Session 084: Red Abishai Courtyard
General Summary
# S084: Red Abishai Courtyard Date: Mar 29th, 2025 ## Summary The party engaged in an intense aerial battle in a courtyard against a mysterious spellcaster who wielded Draconic magic. Sas transformed into a giant eagle and cast Silence on the enemy to prevent their spellcasting, while Barlo made a daring leap onto Sas's back to grapple their foe. The battle raged on with multiple attacks and spells exchanged in the air, until finally their opponent was defeated after taking substantial damage. After the combat, the party collected several magical items from their fallen enemy, including a ring of telekinesis and an obsidian nightmare steed. They carefully examined their newfound treasures, discovering a Circle of Human Perfection that could change the wearer's appearance, and Sas tested a mysterious age-altering potion. The group also took precautions to scratch out the magical circles their enemy had left behind. The party then proceeded to search through a well-maintained house, moving upstairs to investigate thoroughly. In an office, they discovered documents written in both Draconic and Infernal, with mentions of someone named Jacoby and various mysterious drawings. Their search proved fruitful when Bastion located their primary objective - a dragon egg housed within a metal box, approximately the size of a small keg and weighing around 150 pounds. The group then discussed various methods to transport their precious find, including the use of a portable hole. ## Scenes ### Combat in the Courtyard #### The party engages in aerial combat with a mysterious spellcaster who can cast in Draconic.
Notes
You guys feel like you're spent so you're just get rid of everything off your sheet right now and we're going to get your teleportation scroll went. All right. Summer session. You guys said because you guys have gotten done with the one t dungeon dungeon where you guys had freed of the Sphinx of Wonder. But the main point was to get some herbs that would allow you guys to kind of stave off the from invading your dreams for a while so you can continue to gain power and be ready for a fight with him. We had sass go ahead and create that. She did really well. So you guys are good for about ten days right now. She still has enough to make some more. The The Sphinx of Wonder kind of did a little bit of a lord. Explain how the the one t had him because it seems that he was created out of the thoughts that helped create the God of time the current god of time which turns out is your friend and grandfather father whatever with fashion. Because Macklin drug nard through his travels he ends up replacing the God of time. It turns out it seems that the ones he thought that maybe using that this sphinx of wonder that they would somehow be able to control him or do something with him. I'm trying to think there is other things that they were wrong on that. But it turns out also that that's also why with Bastian having drug Nora not really wanting him to pursue the swords. Instead he wanted him to become a great wizard. Was at that time in in Grignard life if you will. He was of the belief that you had to do that. So that way he would be born. It's because he's a paradox. He realized that he's from a split timeline anyways and it doesn't seem to matter what happens on this one but this is the timeline that matters. So that's why he gave you the. Hey I'm glad you're doing what you're doing. Way back when that one night at the fire that said sass went up finished getting her tattoo. So she's got more speed now Ray. The group the party took look at their ink supplies. And then the other thing was you guys had talked about how you guys wanted to go find the cats. And from that you guys end up finding Trap Street. Well actually first you guys went to the broken thing. It was a tavern. Very seedy establishment. You guys had some drinks in the pursuit of hoping that you guys would be able to get drunk enough and to just lose your way in town and accidentally find Trap Street. That's where you guys had some dragon shots. You guys did find a trap street where you met the mayor Clara. You guys were the guided by my local collaborators. I forgot that's not the real thing. The teeth help us to tweak it. It's like that up to like my other notes. Yeah. And not Clara confirmed that there was a red abassi. And it seems to have the a a dragon egg belonging to a type of dragon known as the epoch dragon also known as a time dragon. The epoch dragon can be one of the most powerful dragons. And for some reason this abassi has this dragon egg. So I believe it was a. She teleported at you guys. You guys in dove? Finding yourselves at a at this building end up trying to confront the person. It didn't seem like you guys are really going anywhere with it. If you try to influence it with a charm person spell which completely failed Barlow kind of started confronting him about harboring the red Abassi or the Dragon and that's. Yeah. Tell us where he is. Calliope I think was going for his cane. Yeah I mean move. And so that's right where we we ended the session with going into battle of. A little there knights battle or not. That's who's to say. But it's definitely going to be an initiative. So let's do this. And I think I might have stopped some senseless murder from happening. I don't know. You know whatever the kind of murders no friends lover. I don't. So here we are. I have a it took it for where he is at the door. So you guys can figure out where you guys are on the map. Obviously Calliope is going to be near him. The map is black. Oh really? I was near him as well. Yeah I was going to say that I'm going to just put on daytime. I don't need That better? Oh wait I have to say it. Yes. Oh you. Like a little courtyard. Okay. We gone all the way in the courtyard yet? Or we we just outside of it even. Well Calliope and Bastion or Barlow are near him so they're going to be up there. I mean you guys can decide how close to them you guys are. Well we're we're near the guy. But up at the top. Would be where he is. That you guys can figure out about how close you guys are to him. Yeah we're walking out. We were leaving and I turned around and in front of them. It's okay. It's so cool. He. Think I would have been too far but. I don't know if I'm just lagging right now but. Two dragons oh one. Oh. Wow. You're. Oh you. Do not get your token out. No. And I always see two characters on the map. Is this right? Maybe reloaded. See if that might help. Yeah. I'm not. I'm absolutely. Yeah. I'm not going to load the other actually. Let me roll. Let me just roll punishments to where I'm not I'm not going to. But the other is referencing. There we go. Maybe I'll get a nice little one. Wow. I should have picked up my feet. There's fear. Hello one. I'm timid. All right. I'm. Nothing tonight. We. All right. Is everybody ready? To put my token on the screen for me. I can't get it out. Sounds like a personal problem. And he needs to roll. Initiative. I roll that he's going to put it on the sheep. Hold on one second. Okay there we go. Can you move the the maps a little bit off guys? By the way I kind of threw this at the map that I end up finding I think. And I tried to tweak it this last week but it looks like it's not perfect so. Okay as long as each square is five feet not ten feet it's fine. I don't know how dare you not be perfect? I try not to do that. Oh wait there's a look. This thing's all messed up. Is everyone know here? I'm just going to reset the thing. Sorry. This is from an old combat. It looks like. All right. Those are the ones we just put up and it had the. It's said you're in the fifth round with a one to. No. You want to just roll again? Completely. Either way I'll let you guys decide. I'm not to cancel because I rolled a one and a two. That's not. I roll that 23 and a 22. I'm willing to give you guys the what's ever more advantageous. You might need it. Only slightly but there you go. Okay well I rolled a 13 not a 25. Come on. Back one of the up 19. Last time. Yeah. 19. Yeah. Can you move your token now? Follow? Yep. Okay. And are you all good then? Yep. Sounds good. So let's go ahead or. Let's. I'm pretty sure I left already on the boat. Right. Well we were I believe that I was crawling trying to find the street. Sounds about right. Yes I remember her. I don't remember are they going out with you guys? I didn't think so. But it would be a Greek designated driver. You know? I know we just all go get drunk and we just grab on to him. He's drives us back to the boat. Yep. I already take us out because. Oh. All right so it looks like let's go and start with Calliope though. That's all right. That's that's what we. Go. We're going to start with the calliope though just in the contested way. So as you grab the one has a cane. Go ahead and give me a did I even make it up there though? Because you said he reacted to his name moved. Well he would have been. They was. I was having it where that was going to go into initiative. But since you were I'm going to since that's the action that's causing everything to kind of go off. It'd be kind of weird if all of a sudden everybody else's attacks go off. So I'm going to go ahead and let you go ahead and just do that one move. Okay. So why am I rolling? It would be what's it called? Whatever the athleticism or whatever it is. Okay. I'm looking at his card. You're seeing that one of yours. So does it have the same stats on it? Acrobatic. No the other one. This one is athletics. Yeah. You sure you don't want like perform it? Yeah. I'm really good at performance. It's sliding. Yeah. I'm not great with athletics. Okay. I tried really hard. He's going to do okay with an 18. So as you pull in the cobblestone as you run up to me to grab it from out of his hands you have that awkward kind of feeling as you see that you're not able to really budget on his hands and looks like he's barely even trying. But he does look down at you and then you see him look up towards where you guys are. Yeah right next to you. He looks over at both Arlo and Bastian in and you see him kind of like sniff the air. Just a moment. It's not interesting. And then he looks back at you Calliope and he says if it's a fight you want to have we can do that and we will go ahead and do a fight. So bash you up. Right. Yeah. Right next to this guy. I'm going to use my bonus action to pop a blade song. Turn this sucker on. And I'm going to hit him with a rapier attack. And then I'm going to hit him. The sound of my people. Then I'm going to hit him with the true strike. But those hit. Give me one second. There's no What what's the Oh it's thunder and radiant. You All right so everything should be fine. And that what was the hits? 28 21 two and the 22 will hit. Okay so that is 1420 37 37 points of damage as you slice as you start slicing into him. Go ahead and give me a perception check. Perception. I perceive nothing. No I don't even know if this is a person. He looks at me since the right guy you say? Yeah. Are we supposed to be talking? This guy? We really don't know. You guys are the ones that brought me here. I wasn't even here last week. We really have no idea. Is there anything else? No. That Bala you are up. On it. That's