The Devil in the Details

0:01 This episode of Crit Happens is sponsored by Ever Con 2026. Ever Con is Wisconsin's premier tabletop gaming convention, bringing together role-playing games, board games, creators, and community under one roof. Grab your badges now at Crit Happens dot show slash Ever Con and get ready to set sail for adventure. Last session, the agents of the Syndicate faced the cost of Nyrus's bargain and the Syndicate's judgement at the whisper. Fane Glaive's body lay heavy on the table and heavier on their minds. Osisa urged rest for the dead.

0:44 Zebulon and Savara argued for one more try. Harkin offered quiet honesty about what Glaive would have wanted, and Mimi's anger simmered into something colder. Then the door opened. Slip Seam Walker Riftkin, A monk whose muscles looked impossible for her frame, asked the only question that mattered. Who decided to stop liking the Syndicate? She offered alignment without comfort and one rule. If you reach for her hand, don't expect it to be there. The group chose a path. Zebulon drew the circle to the silent veil.

1:27 In that monastery where sound goes to die, Aethis Vero waited. He examined Glaive and named the truth. Not dead, but an echo nailed to iron, a state forbidden in that place. He would not light a flame to resurrect. Instead, he asked Mimi for her hands. Together they spoke, a ritual that rose up from somewhere beneath language. White essence lifted from metal and flesh. And in that bright hush, Glaze's voice brushed Mimi alone. Thank you, Mimi, I can be free. The quiet did not flare.

2:08 It ended cleanly. Aelfis returned her Ledger without the black page the Syndicate had branded upon it, warned that Nero's consumes memory and more, named them the last hope of Aurelius, and sent them to find Johanna between the still cold and the ashen belt. He blessed them in the only way the veil approves a steadying of the soul, and they travelled S where frost surrenders to heat. Johanna waited at the border, eyes like watch fires, counting who came and who did not. A black Obsidian obelisk tested the road, measuring certainty rather than stealth. The Agents crossed its notice by never offering what it sought. Ashe gave way to Stone and the Dominion High Administration complex rose ahead.

3:00 The Agents fought their next battle in silence. Zebulon vanished and drew the map of movement. Savaro watched for patterns and choke points built to contain. Osisa felt the net wards that record every spell and sigils that slow escapes. Mimi haunted exits and pressure points weighing speed against safety. Castella slipped among faces and found authority without Insignia. Joanna found the old scenes used only at shift change. Harkham put his hands to the stone and heard a hollow West Wing where nothing living moved. When they regrouped, they held a working blueprint. Entries, exits, blind spots, ward lattice, patrol rhythms, and hidden sub levels. The Dominion does not walk.

3:48 They stood on the edge of action and looked inward at the same time. Inside waits Magistrate Elvis Corin, and the confession that must break the Dominions veneer or Nyrus's favor will come due on darker terms. Stop. Let's write this story. I don't need the allegory. Please just tell me what's real. But nothing ever seemed to be real. But she's in colors that don't exist. Painting my painting counterfeit this every truth I knew just starts to twist can from a calm in a world like this.

4:35 I've been my tongue till the words run dry. We're my old like a sheep disguise. I see the truth when I close my eyes. The hardest part was a great goodbye. I'm safety can master pain. I've been lost inside my name. All the mirrors look the same, but I don't.

5:18 Welcome back to another episode of Crit Happens here on Spotify, iTunes, player.fmpoddirectory.com, sticker.com and online at Crit Happens dot Show. We are back to continue on with our mini arc of the unwritten favor. We will go ahead and say hello to our players. Say hello, players. Hello players. Hello. Players. We welcome back I, Joanna, Kasdea, Osisa, Slip, Savara and Zebulon as we continue on with this story arc. So before we go any further, I have to ask agents what is the plan?

6:07 Slip you want to handle this one. Yeah. They're going to swing. I literally asked in in their chat about an hour ago. All right, what's the plan? And I only got 2 words back. Wing it. Wing it. I am super. Through ideas of a plan, but. You have a loose plan, you. Have a long. Idea of a plan. There was much. Plan Concepts of a plan. I think we talked about enough things that will allow us to make game decisions in real time fair. I will give you that. I was so excited when I saw the word wing it. I was like yay chaos, all right, it is my.

6:50 Specialty. Honestly, if you kept being sassy today I might have been like, you know your players, they can just smash. I like smash range. All right. I did talk about using divination magic, which we would probably have to do before the stealth portion of this mission. Did we want to ask any questions before we jump into the fray? Well. I mean otherwise if slip. Knows where to find the information. Maybe we don't need it. I have. Go ahead, Sorry.

7:30 No, go ahead, Go ahead, please. So oh, I got to go. The discord is not updating its messages. Give me just a second. OK, here we go.

8:11 So I have a friend that had a family member go through a similar intake process through Corn's office. I know that there's certain records that exist for everyone that goes through and gets processed, and I expect that we might be able to find some of the names of our victims or the victims if we get to that records office. It's at the DHAC and if my contact is correct, it would be located on the second floor. That is pretty good information.

9:06 All right, so I guess we'll start off with the basics. How will you be entering the complex? I mean, you can go through through the straight through the front door almost as if you're just visiting the complex or can. I can we get a roll on that like whether or not that's something that actually takes place, right, because they don't know who we are and if if they allow guest entry or visitor entry, maybe that is a good option. But so I'll tell you what, I I won't make you roll because you ended last session with just phenomenal roles on the Recon.

