choose. You know, it was. Yeah. Oh, you know, what's Clayton? Arcane ball. Oh, yeah. Apologies. It was like I was. So I was. Oh, please. Right. I would look back toward towards Clayton. And. Do that. And I would try to transfer the I bite to you. So that is a wisdom saving throw. Oh, no. What a piece of shit. I just want to kill. It was almost so cool. So one of the two on my advantage. Oh, no. Or which I might. It's time. I would just twist it. Or it works, man. I mean, like how many you got left? You've just I think I think I think twist is better. Yeah. All right. Twist. What is it? Thank you, Jack. DC might not be wearing it high. So my say is. Wow, that was. That was some shame. Yeah, I'm rude. The DC might not be very high. I think I failed. That is a 15. Oh, yeah. So yeah, you bet. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You and then you get to save at the end of your turn. So thank God. Look, is this really really you? Frankly, no, no, we just need a little bit. Can we serve? I would want you to. I guess get away from her. So I would make you. The. Man, I mean, that's that works out well for him. So the target is frightened of me. So you must dash away, take the dash action and move away from me by the safest and shortest available route. Unless there's nowhere to. OK, thanks. On my turn on here is. Yes, OK, so you can't be frightened. All right. I'm walking in first. I'm walking in first. I want to see it. It's like it's like. Yes, sorry, game. That's a nice. Joy. Where is what happened? As I said, was that's good for you. Thank God. Thank God. I didn't want to say anything. I mean, hey, I made those mistakes. I love you. Tell us what I got to let you make those mistakes, too. Because I'm really trying to kill you guys. So I mean, I'm afraid of you. I get to give you a little bit of a break. I'm going to take it. I'm going to try. Because you're lucky I'm the dumbest one. I love you, baby. I love you so much. It is with that. You're in front of Stradania. Take it off. Yep, I'm next. It's on and plate. She is going to grind her teeth as she looks towards you. It's like this. Flaring in her eyes. Turn. No, it's a legendary action. It's a legendary action. You're turning, right? Oh, yeah, that's the end of my term, but I have puppy dog next. So oh, yeah, sure. Puppy dog, because I know that's going to probably kill her. And then the fight will be over. It's going to go very well. Here we go. So puppy dog. How do you want to do this? Yeah. Well, well, well, he was doing that. Yeah. How far can he get 50 feet? I don't think he can get to 10 squares. Yeah, he can go under the feet of the thing. 100 percent get to her. Yes, he can get to her. He can certainly get in that square. Oh, are you not turned by her anymore? No, she is. I am. But the time for school. The dog goes on its own and it only has one target. Whoever she cast the honor. I wasn't sure if she was going to be like, but she could. It is a really cool effect. And it basically has this horrible determination that will not give up until it's either it's dead or the target is dead. Yeah, it's a good moment. It is an omen of doom. That's cool. So it's no basically like cyber focused. Yeah. And nothing happens. It works. OK. And you can roll to see if you break the trap. And now it's a legendary action. Now it's a legendary action. She's going, she does because they started on her turn. She's going to use all three of them. And she's going to turn towards towards you, Kana. Her eyes are going to a light with rage and hatred as she channels the might of the dark powers into her blade. You see as the blade begins to radiate a dark red and black magic as it swirls around the hilt and then down the blade as she attempts to make an attack on it. OK. It hits. So it's an automatic crit. Is this a show? It is not. It is a legendary action. So she is going to attack you with her at a crit. Oh, my gosh. The shadow. It's a leaf. I completely forgot she had this. It's a very good throw. Oh, I'm honored. It will be gone with the lair action, OK? I see. Or no, we're going to. Yeah, it'll be. It will be very soon. OK. Got it. Well, 30 points of slashing. Do you know it's not 30 points of slashing? Hold on. Let me do this again. So it's 30 points of slashing damage, but I didn't roll as the crit. So you can then add 16 more points. So it's 46 in total for the main hit. And then the necronic damage is. Oh, I didn't roll my healing after. 