across in front of them. I will rage up on this faction. Then I will attempt. I don't know why but I'm going to grab that thing from now. I'm going to attempt to grab. Just like what's my up? I'm going to. I don't. Yeah. So go and do your strength. Check them up. Yeah. Do athletics or strength? Check or obviously. So 919 against a 22 is going to fail. I will say this as you do pull it once again he is not putting as much effort as you think into like he is. He is very strong. That's what you are. Definitely pick it up. And he looks appears to be. If you want to be human. Yes tall but very strong. So all. A call I just I just growl a do with a good kind of get is. But the date broken now? One more time. A second time. That's it. With the both of my attacks on this team. Even better. And he got a 19. So Oh you have it. So I will say on that one you notice it's you're you're starting to get a little bit of upper hand having both you and the the fawn grab at it and his attention which he definitely seems like he's paying a lot more attention on you and bash and he's kind of looking at both of you to the most. He. Okay. I'm just playing with my head back and forth like he looking at and that's all I can do. I both my actions. It is now the red turn. And then next. I'm sorry I said that. Oh. Third. So as he creature looks at you Barlow as you just came up to yeah. He starts whispering some words out to you and you can't. And you can't make it out. I need a charismatic charisma saving throw from you. Rest smart boys. Let me use. Subseven. Obviously this is as he starts whispering to you with the power of the Dragon Queen power that it seems that he has you get this feeling over you that it's harder for you to hit at him. So your your attacks on him will be at a disadvantage. Okay. I will say though. I felt save your for one hour. Though. So what I'm going to do now though since this is a bit of a modification due to I'll explain. Maybe later if you discover why I'm going to let you down at the end of your turns to go ahead and try to reroll that at the end of your turn. Okay. Because it's a so he does that. Oh actually never mind. There's a situation. So then he's going to go ahead and then attack the other guy. Yeah. Each creature is within 20ft. Well actually the first thing would be frightful presence. So each creature that is within 120ft. I need wisdom saving throws from everybody. Is there any effect on me? Because I'm now whatever by him? I think it was still apply. He's still going to let that apply to you. It's not going be because it's not dealing damage to you. So he feels like he can still do that to you. Okay. Lightly. Go ahead and give me another d20. Another d20? Yeah. Ten to be like depends. You on your next d20 roll you get to add a one d6 to it. You can also give that away if somebody else has a d20 roll before yours comes up. Okay. And also has 22. Rolls. A kind of like a almost an awesome like that miasma. Kind of like from like the the freeway went off in the distance kind of like wait I heat wave kind of feeling kind of comes over. All of you guys anybody that 18 DC was 18. So anybody got 18 or above? So we're all good. You're your seven was where you failed the first time right? Yeah yeah. You guys good? We all pass. Yeah. Yeah. It looks like you roll out. One is Oh. Dang. Oh we were super wise guys. You guys are actually so smart today. Next 24 hours characters under the players can know that you're immune for the next 24 hours. As that wave kind of comes across you guys because you guys all kind of fight it off. You even see Calliope as Mark of the adventurer kind of light up a little bit of it and that's its first move. Now it gets to do its attacks and as the it pulls up its cane and as it rolls it out you see the tip part kind of pulls out and he whips the cane forward as he does. So that's the tip kind of comes out with attached to some type of a chain. It's kind of like a modified morning star. 19 against you know he's kind of kind of modified around since three of you guys attacked him already. So we'll do Calliope first. 19 is not going to hit you. Yet. All right. You take seven points of piercing damage as it strikes out at you. He then looks over. Bastion. And pulls up its claws at you his hand and as it comes out you kind of feel it bigger than with it like a little bit meatier than it really is. 15 is going to miss though I believe. Right? Right. That's you. So as it falls out you're able to kind of Thank God my rolls are bad. Now. Perry. Perry. So then it reaches out with its he reaches out to bite that. You and 15 is going to miss two. That. I'm so nimble guys he is going to. Fly up into the air. How is he flying? You see him just fly up to the air. You don't see you're not sure what how he's able to do it. He's able to fly. Magic be the first assumption as he does fly. Obviously. Barlow and Bastion. You guys would both be able to take an attack of opportunity because he doesn't seem to have any resistance that. So that's what I want. That's good damage. Oh I'm moving. And Chuck 15 since you have to hit him at a disadvantage wouldn't it be a straight roll? Because he's flying right? He's flanked. I guess that would still work. Technically wouldn't be flanking. That's fine. You know. Why not? So would it be the 28 then? Yeah. Sweet. So go ahead do damage. Okay. And this counts as magic weapon right? Yes. And it's has So it's 18 19. 19. So as you guys both strike out at him go ahead. And both of you guys since you guys both struck at him go ahead and give me a perception check. Yeah I'm a one again. I know check. Go ahead and give me a another d20 quick. This mofo mofos. Not real guys. I I just realized you just rolled a d20 so that would have taken your Oh no you didn't. That was after. No no no no no no you don't have. To ignore me for you. So nobody's hurt yet. So it doesn't really matter. This would have given you some ten points. He healing flame. None of you guys have damage so it doesn't really matter. Calliope got hit. Did you? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. So yeah you can that. You can give that over wipe if you want. Ten hit points of healing to to to yourself or anyone that's within 30ft. So you can give that ten hit points of collide if you want. Yep. Send it on over 30. So and finally as he stands up here over this little circle area you can hear like chanting coming underneath his breath as he's chanting right now. You see Three areas that start to take on light. I'm going to use my reaction to cast Counterspell. That was your opportunity attack. Oh no. Yeah yeah it's a reaction. It's. So you're using your. Oh for the opportunity. Okay okay okay. Well been years. But but I will also say you notice this is not so much a traditional spell per se so you I will I will even allow with your high intelligence. You're not sure if you would have been able to counterspell it? This seems like this is something much different than just some type of spell. As he's chanting you see these three areas light up. I will say that your characters could be aware that something could possibly happen by the end of his next turn. Which is? Oh the ones. Oh. Got it. So the three spots is right here. Right here. Well there's one over right by a shadow over here. And he's flying in the center circle over here. And with that that is his turn. SAS you are up. Shadow you are on deck. All right so this dude's flying right? Yep yep. All right so it's kind of wild shape. Into a giant eagle. And. That's sort of off the page. So now I'm a giant eagle. Okay. What do you want to do as a giant eagle. Well first of all fly right over to this asshole okay. And. Obviously I'm going to attack. So I have beak and I have talons. Beak 17 to attack. Unfortunately as you strike in with your beak you see him just kind of dodge out of the way. Takes out. Okay let's try to see. 21 to attack. That's a good that's a good roll. But unfortunately it's just under what? Out with your talons. He's able to kind of just in time knock it down with his stat. His cane. What do I have to roll to hit that? Okay well you saw. I mean if you want to metagame somebody's already got a 22 to hit so that seems to be the AC but jeez Laughing. All right there's my. Anything else? Oh hi. AC up in the air 20ft 20 20ft I forget are my spores still active when I'm on a wild ship? They are right. I think so. Okay so on this next turn we'll attack with the yellow spawn. Okay. Yeah. I'm going to like like in other words if you want to cast like a blur on you or something like that before you before you while ship those would carry over. So I don't see why here. Spores within. All right. In fact I think we've done a world narrative where we kind of said you could see some of the spores even in your wild ship form. Right? Yeah. Shadow you are up. Calliope you were on deck. Two questions I might have. First question. If he gets restrained does he fall? It depends. If he is restrained by magical vines would he fall? Let's see here. Okay. What I would say is you can't know for certain because I think that if he has a hover that it could he could resist it. So you don't know if he has a hover speed. Okay. But I would say that I think they have a fly speed. I think it might just. Based on what I'm thinking. And I noticed already that he was super strong. Yes. Okay. And his those little light things is is he mumbling? Is he verbal still? He is still chanting as he's kind of yeah. It's verbal. There's a verbal component that is going on right now that is causing you can tell that that's what's causing the little red things to start glowing. Okay. I'm going to cast silence on him. Okay. Oh Thank you. So it's a 20ft radius. He's 20ft in the air. So I want to put it where Calliope is outside of it so that it doesn't affect her spells. Income. So I think then when put that in the circle where it's like where you think it would be and you can even say it's higher up in the air that there's. So that has to be on the ground. Yeah. I want it to be like centered on him. So if he's 20ft up then it's barely touching the ground. 