9:48 Yeah. So the the Dominion High Administration complex is not only the base for a lot of higher ups within the Dominion of Fall Ridge, it it is a almost a visitor Center for Dominion faction members, if you will. So maybe not necessarily a visiting complex, but you know, if you put your cards right, you know, you have seen people that don't necessarily fit the description of like a guard or some form of paramilitary member of the Dominion, just kind of almost standard people, you know, standard people that just come in to the complex as well. OK.

10:43 So there's that route. Otherwise, I I agree that the the passage that you talked about Zebulon makes a lot of sense. The sub level hollow access has nobody there and if you can get us through a wall I think that would be the quietest way in. How tall are the walls? You mean the outside walls? Yeah. So it's, it's, it's what appears to be A3 level or a three story complex. So it's, it's pretty high you would say probably I'll say 75100 feet.

11:27 Perfect. Yeah, I can get it over the wall. Basement level. I think this entry is underground. Is that correct? Yeah, yeah. The the entrance itself would be located that that's that secret access if you effectively is located underground if memory serves me correct. Let me pull up that it. Says sealed passages beneath the western wing, but. We don't know where it comes out inside. I mean it could show up in the middle of like Commander Chambers or something. Yeah, correct.

12:10 You only know the entrance way. You you would not necessarily know the the exit point of where it is located. If we'd rather just go in the front door, I'm on board for that. Do we have a ruse for why we're there? How's everybody at convincing and deceiving? Pretty solid at it usually.

12:51 Plus zero. I'm I'm straightforward, better with persuasion than. Deception 0 on deception. I'm OK, I got a + 3 to Deception. I got a + 8 to perception, SO and intimidation I got a + 3. And advantage. Yeah. Almost. Yeah, I've. Got plus 9 plus advantage and I can also shape shift so like if we get a good look at somebody before going in I can pretend to look like them. Wouldn't that trigger though the the magic detection? No, changeling shape shifting is not magic. It's like a biological feature of that. And is I think, as long as we cast the spell before going in, cause 'cause that magic thing is inside the the headquarters, right?

13:58 Correct. Yeah, Yeah, you're talking like the the arcane wards and security, correct? Yeah. So if I cast something, if somebody cast something, it's got like an in our duration while we're still outside, we're good. Give me an insight check for that one. 16 as. Far as you can tell. As far as I can tell, Yep, we're good to cast spells out here. All right, that sounds good. I'm also not a spellcaster. I can sneak us anywhere, All of us. How?

14:52 You have to trust me. This feels awfully. Familiar. And and you have to trust me and get into this hole. What hole? Take out a hanger, she'll take out a handkerchief and unfold it, and a six by 6 hole appears. Oh. Can I tell anything about what that is? Give me give me an insight check. Arcana check. Is it magic?

15:33 Yeah, I suppose. Yeah, it's. A magic item. Yeah, Arcana, check. 14. To you, this would appear to be a bag of holding. A big bag of holding. Well, I mean, that looks awfully like a bag of holding. And if I remember right, there's a limited amount of time that we can be in there. Also. We just have to get you in. Are you gonna let me out? Like can I get back out without an issue? Well, for sure for.

16:19 Sure. Is he being honest? Can I like roll inside? Yeah, give me an insight. Sure. I'll roll my deception. Well, I got an 8. I'm telling the truth. You're telling the truth well. That seems not make an insane idea, sure. 16 Still telling the truth, yeah. She's still telling the truth. All right. I for one think this is a good plan, but have a complication.

17:03 Yeah, I'm going to have to hold your bag. I also have an item that can make me invisible and shoes that make my footsteps silent so maybe I can just follow. Oh, that'll work. Oh, we could put half the half of the group in each of our in our holes just in case one of us gets caught. I think I've only. Got enough space for one in mine, my bag of holdings already very full. So the plan is the front. Door. We can go over the wall. I think the door is a better option.

17:44 I don't know why, but also doors of course. Look, they may be problematic but at some point they work. You just got to give them a little oomph. At this point, Kazdan's going to walk up and look at Slip and say, I swear to God, if you do not let me out of this bag I will haunt you until the day you fucking die. And then she'll step into the bag. Before you do that, give me an intimidation check please. Oh fun. That's a net thorny plus. You knew it. Yeah, I mean slipped.

18:26 You are a bit scared of Kazdea. No, I'm not, because I'm not lying. Well, I know, but still she's being intimidating being. Intimidating. For a four foot 5 firecracker, I am very intimidating. Thank you. And now I'm in the bag of holding. I'm in your hole. Congratulations. It's a portable hole. Damn, I watch out for that little girl. It's kind. Of scary. I guess I'll get in and I just like, I'm not small, so it takes me a little while, you know, like hop one leg in whoop.

19:11 Whoop and somebody want to go with Nebulon? I'll go with Nebulon, I trust him all. Right. See here. I mean. Before. I before I get in the bag, I'm going to cast disguised self on myself. OK, what are you disguising yourself as? I'm just I'm keeping my overall general appearance. But I am changing my hair color, eye color and skin tone so I don't look the same any longer.

20:07 OK, all right. And then I, I, I unders I I thought that you had said that you were going with Sabulon. Yes. OK. Because you just said before you get in the bag. Yeah. The bag holding that I'm carrying. Oh, gotcha. I understand. OK. I can't get in the hole. Gotcha. OK, I I thought you were walking. I missed. Unless you guys want to go to a different plane, no. Cool. I've had enough there's. Nothing else in my hole. Kez Day is currently rifling through the hole.

20:49 There's nothing else. All right, so. Where are you going? Oh wait, you have to go in the hole too. Yep. I have to go in the hole. Well, you don't have to, but there's no room in Zebulon's bag. What if I just walk with you guys? You can't. Well, I'm going to be invisible. Oh. I mean, technically we all can be invisible. Yeah, with the ledgers. We have the ledgers that. Might get some syndicate attention for hey, why are you in the middle of Dominion territory? Yeah, yeah, that's, that's a good point. Remember that this is Syndicate has no idea that you're doing this currently.