20 points of necrotic damage. Clayton, you heal apologies for doing this late, but you heal for I'm a maximum 18. Oh, you're back. It's just it's the thing. Is that why your prints you suck? I'm going to as the blade goes in, I'm going to like pretend like I'm slumping over and then I'll write myself back up and just swallow the blood that's girdling out of my mouth. And I will yank the blade back out and I'll be like third turn is not the charm. And we are still standing. Damn. Yeah. All right. She she looks down at you. Well, now she's fucking getting in the boat force. We'll come soon. Until then, you can watch what I do to your friends. And she just narrows her eyes. It's Raven lost turn. I need to be 10. Oh, gosh. Yeah. Why do you do this to me? The floor beneath you begins to shake and move as energy corrupts the stone of the floor, turning a 20 by 20 section in the very center into a bloody viscous. The area is considered a difficult terrain and anyone who is inside of that 20 by 20 foot area, which is in the very center. So over Clayton, the dog. And in that general area is difficult terrain. And that is what it is. That's what happens. Shepherd. I'm looking across the room of Shardanya and I hold your judgment and I start flipping switches and turning knobs on redemption. I kind of twist the barrel a little and it starts to extend and I'm able to flip the handle up. And I'm saying the doc always used to leave me with little sayings and tips and tricks. And he's left me with one more trick up his sleeve and redemption. The handgun has kind of turned into a longer barrel and it's kind of turned longer and cylindrical. It's like pull out judgment. And I screw the end of the first gun on the other. I'm flipping twists and there's steam things and moving. He gives the guns abilities to do lots of different things. And this one he called revelation. And the two guns are kind of now a long rifle. And I hold through the gun up to my shoulder and I aim down the sights of Shardanya. And I say he also told me that every bully he ever met couldn't shut their fucking mouth until they were fucking scared. And I pulled the trigger. It's like in Go Andy. I thought I love this. Oh, I'm going to use a twist on that. Yeah, fucking I. That is going to be a natural fucking 20. So what that means is oh my god, revelations one shot is 18 d6 plus 40. So it's going to be 36 d6. Oh my god. Plus 40. And because it's judgment and redemption, it's maximum amounts of damage. No, that's true. So I am going to do 36 times six, which is 216 plus 40 points of damage for 256 points of damage. Remember, what about Argonne Boston that Garrett? It's already OK. Oh my goodness. That has to. You place you tinker with your weapons, channeling the knowledge that Doc Cogburn presented you. And you are able to for the first time, harness the ability of revelation. You let the blast fly and Stradania is nearly knocked off her feet as she slams into the ground, but she climbs back up. She is wounded. She looks she looks pained. Her armor is splintered from her. Her dress itself is tattered around around her legs. Blood is spilling forth from the wounds on her body and her eyes hone to you. But she still stands under one more d20 to see if the ability refreshes. I do not get it. Steam bursts from the rifle and the rifle comes apart and I'm flipping switches and I'm turning it back and they're back into judgment and redemption. And that is the end of my turn. Oh, shoot. I know she doesn't have legendary actions because I wasted all of those thinking I had a lot of health left. Holy fuck. Connor. Holy fuck. Yeah. Almost in slow motion. I'm like, getting splattered in the face. She went from bloodied to a quarter. I'm getting splattered in the face by Stradania's blood like shock all over my face, seeing her even stumble for a moment. And like in slow motion, like with my head around to see the steam out of the corner coming out of revelation. Yeah. Never having ever set eyes on this weapon before, I am bolstered and inspired more so than ever before, looking around at my friends, glancing over my shoulder at Clayton, at the pooch in front of me wanting to just, I walk five feet over to the pooch and look down at it and I cut the pooch. I have no cover for Stradania's blood. I have wounded us, heart, body, and soul. But friendship will never die. And I look back down at the pooch and say, if you do not enter the lion's den, you will not catch its call. I'm going to take the red sash around my waist. I'm going to undo it. Again, I'm going to tie my hair up into a top one. She slits your throat. You're taking over. You fall over to her skin. I'm going to pin my hair up into a top one. I'm going to fasten the helmet, my samurai helmet over my head. And I'm going to use my vestige having been inspired. By Shefford to use his, I will use heroism, which allows me to inspire my allies, granting them the action of the Haste Bell. This fact lasts for two rounds at the end of your turn. That is my action, so I don't think I can do anything. You do not get your attacks this round. You did do something. Yeah, I did do something. Let's be frank. And then I will actual search. Fucking Haste. Fucking Haste. I'm so excited. I never get peace from me. I