20ft. Radius. Square root. That go. To centered right on him. But since he's 20ft in the air he wouldn't touch Calliope right? You're right. She'd be good. Okay. If it's centered on him at 20ft up the air would only just barely hit the ground. And she would be just outside of it so. Yeah she'd be fine. Okay then I'm going to. It is a sphere. It's not a cone. Correct. Since that is an action I'm going to remember that it's. It is then I'm going to use my bonus action to go invisible. And Fly over on top of this wall. Okay. Wait. Where was I before? I suppose I should count me. You're like right about here is I like right there give or take. And I think I might do one more over this way but that's your first move. So I'm not going to get to particular. You're talking about I don't have a broom so I'm just going to walk invisibly over there. Oh my characters are all mixed up. Yes I can't fly. I don't have a broom. I'm going to walk over there but I'm invisible. I you forgot to do that. Yeah. All right let's do it on next move. Damn it. Don't forget to do something. Okay. I think that's all I got. No worries. I will say that as the cone of silence or as the sphere of silence goes up and you see this kind of like a little area where sound is just. Once a game I have the same kind of effect of that miasma kind of thing. But I will say that that does as he is. Silence at that moment. You do see that the three lights three of the three things of the red light that were starting to appear with little flames starting to flicker up through the the cracks in those areas all of a sudden they just disappear. Sorry. Anything else else? No. Calliope. You're up. Fashion on deck. Just remember there's a sphere of silence in front of you so you can't get too close to them. Do you want to do something with the verbal component? Okay. Can you. Where the sky is now? He's right here in the center. Still. Oh whoops. Yeah. I don't see him at all. I just see talking. Okay a second it's Saatchi. Saatchi is the guy. Yeah I'm using that token. That's all. Oh God. You right I that's why I was confused. Okay. That's why I thought it was flying. Because I saw Saatchi and I was like oh I have a broom that I put on. It did not even register until that. Okay well up on the team later tonight. Yeah it's all black. Okay. I would like to take a step towards bastion and I will just so that I'm 100% out. You know Jimmy you kind of angle that be okay. But take a small step back. And then I was like dude cast. Just when it whispers this it whispers. This the one that's that's on the one I'm doing on the map. There you go. If it's he's immune to thunder damage but because he's deaf in some. Oh wait. Yeah they're deafened while in the sphere. Oh no. It's like it. Okay cool. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. That's it is in his head. So that's a wisdom save. He's got an 18. Just made it. Anything else okay. It's an all or nothing. Right. Well yeah I think so. Okay. Anything else. Oh he actually gets an advantage anyways. Remember that. That's it. You got it. But I will back off even more. Back off. Bro. All right bastion you were up. Barlow on deck. All right all right I guess I will move over here. And then while this fall is in the air I'm going to cast scorching Ray at level seven. God. Okay. So I'll have to roll it one more time. Oh but these are kind of really bad rolls. This one hits. I got to roll one more and then add. Oh okay. So only one hits. Cool. Oh know. So you see these? And rays of fire. Are you hurl them out of him. All he's able to kind of move out of the way of all. And one of them as at last one's coming in but then you see him kind of put his hands out and it hits him square in the chest. And as it does that you notice he takes no damage from it. He seems to be immune to fire damage. Hey guys I think he's immune to fire damage. Oh you know you never even had a I had a wonderful. Oh no you saw that last one hit? You could even steal this came Yeah but I'm getting that. Hey anything else? Nope. All right Barlow you are. Oh wait. Hold on hold on. I'm sorry. I have a bonus action I can use. No I don't. Okay. Nope. That's it. Barlow you are up the red apples. I am sorry he is. Up next. The staff appear to be inside that. Oh so this is in the bubble. This doesn't affect the ring. Now just means like she can't do her spells anyways. Well it's effects there cuz she's definitely. She can't hear it. There's that problem. Okay I'm going to run. And high up is he's like 20ft. I can make that. Oh however you. I'm up with him. So he's. So I'm on the same level as him. Sash. Can't hear you. Can't hear you. Trying to figure. Right. We're flying up next. Unless you can see how high sass is you don't need to ask. Yeah well I don't know if you're next. Yeah. You are. You just kind of jump. You're going to jump on your back. He's going to jump on his back just to attack then straight. I. Okay I like how it's one. So 20ft over there. 20ft. That's easily within my movement. I will make a jump. So I believe it's sort of have you do an animal handling skill? Just kidding. I. I could jump an additional 18 speed. I know sorry 90. So I have to make an athletics check that reads it. Probably didn't. A Barlow if you if you jump above him and grapple him in the air or he fall possibly. Oh no. That's fine. Okay we were saying with That's what close what Jamie was asking if he has a hover flight and you guys don't know but if he has a hover flight I would say that a hover flight wouldn't take him down like a beholder has a have mean. But if it's a I don't see wings flapping now you don't see any wings. That's what if he has a hover or if somehow he's being able to fly some by some means. All right. I will attempt to jump up on to the back of his ginormous eagle. The most prettiest eagle. Jump! So come on. Fast. I'd like to think that your feathers or like your shell pattern. Surprised that I. That I saw them. You love them because I had. So you know it's like. Yeah. So Jamie you like to my feathers resemble a tortoise with mushrooms growing on her. Yeah yeah. And I will attempt to Yeah I'm gonna try you know grab them see if I can grapple. Yeah go for it. So the first attempt. Yeah. Please hold on. I can 20 991. That's going to do it because you got an 18. Yes. I got it. You're mine. Now. I'm going to. Yeah. It with my claw. All right. Well as you get. Oh my God he doesn't have a hover speed. So he has it. Both go down for 20ft. So that means you guys are both. Oh no. Because I'm not restraining him. Oh I'm just grabbing. Okay. Gotcha gotcha. I thought that's what you're trying to hold him. Okay. Never mind. No I technically don't have the restraint ability yet. That's a whole nother you. You guys don't know anything? Yeah I'm just like grabbing onto his collar right now. I'm gonna start laughing at him while I'm holding on to him. So I only get the one that's in this one. So it's just grapple right now just means what? He can't move from you. Yeah. The grappling moves. Yeah. I can't move away. But my tactical disadvantage now. But. So let's see what I get on this one. And what I get on is what? But yeah. Oh no. Oh no I don't think that's going to do it. No I was not going to do it. And then the second one this one's disadvantage. It's one. Yeah. Yeah yeah. That will hit the. Yeah. Man. Right 58 total. There might be some acid in there. So the magic switch. And so you noticed that it doesn't seem like he will. He doesn't seem to have any immunity to the acid. So you're fine on that. Okay. And I will attempt with this thing because I did hit him with an atomic. I will attempt to force him to make a DC 16 wisdom. Because this. I got a 41 inch thick 42. Gene 12. Psychic death two. Oh wow. Like it? I was about to kill. So 14. Psychic. So yeah as you do that or I can hack into the freezer next to him. But he doesn't have any friendlies here. I know it does. And I was thinking about it. I was afraid he was going to be too powerful for you guys. Once again I'm. Don't jinx it. Because we could get shit rolls from here on out. It's the shit roll and that's what's hard. All right it is. Now my turn with sass on. Next. He does. So he is So he has to break out of your hold. Yeah. So I have to break my grapple. If he wants to And now takes an action. Yes. Unless he has some special feats to allow him to move on to grapple leading or slippery or shit like that. You think he should? Oh should actually see what you just No that's on a magical effect that you just did right? No. Let me double check. We're letting you know. I just inspect him with a furious one what they call split Robin Fury. So I give him rabies. I don't know what that happens. I got to handle that. Others and I guess I could use that. Maybe not the smartest. I feel like I'm going to be sucker if I just stay where I am. So let's go ahead. And we will break though and see if I can break the hold. Okay. So I got a 25. Oh dang that's a good roll. 19 all right. So he's able to kind of splits right way. And fuck you. You kind of now notice he had a sword that was kind of on his belt. And so he pulls out the sword. Oh shit I can't isn't that his action though to break the grapple? Yeah that's an action. Oh when he started. Sorry. When he started his turn. My Halo sports. Oh yeah. Good one. Oh and I also get to make a charisma saber. Then a monster. Oh yeah I can break that. Nope nope. I'm still there. Yeah I'm still influenced by the power of the Dragon Queen. I me. Now fair. Taking advantage of the dragon. Yes. Even even Barlow could realize that you and bastion have some type of dragon within you guys. And maybe that's why he kind of felt that you could do that on you. Felt he smelled it on us. Shit. That's a nice. Yeah I took the five points damage. Okay. There's a four star kind of eating into him. Then I mean he doesn't even have a rage attack. That's interesting. So. I have to leave the area to do that. Did we mess up your plans? Yeah. That's okay. He flies. Oh. Circle. As he flies out of the circle he's going to go up. Another 20ft. So he's going to. He's going to be now 40ft up in the air. Okay. So that's a I take a quick swing at him. Yeah. In a second here. Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead and do that. Go and do that. That's an if you want to use your inventions for that. Yeah. If you want to you can save enough to. Oh yeah I mean whatever. But I'll try to maybe like make this he's going to move over here so you guys can see that. But yeah whichever ones you guys want to do the reactions so eighteens not going I use one. So we're going to do to attack them like character sheet for some reason to switch up my giant eagle one for some reason disappear. Do I have a reaction as a giant eagle I think so and attack of opportunity. Yeah. Okay. So I just take one of my multi attack. Basically I just do one of the attacks. Okay. And that's not to say he's able to get out in 40ft now in the air. As he is now outside of the the little silence he's able to pull out his sword as he throws it out. Calliope you hear him say something in draconic or. No it would be actually an infernal. He has two actions. No it's actually takes a bonus. Well it takes up the acts that you use or whatever. And then he's using is this thing actually is as a bonus action to do what he's doing as the. That's cheating. No really I have not cheated on that part. These parts so as he throws it off the sword it begins to hover right in front of Calliope. Doesn't it? Infernal. He said something in infernal as he threw the sword down to the ground. You said draconic first. And then I said actually this would probably be an infernal But then you were. You won the contest in Action Economy. Yeah. Straight. No cheating on the team. I don't love that. You He just stole creatures. You. He wants to. So I would just use a cloud of daggers as the symbol for it as well as down there. It's hovering and use as you're attacking. Okay. It's not great with the dice change. This dice is not doing any favors. 