21:44 That's true. So. We're going in the front. What's, what's the what are we planning to tell them? I think nothing. We're planning to not be seen. I'm hoping to just get through without being noticed. If I if I have to come up with a story I can, I'll tell them that I'm an interested recruit looking to join. You are an odd bunch. I'll get in the hole. All right. I'm kind of like looking in the hole now. If it goes longer than 10 minutes and you start having a difficult time breathing, just push really hard and you should be able to get out. I'll.

22:35 Be counting. 10 minutes divided by is it 3I? Think it's Yeah. So 3 1/2 minutes. Yeah, right. Spencer there. Yo, I'm I'm fully aware yeah, if you want, if you want to declare it sure. And on that note, hi everybody Spencer heart here in the crit happens studio quick interruption before we go any further, we had a plan. We had a solid plan of what we were going to do today. We were going to continue with the unwritten favor mini story arc right where we left off. And then Chaos, ADHD and Savara showed up and Savara made a choice.

23:26 A very Savara choice. So instead of a clean continuation, the universe said Nope, this is happening right now. So thanks for listening. We love you. We promise we haven't abandoned the unwritten favor story arc. Let's get back to my never ending nightmare of Savara's Deck of Many Things. Can I talk from inside the bag? Yeah, that's all the hole. Still open. Yeah. Yay, how many should I do? I'm I want to do it. I just I'm in a mood. If you're going to do that, I want out of the bag. If something goes wrong, please throw your bag up holding in there.

24:14 You want me to throw it in there? If if something bad happens, yes, the disaster away. No, I'm. In the hole, No, don't throw. Me in the other in the hole in the other hole. This got really complicated all of a sudden. You don't know anything about what's going on in there. Sure, I'm just piercing out. Yeah, you're just showing in the void when we're. Getting inside. All right. OK, Savara, if you will. Yeah, can I? I want to draw one card from the Deck of Many Things. All right, I have pulled up our Deck of Many Things selector and you have chosen Oh Flames.

25:09 Oh no. What did you do? I think I wanted to get out of the bag before card. Yeah, that's fine. Fold it up. Fold it up really fast. All right, it is flames. Queen of clubs. OK, Flames. All right, you. Mean I kind of already have that. So as are you still in the bag? Yep. OK, so from inside the bag really you don't hear Savara. She kind of looks like has day and goes I think I'm going to pull a card and as she do I.

26:03 Hear that? I mean, I'm standing right outside the hole. Yeah, I'm going to make you give me a perception check anyway. 18. Yeah, you heard her say it. Good luck, fold it up. So as you pull this, as you pull this card tomorrow, the heat in the bag becomes almost unbearable.

26:47 I'm sorry. In the hole becomes almost unbearable your skin 'cause they are yours as well your skin both the starts burn and it becomes hard dude. I'm going to pause you there. I have fire reason but. Stop you. Well, me too. It doesn't mean that your skin is not going to burn, it's still going to hurt ruin. OK. So the heat will almost blow you and Kasdea out of this bag.

27:34 Oh, I'm sorry, hole. And as Savara hits the ground, a figure kind of steps through, almost just kind of like materializes and tall precise skin like polished Obsidian traced with slow burning embers, horns swept back and engraved with infernal script, a blade resting at the hip, untouched and ceremonial. And this devil smiles at Savara, full attention. I heard my name spoken with intent, and he looks at the rest of you and goes.

28:16 Savara chose a card. Charts, cards, chews, blood, and the devil kind of looks at Savara. Your life now belongs to me, your work, your allies. Every bond phrase, every victory rots, and a claw kind of lifts and a finger traces a burning line across Savara's shadow, and the shadow twitches and pulls away from the light. One death ends this, and the Devil sweeps his eyes at the group again and says, yours theirs.

29:06 I save a patience. And he snaps his fingers and visions all of a sudden just slam into your mind, your friends screaming, contracts failing, names scratched from ledgers, every door closing, every future bending towards failure. And the heat drops. I'll watch, I'll wait. And the tear seals, the scorch marks remain. Your shadow no longer matches the light. So how this is going to work is Savara. Yeah.

30:10 At the start of each long rest for you, I'm going to force you to make me a Wisdom saving throw. OK. This will work almost as a. Do I not get the opportunity right now to try and kill him? I mean, he certainly. Can. Why not? He's right in front of me, all right. Do we recognize what kind of devil it is? Instead, it's got horns. And a sword. Is he in the hole or out of the hole? He's he's out. Everybody's outside of the hole. We're all out of the hole.

30:51 No, we got blown out of the hole. Yeah, Yep. Oh yeah, yeah. So so this anybody that wants to make a check can you can give me? Do you have a? Thing where you can study. One SEC my dad just came in for the garage door. Be right back, OK?

31:34 So with you said you're going to study it tomorrow. Yeah, I have. Let me look at the name of the ability again. In the wrong place. I think it's know your enemy, Know your enemy, OK. If you spend at least one minute observing, which they definitely were, you know, speaking for a minute or interacting with another creature outside of combat, you can learn information about its capabilities compared to your own. And then that's where I tell you like my strength, my decks and you say above or below and go through those different items. OK, Yeah, this is the one where you can ask questions. Sure.

32:33 Yeah, what? Go ahead and ask me questions on the on the creature. OK, I don't have any writing, I just moved hold. On let. Me. I pulled it up and there's no map visible. Oh, hold on. It's waiting to start. You should be good now. OK, Strength 20 above or below 20? Higher. Decks above or below 18?

