You all are getting prepared to fight Cecilia the great the dragon of Nuba sky You have two hours to get prepared if there's anything you wish to do places You want to visit things you want to buy in the meantime before you go in or if you have no intentions or money to spend You can just wait at the Colosseum and get all prepared with the clerks and registrar Word has to go and purchase a crown I would like I would like to follow word into buying costumes for this Yeah, all right. We got a costume up. You can probably find such jewelry at the Smith in which case I will show You go to Valentino's touch and I will show all the things that you can get there Including a jewelry that is I Working the Anvil once you arrive and he does do jewelry as well So you can get a crown there of a decorative one that only costs one silver.  The robe and the cape so I'll talk to I'll talk to word. I'll say no I'm just wondering. I mean we're gonna want to put on a good show.  Do you have any ideas for like? What I could do Like perhaps I could incorporate myself into like your character like a something of sorts or Well, you got really really long arms It's be hard to find like a good fitting cost. I feel like there's something there Since I'm you know the God King word you could be like my my priest What are those called like a sculler of of my godliness or you could put on like a knight helmet and be like my my scry But I could be like a protector like an acolyte of sorts like yeah, right hand sort of hmm God King words acolyte What about just the acolyte that's that's good. That's like a whole name. All right.  So it doesn't it doesn't yeah. Yeah, it'll just be clothing. Yeah, you can find one It's like a copper. It's not even a silver. Yeah, it's just like a bed sheet Yeah, I want it to obscure my face so I can like stand menacingly behind word Yeah, when we do this for our for our for our entrance song when the entrance song plays Can I get like a little bandit mask too? Oh, yeah, that that can be included with the crown. Cool. Can I also get a bandit? Yes, you may we're doing You you pay one gold piece and you have basically all the materials you need to make the costume that you want That's too much freedom No, I'm gonna walk out into the arena like that scene in the avatar Laren Fritz show up and buck and word walk out in there like costumes All right, we're ready with we guys I think we're ready to go. We got sort of got our costumes on Yeah, what are you guys gonna be? Presumably the pilgrims of Satya Spired if you're if you're gonna want to get the the crowd on your side. There's got to be at least some sense of pageantry I mean, that's what that's what the Coliseum's all about mmm I'm good. I think Like our back story is I'm an acolyte of the God King I am the one and only God King word the ruler of everything in master of combat Interesting just going is like the champion of Satya. I don't know. That's a bit undertone from from my opinion I Think I think it'll work later. I think you'll be fine Thank you What's your good your character that you're doing be like my flying acolyte we could get you another bedsheet You could be like I go colite like what like like a clear thing Like the follower and protector of the God King word Yeah, but don't I mean feel free to come up with your own I mean don't I want to be a phoenix How do I set myself on fire? Represent fire by having maybe a brighter red sort of outfit Some oh yeah, I think I saw a guy we have two hours and pepper powder You can just coat your body in that that feels on wise.  I'm sure I could fake death. All right That'll be act one God King defeats the dragon or whatever and becomes one himself I don't know Can I like look for like something that would help fritz look like like Yeah, yeah, there's various different colored cloth, although not at the smithy Probably find some better stuff that like I don't know the silversmith Which I don't have a thing for but you could probably find it in the general goods area give you a second identical hot bunny guy running That one second identical. Yeah, they're rivals and You can perhaps find like a bit of like powder dye stuff that needs to like just add water sort of stuff Like red ribbons. Yeah, like like war paint kind of similar to what Cecilia has on her face Okay Could I like change my Scar for maybe a red one Yeah, you could like dip it in the the paint It's washable so you could just like dip it in the paint to make it red for the the fight Not the worst thing I've spilled on Leave it out to dry in the two hours. It is a very sunny day after all That feels like I'm being weird to my own Well, I'm gonna go I'm gonna go change over at the What's the what's the name of the place the soft shores in I'll go over there and change and put on my robe And I'll come meet you guys. I mean is there there's nothing else that I think I need to fix or get ready Yes, I'm prepared.  It's unfamiliar You are there pilgrims and you are approached by a fairly short human man dressed in some merchant clothes And he's got furs and jewelry all across his body and a particularly fancy feathered cap And he says I hear you are in the plans to fight at the the Baskayan bull Cecilia the great.  I Want that necklace? I am Niko vag vag noni Entrepreneur and a vendor in the markets area and I got the business proposition for you. Eh, yes, all right You will be a fighting at the Coliseum and you will need to get prepared if you want to not be smashed to bits by Cecilia. Yes Well, I am a willing to give you a sponsor.  Well, just I mean how are we gonna advertise your store in the ah Glad you asked. It's a super one two three a stepper first You're well these incredibly fashionable hats and Niko hands you all a feather cap identical in design to his Okay, a step at who is whenever you knock out an opponent you say that the knockout was thanks to shopping at Niko Vagnones at the west corner of the marketplace and Then a step of three is I get a small percentage of the winnings from me from all the bets a simple labor cost seems fair to me, yeah And what what is it that you are getting in and what are we getting in return? Yeah, I don't really see a benefit. I do all the paperwork in order for you to get the same earnings You need to sift through a lot of bureaucracy, yeah, I Do not like me Besides I have been hearing a lot to talk around the town and lots of bets against you So if you win you'll be rolling in that door you probably means that you'll be able to spare a few coins Well in exchange I can pull some strings with some pals around the markets gets you some things that you need without having to pay Yeah, I think it's a good deal.  What's the percentage? I take a 20% I think that's a fair. There's five of us 20% Well you will keep at the 80 yeah split between you four I think my biggest problem is that I already have a hat and I'm not gonna remember the name of your shop And we're already I think we're already sort of sponsored We're already sort of sponsoring a local business. Oh, which one is that I make sure to give you an extra bigger cutter That's the blacksmith right there. We're telling him that we like his shop Actually, what what if we We could I know the soft Rama at the soft shores in needs. I know his business could use some publicity.  You're not gonna see much of a return But you go with me I make sure your name is plastered all throughout the city They're gonna want to give you money No, you talk bad about my friend Okay, I also like the idea of plastering my name in the city just by myself. It's pretty easy to do takes like a day All right, that is a totally fair. I am a fair businessman. I understand but if you ever need me Western corner of the marketplace, huh? Actually, yeah, where can I get some pain? There's a dime longer about two clicks like further south of my shop you can go buy it from her Thank you very much. You've been a big help Maybe we could make a deal Okay, he's a gun Geneva sort of my friend buckle. Yes, well, we appreciate your attempts to strike a deal. Even if they weren't quite successful Well, I mean he did give me a good idea. I mean, do you think Rama would want us to sponsor him? I mean, I feel like he's done us a good turn And I don't know if that would help his store out somewhat if that's something that he'd be interested in I I wasn't aware that I mean, I guess I understood that there were sponsors But I didn't know that it did seem like a little much to be wearing the hat and saying the long thing after we knock someone out Maybe there's not gonna believe this. They had a two-for-one sale at the paint place This is carrying buckets. You're carrying a lot of paint there dare. I ask why Well, he said that he was gonna put up like plaster on names all over town. So I'm just gonna do that anyway. Oh Maybe we should do that. I'm not right now We'll do it before we leave so they'll remember us, but they can't remember us while we're here Yeah, I'm I have to change anyway, so I'm gonna go back to the soft shores in And see I'm not entirely sure how this sponsorship is supposed to work If we defeat an opponent are we supposed to say thank goodness for the excellent rest we acquired at the soft shores in Yes, just down the road Maybe maybe he has like some sort of symbol we can wear, you know, something a little bit more subtle them Is the purpose of advertising to be subtle? Well, I mean I do it don't think Ram is the flashy telly I Just I just mean that it's something that maybe a little bit more practical in battle than taking up valuable battling time yelling out about the soft shore and something maybe Rama has some ideas My experience talking seems to take almost no time at all All right, so you guys go to the soft shores And yeah, you go into the soft shores and you go to see Rama again and he Very much he's kind