Zerxus and Just Zerxus

BRENNAN: You see these spellguard are totally- How to put it. They don't appear to have any Infernal runes on them. They look like Lacrytia look. These look like your companions. One of them is Findras. You recognize one of the protectors of the city who is running up. No words of recognition, just attacking.
TRAVIS: Would you consider an eldritch knight, just for context, a spellcaster?
BRENNAN: Yes.
TRAVIS: Okay, great.
BRENNAN: The guy you are attacking, I'll say, no roll even necessary. You have seen enough people run with Haste on them before. Both of these guys are Hasted right now.
TRAVIS: Okay. Damn.
BRENNAN: The second one is going up for Loquatius.
SAM: Ah!
AABRIA: No!
BRENNAN: Going to take three attacks.
SAM: Three?!
BRENNAN: Yep.
SAM: I don't like that.
BRENNAN: Okay.
MARISHA: Can you use those little bags?
LUIS (ZERXUS): I used the bags. Is Loquatius within 10 feet of me? Because I was hovering above the front line.
BRENNAN: Yeah, I would say if you want to have angled yourself to be there, you can be, yeah.
LUIS: Okay.
BRENNAN: We can position you closer back over here.
LUIS (ZERXUS): I was trying to be hovering above the front line, at least, the back line, maybe not.
BRENNAN: Yeah. You can get everybody. You guys were in a tight clump.
LOU: Tight clump. Ideal D&D formation.
BRENNAN: Loquatius, you are hit twice for 20 damage on the first hit.
AABRIA (LAERRYN): No.
BRENNAN: No?
AABRIA (LAERRYN): Arcane Ward.
SAM: Ooh, what's that mean?
AABRIA (LAERRYN): I'm going to use my reaction to push my Arcane Ward onto Loquatius. It takes all of the damage away.
BRENNAN: Does it take all 20?
AABRIA (LAERRYN): All 20 is gone.
BRENNAN: Okay, another attack is incoming. Jesus, that's an impossibly good roll. It's going to be 39 damage incoming.
AABRIA: Shit.
LUIS (ZERXUS): My turn. I'm going to use my reaction to use my Guardian's Aura. You see this bright burst of light jump out of Zerxus and in front of you, you see for a second this image of him with the shield up, absorbing the damage, and I take it instead.
SAM: You take all that damage?
LUIS (ZERXUS): I can take it.
TRAVIS: Ah, I love it! I love it!
AABRIA (LAERRYN): I was trying to have a romantic moment and you're just going to upstage me?
BRENNAN: Well, there's two romantic moments. That's beautiful.
SAM (LOQUATIUS): "Zerxus! Thank you, Zerxus! You saved me!"
LUIS (ZERXUS): "I did!"
TRAVIS: Oh no.
AABRIA (LAERRYN): I just lay down and cry in the street.
LUIS (ZERXUS): "You can thank me later."
SAM (LOQUATIUS): "I'll thank you publicly on television!"
BRENNAN: So Cerrit, you're going to be up to act. Both of these spellguard of the city have rushed out with some incredibly powerful [HUAH, HUAH] blows. You see that their swords are ringing with a reverberating psychic energy. Just the touch of them is enough to burst capillaries in your nose and head as they strike you.

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