33:18 Lower OK what else can I know? Con Above or below 16. What was? What was the third question? Con Above or below 16. Higher. AC above or below 22 lower. We can take him. Can you do hit points? Total current hit points above or below 121. Higher OK Total class levels above or below 13 if you have any.

34:09 I'm going to consider that question CR level because it's a, it's a creature. What was the number that you asked? 13 higher. And then does it have any fighter class levels? I'm guessing not. Are you fighter class levels? No, Yeah. OK. Just making sure. Yeah, I don't know. Oh, Sisa and Veronica, it's there's, there's a map there. It's all covered currently. OK, cool. Anything else can we? Take him. That's all I can know. OK, well, I guess I'll take out my hammer and I'll turn around and be like you guys.

35:04 Think we can take this guy? I'm ready. I'm feeling, I'm feeling up for a fight. I think we can take him. Certainly unplanned. All right, let's go ahead and roll initiative. Oh. What the fuck? You're welcome, you guys. 15. Hold on. One second. I will grab them one at a time.

35:47 Joanna on there twice. I don't know how the hell that happened. All right, we'll start with you, Joanna. Me. Too. OK, Castea. 10. OK, El Sisa. 3. Slip. 3. What slip? What was your? What did you roll in? Apologize. 30. 30. 300 my. God. OK, Savara. 17.

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38:47 Ever Con 2026 is community, competition, creativity and chaos under one roof. Get your Ever Con badges now at evercon.org and we will see you at the con. Welcome back to Crit happens here on Spotify, itunesfire.fmpoddirectory.com and Crit happens dot show. We are back to my unyielding, never ending nightmare that is chaos today. So as we left our last our players, they have encountered and to answer your question, Oh, see, so I know that you rolled a 24 on your arcana. Yep, you know this to be not necessarily a standard run-of-the-mill fiend. This is a contract devil.

39:39 They're they're, they specialize in ruining lives. It's now, yes. So we last left our party rolling initiative, and in the hullabaloo of getting everything sets, I lost all the initiatives. So we're going to start again. Does everybody remember what they rolled? Yeah. OK. Yep. Yoanna, what did you roll? 2222 Castea. 10. 10 I'll see. So I've got you at three. Don't worry about that one.

40:21 Yep, Slip was a 30. Good Christ, Savara. 17. Is everyone. 15. 15 all right. Daddy was going second. Daddy was coming. Yeah, he wrote a 20s. All right, so we will begin with slip.

41:02 So what you see in front of you is Azrael Vantrix. He is a greater contract devil. OK, that's it. That that's it for now. OK, well, I look, I look to the team and I say are we actually doing this?

41:45 I think so. I mean, I'm going to have to fight him at some point anyways. I don't want to back down. Well, we wouldn't want that. So he's large, 10 spaces or 810 by 10. Correct. Yep. OK, so I'll go 15 up and I'll do an unarmed strike. OK. I'm gonna I'm gonna hit him with my hands 26 that'll hit.

42:29 OK. I'm gonna attempt to grapple and deal my damage. OK, go ahead and give me a. No, it's I have ADC, you have to pass it. Oh yeah, yeah, that's right. What's the DC? 20. He will succeed with a 24. OK, he takes 19 points of damage. What kind of damage force so your attack? It's considered magical. OK.

43:17 Anything else? Yep, second attack, OK. 32. The Huddlehead I'm. Going to attempt to grapple again. OK, he will roll a 23, so he will succeed. OK, that's 18 points of damage. OK, what are your blows as a bonus action? OK. Three attacks roll 3 grapple attempts. 2210 and 21. So the 10 fails.

44:08 So on the first one I got a 15 or a 25 to hit title. Hit 11 points of damage. OK, the second one does 15 points of damage and now he's grappled. OK. How tall are these mountainy things next to us Are that pile of rocks to my left? They're not more than I would say 3-4 feet high. They're just kind of mounds of rocks. OK, I get advantage. Well it doesn't matter.

44:52 I got a Nat 20 on the on the third roll. OK. 18 damage. Oh wait, we only double the dice, right? Yes. 27 damage OK. And then because I use the bonus action other than my fleet step or whatever it is, I forget what it's called, Fleet step, that's too far away, but I'm going to go 510152025.

45:41 Go there with him. He's still grappled. Done. OK, next will be his turn. He is going to look directly at you, Slippy. He's going to cast Modify Memory at ninth level. I'll take. A reaction. All right, ninth level. Yep. Jesus. What's the reaction? Hold on, let me pull up the feet. When a creature within 550 you cast a spell, you can use your reaction to make Amelia attack against that creature.

46:28 Yeah, that's what I'll do. OK, 28. That'll hit. Kind of really, really good. 18 damage. Can I attempt to counterspell Adam you're? Going to counter a ninth level. Counter a ninth level. Sure, you certainly can drive I. Roll A-19 or A20, which I didn't. I got a six. OK, all right.

47:09 So he will cast modify memory at 9th level towards you slip. I need you to roll me a Wisdom saving throw, please. OK, I have advantage that might do it. Wisdom saving throw 20. That will fail, so he will eliminate or you will not eliminate.

47:50 Instead of knowing, slip that these party members are your friends. They are your enemies, here to kill you, so you will be charmed. You will also be incapacitated and unaware of your surroundings, though it can still hear. What makes me unaware of my surroundings? It says the charm target is incapacitated and unaware of its surroundings, so it can still hear you. Right, unaware of your surroundings doesn't mean can't see, right? No, I didn't. I didn't. I didn't say that.