always get it to tone. And I will also use my fighting spirit to give myself 15 points of temporary hit points as my armor comes a light, brighter than ever, glowing shades of blue and red and gold, all just this rainbow of color before it washes down over me. And I will gain advantage on these next five attacks. Five, yep. So all five of these will hit. Damn, let's go. As I deal 59 points of damage. Okay. You slice into her. You're in and near rage as you emblazoned your friends. You slice in, you're finding all of her weak points. She continues to loom over you, a wicked smile, a light on her face. Finish your shepherd. I believe in you. I believe in friendship. All right, lair action. She is going to attempt to take control of you all through your shadow. I'm going to do this again. I need you all to roll strength savings. I failed that 22. 23. Victoria and Sarnax, you both feel your shadows wrap up around you and restrain and restrict you in place. Stradonia, let's out a chuckle as she looks between the both of you. Fire dispels my shadow. Fuck. Thank you Trevor. The ghost is going to make both of its attacks on, so within 20 feet of Kana. You guys get plus two to your AC as well as part of the haste spell. Baby. Sorry, I forgot to mention that because I was so wrapped up in a sew. What's your AC then now? 24. Okay, then only one of them hits by the ghost. You get advantage on deck saving throws as well as an additional action, but you can only use it to make when it's back on your dash to say H.I. And your speed is doubled. 16 points of necrotic damage to you Kana and I need a con saving throw, DC 15. So it hits me with a 24? Yes, only one of its attacks hit you. There are three of them in there. A con saving throw? Yes. 26. Yeah, no you pass, so you're not under the effect of the disavantage and saving throws, but you do take the damage. And that is the ghost, Clayton. I will have Lucas, Lucas do your thing and then, so he's not restraining anymore because he's passed, right? Yes. This is the new one. I'm going to first throw an arcane bolt at Stradania, and then that's going to be one. Twist? Twist again. That's more it. No, that misses. And then he's going to walk up to her. He's going to walk up to her and he's going to pull out the teapot and the silver tray again and smash them both down. And this will be the first one, there misses, second one. That misses. He has one twist. Yeah, that's a good one. Thanks, thank you Chad. Thank you Chad. Thank you Chad. There we go, that's a head. That's a head. So that is 66 plus seven, 33 points of medical blood remand. And then he is going to basically start to glow with arcane energy. His third eye is going to open up and he's going to look so powerful that it's almost horrifying. She needs to make a DC-17 with saving throw. We can frighten him for one minute. She's aiming to frighten him. There we go. Nice try buddy. And I will use my arcane hand to come in. Can this go 60 feet? One and a half, two, three, four. Get there. Six, one, two, yeah. So the arcane hand is going to come in and it's going to give her the old punch of Rooney, which is, that's advantage. It's me. There's no d20. A million d20. I can't fight a single one. That's going to hit. Doing 48 force damage. One, two, three, four. That's 19 points of force damage. 19, that's it. And then how is everybody looking? We're pretty beat up. I look like shit. But I don't look like I'm like again. I'm suddenly the same. I don't look like I'm on the brink of death. But I mean to look like I'm gone and I'm withered and I'm tired. I'm swollen and what? Kind of looks really fucked up, right? Yeah. Conna. I think you'll be a better candidate for this. So I will, I will pull out a caterpillar cocoon and I will say, morphium and I'll crumble it and throw the dust over Conna. And if you're willing, I will shift into a gigantic ape. Oh my gosh. He's making me a cocoon. You know him well. It's always us two. Finally back to kick some tape. Because it was herja and the danish. And now it's cocoon. Five of the sports. Conna con. Conna con. Conna con. But yeah, I'm willing. And I'll move here just to give you a little. Candy con. Candy con. I like that. I know. I know. We can be like D. I'll say. All right, let's finish. And then I can use my action with haste to dash hide or disengage. Yes. So I will disengage and I will move one to I will get out of this bloody circle. And how many movements? I was just one or no, I need to move one to out to get out. You are going to take. Six points of necrotic damage. Okay. I'll put the market down later. So I want to go. So I was one. I think. So I'm going to back up a little bit with my disengage so the ghosts don't fuck with me too bad. And that is my turn. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. I use my eight form constitution saving throw? We're trying to find it. I need to twist. So look up the eight, so we can go to extra. Twist, yeah, if you want to. We'll do grade eight, we have home. Can I twist two? Yes. Con? Sorry, this is probably the right way. Are you ready for us to do it? No, I'm gonna wait until everyone knows what they've got and then I'm going to determine how. Finally I failed one. So, so the eight's is plus 10, what's yours? It's 12. Okay, so the new year is yours. Is that card? Yes, I don't want it to be, but. If I could turn back 25. No, we got eight. Did anyone roll below a 20? Yeah. Do you twist them? Yeah. I got a third. You did twist it, I did twist it, yeah. Do you want to do more twists or no? I don't like to do more twists. No, one for go. Let it ride. I'm gonna just pass the chair. Ladonya, or Ladonya. Stradonia lets out a mournful wail as haunting supernatural music floats throughout the air. Anyone who succeeded is going to take 18 psychic damage. Those who failed drop to zero hit points. What? Okay. So this is not a damage amount, I'm taking it's just. No, no. Banshee wail. My knees hit the stone and then my head follows and judge me redemption clatter from my hands. I'm gonna choose that. It's just, I do not have a straight one. Okay. So the gargoyles are back. Oh no. Yes they are, because I would drop concentration. And they're right next to me. Oh no. Would they repeal where they left? Yeah. Then they're gonna be right on the Houndeville element. Because they were in the middle of the room when I banished them. Oh they were? Oh they were over here. No I thought they were over here. Yeah, they hadn't moved. No they hadn't moved. Oh they were right here. They were literally in the middle of the room. On the other side of the pillar. Because she, yeah that's what they were. I mean like one of them would be on Lucas. But yeah. And yes I bite drops. I mean. Yeah and. And dad is her entire turn. For now. As I'm clutching. They actually do not show up. Because per my thing it's been, oh no it's 10 rounds per minute. Never mind. We're on sixth round. Yeah it was all me. So no they do. They do. I'll be holding my hands to my ear holes. I don't look around. I'll immediately drop. I'll see the Shradania's weak. And I'll see that I think the Khan is pretty, is pretty bloody too. I don't know. I don't know. I am my name. Oh you are name. That's right. I would have died again if it weren't for the Ape Farm. So thank you. And I will. I will look around and I will just say. Garrix Fire Lord. I ask you please help us finish this now. And I am going to use my ninth level spell slot. And cast Mass Heal. And everyone will be fully healed. No fucking way. No fucking way. Bless you sweet souls. It's a great chance that all these revolve. My negrosis. It is not in first place. It is. Good try. Unless we are losing more than 700 hit points. But if not then. I would be 153. I'm only missing like 40 between Lucas and. No. I'm not mad Abby. Unfortunately you're Ape Farm. Okay so I heal ATM. Does anybody want to guess how much my Max HP modifier is currently missing? Oh my god. You may hear this table on the kitchen. 105. 80. Okay. Max. Oh my. How much Max HP am I missing? 60. Okay. Seven. Star Axe is the winner. I'm at minus 99. Wow. Rachel McCall is a good healer because she's an Ape. No. You saved me. I know. You can draw a ton of hit points. Yeah. I'm good. I figure we're not going to be able to get like a through. Actually back up to floating shape unless I did that. So. No that's the best. Okay. She is then going to run towards you Sarnat. She's going to. Or do you have more? I do have more. I do have more. Damn it. I am going to use the flame prints to. Oh shoot. I'm just going to just lob. I don't think I've ever done this. I'm going to lob a little beat of something at her. A little flame. Oh it actually is going to hit. That's going to be like a 23. And buck. No after her whale her ease he's now 57. He does. Is that ethereal now? Oh wow. He does 10 points of fire damage. Very good. And then he will also have bounced around and healed some people. So I'm just going to do that. Yes you can do that on the side. So are you sending the fire prints over here? Over to her? To her? Oh it looks in the middle of the room. Okay. Towards me. It's 30 feet towards me. Stradonia is going to, you watch as her form shifts. She is going to shift down into the floor and she is going to pop up behind Sarnax and she is going to make a strike again. I was ready for this. And she is going to hit. I'm guessing this is like fly by? Yes she is. Fly by. There's no way. Opportunity attacks against Stradonia. No. Well Shepard's full heal so it doesn't matter. And six. Shepard's full heal so it doesn't matter. Well yeah. Now we're good. That was a great fly. That was a great flying fly. 31 slashing damage. Ouch. If it matters my AC is. And nine necrotic