17 is not going to hit you. Clapping. To beat it. I mean he. If he meets it he beats it. Yeah. The attack wins. Yep. So that means as the dancing sword attacks you. Have to remember that. Okay so that's the one. That's it. Yes. It's just I guess it's just a 1 to 8. So. Plus the strength for. So you take 14 points of damage as the sword strikes out of you know. Thank you. He starts once again starts whispering starts uttering out some type of thing. Meaning you see these three red things start to light up again. And that would be a start. So that's your up shadow on that one. All right well I'm gonna fly over to this guy. So you can take Barlow with me please. Because I don't think I can move him but he's on my back. Right. Yeah. And we're just going to do our multi attacks. If we hit again. It's on Wild Sheep and that's do you. And and so you strike out at him and unfortunately miss. Are to hit but at least have. At least I allow Barlow to be up in the air and. Yeah. Yeah I got you anything else. You know grappling. Well that that. That will be shadow. You are up Calliope on deck. Okeydoke. So I will drop silence because I can't move it. Then I want to try to see if this will. Work. It's a bonus action. All right so I'm going to try. Ensnaring strike. As my bonus action. And then as long as I have to hit him first. Yes that's a natural 19 plus 14. Yeah that'll be enough. Okay so then it's normal damage. And then he has to do a strength saving throw drink. Yes. You. Little freaking rolls. Oh five and a two times. Strength. Right? So 17. Oh really? Is that enough though? Yes. What the fuck is his strength? He got plus 12. He says five and a two. I 17 so that sucks. That's why I was saying his strength. Like when they were trying to do that. His strength saving throw was pretty high. Yeah. Well this he still gets the damage though. What's the damn damage? Mine is 26 points of. Oh wait. No I can reroll that one. Yes. Better 1617 maybe 33. Now I need to ask what kind of damage does he take out? He's taking ten force into and then the rest is piercing 23 piercing ten force. So how much did you say it was again? 33. You got it? Yeah. He's. He's trying to get it hurt. Here guys. Go ahead. Give me a Well you're all the way down there. I don't know if you'd really see much so I'm not going to worry about. And then I'm going to try to hit him again. Damn you hit a creature. I can't do this in staring. Strike again. This is just a regular. Oh which also means that the cone of silence has gone. Now to. Yeah I dropped it. Okay because I can't move it so I dropped it. And that is a 19 to hit that misses. Anything else? I'm all the way across the thing. Those things are lighting up right? Yep. You said yeah. He's he's once again uttering some kind of incantation of some sort. And as he started to do so you saw these three spots start lighting up again this red kind of symbols starting to kind of grow in the ground with like little bits of flames fluttering through every little crack in those little spaces. I don't like that. I'm just going to hop up on the wall right here. Okay? And I think that's my turn. You got it. Right. I use this guy up now 40ft. Maybe the last 20 wasn't enough and he couldn't really do much else so it wasn't going to be a target. Calliope your a you were on deck. Okay. I'm going to try to get out of the way. I'll and I like I don't behind any of these things over here. It's not possible. I mean you're still kind of in front of them. I mean you might if you want to try to kind of climb behind all that stuff that's over there and over there. I mean yeah of course I mean you can always use its range here how you want to use it. Okay. If I can if I can leap can I like a little mirthful leap. So I don't see a problem with that. Yeah. Okay. So it's going to give you a little bit of courage because you're kind of like there's it's just like some. It looks like it's like meant to be some type of like artistic kind of structure or something going on over there. So it's going to give you some cover. Are those concentrate. Does he have to do any concentration checks when he's getting hit from those circles? You have not noticed him having to do so. How far? His figure is a 40ft up in the air. If I cast a spell that doesn't cube. Does it have to be grounded or can I do it as long as it's as long as whatever the distances. So where it says range as long as it's within the range it doesn't have to be on the ground. It'll usually some might like where but I think it has something. But it doesn't say anything in the spell. I don't have a problem with that. Okay. I would like to cast ionic pattern. Guys. Okay. Don't say don't say don't say don't say so. 30ft cubes when put on a 30ft cube where do you want it? And you can say yeah I'm 48ft up in the air. How high up in the air you want to have it? So I would have it's start like 20ft in the air. So it could be like right in the middle. Okay. And you can use one of the little rulers here. 40ft square. Right. So that's how big it is. 30 30. Yeah. So yeah go ahead and move it where you want to. Well it's up in the air anyway so it doesn't. It's not going to really affect you. I don't. So the swirling twisting pattern of colors that we used through the air inside of a 30ft cube within range the pattern appears for a moment and then it vanishes. Each creature that is at the area where you see the pattern must make a wisdom saving. Throw suspenders with some saving throw. Damn I'm not doing good. Yeah that's only a 14. Nice. Does that mean here that he falls 40ft? So is. Which means is it becomes using capacity. Is it? So why is he in those days incapacitated and his speed does go to zero. Spell ends for and for an effective creature takes any damage. Or if someone else uses that action to say okay so ultimate me being up that's exactly what I'm noticing. His eyes just roll back and down. Go. But what I will say. But it's not a total loss. So? So he does spell it as he fails it. You see him start looking at the pretty colors which means his incantation starts that moment. That means that it breaks the incantation. All of a sudden you do see as he starts falling to the earth the three circles disappear once again like a little wisp of flame. And then they're gone again. Well that's good. This turned into something. We know what it does. That's going to summon him. Devil's going to fucking devil's was it? Yeah. So with that he is going to hit the ground. He was 40ft up in the air which is four. I will let you roll the damage. So go ahead and roll a four d6. Calliope. Yep. Makes. And how do you want to do this? No. No. My question is. Well technically though is the ground the meaning of the word no. That's what I just thought about too though. Oh. Oh come on man I'll take this there I will I will let him take half that damage. So that is true. Like I just thought about I was like wait a minute. It's not not magical. It's over the ground. So we will go ahead. We'll take half of it though. So Maths. Is not eight. Yeah. So as he hits the ground he would also making prone. To do have going for a I don't know if that that'll work for now. So he's prone and now that he's outside of that square did you want to keep the square? Calliope? No I can drop it. Okay. It's good for one minute but I don't know if it says that. If they go into it again after. Now because it says it disappears. Vanishes. Oh so you just have to concentrate though just on them? Never mind. I see what it is. You don't have you on. If that was the case I just. I pick them up just throw them back up in the air so it goes through it again. Yeah. That's what that's what trying to figure out. Is anything else for the moment now I'll keep it up. Let's make. Well it's like he enters it again. He doesn't affect them again. Okay. So that's okay. That's events. That's not there. Yeah. You only need to hold the clouds. That's the thing. Is it concentration. Just if he would have still been charmed then you have to hold the concentration for the charm effect. Not for the pretty colors covers. Yeah. So. But the best thing about that was the incapacitation. That was what we needed. But yeah you saw him enough that it stopped him from being able to continue with his chance. It was good. So still don't want any summoning anything else that could be. Nope. That's it. All right. Bastion you were up. Are the one that all right? I'm Well That's five right? What do you mean the swords? It's just. It's just one sword in the air. Okay well I'm going to go around the sword to get behind him. No worries. You also saw. I mean to be fair you saw Calliope leave the space of the sword and it wasn't. It didn't take an opportunity for if you want to use kind of combat tactics it seems like that doesn't really apply to it. So just like that's like Barlow's shield. Yeah yeah. It's just around in the air. Just. And this guy's prone to also. Right? He is prone. Okay so I get advantage that 28. Yeah that's going to happen. And then. 29. And I'm going to double that because of my bracers. 26 yeah. So I'm just going to hit damn that's 1524. 3839 4550 no I'm sorry. 60. Oh and I didn't hit the the nine damage and plus 18. That's 78. Yep. Yeah. 78. That. Well I do a lot of damage. Anything else? Is he dead? He is not dead but he's holding on. Kick him while he's down and I kick him. Sir. And I end my turn. Barlow you were up. You're 40ft up and telling dismounting from an eagle 40ft in the air. Oops. Oh it's jumped on it's way. I don't want to hit the ground. Okay use my momentum. That's. Try my. Don't you still take. Yeah. What damage should I do? What happens if you fall on him? Does he take extra damage off of it? You can make your you can make your toes throw claws. All right. I'm good but I know it's my. It's. Okay so how much do I take? It's 40ft. So it would be a 46. 46 I guess. Yeah. You still get the same thing. It's just like being a high school kids jumping off a fence. You still take damage? Yeah. Even being cat like. Even if you have a jump distance to yourself. And I'll let you roll your own damage. Oh okay. Yeah. Does having a like a jumps speed for being to back sea does that do anything as far as don't let me take half fall damage. Oh nice roll. Why did I take one half. No no no I thought to back see take half fall damage. I don't know. Always land on our feet. Yeah. Remember maybe that doesn't count as an either. So yeah I that's right. I think I'm still raging. So yeah that's. And I will fight him. And now it's a straight roll because he's now advantage prone disadvantage. So first attack. Wouldn't you be at advantage. Yeah. He's already he's attacking you. I'm at a disadvantage. He's somewhat right. But he's but he's prone and I'm flanking so it becomes a straight roll. It doesn't add up. Oh it doesn't compound. Okay. No it. What if you can have advantages and just takes one disadvantage that go back to a straight roll. You know one hit. So yeah just the first one. All right. One hit or no right. 12 damage. As you slash out on he's still standing and he is definitely. Yeah. At home. It's all right okay. Bonus action. I'll throw the shield in the air. You got it. So I can get both hands free. Now. Okay so. That's. Oh that was dumb. I should because I fuck it too late. So this is bonus action. Did you refresh my memory of what was it we were told he might have a dragon Dragon egg. Egg time. Dragon egg time. Dragon. Also known as an epoch Dragon. That's a type of what they call epic dragons. They are like the most supreme of all types of dragons. We're going to have a baby dragon. Guys. Yes. Do you have a friend? So it is now his turn. Or lose my Christmas charisma. Roll. I got a new charisma roll. Come. Nope. All right so this year I can't believe. Is that anymore. So he's just going to do his attacks? I guess. Yeah that's the one I kind of heard of the most. So he's going to kind of take it out on you. I pop one of my protective wings. So 24. Can you eat a 29? Not on that one. You have all the cool stuff as it strikes out with your more as with its Morningstar it misses and then tries to go at you with its claws. 