48:30 I said just unaware of your surroundings, yeah. Doesn't incapacitated mean you can't do anything though? Yeah, you can't take any actions or reactions. OK. And then it will go to attack. It will attack you suara. So slip because we don't have any more reactions. It makes sense. Yeah, it will go. It will go to attack you with its let's see here. It will go to hit you with this infernal brand that will be a natural one.

49:41 Loser. OK, your. Own bitch. I would argue it loses its concentration. I would. Argue it doesn't. All right, I would argue it has to roll concentration. So D126 it will lose its reaction till the start of its next turn.

50:24 OK so it does not have a reaction till the end of its next turn or start start of its next turn. Why did you roll AB12? Because I have a critical fail table. Oh cool. Yeah, all right. And it will attack again, hopefully not roll A1 this time. OK, 28 to hit you, Savara. That hits. All right, so that's going to be 21 points of fire damage and 12 points of psychic damage.

51:06 So I'm resistant to fire, so I take half. You'll take 10. 10 or 1110. Yeah. And then how much psychic? It was 12. And OK, that's not an auditory or fear or charmed thing, right? Thank you. All right. And that will be the end of its turn. Next we will move to Joanna. I'm fucked. Oh. What time? What? What?

51:46 Wasn't that? Why am I really close? All right? Oh God, why did my OK action? How does this? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? We don't know. I don't know it's my sneak attack bro. This is my first time using like DD beyond something something sneak attack. Something something dark side.

52:30 Because. They're within 5 feet, so like. Currently, they're within 10. Yeah. You do have. Yeah. So it's. Yeah, Yeah. So I mean, it's right in front of Savara. So I mean, if you. Yeah, are. You level? Are you a 13 row or what are you? He's level 10. 10 at. 5:00 to 6:00. It's 526. I better make sure I have half of my dice out. Yeah, I want to. I want to do that. OK, so you're going into hit. What are you? What are you swinging with? I'm going to sneak attack with my dagger of venom, see if I can get it.

53:18 OK, so yeah, first you'll want to roll to attack. Yes Nah, me when I what the freak. Why did you land? That's not OK. One SEC. OK. Why? That's so lame attack. Oh God, what is my I'm so smart guy? It's 14. 14 to hit? Yeah, that will miss. Yeah, that makes sense. So then the only thing I can do is use my the fact that it's a light weapon and try to hit it again. OK.

54:17 Oh, that's better. What about a 27? That will hit. Awesome, where is this? So that's with the OK, I'll just roll damage. First one D4 it's a plain 1D4. If it's that one, it is no one damage. OK. 1 That'll make con saving throw OK. 27.

55:08 You're fine. Cool. All right, So I'll take that one. I took the one damage. All right, anything else for you? No, no. Perfect. So at the end of your turn, he is going to look at you, Joanna, and I need you to make me a Wisdom saving throw, please. A Wisdom saving throw. He's going to use his infernal glance at you. 12, 12. OK, then. I'm sorry. Is that reaction? That is a legendary action.

55:50 Boo. So you will be frightened until the end of your next turn. Sounds great. All right. Next we will move to Savara. Well, I'm going to go at him with my hammer. Let's see. I'm going to start with I'm just going to roll the first one.

56:42 Oh, I also have an ability to re roll saving throws this one. So the first one I'm going to go we'll see if I likelihood oh Nat 20, so I won't do a precision attack because I don't need it. I will add frost strike to it, which means that you need to make a con saving throw DC-18 and then believe I still can add I'll make it a menacing attack. OK, so he fails the, uh, the save. OK, so that's one D6 for cold, and then the menacing means I spend as superiority and I add the total damage die to my roll. And you also have to make a Wisdom saving throw. DC. 18.

57:58 That'll succeed. OK and then I will also because just with the ability on my war from the Warhammer itself will add drain life. OK, where did my dice go? Where did my dice go underneath my blanket so drain life is that I add you need to make a con saving throw DC-17 that will.

58:42 Fail. Wow. You are going to take an extra 46 necrotic. I regain a number of hit points equal to half that damage. So let's start with that. Did I say 46? So necrotic damage? That would be nine. Really. I'm doing this math right?

59:22 No, Nope I am. I rolled that low 9, which is fine. I will take back 4. OK. Or is it? Is it to the benefit of the? It's benefit of the player, so you get 5. 5. Yep. OK then we're I'll roll the hey I need that. Sorry my cat decided to take the cat dice. Yay, I'll roll just the cold exploding dice. 68 cold damage.

1:00:06 That damage doesn't seem to do as much as you think it would. Interesting. How much total damage did you do on that attack? So far she's only done 16 damage. And then I still have the actual warhammer damage which it's a + 8 15 and what I wrote again because I crit or do we that would be force OK. And then give me a. Deflagging.

1:00:47 Excuse me. Oh, blood. And is that? Do I double that for? The that 15 damages from a magical weapon, correct? Correct and do I roll the D8 again for Nat 20 or do I just double it stop? Any dice you roll? Do you double? Yeah, Any dice you roll? You any? For that attack. Shit, then we're starting over because I did. Just take what you did and then multiply it by two. Yeah, just kind of. Well then I also would get another five of healing. Yep.

1:01:28 Oh and I did that wrong the first time. So I need to do 15 because I damaged myself. And they give me AD 12. OK, I'll just roll the D12. I'm assuming you're doing all the other math. That would be what is A010? Yes. Oh wait, that's the wrong dice. I was going to say, I was like, what? 6. Yep, he has disadvantage on his next attack roll yo. Please make that concentration check.

1:02:11 Oh, hey, also, by the way. Oh, no, Did he? He failed. Oh, his speed is reduced to zero. Yeah. And it's not frightened of me because he succeeded. That that was the only thing he succeeded. Oh, and I have another attack. Hold on one second, what? How much damage did you do total? Oh good Lord, hold on. It was first stop, sorry, she's really going for my dice first. It was nine of the necrotic, but that was that was doubled, so 18 right.