of a you notice that he's kind of cleaning up shop He's propping chairs up and stuff as there's again, there's no business in his his tavern right now and He notices you come in ah Pilgrims good good to see you You came back so soon. Was what are you able to get the heart? No, we're going to have to fight the dragon of Nugas guy, but oh Oh, I see I guess Cecilia she wants to put on a show It's just like her. I don't do not mind the chairs being propped up I I decided to close up shop early to go have a walk about I don't anticipate many people will be coming to visit today Especially now considering you will fight her. In fact, I think I might go watch Well, that would certainly be Kind show of support But what brings you here should you not be getting ready for for the fight? well We kind of I've got some business to do outside. I need to rest for about 10 minutes before I can wild-shape again Other than that, I'm ready to go and I got a change into my robe, but Rama. We were just thinking that well, we're gonna have a lot of eyes on us while we're in the Coliseum and It had been brought to our attention that sometimes fighters have sponsors and We were wondering if we could maybe If it'd be okay with you sponsor your Your wonderful in I don't know if that would be something that you'd be interested in at all He looks a little bit like taken aback by that. Oh, oh, no, no I could never ask that of you that that would be too much You've already given me this wonderful painting here Even if it doesn't do anything for the business It is still in honor to have and something that I would cherish forever. I could never ask you more You've already done so much Especially a Lord Candela paying for your room and board for me. It has helped me in a very very tough month I don't mean to speak out of turn. Yeah, I don't want to speak for everybody, but We're not really like asking Like we I mean we'll do it We'll do it for free and you know just to help you out like a good turn There is a slightly more pertinent question. It might do us well to ask first Roma, do you want to continue running this in? he kind of takes his fingers and kind of Poking them together. I don't know I Think I do but I've never had the business opportunity to know if it's something that I would do I've never had a bustling crowd come in here So I don't know if it would be my calling. I've never had the chance. I Definitely would want to continue my parents legacy, but Good tree bless me fine There's only one way to find out he reaches into his pocket and he pulls out a few claws They look like handkerchiefs and he hands out the four to you here Here perhaps if you could wear these you don't need to make it very loud or Obnoxious in your presentation. Just if you wore this it would very much mean a lot to me Maybe around the neck or I don't know Mask of some time of some kind around the autumn or something and you what is it you a handkerchief that? Word you can actually recognize it says in draconic soft shores And you can see that it's got a little decoration of Sewing of a palm tree Indicating the the shores of Nuba sky and the vegetation that grows therein Yeah, extremely cute.  Oh, I already have that.  Yeah, like sort of robin from Teen Titans type Something like that or like that. I think Ninja Turtles have I still would like to cover them.  I Do hope that you will keep those safe. They are a one of they are for a very few I only have two left and Well, I try to keep them safe They are the last that I have of my my father and It means a lot to me that you would come here, so I Do not give it to you like oh Of course, I would die for this person Thank you, even if this does not bring in business consider it a good luck charm Thank you Well, you guys are getting prepped and ready. I am going to vandalize his business.  I'm doing it out in the open out in the open. You can see Rama is like Oh, would I I guess I did need a little bit of renovating. Maybe that would spice things up I would not recommend encouraging him. This is a powerful stamp when people see that I stayed here They'll want to stay here too. Oh, that is a very smart idea. Thank you friend I'm gonna Take the opportunity to eat my gladiators doughnut so that I can have the temp HP. Yep. Yep Anyone who wishes to you may eat your gladiators doughnut roll a d4 and that's how many temporary hit points You'll have yeah, I'm gonna take a short rest as well so I can get my wild shape back But I only got the one somebody got two of them There we go a decent amount no one rolled a one nice yeah, that means we're gonna win When she went her attacks do three damage hey those two hit points could be the difference between life or death That's so true bestie. Thank you So you guys are you guys all ready and prepped up? Oh, yeah, I'm looking like a mask to acolyte Hood up. I have a plan. I want to follow closely behind word I'm sorry. I'm hanging up with word too much I I'm a wonderful influence plans have me alarmed. I have a plan. I want to help Rama Yes, how about after No matter if we win or lose we encourage everyone to go get absolutely drunk at Rama's place Nothing more great than watching a good show and then getting absolutely plastered Sort of like a we're going to Disneyland. Yeah, what's Disneyland do signings. It's a it's it's like a It's one of the places in my religion. It's like a heaven Sounds very peaceful up there. It gives kids kisses or something. No, I was just making that up I don't know. I just like it'd be a nice place to go to it's not cannon burgers. It's Disneyland is can We need the map by next week, we'll be heading there instead of wherever else you had planned What actually said was yeah, I think it would be good if we had like if like they asked us where we're going afterwards Like yeah mention that as well. Yeah start a party. Do you think Rama can handle it? He is going to be at the match. We'd be rather rushing him out the door. Oh, yeah Okay, so you guys head into the coliseum then Yes, no.  Ah So my girl has the opportunity to take a smack at the pilgrims have sat here themselves What a day what a day this will be It's nice to meet you. The name is Andrea Villes. Nice to meet you and you see Kind of elderly minotaur man at closer inspection He's got a bit of spilt drink and crumbs all across his person But despite this he's he's wearing some very high society fashion a silk and jacket that looks brand new a shoulder cape Fitted slacks. He's dressed for a party with with like a lord Hmm. I have an unrelated question really quick Have we seen like a decent amount of poor people around here, too? Yes, a few of them kind of strewn about especially kind of eyeing the the the gaming corner Especially a lot by the docks a lot of ones just kind of staying outside the barracks and the sailors Interesting and stuff like that that are not able to pay the toll to come inside as well When you take a glance outside the gates as well You do see a few wanderers and stragglers about It is a pleasure so your daughter is gonna be kicking our butts. Oh, I Wouldn't count to a win on you my friend. She's got you beat We know we're easy ain't really here to fight anyway, right? Just a heart so it ain't no shame if you just take a fall immediately so we can get this all over with I'll leave an informed the clerks ahead of time just to give you extra attention How generous oh Yeah, I'm just pulling your leg. I know I didn't mean anything by it. Who knows Maybe there's even a slight chance you could beat her But only cuz she's been spending so much time talking with a scrawny wormkin and some washed up in instead of training like I keep telling her to Hmm, but what you're gonna do, right? It is her first decade as dragon and doing something for the first time often means amateur performance, right? He gives you a little wink and no offense of course I'm slowly taking offense to this I can see why you sit and watch instead, you know, I mean kind of gets to you no offense of course You can see like some of the crowd is like all whispering amongst themselves He just kind of tries to shake it off a little bit and fainter smile Well, I guess I look forward to seeing your performance in the match I'm sure your daughter will impress Good day pilgrims Good day grandpa Have a pleasant afternoon Takes a step back to let you pass. No, it's good. Some of those beard crumbs on me.  You're escorted inside They tell you kind of where to go safety procedures where you can find the healers when the match is over and where Cecilia will be so that you can get the heart from her after the match And this is your chance if you wish you can like kind of go to the clerks and Registrar's if you do wish to get into that prize money that the merchant was talking about However, it is going to require a little bit of paperwork So if we do the paperwork then we get some of the winnings yep since you are one of the yeah, you're the contestants Who wants to do the paperwork it is going to require a roll of some kind definitely not I'll give it a try I'm sure I filled out paperwork for the docs before okay. I'm gonna need you to give me an investigation check Okay, we're signing over I just roll for investigation We come back in a year and a half and they have t-shirts with our faces on it And we're not making a set of royalties Okay, you look over the paper it all looks fairly good You sign where there needs to be signed and then you go through all of it a few of it It's a little bit confusing to you But you go through it nonetheless and throughout the process you finish it up and hit it back to the registrar Did you was it just? Fritz that signed the papers like do we all have to do it individually if you would like to help her you may and you Will give Fritz advantage. I feel like book should probably weigh in on this at least a little bit But I'll weirdly fritz does You may offer the help action to allow fritz to roll again No offense to that nine, but I think we do better Fritz you can roll again if you so wish So much better baby and fritz keep it on you also have two inspirations you have yet to spend it's basically Oh, yeah, if you wish you don't have to Don't we need to go with this?  