damage. My AC is higher obviously. It's a 21 but. Yeah I know. It's a pretty good. It starts crazy bow jangles. Yeah yeah. No that's not. And that is her. That's a legendary action from her. Victoria. Are you still alive? I was going to ask it. Am I charmed and am I still wrapped up by shadow? So that's not wrapped up. You're not wrapped up by shadow. Oh because it's the blood thing now right? No you would have still been wrapped up by shadow. Just because you were unconscious your shadow is still what it held you. Because that's something she's controlling with the lair action. Oh. Oh did I change it to something else? There's a blood pool in the middle of the beach. That was Ravenloft. That's Ravenloft. So it's still the shadows now. That's still the shadows but am I still charmed? No because you went unconscious. Oh you dropped the charme. So then I will use, do I still have my haste? You do. That was going to be my haste. Yes you still have haste. Okay. That is something Kana, if Kana had gone unconscious that would have been different but she didn't. And so can I use one of my haste actions to get out of the shadowy grapple thingy? Yes. So that would be your action again. So you just have to roll against it. You won't get the extra attack. But if you only get the extra attack if your action is an attack. But attack is an attack to spell so you can use it and then use the spell. Yeah. Just really want to only take the attack, one weapon attack only. Yeah so it doesn't really help a caster, one weapon attack it doesn't count. I think you can only use it to dodge, not even dodge, disengage, dash. I did two of them. Let's do it earlier. You could break grapple and try to hide. If you... Yeah. I don't... Use an object, I don't have anything. How does Shredanu look? She looks pretty weak. I would say I don't think you could kill her in this turn. I think there's one of you at the table that could kill her in this turn, but it's not you. So... Ha ha ha ha. Yes, I am going to still wrap in my shadows. I am going to hold up my hand and a black horrible form in my fingertips and fly out towards Shredanu. Okay. And that will be a chaos. Very nice. 26, that hits. Nice. Oh the gargoyles aren't about to fuck our game. Yeah, I tried man. That was no, that was unbelievable. Five rounds. Action economy baby. Five rounds is pretty good. Just think about how much more fucked you would be if that hadn't happened to you. Oh yeah, and I had to pass like 6,000 points. I got really lucky on my saving throws. So it's 29 psychic damage. Psychic, you say? I just want to look. Thanks. Oh my God, are you resistant to that? No, no. She just likes to troll. Yeah. Do, it's my life. All right. So to her goals. Yes, that will be that. And then I'm going to move. Where's the blood pool? It's like right there. It's right beneath you. Let me know how much movement you do outside of it, or to get out of it. I wasn't. No, she was on the throne. She's on the throne, yeah. So that will be my turn and then Poochie. So this is difficult to rain, correct? Yeah. So. Oh, does it have health? It does have health, okay. Yeah. It got killed by bubble, I saw it with the rain. Because it might take damage in the bubble. Okay, so it's going to move five, 10 feet in the bubble. And it'll basically come over here outside of the bubble. So. It'll make a great attack. It's going to take 14 points of necromic surge. 21. Wait, is it 21 hits? Sweet. Go puppy dog. I think Lucas and the dog are both pasted, or is it just like humanoid allies? Just your allies, and I wouldn't say Lucas or the dog. So six piercing damage, all right. Get him, Poochie. She takes it. Oh, God, it's really the most turn. Oh, and legendary actions turn. Oh, boy. Pace does help the movement. I forgot that, and I forgot that I got my additional. Oh, shit, I forgot. She is going to, she is going to. I just wanted to just move my team. Just keep it warm movement. You were prone, so you would have used half to get up. So 15. So you would have 30, we're going to have 60, 45. As it no matter what. Oh, yeah, so 30. So you're going to be, yeah. Oh, yeah, so we're still there. And Sridanya is going to sink into the floor and pop up behind you, Victoria. She's going to make attack against you. I can't believe you would do this to me in my hour of need, my sweet. She stabs into you and she is going to, she's going to land it. Third AC now is 18, right? What's your AC? Yeah, I'm still not a great. Oh, well. This is going to be a great one. 29 points of slashing damage. No, it's not. And 12 points of necrotic damage. And she sinks her blade into your back. It is Ravenloff's turn. Your eyes immediately dart to the ceiling as the chandelier above your heads begins to shake. Oh no. The glass clinking together as it plummets to the ground. Everyone needs to make a different saving throw