1:02:55 So I really should have only had nine. That's fine, whatever. And then it was exploding dice with the cold, and that was. 8 which was 84 because. But it would have been doubled, so he actually would have taken 8. OK, so currently 27 and then yeah, it's going to be impossible unless he gets in that 20 to hold his concentration. No, it's only half the damage. Right, but so far she's had, let's see here 182727 only ADC 15 + 30 because of the actual damage from her attack. Oh yeah, yeah.

1:03:42 So this it's she's getting in that 20, which I guess we'll roll now. Nope. OK, so slip, you are no longer. You are no longer charmed or incapacitated. However, the memory still holds. So how much damage did I do in total? Just 304856, yeah. Hot. All right, next, next hit, See if I hit what? The first one? What's 15 + 1328?

1:04:28 28 that'll hit. Cool, then I'll spend the superiority again to do. He can't move so no point in making him prone right now. I guess I'll do another menacing, actually. If you make him prone when he can't move, he can't get up. Oh shit, I'll make you prone. I'll do a trip attack. Let's make a Oh, his strength is good. Well, it's worth a shot. And if the target is larger or smaller?

1:05:08 Oh, I also add the total to the damage role, so that's cool. And if the target is large or smaller, it must make his strength saving through DC-18 and if you fail you are knocked prone. OK, he is knocked prone. Oh, I miss this. On the before, I had one more dice to add, but that's all right. I missed it. So there there be it. OK, then I will roll damage. Where is my superior? Oh, it's a detent pool. Funny bludgeoning.

1:05:58 And then because I'm pissed, I believe I have one more turn. Yeah, I have one more turn, actually, and I don't even need to action search. I have three attacks as baseline ready. Cool. That probably won't hit. I'm guessing 18 doesn't actually. I'm guessing 18 doesn't hit. It does not. I will use the security to do a menacing or not a menacing, a precision.

1:06:43 Guys, I want to kill this devil. This D 10. Yep. How about 23? Yeah, go ahead. Cool, then this will just be a normal roll. Wait. And he was he knocked prone? Yes. So if you hit someone that's prone, would you have had advantage? How does that work? Yes, they. Do if it's if. You're in melee range, you get advantage if you're app range. Had you have rolled hold on, hold on then I was supposed to have rolled a second. Oh you're gonna hate me.

1:07:30 That's another Nat 20. OK, let's figure out damage first, then over all the details. I would have done. I would have done since I would have had the advantage to start with. I would have instead done another menacing OK, because I can only use frost Strike. That said, it didn't look like it did any extra SO damage first for you. 15.

1:08:16 Plus 823 before doubling it. Oh, but that's without the so actually 15 * 2 is 30, so 38, right? Because the 8 is the the bonus. Yeah, 38. 38 and then go ahead and give me AD 12. This time I'll use the right 112. What's your damage die? It is AD 8. Twice, please. 5 4 so 9. 9 doubled 18 with a devastating hit, so you do 8.

1:09:09 You'll do 18 more damage on top of that. On top of 38. Yep. So currently you're at 56. 40 + 48 Wait, no 56? Yep. How? How'd that work out 'cause you? Oh, 3838 + 18? Yep. Yep, yeah, that's damage for that one. OK. So that was that was my third attack thought. That was your second attack because we went back to your first. Attack wasn't my second. Yeah. Oh, crap. OK, so I got one more in me. We'll just roll this one regular. Well, no, because I did the second attack and got him prone. That was on your.

1:09:58 That was on your your your first round of attacks where you knocked them prone. No, I'm kidding. Was it? Attack number two, I thought. No, I think it's 2 because first I tried to frighten him. He didn't succeed that one and I missed the damage on that. The second one I did the precision or the the trip to try and do prone and that worked. And this was my third where I did just the menacing again. Right. So you have you did action search right? No, that was just my. Regular Oh, I apologize, I thought you had done the action search. My apologies. Nope. Nope. Though I have three attacks without surging and I would probably leave it there right now. OK, you wanna?

1:10:49 Nope. I'm sorry, Kastea. Present. OK, Zebulon. Yeah, I I want to, I want to cast Eldridge Blast because what else am I good for? A lot, but let's not have that conversation in front of an audience, all right? How many blasts do you have? 3, Three. Jesus wept. OK, give me 3 attack rolls. I'm really excited. First one's a 19. That'll hit. Second one's a 17.

1:11:30 That'll. Miss. Damn it, next one's a Nat 20. Just want to put my balls in the waffle iron. OK, go ahead and give me damage on the first attack. OK, hold on, I gotta find my D 10. Here it is fine. Everything's fine. That's a nine. OK, roll damage for the third attack. Hey, that landed on a 10. Remember it's plus three also.

1:12:13 Yeah, so 13. Also, hey, he's prone. And also he gets to do roll the die again because it's exploding dice. I'm just saying, oh, you failed. Yeah, the one she failed, though, she had advantage. It advantage. And well. Not hold on before we get you further. So it should be disadvantage. Before we yeah, before we get any further, just finished rolling the damage guys. 11. OK, so you rolled in total? A lot. What did you roll up that you rolled A10 and then you rolled Yeah. How do you want to do this?

1:12:56 Oh, fun. Holy crap. I think she's going to aim for the dude's face. She's going to say, you know, I'm really sad because you're kind of hot, but you threaten my friend and you really got to go. And yeah, she's going to cast Eldridge plan you. Blast him twice in the face and he will let out this this infernal shriek as a almost like a a portal in the ground in the shape of a a pentagram will just kind of sear into the ground and he will retreat through that that portal and will disappear.