Let me pause this It's a new to pigeon-hopping in your outfit, and I presume you have told the registrars and people like that about your new title and stuff Yeah No, just so I know it in full so you can scroll down and see your you guys at the very bottom. Yeah So what are the full titles is it God God King word God King his acolyte and the Phoenix nuts It's the acolyte the acolyte and the Phoenix is that it Yeah, you know, I'm And Leira And Leira Man spider, that's that name stinks All right, so you guys also see on the other side of the arena Cecilia exit with Three other gladiators by her side as well. Oh boy and To her to her exit Entrance into the arena a roaring audience twice the volume that you got and a few seconds later a Thaumaturgy voice echoes Throughout the entire Coliseum People of noob a sky welcome to the Coliseum Today we have for you the fight of a decade in the northern gates Our great protector with cannons for arms and a dragon's heart the bull of noob a sky Cecilia the great And we're in yarring the crowded post the southern gate a motley team of adventures Strangers from across the sea but champions of their own town Word the God King ruler of everything and master combatant the acolyte the Phoenix and Leira Yeah This fight will be a simple elimination match the two teams of four are tasked with knocking out Each and every one of their opponents and the team with the last member standing wins With that in mind. I do think we are all ready to begin And the crowd actually is just kind of booing. Oh, no war What am I saying this arena is not fit for a battle of this magnitude? How about we heat things up? And at this the whole arena starts to shake the sand shifts at your feet Raising pillars and revealing burning hot coals all around Oh my god, why does my own keep following me everywhere I go Arena in which you will fight the bull of noob a sky It is a cage match Those are cage fences I see so The hot coals are normal terrain that you can walk on however if you start your turn on it You will have to make a dexterity saving throw DC 10 or take 1d4 fire damage So running across them is fine, but staying on them at the end of the turn is risky. Yes as for the cages the cage walls Projectiles such as arrows spells and such can move through them, but bodies cannot For for you flesh you beings. They are walls And these like these are pillars that are up in the air and these are yes These pillars these pillars are 30 feet up. Oh And these these wooden kind of planks Are pads that can lead directly up to them so that you don't have to climb them the ones that are attached So they are diagonal as The arena reveals itself the announcer continues gladiators. Are you ready? Oh?   You know, I was really expecting more pageantry from the guy on the sit on Cecilia's side He doesn't even know why he's here. Yeah Oh You know what that's actually a fair point. Is that anything else you want to do work or is that it? You know what yeah, I have a short bow.  I think it's 90 actually it's 80 320 never mind. I was wrong Okay, it's 80 so that means you can shoot them. It's just yet disadvantage. You're not an option I've got no reason like to not wait. Okay, so just whenever anyone back whenever he comes within range. Okay, I challenged all right Next will be buck I'll use My guy, I'll use 25 feet of movement to come stand by word and I'll say What do you command me? Oh mighty one. I am the acolyte Protect me from my enemies and give me strength against them with your faith I know it's technically not fair, but if I could do like press the digitation to make my arrow like glow Godly light for a second. You know what rule of cool. I'll allow it. Okay. Thank you It's not like using pressed a digitation. It's yeah, go ahead. Yeah, that's not gonna help me. I guess I will go and stand at the I got 25 feet 15 more so I guess I'll stand here and like Did God like guard and and and get ready cuz I don't know what their cable war but I'll Not really do anything, but I think it's worth it for the To listen to my God I will stay there and maybe just Hold my action to hit someone if they come within swinging distance. All right, which for me is 10 feet Leira your turn. Yes Geez everything I have is a little bit out of range But I am going to move forward a little bit because you know why not and I'm going to cast Summon Beast Yeah, yeah for something like this I feel like Flyby attack is better than Then pack tactics, I just don't feel like we're gonna be doing much flanking in this fight So it's going to take the form of like a like a small Falcon Yeah, all right. I don't have a specific token for this. So instead I will give you a an aricocca token Oh sweet. It looks like a bird. I'll give you control over it. Thank you See Yeah, it's speed is only oh 60 feet of fly speed. That's actually not bad But it still can't reach anything so I will I'll keep it near me for now You don't want it to die instantly Yeah, but it is concentration so if I get hit too bad It'll just fucks out but then I can cast my other concentration spell so Um, yeah pairing fritz your turn Is it within the first range, what's what's your range on your crossbar 150. Oh sweet 150 and then what's the secondary one 300 something there should be two. Oh 600 then I thought that was the okay. Yeah, that is that is optimal range You will not be suffering any penalties. All right. You're gonna fire at the archer then get them No, I see you fire at the archer and the crowd cheers first blood has been spilled From the Phoenix Yes, very cool lands.  Whoo rude Ooh and it does hit. Okay. There's a column in the way Is there? Yeah, oh then you're gonna have cover never mind. It doesn't hit that was enough That was enough of a cover to be able to Does not mean that mine doesn't hit too or is I? presume that you would have like angled I I'll give you I'll give you the benefit of doubt You're the best sick. I don't get hit. Let's go even even if I did apply the same cover thing their AC is 14 and that would have minus minus your 20 to an 18 and you would have still hit That's how that's how I'm doing the cover works That your crossbow does fire damage. Oh, that's right.  Oh, I've completely forgot 6 yeah, that was that was chat. Hey, hey, no looking to check. Hey, no looking to chat. We gotta be focused Yeah, I asked you to close the chat Yes, thank you But thank you though. Yeah, thanks.   She is Running her way all the way like oh Oh Just Stomp stomp stomp through the hot coals all the way up here Can I hit her with my long reach? You can Your reaction springs You go to slam your hammer and she just like catches it with her hand right on its head Just like with one arm and she just like has a big old sly smile at you Hello strong one and The axe wielder is gonna try and catch up to her Dash as well, but not make it make it nearly as far Over here and the spell sword is Going to cast Misty step Blink it's way over here And then he's gonna run the rest of the way behind this pillar He would be within range when he got over here Ah, yes, you can while he was running when he was about over here you can fire your short bow. Thank you Let us shoot Pow No, it's fired away. I don't get a sneak attack. So yeah, that is nine piercing damage All right. Yes, and it lodges into a shoulder the crowd cheers as another shot is landed and A good shot from the God King himself And he's going to take no one escaped cover and Yep. All right next word your proper turn. Oh my goodness.  Oh, no, we're 30. Yeah So yeah, I will use my rogue bonus action dash to get right over here Um, and I think I'm gonna huck some negotiation at him So I'm within 20 feet. So I'm throwing my magic plus one plus one d4 fire dagger You named your weapon And it ting ting ting lands over here.  Oh, hell yeah Oh Nice Oh geez, I think you guys might be in the range for that.  Yeah That's gonna be a rough day for ax man. Literally horror like horrifying shadow tendrils like reach out of for I have the faith of my God This power is granted to you by me We're this takes his next level in warlock patron actually my DC my DC is 12 Okay, so no you just gain the hit points. Yeah, you can hit points anyway So roll the hit points and roll the damage die sure is it one for each one? Yeah, yeah Okay, the first one will be for damage For okay for damage and the next one will be for 10 page. Whoo. Wow Okay, so it lashes out Cecilia is going to make the save as she just like Chest bumps the the tendrils just like whoosh as it just bounces off of her chest However, it is going to lash out and hit the axe bearer a little bit nice And and Given that I would like to reckless attack. I think I can just like declare reckless, right? I don't yeah Okay, and then is it shift to Yeah Should have done it Yep, that 22 is gonna hit Yes, you smack and she goes to try and like kind of brace herself with it But you just hit it like her arms that are bracing like an X fashion It hits her but she like sinks a little bit And that's gonna be 14 total because I don't have I don't know how to add rage damage because I'm raging It's gonna be 14 total 14. Okay, awesome And then because I have the crusher ability Because once for a turn I hit her with an attack that deals budging damage I would like to move her five feet into an unoccupied space Yeah Booosh into the hot coals Which she is going to take she's gonna have to make a saving throw or take that and take damage next on her turn And that will be my uh, actually