16 is not going to hit and go. That's a little bit better. 25 because your wings over. Only for the first one. Right? I don't know exactly how it works. It's like shield right? Actually it works exactly like shield. So does it cover me for the whole time or just for that hit? And let me just double check. I think shield is until your next turn bonus against that attack roll potentially causing it to mess. That's like my tail. But I know you're pretty. I don't know you're still in Blade Song I believe. Yeah I'll pop once. All right so you're going to pop it again. So just that so it doesn't hit you with that. So that's its main attacks. It looks over at the sword and it's going to bring that to you. It's seething out of its mouth at this point and it's pissed. After taking all that damage it does at this point pulls at its head and you see a it and now you're noticing that there was like a little like little circlet hiding inside of its hairline. And as it pulls that thing off you guys are going to see him in his true form as as the red abishai gargoyle looking scaly skin. And you see his wings now in full prominence behind him. He throws down this metal circlet on the ground. I got a question shot. Yeah yeah. Did he stand up? He is going to stand up. Yes. Then why? He would have set up when he did that. Yeah when melee attacked. Isn't that one of his actions? No no his movement takes up half your move power. So it's that's half of its movement and did its attack actions. It's doing its bonus action which is the sword. That's a little bit better. There's a 30 hit you get you a 30 will hit. Right? It's not like a huge amount of damage but it's still. To. Ooh. Hold on. There is something cool that I can do but I just want to double check. Oh wait. Hold on. Hold him. Oh I already use my reaction. Okay. Hold on. Expand one spell slot reducing it. Okay I can't I'm I'm good. Oh man. There was something that I have that I still haven't used yet but I can't use it now. Anyways I should have done that. Turn that turn. Damn it I forgot about that. All right that's fine. So yeah you can take 14 points of damage from the sword that comes out from the side after he kind of unloads on you with these attacks and you're able to kind of block them and using your little Dragon wing to kind of fend off. And then you see off to the side though the sword hits into you for 14 points of damage. So How's this work again? There's two different numbers for speed. I guess it takes. Yeah that's the turn Prince off. That's a it's. So he's going to go ahead and fly out 25ft up in the air the 30ft up there. So I can do. Giving Bastian and Barlow both attacks. Oh no. Is that half his movement? He has a regular speed and a fly speed. See that's just cheeky. No it's through. 15. I wish I would have set up something later or earlier on but I still haven't really done it and I need to do it. So he's 30ft up in the air when he does so. But did you use your attack of opportunity? All right. I'm sorry. No reactions there Barlow. Or a bastion? Nope. I can. Probably use my reaction is that is that way the reaction action. That means you can only do it once. That. Because if you use your. Yes you can. You only get one reaction right? So you want to roll the damage for the other one. I'm going to go ahead and say the first one wasn't going to hit I don't think anyways. So we'll say that you use it on the one that was hit was a two. That's that's what I do. I think that was it was a 24 and a 25. And they both would have hit okay. Yeah. So one of them would still hit Oh. I'll let you think. Was it the first second or third attack? I'll let you do it. Was the second attack okay so that's gonna be the claw assault. And when you're done taking care of that little mess first. Oh yeah. Oh you're too high up. You're up in the air. Oh is he on the ground now? Yeah he was on the ground. Yeah. He you got slammed down with Calliope. His Litter. Yeah. Litter. You got glitter bombed. So you take another 14 points of slashing damage from the claws on that hit you? Not too bad. So the. And once again now that he's in the air he is definitely hurting really bad. At this point you can see the cuts now that are through this demon. He starts. I'm confused. Is he on the ground or in the air? He's now in the air. He was on the ground. And so now he's flown up into the air. You're you're still like a ten feet above him. So I think you're like 40ft in the air is where he was when he was over there. Now he's only 30ft in the air. Did it look like any of his cuts healed or changed when he changed form? No. The only thing I was going to have is that just that you would. Wouldn't? The reason why I had the perception checks is the fact that maybe just for a split second as he was taking the wounds that the wounds would have maybe kind of shown a little bit salve. So but that's that's all I was going to do with that. It seems that that thing that he threw off from his head is what made him look like a human. Exists. And so that also Oh yeah he's going to do the chanting. That's what it was. So you got the 15 points of damage from me? Oh wait you did 50 points of damage even when he. When he flew up. Okay I guess what he only had ten hit points. So as he does start flying up into the air. As laws come back and you start clawing into him as he starts flying up into the air just. All of a sudden only one of you guys know. Because on this one hand there's a lot of it. No that's the goal for you. And it has been set up. So as he slashes a little bit that last last as it slices into him and the abishai realizes that his time on the material plane is about to come to an end he uses his telekinesis power ability to go into each one of your heads and tell you I can't die in the material plane. I will be back for you. At that point you all kill you again. See him? Start forming into. Just smoke. Smoke. Little bits of fire. Flames kind of starts coming out of the area. There a rich mix terrible sulfur smell. Just like just envelops around this area as you know disappears. Various items kind of tumble to the ground from that he was wearing. You see the the cane dropped to the ground. The sword that was flying up in the air now hits down to the ground. Now that is not animated with the the person that it was attached to being around You see a little wand fall to the ground. Picking up the cane and just some cackling. Top of the flight. Just one second. Can pick up the wand. I will pick up the sword. So what you guys see here? Give me a second. Oh which reminds me real quick since you weren't here last session. Sam. Bastian I did have Bastian use identify on the two items that you guys they had gotten in the previous session and now I can't remember. You were but I. I did tell the party Jamie. Okay. What were they? The items that were from the previous games. I had an identify at the beginning of the last game. Oh. The ring of telekinesis and the obsidian horse statue that becomes a steed. Nightmares. Yeah. Nightmares. Nightmares. And what better for people with evil alignments. So there's a pan flute an amulet a wand. So we get a stomp. These are into. That's cool. I'm gonna go ahead and say that the potion is. It is not going to break. That would kind of suck. It just lands in his robes nice and soft. It's not going to be there. That would make sense to have that on him. A card. And so and then of course the an item for that. Okay. So those would be the items that you guys would be able to retrieve from here combat. Now the over with the creature now gone I realize I did not make a map for the interior and sort of see how that's going to play out. But what would you guys like to do? I would like to examine the sword. I'm going to poke around in the stuff out in the courtyard. So I'm still an eagle? Yep. You're still an eagle? Right. I'll open the door to the mansion so she can fly in if she wants. Are you using like identify or anything? No I'm just going to You go ahead and just give me a give incarnation okay? Yeah. That. Anybody want to give me a hand in looking at the sword? They your mic didn't pick up. Pick up your clothing. Nice try though. I'm not proficient in arcana. I don't think I would be of any help and a I I'd say that you especially being a wizard I'll kind of. You know you definitely see that this is magical. You saw how it worked. I will say that you're able to discern what this is being well read that this is a dancing sword. You would probably have to do identify to be able to use it since you would have to learn what the the infernal word was that he used to to as the command word. This. Yeah. I'll just do this. Oh. Did his circlet drop? Is that still around? Yeah that would have been there too. Yeah the circlet. Yeah. Oh yeah. And then yeah I would examine those also to see if they're magical. I will say just for the sake of argument with your arcana check going over these items you're pretty certain that all these items are magical. I'm just going to let you have the the sword with that score though. Probably got a 20. Maybe you'd be able to kind of have a better idea of the other stuff. So let's see. I'm not trying to do here. How long does it take to cast something as a ritual? Again plus whatever. And standard time is so like 11 minutes give or take because I think it's one minute for identify. So it comes out to. I don't know how long you guys want to take. I mean I mean we can sit down for 20 minutes. Yeah. At least get a couple of while we're kind of looking around in the courtyard. All right. So I sit down and start casting identify as ritual. I'll do the the the whatever. That's. That's unhelpful. What sort of a treat? Oh I will say with alcohol you notice that the cane however is not magical. The Barlow is just a modified Morningstar. So so it allows that to be hidden. So it's a standard Morningstar. It's not magical by it but it it's well crafted and it's and it's a but it's meant to be more bound like the hiding the Morningstar than it is magic. I mean that's pretty cool. Still. Yeah. Yeah. So what's the legal check for the first time? It's it's I'll talk. I'll check the circlet. All right. And then the pan flute. Then the amulet. Circlet because it's 10 minutes to 10 minutes to cast then one minute for each item. Right? Yeah. Or is it ten minutes then one minute then ten minutes. And what's 11 minutes? Then it's per item. Oh okay. Yeah. Then I'll just do two. I'll do the flute and the circular. That's a flute. I'm sorry. The amulet and the circlet. I'll take the pencil. Can I do that? Do you have identify? No but I'm a bard. I'll do the pamphlet just so just in case she can use it. So I'll do three then. Okay. We can show here for 33 minutes. That's