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BRENNAN: Vespin goes to cast a spell. I'm going to real quick look up the wording of Wall of Force, because I believe this will bypass it.
MARISHA: Come on. You bitch, come on.
BRENNAN: 'Nothing can pass the wall. It is immune to all damage and can't be dispelled by Dispel Magic.'
LOU: You say nothing can pass through the wall?
BRENNAN: Nothing can physically pass through the wall, but this is not passing through the wall. Vespin Chloras needed to get close, within 60 feet. A 9th-level Power Word Kill is coming for you right now.
LUIS: No!
TRAVIS (CERRIT): I'll use my Mage Slayer feat, that I don't know if that will do anything.
BRENNAN: You get a reaction, and you have- It is a sneak attack. I don't know if you have any way to make it advantage, but you do get a reaction to hit him.
TRAVIS: That's good.
SAM: Does he have to roll on this?
BRENNAN: What's that?
SAM: Does he have to roll on this spell?
BRENNAN: No save. It's about the hit point total. If you're under a hundred.
AABRIA: But he has a target.
BRENNAN: Yes. He has to-
AABRIA (LAERRYN): Mirror Image.
BRENNAN: Mirror Image only applies to attack rolls.
SAM: Oh, this isn't an attack?
BRENNAN: This isn't an attack.
LOU: We're just all desperately looking at our options. 'This can't be!'
BRENNAN: First of all, I don't- No one has any Counterspells or anything like that, right?
MARISHA (PATIA): I do.
SAM (LOQUATIUS): I have a Silvery Barb. Oh!
MARISHA (PATIA): 4th-level Counterspell.
BRENNAN: Okay, 4th-level Counterspell.
MARISHA (PATIA): That's all I got left, is a 4th-level Counterspell.
BRENNAN: So it's you-
MARISHA (PATIA): But after, is this after Cerrit's? Cerrit's turn?
BRENNAN: You can do these in any order that you want.
SAM: Wait, what did Cerrit do?
TRAVIS (CERRIT): I have Mage Slayer, so if he casts a spell, I get to hit him with sneak attack, but that's it.
SAM: Do that. Do that.
MARISHA: Okay. Okay.
BRENNAN: But you guys-
AABRIA: I don't think that stops the spell from happening.
SAM: Do that.
BRENNAN: You can do both. Is there an order that you want to resolve these in? Do you want to do the Counterspell first and then this one?
SAM: Him first.
TRAVIS: Okay.
BRENNAN: Him first, okay.
SAM (LOQUATIUS): I'm going to Silvery Barbs him.
TRAVIS (CERRIT): It was 25.
MARISHA: Okay, okay.
BRENNAN: 25 to hit?
SAM (LOQUATIUS): I'm going to Silvery Barbs him.
MARISHA: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
TRAVIS: What does that do?
SAM (LOQUATIUS): You have to roll with disadvantage to hit.
BRENNAN: Oh, wait. Also, I don't think we didn't get the- he has the last Mirror Image on him, right?
AABRIA: Then we could give her advantage.
SAM: Yes.
AABRIA: On her Counterspell. Brilliant.
TRAVIS: Oh!
BRENNAN: It's a last Mirror Image. There's a last Mirror Image here.
MARISHA: I love it.
AABRIA: Brilliant.
TRAVIS (CERRIT): So I have to roll with disadvantage.
BRENNAN: We're going to roll for Mirror Image here. You want a one through a 10 on this. That's a 6. You hit the man himself.
SAM: Except you have to roll with disadvantage.
TRAVIS (CERRIT): No, I rolled with disadvantage, and I'm going to miss him.
BRENNAN: What did you get on your second attack?
TRAVIS (CERRIT): A 17.
BRENNAN: Okay, 17? Counterspell coming in twice.
SAM (LOQUATIUS): You have advantage. Sorry.
TRAVIS: No, no.
SAM (LOQUATIUS): I don't think it would've killed him. Whatever you did.
TRAVIS (CERRIT): I don't think so.
SAM: It was 2d6s right?
TRAVIS (CERRIT): It was all sixes.
LOU: This is a 9th-level spell?
BRENNAN: 9th-level spell.