yeah, that'll be my turn. I'll end there Okay, awesome, and as you do all of this you can see the crowd just like erupts in a roaring cheer whenever the tendrils come out And you bash Cecilia the announcer. Whoa, what are they feeding them in satcha? Free health care I picked up a chair and I did that to her with it rather than No, there's hold on there's still time Wait well last time we did specify chairs I Knew I was forgetting something on this map. I was like Retcon I use the chair you use the chair the cannon burger thing is that I use the chair Retcon retcon chairs everywhere table Whole of everything moving it just delayed a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. There they are. This was can in the whole time Give me the benefit of the doubt. I had this planned. I just forgot about it Secretly one of these chairs is a mimic Yep, all right Well first things first my bird friend Yes, has a movement of 60 feet. No, no the other bird friend my my temporary bird friend as opposed to my permanent bird friend Is going to use their 60 feet of movement to fly up and pass to this guy Because if I do a fly by attack, I don't provoke an attack of opportunity Tee hee hee Yeah, so The melee weapon attack is just my spell attack modifier to hit We'll reach only five feet. So I'll just uh D 20 plus your spell mod plus proficiency Nice. Yep. Oh dang. That's not bad In digging into the axe bearer, which is 1d8 plus 4 plus the spells level so too so 1d8 plus 6 piercing damage Still very nice hitting on the last it pierces into his shoulder cutting him up right So that's actually seven total because of the plus two from the spells level good. Okay, better mind Mm-hmm So that was the bird and I could just do that that was it's because I'm still holding concentration. Obviously. I'm going to Yeah, let's see. Hold on. Sorry. Let me just look at the specifics of this other thing I want to do Great, I don't need to be seeing it. I would like to put an entangle Where does it let me draw? Okay, here we go Here oh Yeah, all right. What's the so let me just save again. Yeah Let's see is entangle also concentration No, oh, no, is it? Oh, no, it is. I'm so sorry No, the bird just got here. Let's not do that. Sorry. Sorry. Everyone forget that get rid of the the bird is really strong, too Okay, in that case, I would like to Do a different spell that is in concentration. I would like to cast frost bite, which is a cantrip on Cecilia all right frost bite well Wow, that'll really help It does actually if she fails her if she fails her DC 13 Constitution save which is technically possible She has disadvantage on the next weapon attack roll she makes before the end of her next turn Unfortunately, she does not she makes the save all right pretty easy one for her great, then I don't think that does anything. Oh Well, I tried she avoided the devastating one damage Okay, well that was my I'll move a little bit Frostbite, it's better vicious mockery. Yeah And I can't just keep doing it until it works eventually It's one of the top five spells. I think Really, that's cool. Yeah. All right. Well, I'm just gonna move over here Yeah, so I already have a spell of holy concentration on I already cast a spell Actually, I'm going to bonus action shift into my Swift stride form so I get more movement and 6 temp HP very nice the beast is not Your action is it it's not like a bonus action or anything? No, I think it acts on its own And if I don't give it commands, it does its own thing cool cool cool It just takes the dodge action if I if I thought so yeah It's like an undead. I think that's correct shift All right, wonderful. Yeah, okay. Yeah obeys your verbal commands no action required by you So it just does its own thing Okay, awesome. So yeah, that was my movement action bonus action holding concentration. We're good. All right Fritz your turn All right, once again, I'm gonna use my full movement to let me double check make sure I'm going 30 I'm going to move so I have a little bit of the cover and I am going to use my bonus action for hail of thorns and who do I wish to condemn Oh Right Cecilia, I'm ready to put on a good show. I'm going to crossbow Cecilia with hail of thorns, so Okay, so you just a bug where I'm extra bonus damage to your shot done. Yep. All right On top of my fire shot your attack. Yes. Oh, yeah, that'll hit. All right It was 1d6, right? Yep 1d6 Okay. All right another shot rings out as some thorns kind of sprues spring out from your Bolt kind of latching onto her and catching on fire as well and The crowd erupts and cheers. Oh, it's looking like it's getting too hot for the dragon Pain does she block it So No, she actually Hit with those thorns. That's when I rolled now for it, right and it is going to hit the chair so the chair I think that's everything for you Fritz right your movement your book for Cecilia is gonna see if she takes fire damage she does let's see how much fire damage.  All right. You want to play?  Yeah. Yeah. All right All right. Yes. She no, she pushes you against the wall. You are going to take Eight bludgeoning damage. Oh that have it or not It is not have that is the attack But the attack was going to push you against the wall the effect of which you have avoided So so that haves to four because he's raging. Oh wait, that's right. You have resistance. That's as well I forget about that. Yes. So yeah, you only take four bludgeoning damage instead No, it's nice. Does the shove feel in any way romantic? This doesn't feel romantic Thanks for clarifying that And she's going to take a second attack with both of us punching it forward. Oh, no Keep the faith my ankle And that one is also going to hit Yeah, and you're going to take another eight ie four damage Nice, and she's going to do a flurry of blows Okay, is that four damage reduced or four damage is the reduced amount. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and Just like a one-two punch As you are going to take An additional seven ie three damage, okay, I'm dead currently at my max HP Okay, we have a temp hit points gone then All right next the axe bearer is going to come close as well And try and lay in and let's You most certainly does okay He brings this axe down and who does get a few nicks in on you as these two are just ganging up on you like a Jojo meme You're going to take I know that an additional 10 ie five damage. Oh, okay. There's a big old chop and The spell sword over here by word he is going to come up Closer to you and he stabs his sword into the ground and erupts a large thunderous wave He is going to cast thunder wave. You need to make a constitution saving throw. Oh boy. I Thought I commanded you to get my dagger. Oh, okay You are going to take six Thunder damage and be pushed 10 feet into the hot coals Okay on your turn you have to make a dexterity saving throw and The crowd is erupting and cheering for blood as the announcer cries out. Ah, but a good retaliation from Nuba skies own peon And the archer is going to come out of cover once again to shoot another pop shot See at whoever is available ie Not buck he's going to have to move a little bit out more And aim at fritz once again continuing to have this archer battle This one's going to miss however, but he's going to lose he's going to get a little bit closer right over here behind this pillar But not step in the hot coals Next word make me a dex save. Oh No It's a good thing. I have a plus five. Hey, I beat it by one You're not going to take any damage That's some neat trick and I'll Run at him and well I do I will use my oops. I disappeared Nothing personnel kid I Now leave the match Well, I'm running at him my primary attack to throw a dagger and then as I'm throwing the dagger in my offhand I'll bring out a short sword for a follow-up attack All right Okay, the dagger unfortunately is not gonna hit the first one. Okay, and then this one is rolled I guess with a negative five because I don't get to add Very nice the first one However, the second one you're able to catch him off guard is on his offhand He does not have anything and you catch him just a nice little cut across the side Perfect.  You're smaller than I expected You're doing great by the way.  Sorry. I'm not great at this whole presentation thing. Oh, thank God That's all right. You won't be here for much longer He just cocks one eyebrow. I don't know how to take that That's my turn. All right Okay, and also word if you could add yourself back into the initiative Oh, I'm sorry return your initiative number to 23. Also, it's both turn not me. Yeah. Mm-hmm Yeah, it seemed to shift the initiative around a bit for some reason.  