please. Advantage. I'm good at that. I'm good at taking your haste. Oh yeah, I'm really good at that. I fail. 35. Oh, God. The ship's put in the base. Should we twist or no? I'm going to let it ride. I'm going to let it ride. You are going to take 18 fire damage as the candles flare up the moment this, the chandelier crashes down around you. Your bits of clothing ignite as you take 18 fire damage, half on a success. And you're pierced by the shattered glass. Of the crystal shards, you're going to take 15 piercing damage, half on a success. So four. We're happy to be dropping. Nine, right? Nine. And then how much? Six, seven. Then the ceiling is going to move towards Clayton and he is going to attempt to make his attacks on Clayton. I'm so sorry everyone, that's fine. Two will hit. None will hit. The other one is going to move towards Victoria and it is going to make all three of its attacks on Victoria. Victoria's going down. Two will hit on Victoria. I'm going to do the damage separately. There are my d12s. Oh, they're on this side. Oh, d12s. Yeah. 25 piercing damage for the first hit. As it bites into you with one of its attacks. And the other one is going to be six. And that is going to 14 points of slashing damage as it claws into you. Thank you. That is bad. Shepherd. I am going to make four hasted attacks in a shurban. What can I? Holy guacamole. That one's good. That one's good. This one and this one is good. I'm going to just twist one. Nope, that's not for one. 29 plus seven is 36. Oh wait, sorry 36. 36? Sorry. Just do it. 60. What the fuck? Quiet down over there. 60 points of damage over three attacks. How do you want to do this? Why? She had 49 hit points left. I take... I'm firing off round after round and with the final blast, I take for the first time all campaign redemption. And I pointed at her and I look down the barrel and I say, Shredanya, make Garex the Fire Lord, assuage the anguish of your bereavement. Goodbye. And I pull the trigger. Oh baby. Shredanya turns her head towards you, caught off as she's staring at Victoria. Hate, love, anger, hope, betrayal, written across her face. As you begin to speak, she turns to look at you. Her fangs, bared, but she looks too late as the blast from redemption collides with her. And as Shredanya stumbles back with the impact of that final blow, an eerie quiet falls over the throne room. You see her face begin to sink in and the brightness of her red eyes start to fade. Her skin shifts and twists violently as it turns to an ashen gray. Her unnatural veins pulsing as wildly as the erratic eldritch power from the increasingly cracking ruby around her neck. Her bloody tears drip with an audible splash when they hit the hard stone of the floor as she limps toward her throne. She extends a feeble, grasping hand towards her grievously wounded brother and drops her sword. It clatters to the ground, shattering relative silence as she practically drags herself to finally face Sergant. My brother. Shredanya looks down at Sergant, sheds a single final tear of blood. The tendrils of crimson energy slowly, finally slither into retreat and slip entirely back into the gem at her throat. Then, without a sound, a terrible, blinding crimson light radiates from the gem and floods the room. A horrified look of realization comes to Shredanya's face before she turns around and throws her back towards her brother in an attempt to shield him as the gem explodes in a fraction of a second, heralded by a repulsive, gushing sound, an insurmountable red tide of slimy otherworldly blood erupts from the shattered ruby and blasts the entire room with explosive eldritch energy. I need everyone to make a Christmas saving throw at disadvantage. Oh, no. Good day, sir. My day, I was a natural 22. Oh, boy, I got seven. Do we want to twist these? I mean, at disadvantage, it's like... Mind's eye, I'm gonna be good. I have really terrible advantage. Yeah, it's me too. I'm gonna let it ride. Oh, I fail either way. Yeah. Yeah, I fail. I got a 23 out on the things. Okay, what did you get? Clayton gives a five, and Lucas gives a... The flood of foul viscous blood blasts the entire throne room in the blink of an eye. It's dark power killing all of you instantly. The blast obliterates the arcane form of Lucas, and he turns to nothing but a pile of melting snow. However, in your final agonizing moment, you realize that death is not enough for this malevolent force. With a sickening and excruciating tear, you experience your souls being ripped from your bodies. You see your own mortal forms collapse to the ground, drenched in gore, as your translucent blue spirits remain suspended above the corpses. Unable to move in this apparent afterlife, you can only watch as the blood that coats the crumbled hall begins to ripple to life. As if gaining a collective mind of its own, the gelatinous iccer