fine. Is anybody gonna be doing any type of like what lookout card kind of thing? Yeah. Yep. I am going to the gate to the courtyard. Okay. And just keeping an eye out if I can lock it I like it. So me because I have to fight. So let's do this. I have advantage on perception. How about both of you guys give me. Oh nice. Barlow and sass as an eagle. Okay. How long are you? Is your form good for? I don't want to say it's like an hour but I don't remember for sure. For a number of hours. Equal to half to Druid level. Oh. So yeah you got like a long time. Yeah. Yeah. So. So what? Check am I doing? Sorry. Perception. Okay. And an advantage. Okay so we'll do the flute. The flute? Is an instrument of illusions. Oh. I'll even do this. Sounds cool. This This instrument. It's a pan flute that when you play it you can create harmless illusory visual effects that are within a five foot radius sphere centered on the instrument. If you are a part the radius now increases up to 15ft. Simple visual effects include luminous musical notes a spectral dancer butterflies gentle falling snow. The magical effects have neither substance nor sound and they are obviously illusory. The effect ends when you stop playing. If you have proficiency with a given musical instrument you can add your proficiency. What's weird is it's not like this is really a fool's. Anybody. So I'm even going to say that this one actually doesn't require attunement. Okay can I do the circulant in the amulet? Then the circlet. Is. Oh I didn't put that there though. The circlet is a circlet. It's called human. The curse faction. The circlet. Is what allowed him to look like a human. It transforms. It's tuned wear into an attractive human of average height and weight. The circlet chooses the physical characteristics of the form such as the age gender skin color hair color and voice. Except for the size the wearer statistics and racial traits don't change nor do the items worn or carried by the wearer. Removing the circlet in the effect. What's it called? The circlet of one. Human perfection. It's in the chat. Introspection And then the other one was the amulet. This is called a clockwork amulet. Oh. Ooh. Sounds interesting. What else brings? You know what it does? It's a constant amulet. It contains you see like tiny little interlocking gears. It's powered by magic from a mechanist plane of clockwork predictability. So a creature that puts us on that if you put an ear to the amulet you can hear a faint ticking and a worrying noise instead of coming from within. It. When you make an attack roll while you were wearing this amulet. And it does not require attunement you can forego rolling the d20 so you just get a ten on the dice. Once it is used the poverty cannot be used again until the next time. So? So in other words you know that you can hit with a ten. You have a guaranteed one time of day. Yeah. Non attunement. Right. And it's not that one doesn't you know. Well I think I think I'm gonna throw this to To shadow you and be like I think you're the only one that can make good use of this you know ten minutes every time. Yeah. With a with a 14 to hit. Yeah. What does it look like? As I said it is copper tiny interlocking gears. It power. Yeah it's just kind of it's like. It's like it looks clockwork but it's got little like a little steampunk amulet. And you can hear like when you put your ear against it you can hear the faint ticking and whirring noises that are coming from within. What? What is that mystery? You know? Yeah. It's powered from the magic of another plane. It's. This is why we're sisters. Well not just because you guys have the same parents. Over the course of the half hour though you guys do not get interrupted and it seems nobody may investigate though where those circles were popping up and seeing if there's any indication that it would be there after he's chanting go ahead give me a investigation check. I will help you with this after I'm done. Yeah. Look to see if there's any like pre carved ruins or lines. Well I'm doing this. Yeah I'm doing this while you're doing. Oh yeah. I mean yeah. Sweet 21. Yeah. As you start like investigating the spots where the the circles were forming. What you do notice is that The circles that were forming were definitely magic and temporary but you can see that there's char marks. Definitely that whatever the ritual was that he was using to kind of create those flames. And whatever was going to do has been used before. So you can see deep scar marks of like carbon and definitely a rich sulfur smell coming from those areas. Is it like a teleportation circle where you if you mess it up it can't be used again? Or is this like no matter what he can just cast to wherever. You're not certain but at least it looks like whatever it was has been used many times there from those circles. Okay I'm going to try to find either like a rock or use one of my arrows and try to scratch out these symbols. Well the symbols themselves. What was formed by the magic what you're seeing whatever's there just like wherever there's cracks and stuff like that. There's definitely like scorch marks and stuff like that. And. Yeah you you can even like as you start kind of digging into it you're able to kind of disrupt all that stuff. So whether or not that does anything you don't know but you can do suitcase vandalism. Pretty cool. Cool. Yeah. I answer the crowbar to help out. Yeah yeah if you want. Yeah. You can use the crowbar and just start going hog wild. Get it? Malo you. Cool cool cool. That's the the feeling professional. That's really cute to me. I think like I says the circle is circle. It chooses the characteristics of your form age gender color hair the circle. It's. You get to pick what you want. It looks like. Do you have to have a certain intelligence? Like if we popped it on Artie would he all of a sudden become something else? You know what? I did not even think about that. Just for shits and giggles. What do you like? Requires a two minute pilot humanoid. Two legs two arms. Take away my dreams. I know that's probably why you guys are probably the first person that I like. Yeah. So I'm just going to use it for that. Do we want to allow that? Can I use my light and turning into. Yeah. Tooling by now. Theoretically I can do that with my familiar. Or does it. Oh no. It has to be humanoid. Yeah because it can attune to be the same problem that you and I. Yeah yeah. It's not humanoid because I mean I think we've even said like Artie might be allowed to attune as well if it was a tunable as long as it's not. Yeah. She didn't want to give Artie his own brain. Oh no. I was actually just thinking about that. If we still had that I think we sold it. The crown. The crown? Yeah. What would happen if we put it on a circle with women? And I still have it? The one that the like bugbears is wearing? Yeah. Oh that one troll. Troll. Yeah yeah. I got it. I'll see what I'm making my intelligence on it for a while. Then I realize now I don't mind being not that smart. I'm fine. I'm not that smart. Oh. I'm not sure I would just. Fine tuned in that circlet just to see what we all turn into her. You try it you tuned for an hour see what you saw and you. Might try that next time we camp on that. Yeah. Next time we go on the ship or something we can pass it around and see what we turn into. I hope you get a large randomized list of humanoid characters on whom do you think I was just trying to play a part of the game one night but yeah pass the circle. It. And try to guess what you'll be trying to guess what's what. Yeah. Just looking something up while you guys are on this. Go on. This fucker's house getting low on arrows. Oh arrows. Yeah. They can also keep things just hanging up the second. I mean I'm fine. Oh yeah. I'm fine until we at least get back to. The city. Okay. I've got 15 arrows. Just plain old regular arrows if you know. Okay. If I get super low I'll let you know. Okay. Crossbow. So it's fun and everything just to have backgrounds. So what do you guys like to do? I think we need to go to I can as well. Okay. I guess I. Oh yeah. Oh wasn't he supposed to have it on him? There's no. You had no reason to believe that it would be actually on his person. He was not. He was in possession. I just don't know what he was doing with the the words that got you. Should we check and see if the front door is trapped? Bajo. No I didn't think he had. I don't think he had time to close the front doors. I'm still open. Is it it will say it's closed right now. I'm just going to open him because I don't know. I assume that it was trapped in the time of trap. It. Open it open the door. So as you open the door you set off a fireball? There's no traps. You just see a grand entrance hall a soaring ceiling adorned with like old frescoes depicting scenes of these ones seem to be depicting like hunting and revelry. You see a grand staircase with banisters intricately carved with various gargoyles on it that it goes up to in a sense to the upper floors. The door that you opened is that like a heavy oak style door with ornate ironwork? Does it look just as a cursory glance as we're going in? Does it look lived in or does it look like Dusty and Cobweb? Definitely looks like it's lived in go ahead and give me a perception. Check me on. Don't you know what is my modifier? 18. 18. See as you're looking around definitely. This seems to be where this guy lives. It's definitely meant to look it's definitely decorated in a aristocratic kind of style including like a marble bust with a stern faced nobleman. It doesn't look like the guy that you. When he was in his human form. He there is like a little bit of like unsettling under like a mixture of like damp earth a bit of metallic and definitely a a bit of that sulfur. That you kind of smelled when he disappeared here. But you see like like I said there's a stairwell that goes up you see a there's also another heavy oak door on the other like at the end of a hallway. Is it possible to do locate creature on an egg? I unfortunately I think at this time it's still an item as opposed to a creature. Like just like how a corpse is no longer a creature. I feel like they have the same kind of control when it comes to such spells. Okay okay. But it's not a bad idea. What do you think guys? Do we just pick a room? Yeah we might as well know. To the right to the left up or down? There's a hallway and there's a hallway that goes down to a let's go door. There's the upstairs. There probably be also like another hallway off to the other side. So yeah there would be a left or right and the upstairs. All right let's go check upstairs. Yeah I feel like it would. If he's hiding an egg it would probably be either like. I don't know maybe in a basement or up there I don't think would be on a first floor. Right. I don't know I logic is not open. Split up everywhere. Just go look like a room. Go look. Split the party. So two guys in a devil's house. The devil's hand. Actually. All right. Well going to walk in upstairs. We'll see if anybody follows. I'll go with you. Yeah. We'll go check upstairs. Actually he's a devil not a demon. Maybe I shouldn't stay an eagle. Six hours early before. Yeah but what good they're going to do us a good. I'm sorry. I'll let you