I'm I'm not going to use my Reckless attack because I have both of them here by me I don't need to be taking full Advantage, we'll try and hit him with this 13 Does that 13 is not going to hit sadly you go to swing and parry. Yes Okay Well, I Still have my movement because I have the mobile feet So can I like? Think I can get all the way up here if this is like there Can I get all the way up here on the tower on the top of the pillar? Yeah, you most certainly can 40 feet I got 40 feet of movement. Yeah. Yeah, you're gonna take an opportunity though No, because I have the mobile Never mind Just like a sick combat role and I can read it But I think it I think I get when you make a melee attack whether you hit it or not you don't provoke opportunity Nice All right, awesome Then yeah, you you try to move out of the way and the other two are taking swings and pop shots at you But they're not able to land a blow as you dance between their swings Moving up towards the top of the pillar and the crowd cheers as you dodge each and every single attack like a like a quarterback dodging tackles All right, is that everything? Yeah, that's that's gonna be my turn Layra. Yes. I would like to I'd like to cast thorn whip on the axe guy thorn whip on the axe guy. All right Yes Gonna hit sorry. I know wraps around the axe and he just chops it down Dang it. It would have been great if he got pulled towards me Whatever Okay, well casting that was my action, but he wasn't expecting my bird friend So I would like my bird friend to my other bird friend to do yes another fly by attack another fly by attack Yep, and so let me just roll for that thing Honestly as long as I can keep the bird friend up. I think we'll be just fine. All right, let's see. It's just my spell attack That is going to hit another fly by another claw. Let me see the damage. What a menace. Uh, yeah, so it's gonna be this plus two Yes, oh, and this guy is looking pretty roughed up really just from the bird This is incredible Well, I've got no complaints to just keeping the bird up. Is there it hold on. Is there something else I can do just a sec Yeah Yes, hold on. What's the range on that just a second. Sorry All good. Oh wait, hold on buck. You you only lost temp HP, right? No, now I have officially lost a regular HP Okay, then I'm going to bonus action bomb of the summer court buck. So you get back To two whole hit points. Heck, yeah, I Think he's within range. Dang it. I was looking for that and then I just fully wasn't paying it. Yes 120 feet. We're fine So just a little ping So that was my action my bonus action. I haven't moved because I haven't needed to so We're good. That's it All right Fritz turn And I'm going to use my action to cast gust of wind Which is This because we haven't set up the thing yet Sorry, no, no, no, no, I have it here ready to copy and paste for this exact reason Okay 60 feet long, where are you aiming it at I am aiming at Cecilia and this axe guy So they both should get hit You're trying to push them towards the fire. I'm trying to push them towards the pillar The pillar. Yes, like where buck is. Yeah, I'm trying to I'm trying to slam them into it. Oh Slam them into it. They're on the ramp. Oh Yes, they're there. Fuck. Do you want them closer? Yes It's buck gonna be affected Well, it depends where it starts 60 feet long so if you start here it's gonna 60 feet is a lot like that. It's measuring for me for some reason, but yeah. Yeah, that's me That's oh wait from you. Okay. Oh, there you go. I could aim it slightly to the side Now it does have to be 10 feet wide so it either has to go left or right. Oh, no You could probably just hit the dragon. Yeah, I don't know if that'll do anything. Can I aim it like this way better than not I guess you could um Knocking the acolyte down. Yeah, you could and then like this way. Yeah I think that's a way that you can aim it so that it doesn't hit buck Okay, Cecilia is not gonna get pushed The axe bearer though is gonna get pushed Rough day for that chair the chair breaks the crowd cheers property damage. Yeah Violent poor carpenter Oh that guy's rolling in it wait, what happened to this chair. I got wrecked at some point You know what I'll do a improvised weapon damage for the chair he takes one Splinters he's got boo boo's now. Oh, no.  Oh, this is a real duel of the fates stuff right here And you can see the axe bearer looks a little bit hurt by this And he just tries to get up and he's gonna get ready for his attack later after Cecilia Emotional damage okay, first she takes her two fists up in the air and slams it down hitting you right on the head But you're gonna take oh Nine IE for reduced bludgeoning damage Okay, and she is also gonna try and shove you off The plate the pillar so I'm gonna need you to make a strength saving throw At advantage since you are So if you can believe it she rolled a 25 From the top row from the top rope she pushes you off onto the table it's God is my witness Broken and half 30 feet you're gonna take For that is the reduced amount you would have taken eight, but now it's reduced to four bludgeoning damage Okay, and the table breaks so improvised weapon damage one so you don't take an extra bonus and the chair breaks the crowd Cheer Cecilia pumps two fists up in the air And the axe bearer Instead is going to try he's going to try and move into a more advantageous position over here And he's going to take the dodge action That won't save you from my little friend The spell sword right here is going to Simply pick up his sword and try and do another thunder wave con save word Oh boy, can this one be better?  Oh Come on Has any had enough am I prone right now? Actually? Yes, you are prone. So he's going to have disadvantage on the attack Oh, that's nice since hitting a prone target from range is harder And a shot on a miss Okay, I think that's them. All right word.  No How far can I go?  And I run over here, and I go below the little ramp and so I'm using my Bonus action to dash and every time I use a move action. I can interact with an object So as the first movement, I'm going to uncork my potion of healing and my second movement I'm going to throw it And it's as my as my actual action I'm going to cast mage hand, which will then catch the bottle and pour it into Slick move Nothing stops those who follow the god king word. I don't have another one of those Truly friendship is the greatest magic of all when you do now. It's godly faith Yeah, 2d4 plus 2 that's a healing potion right me or me or either one it doesn't matter. Oh You're you're consuming it. I guess so Whoa, that's great at the slick maneuver the crowd is like whoa as like the the potion is flying through the air And then when it's caught by the mate hand, oh collapse I Can keep that thing it's not even constant. I can use an action to pickpocket some That's my turn. All right buck. Oh With newfound strength Like a light return I would like to get I would like to like get up Like off the ground like now Enraged with the power of my god and can I like just rip off my robe? I have the mask on so I have the mask and I have the little The soft sands of what's the name of the other soft sands handkerchief Soft shores soft shores soft shores soft shores and I will use I think I have to use my act because I'm gonna use For 20 feet to get here and then I'll use the rest of my I want to get up Uh, I don't think I have an action because I use my But my action to dash so I can get up there But I want to be face-to-face with Cecilia for round for round two.  I dearly hope Cecilia knocks you off the pillow I already I already got to say the with God as my witness he's broken in half-line So I'm fine with whatever happens the rest they've managed to get a second table in just in time Buck dies Layra, yes, hmm All right, I would like to move slightly closer to Cecilia All right, and I would like to try a second thorn with try a second thorn with just in case I'm hoping that that's I'm hoping that's what'll happen, but you never know Yep Is it towards you yeah pulls her towards me so she's off the pillar she it latches on to her She's like Cox one eyebrow has a little smirk getting ready to like box you buck once again a Vine reaches out wraps her around the waist she looks down looks back up.  Yeah, and just Push on to the hard ground. She takes quite a bit. She's looking real roughed up. Ho, ho, ho. All right.  Oh My god Because he is dodging Okay, oh, that's right dodging No my bird friend why Drat. Oh, well, he's learned He knows what he's just standing there proudly with his two hit points And I'm going to bonus action Bomb the summer court for word because I saw you kept taking those hits and doesn't have resistance right now. Thank you No problem So that's one one hit point one. This is really paying dividends. All right Cool. So that's my turn. All right next time bird. Don't worry. He can't dodge forever fritz I can move do an action in the move again if I still have movement, right? Yeah, awesome. I'm going to Hi, I'm sorry.  Just called I'm going to Crossbow the the Saudi guy. Oh Very nice. Yes. Give me the fire damage the 1d6 Very nice. Yeah, it fires in it's setting his robes ablaze It's looking pretty rough up behind. I go. Dang. All right. Oh wonderful make bank All right next to the gladiators turn Cecilia just on her back She is writhing in pain a little bit. She just shouts out at the other two. What are you doing hit the mage Oh That's okay.  Why didn't you use ignite in that match? It's been so long Archer preps and arrow with an explosive tip that explodes right beside you layer I'm gonna need you to make a dexterity saving throw. Oh my goodness Okay, yeah, I don't think I get any benefits on that And I rolled a natural one. All right You are going to take six force damage from this thing that rings out and it's just like a shockwave Burst against you and you're gonna make a make a con save DC 10 to maintain your concentration Roger that Can I get 11 is giving inspiration like a reactionary thing or it's still here? I that is a more of a home bruised or like a house rule thing.  Oh, okay. Just a second. There might be a thing I can do about that actually, uh-huh No, okay when a creature ends its term within five feet of me, I can do something, but I don't think this counts Luckily it does swing in a miss as it pings against the the stone pillar But now you can move out of the way Great, then I'm gonna use my swift stride reaction to move up to 10 feet away so let me just Boop ha ha And just as well this guy is sick of your bird.  What's my bird stats? Yeah? What is the AC on the bird? the bird Hold on armor class 11 plus the level of the spell so 13 13 looks like how much HP does it have? It has just a second like 20. It's something like that. Uh, yeah, 20 hit points Plus five actually so 20. Wow. No, sorry plus five. No plus five spell level above second So if I upcast it it would have 25 or 30, but it only has 20 because I still get still a lot So he throws an axe it Chops off just a little bit of feathers the the bird is still pretty okay. It takes seven damage Well now it's personal Let me just note that in my notes.  