1:13:47 All right, anyway, what were we doing? What were you doing you? Didn't even make it all line up. Sir, can you can you reopen the map the? Map that we were just on. Yeah. Sure. Yeah, where's the? Keep going to the keep going through the order. Oh, I. Whose turn is it? I I I oh, but he's. But he's but you. Are you still feeling it? Was. It was. It was. It was Zebulon's turn after cast and. Then Osisa and then you. Yep.

1:14:29 Take your turns. I mean, my plan was to cast suggestion on the guy and tell him to turn you back and now he's gone. DOC said. Do you have lesser restoration? Is that the one that ends here or? It would need to be either removed curse or greater restoration. Oh yeah, great. I guess I'm going to have to cast suggestion at slip. Say stand down, we mean you no harm. Do they know that I had my memory modified? Because to them, they just, oh, we don't talk to me. Correct.

1:15:11 They would not know because it was, it was never said, you know, it was well. He has to speak it. No, with a modified memory he just speaks to you inside your memory he changes the. While this charm lasts, that you can affect the targets memory of an event that experienced within the last 24 hours and then lasted no more than roughly 10 minutes you can permit. You must speak to the target to describe how its memories are affected. OK, so at that point I am going to then I guess have everyone give me a perception check with this advantage because it was in the middle of combat. 14. 10. 10. 14.

1:16:23 Oh sisa. Oh, Sisa. Sorry, I lost the die and accidentally muted myself in the in the practice. 2121 OK, yeah with the 21 you would have heard Azrael kind of shaping slips memory. Well, just hearing him talk to me, saying weird things. Yeah. I mean what language that? Doesn't mean they automatically know it was a spell.

1:17:05 What languages do you speak Slip? Common inquiry? I don't know what quarry is. Quarry's like otherworldly. Oh CC, you would have heard Israel talking to Slip, but you were unable to determine what was said. Well, it's Zebulon's turn, I know. So unless you're not doing anything, Zed. I mean, if I didn't hear anything, I'm essentially unaware that combat's still going. Yep, then next would be Osisa.

1:18:03 Let me see. So I'm aware that the demon talked to Slip, but nothing beyond that, correct? OK, I'm going to. I don't know how you'd want to work this because I would probably just tell everyone around me the demon said something to Slip. Yeah. I mean, talking is a free action. So I mean, you can, yeah. And just, you know, like I don't know if the demon did something to slip, but he was talking to it slipped. Sorry, it slipped. She, her.

1:18:46 She. Yep. OK, so the demon was talking to her, but I couldn't make out what he was saying. I'm going to call it to slip. Slip. Are you OK? Yep, Yep. Yep, Yep, Yep. That seems a little suss to me maybe, but maybe inside check on that on his reply. Yeah, sure. Give me a. Give me an inside check. 21.

1:19:31 Yeah, you get the feeling that it, that response had a little bit of a deeper meaning to it. But because you're 15202030 feet roughly away from slip, I mean, you can't. You just kind of have to go off of sound alone. OK but off sound alone he seems a little suss so I'm going to slowly approach him but before I do I'm going to cast on myself.

1:20:16 I think it's Aura of Purity and that gives me a 30 foot, a 30 foot kind of bubble around myself, giving all of my allies resistance well while in that bubble to poison damage and advantage on saving throats to avoid or end effects that include blind charm, deafened, paralyzed, poison stunts, etcetera. And move like. Sure. Maybe like 15 feet up.

1:20:57 OK. So he within that he would be within that range? Right, but so it's has advantage on saving throats against effects that may cause any of the following conditions. Because he's already charmed. I don't. Or it says I'm saving throats to avoid or end effects. Right. It's not an effect that would be ended. OK, Yeah. And I'm not non hostile so it wouldn't affect me anyway. That would be what I I'll do for now. OK.

1:21:40 All right. We will then get to top of the order slip. I footstep and I'll say how did you find me? I know you're here to kill me. I'm a life clerk. Why would I try to kill you? We were working together. You just killed him, the lot of you. Well, he was a demon.

1:22:28 Like he doesn't have much meaning in a life cleric's name. Life has plenty of meaning for life. Cleric. OK, give me an attack role. 19. That'll hit. 16 damage. God damn. Jeez. Another 5 foot step and I'll attack with my second attack. 27th to hit.

1:23:22 I'll hit. 19 damage and I'll attempt to grapple. How how would I roll this? You can make a dex or a strength save, athletics or acrobatics. OK. DC is 20. Yeah, I'm going to be screwed up this one. Yeah, I'll try that. I got it. Let's see, she's 8.

1:24:04 Yeah. OK. So you're grappled, You're medium, right? Yeah. OK, so then I'm going to so I meant 10 steps so far. I'm going to pull both of us. 10/15/2020 5:30 back here. I'm going to go another 10 feet so I've used 40 in my movement and I'll shout out if anyone approaches I'll kill her. I'll end my turn.

1:25:07 OK, next is Joanna. Joy, is it a great? Click to go on this. You think he'll actually kill her? I'll actually kill her. Roll Insight. Oh, OK, where am I? There I am. Oh, slay. Oh, that's off the desk. And then I think that counts as oh, 19. Jessie, correct me if I'm wrong, but yeah, with the 19 he, she absolutely will kill her.

1:26:01 Yeah, I mean, I was you. You tell me if it was successful or not. I wasn't lying. Yeah, yeah. She's she's not lying. She will kill her. OK, I don't know these people very well, no. I mean, do we have to go in turn order at this moment? Yeah, I was going to say I'll step back and let someone else do something. I mean, if everybody does nothing for an entire circle for an entire cycle, then combat ends.