slithers from the parts of the walls, ceiling and floor that remain from your destructive battle, coagulating and combining into an undulating blob at the center of the room that grows larger and larger. Once the last globule merges with the all-consuming mass, it begins to wriggle and mold itself into a defined shape. The form that emerges cannot be called feminine, but merely a rough approximation of the upper half of a female body dressed in a long tattered gown and shrouded in a hooded veil, but only if it could be described by any observer outside and beyond the realms of all that is known. But of course, there is no actual clothing here, and every bit of this being is made up of slimy ooze-coated flesh, soft and squishy like a grub with all the colors of bloody mucus. Manifested from this flesh are its crown and scepter, which the creature holds high as it finally settles on a configuration that seems to be a mockery of what mortals might consider regal. However, this weak facade is immediately betrayed by the writhing tendrils that slither out from beneath its false robe. Now, fully formed, the entity rises into the air, floating like a ghost as it faces the five of yours, basking in the light of the blood moon, the aspect of the dark power known only as the blood queen extends its tentacles towards your helpless souls, and even in death, you can feel its limitless malice. Five tendrils slide into five incorporeal foreheads, and all at once, your minds open to infinity. Your consciousness remains in the crumbling throne room of Ravenloft while simultaneously blasting out of Barovia, out of the shadow fell, out of the material plane, out of the inner and outer planes, to the limitless vastness beyond. You see castle walls warp and bleed, veins of red energy burst beneath you as pulsing bulbous veins slither out from the cold stone, past your corpses, and pump into your spirits. Emptiness surrounds you as the stars themselves whiz past, normally nothing but tiny dots in the night sky, now blazing spheres of unfathomable size that rock it into and out of your sight until a wall of absolute nothingness stands before you. At the same time, a bloody seat of gold and velvet stretches and twists like a growing tumor. Your mind careens towards the void and the throne and breaks through. What fills your consciousness after defies all reason and reality, everything you have ever known to be true, is no longer. It is all. It is nothing. The sights, the sounds, the sensations are nothing. You are able to or will ever be able to describe. Everything you are, everything you were, everything you will be cannot matter anymore as your very consciousness threatens to shatter. In the incomprehensible nature of all that surrounds you makes you wish for the sweet release of total annihilation. And then your mind's return, the horrible entity in that approximation of a veiled woman, floats before you as its bloody tendrils pulse, and you feel them warping the very essence of your spectral beings as they remain helplessly suspended above your slain bodies. Victoria, you suddenly recall the wedding you had put to a sudden and grisly end, and you realize how close you were to being the second most powerful person in all of Barovia. And surely, you would have figured out a way to depose your wife and rise higher than she ever had, for Stradonia lacked your vision. You would have never settled for Countess. You would have been so much more if your so-called companions hadn't tricked you into giving up your blood right. You deserve far more. You are a queen. You could shape everything in your image until everything would be of you. A boundless, bitter pride swells in you as your spirit's form slowly shifts to a thick, coagulated consistency of bloody mucus. Sarnax, the annihilation of seeing the destructive power of dragonsfire consumes you as all unbound flames should. It's almost seductive. You think of your wasted opportunities to turn so much of Barovia to ash when you knew deep down you wanted to. The renewal and regrowth that only fire can bring demands an inferno, and that you are. You think of all the corruption you could cleanse in fire, all the old, weak life unfit for survival that could be destroyed and replaced by brilliant, strong, new life, like a phoenix from the ashes. What you would feel is almost romantic. A love, a lust for destruction, as the light in your soul ignites into a blazing pillar of purple flame. Shepard, your fury and hatred for Stradonia and all of the evil she has unleashed upon Barovia, upon Tommy's poor sister, upon your friends, absolutely consumes you. You feel the failure of being unable to bring judgment to the Countess and her evil sooner. Clearly, evil is far too strong in this world and in any battle against the forces of good, it will always win. You realize now that