Oh my god. Oh, I genuinely dodged some serious hits. Yikes Next you work you're right next to Cecilia the great.  Yeah, as you're circling around her. What are you? Nothing?  Hold on. Is she under the same about myself? No, I'm like sir. Oh, I see. I'm not gonna be in the way.  I don't want Joe you already know what I'm about to do Jump from the pillar Rko this lady What do I have to roll to make that happen off the top belt buckle I'm gonna Turn and athletics Which you have advantage on because you are going to take 30 feet of falling damage Yeah, fine Because of the laws of motion, so will Cecilia All right. Well, one of those was a 13 Okay You fall from the top row. Yeah on to the hard pavement That's The crowd is like As you land just like body first on to the ground you're going to take 12 reduced to six blood to the damage I Summoned my act All his flaws. Yes. Yeah. Okay. That was that advantage. Okay, never mind. Yeah, no It wouldn't have been a double advantage because of the because of the because of the thing that I still could I still attack it? Can I still yes? I'll say that's a move And do I get advantage because of whatever it is yes advantage because of words thing for the attack Plus two for flanking and that is going to be that How do you knock her out?  I want to say have a good sleep and then I'll drop it Yeah, you drop as it falls and slowly gently lands on her Buck I was really expecting her to turn into a dragon. You get an inspiration for that.  Oh, yeah Did the axe guy take the dodge action again or um, no he attacked your bird remember. Oh goody. All right Well, let's do the bird first The bird is gonna do another fly by just you know dealer's choice where he ends up Well, not enough sadly I'm gonna put him just out of range so that he cannot get attacked because he's got 50 feet I'm gonna put him right there. Yeah, he's got 60 feet 60 speedy bird. So like about there Yeah, and Okay, yeah, I'm just gonna Move closer and I'm gonna do Actually, I don't even know if I need to move closer just a second. Oh, yeah Yeah, I'll move a little bit closer and then I'm going to thorn with okay of combat cantrips. They're so good Actually hold on No, I'm gonna frostbite him actually show me frostbite cost exactly the same Uh, and he just needs to make a DC 13 Constitution save which he's unable to do sadly And that's gonna be enough to knock him out as well. Oh really nice this cold beam blast through him and Just being cut up by this bird he falls over Good work bird friend. Okay.  I'm going to do another bomb of the summer court on Word who looked like he was about to go down last round. I feel awful right now Please roll better than one three better than one Every little bit helps baby. Okay, that's my weight. Oh, no, sorry. I just entered it wrong. You're cool. That's my everything All right, wonderful To down to the go answer and another one hits the ground Thanks to Lera never let it be said that a support is unwelcome Thank you Getting subtweeted by the announce Move over ten feet and cause of my my gust of wind It says here I can use my bonus action to change the direction of it. Ah So I'm going to use my bonus action to direction it at this guy.  He gets pushed Into the hot coals.  This cage match is not really keeping him as safe as he thought he would All right, and that's me under my tongue We definitely had a harder time fighting the other dragon, right? I think so. Okay. Yeah granted She's not in dragon form. Yeah, it's that probably would have helped if I'm being completely honest It would also be against the rules it would Say that before there's a round you don't know if there's a second phase She don't get special treatment in the Coliseum What's the rule the prohibits are from turning into a cool-ass dragon the rule of fairness because there's other normal people that can compete in the Coliseum That can't turn into a dragon Well, you know okay that healing magic is allowed, which is yeah, but I assume if I turned into a panther that would be okay Anyway Let's see if the spell sword is able to know okay. Let's see Just ah falls on his face onto the hot coals and you can see that there is like a mage Kind of off from the sides that cast a levitation spell to make sure he doesn't fall asleep on the hot coals Oh goody.  Oh nice I You guys are tended to by some healers as are the other gladiators they're brought to a safe place to be healed You are brought back up to full HP by the clerics on stand-by and some of us never left As you are you can see on the other side of the arena that Cecilia after she's brought back to consciousness Doesn't look like a single stare at you guys as she storms off To back into kind of her her side of the arena into the waiting room where she is I don't think we were supposed to win well, I assumed as much skill issue Honestly honestly I mean they Had to consider the fact that we would win. I mean we challenged them to the match, right? Like one I Mean it was a challenge right now and Saviors of Satya. I think this has less to do with us and more to do with certain standards Cecilia holds herself to should we go I mean, we're gonna have to get the heart. Yes, we need the heart So she's going to need to deal with it. Let's can we follow her? Can we follow you can? There's a little pomp and circumstance we need to do of like You know smiling and waving but yeah the so as you are healed by the clerics are led back in the guards Kind of tell you where Cecilia can be found in the other part of the arena Which I do not have a map for but just imagine it's kind of like a lot of mind the end of the mind imagine it's like a locker room and While you are getting all healed up you can see that one of the registrars one of the clerks comes up to you and is looking through a Bunch of sheets of paperwork and kind of looking at a few things a little bit disappointed at a few points and then counts Kind of in a bag and hands you Whoever will take it a pouch of gold Your winnings take it Divvying it up evenly you all each receive 150 gold pieces There was a lot of money being bet against you and whoever bet for you just got a big payout Yeah, you didn't bet on Well, you had four gold right so yeah, well, I had like 50 we must have had really bad Gonna bet a big payout One to 20 I don't know she's changing So you when you get near the door you actually hear muffled a very familiar masculine voice That's oh no yelling is kind of shouting out you let them absolutely walk all over you What was that and you hear a soft voice? I'm sorry dad. Oh Yeah, and then you hear the masculine voice again.  You've lost a bunch of to a lot a bunch of nobodies From a backwater town with a dragon that's lost its marbles. Is that what you want?   Don't let them Open the door Not now for it's not now we should we should we should definitely use extremely susceptible to social manipulation You you open the door and you can see he stops mid-sentence and you can see that it is Andre and Cecilia Cecilia is sitting on one of the benches Not saying a word not Looking up at all to anybody until she hears the door open and quickly glance at you and then quickly glance back down And Andre feigns a smile The pilgrims from Satya. It's good to see you a good match out there Just kind of starts to walk past you. What's up? Good afternoon spit at his feet.  What now you're here to gloat. You're happy Is she back up at full health? She is Okay, well There goes my plant A for making nice um You you would assume that she's back up at full health as you have been healed to fall. Yeah. Yeah, she would be healed to fall Your performance was was wonderful. That was fantastic She squints her eyes. What's your angle? Nothing just Listen, I don't need your pity. All right. I can do fine All by myself How fortunate that you are not receiving it. Yes How fun can I offer you a gift?  Where'd you get this? Yeah A good man I think I think she grabs you by the scruff of your your jacket and lifts you up with one arm Easy. Oh my me What did he tell you? Only that you were friends Yeah, I I didn't I don't I don't know nothing. I just thought that you like That you liked him and that he liked you so I thought that you would like that word from word to you word Maybe stop talking Listen, I don't need friends and I don't need you.  Don't mean nothing. Hey, all right Don't talk bad about my friends. I suppose it means only as much as you allow it to Regardless, we are here for a reason.  Stupid pilgrims all you ever do is come here take what you need from us and leave Look if one would about any of the folk of the land you're supposedly saving And how do I even know you're saving it?  Well, that is adorable I'm gonna leave the other one on the floor for her to pick up later. No rama only has like four of these We can't keep throwing them around I would hope that she would take it in in the stead of the one that we're taking Well, whoa, whoa Okay, I I guess I'll let Fritz I just took it because I felt bad. Okay his Tavern's going out of business. You don't have many people Might as well give him some company, right? Very compassionate of you. I think you would enjoy being at the bar right now Oh, yeah, we're gonna go get him.  I just wanted to see their business do better Put on a good show. Have fun with everyone Isn't that what you do this for? Yeah, I didn't mean like Like 80% of what I said in the arena. I mean, I did it to get the heart, but you know We were going to get that either way. So give me uh a persuasion check Fritz All right. Oh, maybe maybe an inspiration on that. I'll put an inspiration. Yeah, I'll use my inspiration All right, 15 is better. Yeah, it's better. I'm not lying, but yeah No, of course not. She gets up. She towers over you Fritz.  