guys open the first room and then I'll decide if I'm going to. On wild shape. See what's going on. See as you guys go upstairs. You see kind of like it goes off into another hallway here. You're able to kind of get a overhead view of what's just climbed up. Is there a map for this? No. There's not. Unfortunately I reload. Okay. Today that I should have been figuring out what's going to be actually inside of there and and kind of doing that. And I did not. So we're going to do a little bit of the mind. Good old fashioned two busy building Minecraft farms. I was doing a little bit of that. Yeah. And then oh we also. Oh I I I throw the potion to sass and say hey do you know what this is? Fast as an eagle right? Okay. Before it hits the ground Can you do it? Taste test. You can always do a taste test with no effect. Right? Generally it's possible if it's a very strong poison it can probably affect you but. Let's stick my pinky. Promise. You do say that your love. I've got a good concentration on the potion. Taste it. Yeah I'll give it a shot. I got pretty hard to Constitution. I will take a little tiny sip. With a smell like. You'll see. Smells like mint I should say. Oh. Say that. Well what I will say is that as you look at it you see it? There's a amber liquid. You see inside of those there's a little floating inside of there is a scorpion's tail an adder's fang a dead spider tequila and a tiny heart that it seems to be beating. Oh. They're beating. Oh small tiny little heart. Oh interesting. As you. There's a lot of stuff in there that seems pretty nasty as you do. Take a little taste of it. It's very bitter. But this is a potion of longevity. Oh. Okay. This this thing and you are aware that if you were to drink this thing that your physical age would be reduced by 7 to 12 years to a minimum of 30 to a minimum of 13 years. That's reduced by. Yeah. You can't go younger than 13. That should be maximum. No no it's younger than. Yeah yeah. Oh. I said doing can be less than 13 years old. Gotcha. Yeah. So every time that you subsequently drink a potion of longevity there is a 10% cumulative chance that you instead age by 7 to 12 years. Yeah. Suspended in it is what I said. But yeah. So this is a to you Just drink all that stuff that's in it. Contents and everything she says that. Oh. Oh I'm sorry. Right. Actually when you opened it those ingredients would missed. It says these ingredients vanish when the potion is opened. So you would have seen them. And then when you opened it up those things disappeared. As far as I know as far as the rules are concerned tasting it is a is a common practice to figure out of course if it's deadly poisonous that would have killed you. But I'll say that it still retains its magic so it still will be a positive activity. What's it worth to be young again? Last time I drank something like this like aged for you. And I will say you're not sure how this works but you know that this is considered a very rare potion that helps. To get younger. Yeah. When I drink the trend it's rough that we got at age four years. Oh no I'm mad about that. I would say that because I was already an old man already. You know it could be worth anything from 2500 to 25 000 gold pieces but more than likely more than likely its street value is probably closer than 9000 give or take 9000 gold pieces. People like to stay young. I know I know. But you see this guy doing the others the other way you know is you can. There is a small chance that like the more you drink it the more you risk aging the more more potions you drink. You drink. First time is no problem if you try to get another one and try and drink against the younger it's just it's more and more dangerous. And subsequently. So every time that after the first one a cumulative 10% chance that you will instead age that by that many years. So then I guess how old are you? You can only drink up to like like ten of these I guess. I guess at that point. That's why I'm 44 now. I started off 40 and age for years and 44 bottles for all types of aging situations right? Oh yeah. The the drought. Then you should take it. Get those four years back then you guys all last three years. Yeah. That's right. Oh man I'm 47. Shit. Take the ocean people. Worse. How much longer? 9000. And how many years to get back? Between 7 and 12. That's a one day. Six plus six. Oh. Oh you should do it. I mean the youngest you would be is what 35? It's not like you would be a 13 year old. Or would he? Real quick. It's kind of funny when today when we took the kids to to the spectrum and I don't know if you guys have ever been to the game chest. It's like little game store over there and in the back. I have like I know what 6 or 8 tables for people to play like Magic The Gathering or D&D. Both this time and last time there's been somebody playing daddy. So this time I was just like sitting there reading while Atticus is like picking out his Pokemon cards and just listening to there's conversation. I'm just like wow what were they doing? They were just talking about the nerds. Yeah. Just being told that it's so hard to exactly replicate. Just like like replicating what we were talking about for the last half hour. I just meant like were they in a dungeon? Were they fighting? And like just trying to figure out where they were? Actually they were talking about because I guess it sounds like it's like a kind of a big group of people that you come and go if you can make it make it. So some people like yeah the guy was casting. The guy was casting Magic missile on the darkness. Are there any girls there? Oh it's it was March kind of thing up. And. Yeah I suppose we have a lot of players. No no I'm with you now. We'll say that. But it would be nice. Maybe to. I say you drink the potion and then put the circlet on it and see what happens. What kind of to do that and think about that. I would put it on I would put the circlet on first and then drink the potion. I just realize you guys are the group that needs these circlet. Because we're all everybody. It's odd looking. But your first character of the group. That's why I called you guys the menagerie. The thing. All right all right upstairs. We're going. All right as you guys are going to go upstairs you see like. Yeah. So you're able to look down there's another hallway here long dimly lit. There's a bit colder up here. The floorboards you notice you noticed kind of creak a bit underfoot. But but it's still relatively clean. No cobwebs. Dust. I mean nothing too outrageous. It's not like abandoned. I mean there's obviously dust. Like there would be even like an hour house kind of thing. But nothing. Nothing. Yeah. It doesn't look like abandoned or haunted like that kind of thing. Now. Okay general is there anything on the walls? Pictures various tags on the grass? You noticed like anything that would show indication of who lives here. Like is it people humans or was it all pictures of that besides false image? Like how long have you been here? So definitely you get the idea that he probably did use this area that he did probably bring other people here entertain them. And probably did try to convince them of him being like an aristocratic human. But I what I would say is that especially on the bottom floor there was more of like like I said there was a bust. There was painting tapestries of like hunting and stuff like this. As you get up here though you notice like there's a lot less there's it's a little more Spartan up here. There's not no real decorations. At least in this hallway that goes down towards like the the rooms. Are we supposed to see this map by the way? Because. Yeah. No no. Yeah that's what I said. That's just. Okay just making sure that I didn't make a map for it. So. Yeah. There's a giant eagle fit where we are. I would say that it's a pretty big door. So you'll be able to get in. Definitely. The hallway area where it goes up to this like the grand staircase. But as you get towards the hallways it might be a little bit difficult. Not impossible. I'm going to come out a while. I don't see a reason. You just do the unusual little bird walk. You just walk on the ground. It would have to be you know rather wings out. You just walk in. Wait wait wait. Which one? The pigeon walk where? They're like not in their head forward or like the. Or like the big vulture walk? No. Yeah sure. They would be like stepping their legs and claws up and around kind of walking. You know they have to put their legs up high stepping forward. They look really funny when they walk. Yeah. So it's time to lift a cloth. It looks like they're trying to reach up to grab something but then they put it on the ground. Yeah and it's real awkward because my walking speed is ten feet. Okay. My flight speed is 80 but my walking is ten. This is not fun for me. Yeah. So eagle's gone fast. Is back. Oh. What two like. So. Yeah. I mean like I said there's hallways. There's pretty much just hallways. There's like two major hallways when you're up on stairs. One to the left one to the right right. Check and everything. I'm not sure where you would hide in there. Or you can exude me whether it's you trying to hatch the egg or just maintaining. I don't I don't think. Why would you keep a dragon in Vegas? So yeah. Yes. Just think I always. Okay I just look for large pillows or something. I don't know what you said. Just pick. Yeah I guess we just pick a hallway is what she said. Well is this big rooms just randomly go in each one. Whatever the first room is going to check it. All right. So as you go to the first room the it would be a a study office you see it's filled with papers maps very strange devices a large desk sitting in the center a chaotic like array of documents. There is even though there's like that sulfur smell that seems to be a little bit all throughout the house. Which definitely seems probably it's gotten worse once you guys destroy them. But there's also adhere. You can smell like that scent of like ink and parchment in here. You see a on the wall there's a detailed map with the surrounding area. There's like strange markings. Annotations. Announcer. That's on the desk. Yeah I definitely want to investigate that desk. All right go ahead. Papers. I do speak draconic. Do I see The papers. Are they in that or like the scribbles? No unfortunately I would say that at least you'd know like you know you know Russian not knowing what it is. It definitely looks like it's written in infernal. Okay that's a 14. And you're just looking at the desk. Anything specific? They Yeah I'm looking at the desk. I'm looking at if I can recognize like. Is this like a tax document? Is this a shopping list? Like if I can sort of get an idea of what these papers might be and like what the map is of well the map is like the the general area around here. It looks like Yeah. Yeah. So just like are these like papers talking like war papers or are they just normal papers? What I want to play with you said 14. It's kind of hard. Like I said the some I mean there are some parts that will say that are in common which it looks like our stuff about general supplies that purchases some of the that kind of nonsense. But the as you get like to the bottom of the pile seems to be where things are really a little bit more infernal. And it seems like There's there's it's hard to say. Maybe plans of some kind. Definitely. Since you can see there are some drawings on there showing like I guess it looks like an egg. You can see like Dragon head. It's weird. Just my browser just started. But yeah it's hard to make out since you don't retail for fertile. The map on the wall. You said that there was that. Sorry I saw that at first but I realize it's supposed be on a desk. Okay but you said there was something on the wall that had draconic on it. No no no no it was the map. And that has a it's it's an infernal. You were asking if I had the if it was Dragon. Got it. I'll pick up all the papers and then see if there's any What? It's in the drawers or if there's any hidden drawers or. Yeah. Give me investigation there. Yeah yeah. Are you looking to Barlow? Yeah. Help me out. Look the desk over. Is something needs to be picked open. Not much better but better. 