there's only one way to truly put an end to it all, the elimination of all morality, the elimination of free will. Only a universe of mindless, unthinking creatures without agency can truly put an end to evil. The pools of rage and seething hatred within you spill into your soul as your being turns to a whirlpool of poison and wriggling parasites. Kana, the horrors you've witnessed in the past weeks and especially tonight, weigh heavily on you. You wish for a world of pure water, but you now finally see if the universe is a pool, it is a tainted one, foul, putrid, vile, like an irrevocably polluted stream that bears sick, withered blossoms. The realms of your existence are taint and all you can think of is how to protect the realms that aren't of your existence from that pollution. You are sentinel after all. It is your duty to protect from the unclean, if this realm is of something, then the only way to shield against it is to be nothing. You are filled with disgust and repugnance as your spirit turns to the nothingness of an impossibly black void. Clayton, all you can think of is why you were here in this cursed land, why you've doomed yourself, your friends, your family, your entire line. The desire has been there since you were a child. You knew you would make a name for yourself and you already have, but it's never been enough. Each victory, each success, each step on the path to greatness, true greatness did not satisfy. How could it? All it did was make you crave more respect, more renown, more achievement, more. And now that it's led you here, you cannot think of anything else beyond the next step on that path to greatness. The kind of greatness that will change the world, the entire world forever. It's all you desire and you desire all. And that want for everything grows until that's all you are. You are consumed by an unfathomably deep, unending hunger as your soul hardens to a solid, pearlescent shell that shimmers with all color. All five of you experience your very essences begin to change as you simultaneously lose yourself and become the ultimate encapsulation of yourself and you feel powerful. The light of the blood moon shines down as it hangs at its zenith. It is surrounded by twinkling stars, but they all seem so insignificant now that you've experienced what's beyond them. You begin to accept your metamorphosis and ascension as the manifestation of the blood queen begins to rise into the night. Then comes dawn. Although the sun has not risen over the horizon or broken through the perpetual clouds of Barovia, the light of morning suddenly floods the throne room. It intensifies until all you can see are the blinding rays of the sun for just a moment. Then you see a silhouette standing at the center of the brilliance. Sergei Von Zarovich holding the sunsword high shines like dawn as he rises into the air and radiates holy light. Morning Lord, with my eyes I see your beautiful sunrise. With my hands I sense your merciful warmth. With my heart I feel your eternal love. You are the beacon who casts away the gloom. You are the lantern that guides my path. You are the day to which I devote my life. In your name I raise my hand to the sun. In your glory I bring the dawn to end the night. With your holy light I conquer the darkness. Sergei thrusts his blade upward as his eyes glow a bright gold and his blonde hair flows in the radiating divine power. He is enveloped in a beam of light as the holy might of the sun bursts forth from him. The blood queen lets out a gurgling screech as even she is blinded through the veil as her slimy flesh sizzles and pops in holy light. She retreats with a hiss and her tendrils are ripped from your souls before completing their eldritch transformation. Your senses return to you as all five of your spirits glow a bright gold. All remnants of the corruption fully cleansed in the light of dawn. They slowly drift back down into your bodies. With a flash, you all take in a deep breath as your life returns to you. Brought back from death by the glory of the morning Lord. Like a setting sun, the rays of light turn to softer hues of orange and pink before shrinking back into Sergei as night returns to Barovia. You all rise with new life. Your wounds fully healed. As the five of you stand together and face the midnight sky, the crimson moon looming overhead. You see the blood queen ascending towards the highest tower of Castle Ravenloft. She ascends swiftly, crashing through the roof of the tower and almost immediately, the entire structure glows red and pulses like a beating heart. And that is where we'll take a break. Oh my god. Holy shit. Wow. Wow. Aw, geez. Wow, he's alley. Gotta give it a shot. Gotta give it a shot. Gotta give it a shot. Beautiful. Holy. I'm singing. I'm singing, fam. Sergei. My man, coming in clutch. It's all over. What could possibly be next?