He's sweet and everybody deserves a chance to figure out what they really want to do with their life Even if Like yeah, gotta give him a shot. He did she points at herself. This is my life I had a nice thing going and now I'll forever be known as Cecilia the sort of okay I suspect you'll be forever known as Cecilia the dragon. Yeah And you are a fantastic combatant It's just she you know not out of the question that the champions of the whole region are gonna pass by and maybe do something That nobody expects she points at you all you don't know what it's like to be dragon I'd like to She looks at you word almost About to punch you in the face Oh god, but then clutching her fist and remembering what Fritz said My dad makes sure I'm the best. He makes sure that I'm perfect I am the dragon. I don't slip I don't need help And I certainly don't lose to some farmers from satchia because If I do Have you truly never lost before I I have lost a few times in the past. I just It's hard and Dad he's he's He's fine when I win But if I lose And everything he says is right Hold on. Hold on. That doesn't sound accurate to me. Sorry to insult your father But is this the same person who tried to rough us up at the beginning? Because I don't think someone who doesn't stand next to you and fight gets a word to say on what you do with your fighting She just looks down and she uh looks down at the handkerchief that she handed over to you I don't believe that He certainly seems to talk a big game for someone whose profession appears to be being rich And impressing people with that fact And also unkempt He didn't always be like this. He was Different before we discovered I was dragon But ever since then it's just I don't know. I thought it'd make things easier.  I don't know if he wants to listen. He's your dad Well for its we aren't all lucky in the parent department Oh, yeah, he is my dad and that's why I can't let him down Hmm, that's certainly not true I'm a I'ma speak a little bit about you as someone who technically doesn't have a dad I've messed up so many times in front of my dad Dozen and Yes, do you know what a real What almost dads do that can be hard on you. They can be rough They push you to leave the city even though you don't want to because they want to see your growth but They always want to see the best in you and if you explain and express Then a real dad Will concede and help you back up My mentor Shamiya is much the same I wish to do her proud, but She has told me that I have already done so Which doesn't make any sense to me, but I trust her and if not we could beat him up for you. I can't fully relate because Yes, we could also do that, but I somehow don't think that would help Your sentiment is appreciated pilgrims. I just She just looks around.   Please stay inside the city walls. The blot is laying siege to nuba sky Oh The gods and I are holding them back as best we can until the dragon arrives But your priority right now is to keep safe and keep the dragon hearts away And then his cry cuts off Okay, bad news everyone Cecilia just immediately. I don't have time for this and she runs out of the room We have the heart right you do have the heart Okay I think what either I have it or Fritz has it anyone can have it is the one that's holding I'll take it. I just since we know the blot targets whoever has a heart. It's probably good to centralize it Yeah, okay. I'll add it to my inventory. Yeah, thank you. Yeah So what what's happening the blot is laying siege to the city and sir edmund might have just been um knocked unconscious Yeah, that's a good way To put it let's go now, right? He encouraged us not to do that. He said we need to stay somewhere safe They're attempting to hold off the blot until the dragon arrives, which I assume is why Cecilia just ran off Um, are there still people inside here? I think we should help There are you can see that they're kind of dispersing. Um, okay. Can I it doesn't seem like the news has spread to the public? Can I shout? Sure, um like we're inside the locker room, right?  It's safer and I'll explain basically relaying like what's going on Could you fly like this is an open top coffee, right? I'm squawking You might want to fly up and just see if you can see oh, yeah, I forgot Is the wall high enough? Yes, you fly up and you can see let me bring you back to the new besky map You can see that there does seem to be a fight outside the city walls over here So it's not exactly outside civilization outside of the coliseum But you do see that there are some people like being run inside. There's some guards. There's some fires going on Okay, uh, I'm basically gonna tell the people inside to stay here for now because it's probably the safest spot And what is your guys's plan? Hmm I think we should go check on the innkeeper and then get out there and help fight I agree with word. I think I mean we're the Pilgrims of a linty. I think we owe it to Not just satya to help them, but we need to figure out what's going on It is rather disconcerting how many people have expressed the sentiment that we care only about Saving elinthe in the abstract and not actually helping its people They're entirely wrong This whole journey has for me personally it has almost nothing to do with that big fancy tree and a bunch of little pieces of Trinkets. It is. I want to make a name for myself. All right. It is very important. I can't just leave this All right And not to me. I mean, it's important to you and that's why you're traveling with me. All right We're spending too much time talking about that Let's make sure rama's all right You can end my life later. So you guys are going To The soft shores. Yes. Yes. Yes. I don't suppose we could have gotten in a short rest Yes in between. Uh, well, if you so wish it would be an hour Oh, really? You should never mind. A short rest is like 30 minutes to an hour. I would say Nah You are healed to full hp at the very least It's good. So yes, you go to the soft shores. Um I presume to talk with rama again. I'm gonna check on him. Well, make sure he's not getting ambushed by blot or whatever Yeah, you can see I think what's up? I would suggest that we maybe send him to the coliseum He has made it back from the coliseum. Yeah, we're trying to catch up. Oh, oh, yeah, that makes sense And he he you do see that there are a few patrons in the soft shores now Just a few just a few we should have yelled harder. He is um, he has uh Been serving a little bit of food. He's waiting behind The counter and he waves you in uh pilgrims Thank you so much. You you did not have to do that kindness for me, but uh, I thank you I I never had so many customers before Yeah, um, okay, we we don't want to make everybody panic That's very good news, but also everyone in the back about to move in the posse to the coliseum Well, okay, here's the thing. Here's the thing how defensible is everywhere And where should we be to minimize damage?  It's something wrong. It's something to matter Yes, so you know that weather phenomenon, right? Oh, no Yeah Oh In here is mostly to be safe. Yes, uh, I presume word is spreading now I'm sure the officials are telling everyone to keep inside I I rust back here as soon as you made your announcement to come just so I wouldn't get swamped I was not there for any sort of official announcement, but I'm sure the guards are escorting people to safety now Do you believe that okay legitimate question? Yes, is that in line with what you know about the guards in nuba sky Yeah For the most part. Yes. I'm sure some of them go out and fight there. Cecilia must be out there right now Yes, she is just making sure Uh, all right. I'm gonna I'm gonna scooch out of well, not I guess I'm not an earshot of rama But like trying not to be heard by him The blood is definitely here for us. We should not be here if we wanted to remain safe Right, let's I think we should probably go and meet this thing and head on if they're outside Yeah, so it doesn't enter we could maybe I need to put a shirt on Does this town have horses and like maybe ponies? Yes, it does. I could rush out of the door and it does have carriages if you have the money to spend to You know, we actually right now. Uh, could we kindly commit a crime? It is in an emergency. No, no, no, we have money we can we can spend them I'm going to try and use the sending stone to contact Edmund again. I know he went Last time but he might be up again. I don't know What do you send? I'm going to send Sir Edmund we believe the blot is most likely in pursuit of us I believe it might be most prudent for us to try and lead it away I hope you have received this message and can respond and are okay. Good luck No response. I never know what to say on these things. That's a bad sign Okay, let's go horses. I guess I wish we could do more for these people, but The most we can do right now is leave. I'm not sure about that, but I wish we had a way to reach Cecilia Let's we could go out there and find we certainly could that might be the month I think we should can at least try to see if we can Hold this hold this off We should go we should go we should go regardless. Right, right I can procure us a carriage Just in case we have to leave All right. I think the rest of us will go to the yeah, yeah, you do that We'll go to the area. Uh, and yeah, you can you can yeah, um I guess before we leave any anything we want to say to rama to like keep his spirits up keep the doors closed So do we think do we think we're leaving now or I wouldn't put it gonna try to are we gonna try to oh, yes you might also want to um Resolve certain of your interpersonal entanglements. Uh, maybe we'll just go to the gates I don't want to leave you Okay, uh Point me to the care of a nest actually if we're splitting up, um At risk of that being a truly awful idea I I'm simply