14 pillows. Idea of helping is flipping the desk over taking the crowbar to it. You do find a little hidden compartment in one of the desk. Like it looks like a false bottom. And in here it looks like you find a A book. It looks like a journal of some sort with red leather kind of covering on it. Also an infernal. But this is definitely all in infernal. Very tightly written though. In there. But this seems to be written more like as a journal in the sense that. But but you can't read it. Okay I'll take every all the papers stack them all up taken. Okay. That's. You could read like all languages or something. Yeah yeah. Do you have tongues or comprehend language? I do not I need to get that. I was just thinking that. Yeah well I have a comprehensive. Oh perfect. Can be can read it. I can read it. Do you want to read? We'll take it. We will. You can take him back to the ship or. Oh. I mean it's up to you if you all hand Calliope the papers and then you can decide if you want to look at him now or later. Yeah. This list now tells us like where the edges are. Yeah. Calliope this one has drawings of what looks like an egg. What does it. What does it say? Yeah. It's my comprehend language. As you said. So as you kind of start skimming give me actually let's do an intelligence check to see kind of see what you're able to to pick up as you're kind of reviewing this. Is she talking out loud? But not at the moment. I'm saying if you like read things every now and then out loud maybe I can put things together. Ouch. Okay so that's the reason why I was trying to help. And are you going through the notes over on the desk or you're looking at the journal? You said that there is papers on the desk that. Yeah I had some pictures with the egg and stuff. So as you're kind of going through it it's hard for you to really make out but what I will say is just being able to read it. You get the gist of that. This seems to be some type of I guess. Yes. Plot and mechanism of how he had hoped to use his ability to charm and kind of help control dragons a bit and how to use that in a way to bring about the Time Dragon and then be able to control it. Seems that you can you're seeing references to the HTML. So it seems that that this this devil works for Tiamat as most abishai seemed to work for. And that maybe it was some plan to help her. But the only other thing that because it is a low intelligence score. But you definitely see the name Jacoby. Oh. As you're kind of looking at that part the. It's hard for you to really make that out. To really understand what he's talking about because the role. But you do make out it seems like Jacoby has some interaction with this devil in the sense as he was studying how to use some type of blue gemstones to control different types of creatures and beast which you guys have already come up a few times and contact with that. That's that's that circlet right there. You're just talking about with the blue gem that the troll had. No that was the that had that was unrelated to really anything so far it seems that you guys just went on a troll hunt. And you guys had found a troll. Something was a Vader tooth or whatever where he had come across that it seemed. And it made his intelligence so high enough that he was able to start manipulating magic. But we found a stone in Jacoby's house right? I found there was there was a creature that they were dissecting or messing with on a table and they were trying to put that blue stone into its forehead. That's it. That's the the wanted temple. You guys were in the the the anathema. They had those blue stones in out. So there's been a I think you took one out of one of their heads right? Yeah yeah. So it seems like Jacoby might be responsible for making those gemstones those stones and looks like he's been making deals with people so they can use these for various creatures. And then here was a devil that was planning on using one for his And in some effort to control the time Dragon. But you have to really look into these nodes more to have a better understanding. Or look at the journal maybe but with that intelligence score that's about all he'd be able to pick up right now. Yeah. Calliope point out on that document she's reading where she sees where it says Jacoby is she point out what the infernal symbols and word is for Jacoby. I want to try and help commit those to my memory. Yeah sure. I ever see that name again? Written anywhere? I know what up to look for you. Yeah. I mean it's it's obviously it's kind of. It's kind of like I guess. Yes. When you sound out like an Asian name with Roman Roman letters about. So it's not like an actual word but it's it's it seems to refer to Jacoby in that sense of like it makes that sound in that there's enough little detail to express with the blue stones. But yeah you can have. I that was understanding. Right? Okay okay. I know what the infernal word is as. But yeah the unfortunate. It also doesn't tell you where the egg is. Okay. Keep looking. Yep. Keep looking. You can look in here go somewhere else fill. Back detail. Search the room. Do a thorough search. Yeah we're searching the next. We've been searching the walls. To the windows. To the walls. You know if somebody else wants board I can go ahead take another investigations roll. Bastion you want to have your use your big brain. That big brain. Go ahead give me everything. By the way. She looks like bastion found the egg. It's bad. No it's not bad. I think it just doesn't give you anything. Oh you get a 1006 on next d20 roll or it's that you can give that to somebody else if they have a d20 roll before you. Yeah. Save the next move. But with that roll I will say that you notice that there is a kind of a bookshelf shelf. As you kind of start looking through the bookshelf you do find a little hidden latch. With that latch you do actually find a box looks made of pure platinum. Actually. But it's lined it's got like a I'm not even lying. It would just be like a kind of like we'll say like a blanket kind of fur that's inside of there. And you do see a silver like scaly looking egg. We found it. That was easy to find. The egg with a d20. Yeah I was just kidding. 3030. This is a. I find all the stuff in the room. What else is in here? Pretty much mostly it was pretty well dissected. That's what was in here. What I will say though is you know what with let's go ahead. Well now you have the the platinum box. I mean that box is pure platinum. It's probably worth some money. Like I said how big is it? How big is this dragon? Let me see if they have and say what it's supposed to be. You Mr. Tiny Dragon like the size of the chicken. All. Or it might be the size of a size of our head. That's what I was thinking of. Looking for a dragon thing. I'm looking for something like. No two feet tall for around. That's what I was picturing. Like. Like a small keg. We gotta roll it out. That's certainly a very large platinum box. I mean I mean I suppose the Game of Thrones dragon eggs aren't very big lots. And they're about as big as a head. Smaller I guess dragons don't have to be big. I mean this is like a magical creature. A meter is like three feet and two meters huge. Three feet. So if it was a platinum box with a meter egg it's a it's a lot of platinum. Yeah. We're going to rewind that back here in a second. Yeah. I meant Tin Tin Box. It's not thick. Oh very very thin layer. Let's say that the egg we'll say the box is one meter tall. Okay. That'd be but probably less than that. Why did and the egg is going to weigh about one. Why don't you give me two kilograms? Partlow. We're going to have to strap this thing to your back. No problem. Yeah we'll put it in the bag. With weight it looks like the egg is supposed to weigh like 150 pounds. Can you handle that Barlow? Absolutely. I can do what now? 150 pound egg and 100 pounds. The platinum would actually be. Goodness. If I weigh about two more. Where's it already? Yeah we'll say it's like about 200 pounds total with both of the two pieces together. 50 pounds of platinum. It's a big box. We put 202 of up to 100. See if I can lift it up. Then. Yeah we'll do my capacity up. I wonder if we could find like a little cart or something here somewhere. Put it in a cart. I mean okay but we have all sorts of portable devices that hold stuff so I can put it in the. Oh if you'd like. Yeah. Can I go in the whole. Yeah yeah. Listen the whole without without being destroyed. What does the hole say as far as the weight this is no a stone. This egg is pretty much immune to all damage. Yeah. So it's well. Oh what were beforehand? I just know all this was written down. So somewhere. Well it's six foot diameter ten feet. So actually that wouldn't be that much. I don't think after I think the box would all based on its weight would probably be worth about 250 gold. What? Well 50 platinum pieces weighs 1 pound. So be 50 times 50. That'll be 250. No two. No 2500. I'm sorry. There's a extra zero in there. So. Yeah 25 pounds. Yeah I can put it. I can put it in the portable. I don't lay it out. I want me to go back in here and decorate this thing. Organizing at some point anyway. So next time we get back to the ship. I've spent so much time doing that. I'm not going to mess with my whole system. All right so platinum Dragon or platinum something? Something platinum box time. Dragon egg time Dragon 50 pound platinum box worth 2500 gold weighs 50 pounds. Yeah. Some type of fur lining or not even length. It's not like stuck to it like a fur or blanket of sorts. Used to line it line it and then got the egg. It's not. The egg weighs 83 pounds itself. It's not warm or anything like it doesn't have to be not just seems to be something that's just kind of but just kind of insulating it. I guess not but it's nothing like that now. Okay. 0800 wow. The question is do we want to keep investigating this house for more treasures or do we want to just bounce with the egg? I'm up for whatever. I don't mind staying. Yeah we can see what else is here. Okay well it's already getting almost midnight so we can explore the house next time. And that gives me a little time to flesh it out a little bit more to. Okay. Sounds good. Good with time. Dragon. Okay. Platinum Box (worth 2500 gp, weighs 25 lbs.) has fur blanket in it. Egg weighs 150 lbs, about a meter high