MARISHA: Oh my god!
SAM: You're going to have to roll so fucking high.
LOU: Is it a Nat 20?
BRENNAN: No, it's not a Nat 20. I believe you had plus 5 at the roll, so there's got to be a 14 or higher.
MARISHA (PATIA): I have to roll?
BRENNAN: You have to roll.
AABRIA: Yeah! You rolled the Counterspell.
SAM: Roll twice.
BRENNAN: You have to roll the Counterspell.
AABRIA: You roll 20 or higher.
BRENNAN: Oh, sorry!
MARISHA (PATIA): 4th-level. 4th-level.
BRENNAN: 4th-level.
LOU: I mean, if we only need a 14, we can get a 14.
BRENNAN: I'm going to home rule in this instance, because you're casting it up one level, you can get it on a 13 or higher.
MARISHA (PATIA): I have advantage or just?
BRENNAN: You have advantage.
MARISHA (PATIA): 13 or- Oh my god. Oh my god! Oh my god! Okay, okay, okay. For the Palazzo Por'co. What is that?
Wait, are those double 10s?
SAM: What is that?
MARISHA: Those are two 10s.
BRENNAN: Copy that.
TRAVIS: Does Vespin Chloras have more than 38 hit points?
BRENNAN: I am going to make a ruling here. The Counterspell is-
MARISHA: Gone.
SAM: Dispelled.
BRENNAN: -is gone. It does not succeed. No other Counterspells active anywhere here. Your disadvantage attack roll here.
TRAVIS (CERRIT): Missed.
BRENNAN: Vespin-... Here's the thing. Vespin's AC has been unnaturally high this whole time, Vespin's AC has been unnaturally high this whole time, because he's been casting Shield whenever he can. If in reaction to your- you rolled a 17 on your attack, right?
TRAVIS (CERRIT): I did.
BRENNAN: 17 is his armor class without Shield.
LUIS: Oh.
BRENNAN: So, he would have to cast Shield to avoid it, but doing so would trigger your reaction that you are using. It's a complicated scenario.
TRAVIS (CERRIT): Reaction to reaction. Yeah.
BRENNA: So. Travis, the way we're going to resolve this is this. Because he's going to throw his Shield up
so he doesn't get hit.
TRAVIS (CERRIT): But I only have one reaction, so I couldn't do it twice.
BRENNAN: But it's, yes. It's an interesting thing. I'm going to leave this to one last roll of the dice. He's got an armor class of 22 with that Shield going up, but I'm going to allow you because you're reacting to him casting a spell, to react anew to that casting of Shield. No advantage, no disadvantage. You've got one chance to hit an armor class of 22.
AABRIA: Okay.
SAM: Hawks out.
TRAVIS (CERRIT): Natural 20!
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BRENNAN: Roll double damage, if you'd be so kind.
SAM: Sneak attack, too?
TRAVIS: Oh my god.
LOU: I'm going to throw up.
AABRIA: I think I'm dead.
TRAVIS (CERRIT): Okay. That's 67 points of damage.
SAM: Ooh!
AABRIA: Oh my god!
BRENNAN: I just wrote down on this piece of paper how many hit points Vespin Chloras had. How much damage did you just roll?
TRAVIS (CERRIT): 67.
BRENNAN: With 35 hit points, how do you want to do this?
MARISHA: No fucking way.
AABRIA: No!
BRENNAN: Travis, how do you want to do this?
LUIS: Come on, Mage Slayer.
TRAVIS (CERRIT): Oh my god. That is so nasty. Oh, so, oh wow. Wow. I see Vespin aiming for Laerryn, and the hawk that he usually keeps in a concealed manner, the blade rests in the palm of your hand. You can fold your fingers over and that's it. He reaches back and lets it slide all the way down to the bottom of the handle, so you get the maximum momentum, and he sinks it eye to eye, straight into his temple, and pulls it down.
BRENNAN: "Guh.!" With the yank on the hawk, you watch the light go out of his eyes and [impact, whoosh] a silhouette of him in flame is all that is left as his body is wrenched back to the bottom of the Nine Hells.

Episode 4 - Fire and Ruin - 5:10:56