considering our options if word is acquiring us transportation and buck I know you have business in the city that perhaps you should resolve um Fritz I can turn into something small that you can carry. We are on the same page. I was having a good time. Let's go Excellent. It's cat. No time. I'm gonna be a little bit meta as your dm to let you a kindness You will have opportunity to to finish up things in the city Even after you deal with this if you so wish, okay, okay, I'll go with them to the you don't have to leave immediately Okay, okay I appreciate that. I will go with fritz and lira there. Okay I was going to suggest that you guys come with me to handle my thing because I don't want to leave you guys Since you have the hearts, but I'll just I'll just go with you. Yeah I could still go Carry you it's fast Okay, that was my question Oh, okay Let me use a wild shape charge real quick. Do you want me to carry you or do you want to stick like on it? Yeah I feel like I'm probably faster than the carriage Yeah, we're we're booking it. Oh, that won't be needed. You say cost Okay, you can see that there there are a few mount sellers and people offering carriage services as well like like a taxi service Okay, um I assume we'd only need two horses so I could probably My animal handling Oh, I'm okay. I will try not to mess this up. Um Um So what's the actual layout of a situation? Let's say there is like a caravan that someone is tending to that has a couple of like steeds in front of it Yes, and a few carts as well, but you can see in the marketplace Guards are escorting people to closer inward towards the city and they're kind of like a lot of them are packing up as well Packing up shop packing up their uh, you know Wild stock and stuff possibly making for the boats Um, okay, and what are they doing with the animals? Like are they escorting the people the people and the animals? You see that on a larger scale the crowds kind of heading towards the coliseum, which will probably be the safest place in the city good Okay, looking at the guards. Do they have any specific type of like badge that they're wearing? You can see that on their kind of padded garbs and armor You can see that they do have the a linty sigil kind of sewn in Okay, I will walk up to someone who just has a couple horses um And I will cast press the digitation to briefly create a golden emblem with that sigil in my hand and like Flash my badge and be like I need the common deal.   Oh, you make a very good Very good convincing deal, mr. Word the god king I don't know if that's worth a horse. I'm sorry, man. I just gotta go to God's Fate of a linty you The guards are pushing Don't hold up traffic And he shrugs Maybe after the maybe after the drill, huh? Trill all right. What if I rented one for five dollars? I I can't do that man. That's too low 50 Yeah, holding up the traffic. Just give me the horse I'm sorry Unless you can get these guards and the guards are just like sir, you're holding up traffic as well I I flash the Give me one last deception check The guard kneels down to you sir If you either don't get your butt out of here In 10 seconds, I will have to put you in the break I I'm sorry to have wasted your time and I run to the next guy like in the other direction that has a horse How much? Oh, this one, uh, it'll be uh This one's lame. So let's say uh 20 gold pieces. You're lame. Oh Well, uh, that that's kind of hurt my feeling about 10 and What about 10 and the crown of the god king? Oh, uh, you were at the tournament. Oh, okay Yeah, I'll take the crown and 10 gold. I was the sole victor Uh, its name its name is butterscotch I love it already. You're gonna be my best friend forever.  Let's see fivey horse Horse movements. I have to speak with animals now a riding horse is 50 No 60 feet. We'll say her movement speed is 40 as fast as buck All right, oh boy I valiantly ride butterscotch. Okay, and the party you're going to the wall.  What are you doing here? I'm not a civilian. I am both the god king word and one of the the pilgrims of sachia and we got to go that way Word, what are you doing? And we're probably is that a horse you buy? What is that? She's beautiful. Her name is butterscotch and she will live longer than me. What's wrong with her leg? What's what's happening? I thought you were gonna get a carrot. She's perfect. Nothing's wrong with it. Okay, um We're not oh god. We're not civilians. We're We're the pilgrims. We're trying to help Well, that means you're even more important to protect. I'm sorry, sir But if you can't and then boom a loud explosion everyone make a dexterity saving throw Oh Even butterscotch 13 Okay, butterscotch is fine. She kicks a little bit. She lifts her front legs and you nearly fall off work Is is this an effect that I can see while not blind and deafened or incapacitated? Yes, it is one that you can see so I get I get advantage. All right with a 12. Okay. Well, the dc is 12 So you do make it Hey, so everyone except word. I get hammered. You take three force damage as this massive explosion Happens right at the kind of opening of the wall and knocking a lot of guards on their asses poi rather fritz you take two instead Uh wait everyone else took three. Did I say? Yes. Yeah, yeah, my taking six is seven You take three everyone else takes one. Sorry. Oops. Oh, okay. It's my mistake. Sorry I take three. No worries. Just get back one temp hp. You take one because you made the save Okay, I And the guards are just kind of reeling as all of them were hurt and you see that the way is open Well, that's I get serendipitous Oh Um, are we are we leaving or are we going like where's the we should probably get up on the wall? If all right, I can take you up. We should we should check on the dragon.  Okay through the exit of the wall and up on the wall Anyone who's not here you don't have to worry about putting your token on the board But you see looking down that there is a bunch of blots civilians and all the dragon a few houses Oh god, you can see there are blot hounds as well as The um geysers as well as just some normal blot as well, and I will play some music now Can we get a full profile image of the dragon? Yes You can see Cecilia the great in her dragon form a massive hulking quadrupedal beast that does not have wings But has thick heavy plates of scales covering her as well as her signature minotaur horns Oh, she's scary. That would not have been fair to fight the same Uh signature iconic, uh blue paint on her face the war paint And she is bashing and smashing blot left and right, but you can see she's getting a little bit overwhelmed You can see as well closer to the wall Uh, there are a few knights that are in gurneys being tended to and being protected by some clerics including one Uh edmund kind of sitting laying down So he's not dead. That's good and you can see that among the civilians her dad is there as well Is he doing anything you see he's just like dying he's surrounded by blot. He's trying to like Wave like a like a cane at them left and right to try and Push them away. It's not great So a bottom left edge. Is that the um, is that where the wall would be? I would say the wall is to the bottom Yes, okay, great I think honestly, we should save that guy so that she doesn't feel guilty for having him that would probably be the the heroic thing Yeah, how high up is the wall? I mean we don't the wall is really high. It's like 80 feet Flying squirrel Sadly, I don't I don't think we'll do that. Yeah, I'm not in the way range works Anyone know the uh, Pythagorean theorem? Uh, is that how it works in dnd? Oh, well if you're shooting diagonally down, we're gonna have to calculate how far the shot is as well as how high it is and then do like a square plus b square Yeah, we love it Or we could not do that and I could just like simply subtract like 80 feet from your range, whatever it is That does mean I think I can could just come through the wall Okay Do you want me to get you down? You can see that there are archers on the wall with you that are trying to fire volleys of arrows But you see they're very careful very few shots are being fired because of the civilians that are around You see they only seem to fire like the only time they consistently fire are at blot that are far away from the civilians Everyone else they're aiming their arrows, but nary a shot taken All right, we probably want to try and do some extractions get these people out of here if we can Joe how much how much longer do you think we're gonna go for tonight? Likely like 30 to 40 minutes Is that gonna be okay? If you need if you want to call it here we can we can pick this up some other time I think here might be a good place to call it Okay, yeah We're gonna call it here then cliffhanger. All right, if that's okay. Sorry You know what it means I have to prepare less for next session Hey, yeah, but yeah, if you could uh, if you get to save these layouts Could you slap butterscotch on the map? Yes, I will make a butterscotch token. I'll slap In fact, I think I still have a horse token from my previous campaign. I'm gonna find her right now Uh, I can keep her under extras. So I got all the details on my character sheet Where is horse? Where's hunts? She has only 10 gold And a crown that cost a copper But by eventually end up being put in the music I just realized a horse is on the list of things I can wild shape into because it's only cr1 fourth Lyra, I'm not riding it. You're riding horse. So we have two horses Turnabout is fair play. I was thinking what I could do to get people out of there quickly, but you know Butterscotch with a golden I'm sorry, wings are superior. There we go. Maybe faster. Oh my goodness butterscotch didn't mean to make her that big Butterscotch is huge Shadow of the Colossus music starts blasting Yeah, no, that's because the token is very high-res