1:26:51 Yeah. I mean, you want to, I mean you can, I guess, maybe hold your action, I mean. But if anybody takes a reaction, bonus action or an action, then another cycle has to go through. I mean, you just did take an action. So right, but if nobody if nobody takes 1 and it's my turn again and I still don't do anything, if I don't do anything the next one then everyone will have had an opportunity to do nothing. I'm. Not going to do anything. OK, next will be Savara. I'm just going to like, OK, so I was a little bit distracted. So holding an action is still doing something, no? No, you can hold your action.

1:27:50 OK. And that, but if we make it through with everybody holding, that would end combat. As long as I don't do anything. OK, well I will. I'm literally going to hold my action until he starts making the move to hurt Osisa, like actually hurt Osisa or she excuse me, AI don't know your pronounce anyways, the your characters, at least they yeah, I'm I mean the moment that they've tried and attack Osisa, I'm I want to attack.

1:28:32 OK. Good question. Can I? I know I didn't do anything, Can I just hold my blessing of the Raven Queen, the bonus action? Well, you have to ready. You can ready your action or hold your action, hold your action. You just you go at the end of the order if no one if, if everyone wants everyone else goes. And if you're ready your action, you have to do it for a specific condition. So you could say if so and if this happens then I will do this. If more people, if you start, if if people start fighting, that's. OK.

1:29:18 That way you would go, that way you would take your turn in the order in which that condition is met versus at the end of the entire round. All right. I won't, I won't move unless people start fighting. OK, Castella. Yeah, Castella's not going to move. I don't think she's going to do anything because she doesn't want to see OCS and hurt. I think she's just kind of kind of call out to slip and be like, look, we're not exactly friends, but you shouldn't hurt her.

1:30:06 She's not going to hurt you. I don't know you and the only thing I know about you is you're here to kill me. Well, I can tell you one of those things is false, and we're not here. To plenty of bounties on me and I know you're here for that. Oh, well, that's good to know. She's going to kind of turn to Savar and be like, got your Ledger because Mimi's still got mine. Castaia Castaia Mimi would have given you back your Ledger. Who? So Castaia, I guess is going to pull out her Ledger and be like, you got something like this in your pocket. Don't take an action using an item's an action. She's not going to do nothing.

1:30:59 She's just going to sit still, fine, whatever, and she's just going to lean against the wall and wait. Is that be 1? I guess I'm torn, but if the rest of the group is waiting I will do the same. Hold an action to prepare a spell in case of hostile action like it's DOSISA. Top of the order slip. What that what what Dosisa? Doesn't she get a term I'm? Sorry. Yeah, you're right, Dosisa.

1:31:39 Just so we're clear, Greater restoration would clear this up for him so he slip wouldn't be attacking me anymore. Correct. Greater restoration would cure the, would restore his memory. I'm sorry, her memory. Yeah, OK, so since Sloop has me and is already touching me, I'm going to cast Greater Restoration. OK. I don't think there's any check there. I think that's just a. No, I don't think there is. Instantaneous. Yeah, touch creature, you touch one curse including targets attunement. Yep.

1:32:25 OK, so because he's she's already grappling you. Oh, Sisa, you'll cast Greater Restoration and slip. Your memories will revert. As she casts, I would take my reaction to attack her with advantage. OK. Yeah. Can I use my reaction to cast hold person because I sensed A hostile action occurring? Reaction, reaction. You hold person's not a not a reaction spell though. I said I was holding, right? He was, yeah.

1:33:07 He readied the action against hostile action. Oh yeah, Then yes that would go off 1st. It's ADC 20 Wisdom save it's. Like Magic the Gathering. In the stack. Right. What's DC ruggedy roll? 20. Wisdom or. Yeah, wisdom. 18. Right. So you're paralyzed and then greater restored. So probably not paralyzed anymore. Hooray.

1:33:49 All right, we will end. Time Do I know what happened? They were here. You know, it's not very clear if. So make a call. I'm going to say no. But I will say that you do have the memory of attacking a sea South. What the hell just happened? What did you do that made me do this? Oh.

1:34:34 Remember the? Devil. I'll offer a greater a greater healing potion. Like holding it out to me. Yeah. I'm going to slap it away and just stomp off away from you does. My potion break. Oh, she said. Give me a just a strength check. Yep, 14. It does not. It hits the grass next to you. I'll kind of under my breath, like out loud, not trying to be quiet, always be like, probably deserve that as I'm walking over and picking it up and stashing it. I'm going to heal myself.

1:35:28 I'll pick a random healing spell. I'm trying to find one that's not too crazy. Yeah. Cure Wounds on myself 26. OK. So I'll be 58, so I'll be back to Valve. All right. So we are kind of right back where we started. I'm sure glad we made it into the compound session.

1:36:08 Did we say we're taking a short run? Yeah, we're gonna call it there session brought on by chaos. So yes, our own personal little unplanned one shot. So beautiful. Well, we'll have a lot to talk about on that 20 and unwind here in just a few moments. But thank you everybody so much for listening for crit happens. Visit our website crit happens dot show where you can find the latest episode, some information on the cast and follow us on all of our social medias. So for everybody here at the P3 Podcast Network, I am Spencer Hart. We'll see you next time. Bye bye.

1:36:51 Bye. But nothing ever seemed to be real but just some colors that don't exist. Painting my painting counterfeit Bless every truth I knew just starts to twist. And from a calm in a world like this I've been my tongue till the words run dry. We're my old black achieve disguise. I see the truth when I close my eyes. The hardest part was a great goodbye and fake the ache.