Patia Resilient Sphere

MARISHA: Where is Lacrytia?
BRENNAN: Huh?
MARISHA: Where's Lacrytia?
BRENNAN: Lacrytia blinked out again. [bwoom]
MARISHA: Okay, so I still can't see this bitch.
TRAVIS: And winged demon chick's out, right?
LUIS (ZERXUS): Well, she's 60 feet above me.
TRAVIS: Oh, oh, she's high, high up. But she took off, she's exiting, okay.
LUIS (ZERXUS): But I can catch her.
AABRIA: Okay.
MARISHA (PATIA): Hm. Hmm. Augh, I want Lacrytia.
TRAVIS: I mean, yeah.
MARISHA (PATIA): I'll hold a spell, how about that?
AABRIA (LAERRYN): I'm just yelling, "Battery."
BRENNAN: Yeah, a readied action is fine. What spell do you want to ready?
MARISHA (PATIA): Otiluke's Resilient Sphere.
BRENNAN: Hell yeah, yes, love it. Love it.
MARISHA (PATIA): I'm going to, because I'm not sure where she is, where she's going to be, so I'm going to very calmly, still-looking fabulous, just walk to the center of the battlefield, completely vulnerable, and I just wait. You see my orb around me pulsing as I'm holding this spell.

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BRENNAN: Lacrytia reappears. She reappears, Patia, right in front of you.
TRAVIS: Boom, kicks her in the head.
BRENNAN: Kicks her in the head.
MARISHA (PATIA): Right in front of me?
BRENNAN: Right in front of you. 10 feet with Blink. [bwOOM] "I've always hated you."
MARISHA: [blows from her palm]
BRENNAN: Incredible Resilient Sphere. 'Sphere of shimmering force encloses a creature, an unwilling creature must make a dexterity saving throw. On a failed save--'
LUIS: I love you so much.
MARISHA: My heart is pounding. My heart is pounding.
TRAVIS: Yeah, when she comes right up in your face.
BRENNAN: Okay. She wants to kill you so bad. She is going to drop a Counterspell in this moment. I'm not going to tell you the level she's dropping it at, but she is dropping it nonetheless. So she's attempting to counter this Resilient Sphere.
MARISHA (PATIA): Can I counter her Counterspell?
BRENNAN: Unfortunately- Unfortunately, you were holding an action, right? So you're using your reaction to come in and hit her here.
LUIS (ZERXUS): How far away is she from me?
AABRIA: I'm so sorry.
BRENNAN: What's that?
SAM: No, it's fine. It's all good.
AABRIA: Nothing.
BRENNAN: So she's going to upcast this Counterspell. Boom, the Resilient Sphere [fwoom] is knocked out of your hand. As she does so-
LUIS (ZERXUS): If she's within 60 feet. She's not 60 feet within me, right, Brennan?
SAM: She is.
BRENNAN: Is she within 60 feet of you?
LUIS (ZERXUS): Of me.
BRENNAN: She is within 60 feet of you, yes.
LUIS (ZERXUS): Would I be aware of what's happening? My focus is completely up.
BRENNAN: You have eyes on everything. You are a battle aware, yeah. First Knight.
AABRIA: You better have your head on a fucking swivel, my guy.
BENNAN: You're within 60 feet, yeah.
TRAVIS: Thank you.
LUIS (ZERXUS): My eyes are straight up.
BRENNAN: Yeah.
LUIS (ZERXUS): I just sense what's happening below, and I look down and I Counterspell that Counterspell.
MARISHA: Come on, come on.
BRENNAN: Ooh, baby, okay.
AABRIA: Yeah.
BRENNAN: Go ahead. You burn the spell slot. You cast Counterspell. This is going to come down to a roll. I can let you know right now. What's your charisma?
LUIS (ZERXUS): My charisma?
BRENNAN: What's your spell casting ability modifier?
LUIS (ZERXUS): Oh, where'd you go? Get back here! My spell attack is plus 2. My modifier is plus 5. Charisma is plus 5.
BRENNAN: So Counterspell is just the ability, right?
LUIS (ZERXUS): My modifier is 5.
BRENNAN: Okay.
MARISHA: 20 charisma.
BRENNAN: So your modifier to charisma is plus 5. You need to roll in 11 or higher than d20. It's a total coin flip.
[...]
LUIS (ZERXUS): 15!
BRENNAN: 15! So she threw a 6th-level Counterspell. She did not want this to work, and instead [whoa, BOOM] from up above.
LUIS (ZERXUS): Again, you just see this radiant image of Zerxus just pop up in a shield [BOOF] and bust that out of her hand.
MARISHA (PATIA): Patia, as she tries to dispel it, Patia quickly, reactionary yanks back her arms and almost catches the force bubble and pushes it back.
BRENNAN: Patia, you encircle her in this sphere. I'm going to ask, actually, for some homebrew stuff here. As you're capturing her in this sphere, this is so cool.
MARISHA (PATIA): Is not Otiluke's Resilient Sphere. It's Por'co's Impenetrable Bubble.
LUIS: Yes.
AABRIA: Yeah. Proprietary.
[...]
BRENNAN: So I will also say this, both of the mages to either side throw Counterspells that both fail.
LUIS: Wow!
BRENNAN: They only had 3rd-level. This is a 4th-level spell. So they needed to beat it and they could not.
TRAVIS: Resilient Sphere!
SAM: So much wizard shit.
BRENNAN: I'm going to ask- The spell that Lacrytia was casting is, I think, in my mind, works so insane that you've perfectly chosen the spell to counter it. So I want an opposed arcana roll here to see how well you can oppose her with this spell.
TRAVIS: Horse shit, horse power.
BRENNAN: So she's adding a plus 7 to this roll for her arcana, and I'm going to roll in front of the board and see what she gets.
SAM: Whoa, whoa, whoa.
BRENNAN: It's a 17. So if you can beat a 17 arcana, something is going to happen.
MARISHA (PATIA): Okay, my arcana is a plus 10, and I have an advantage thanks to Silvery Barbs.
SAM: Silvery Barbs.
LOU: It was all meant to be.
MARISHA: So I need, realistically, an 8 plus on one of these. A Natural 19!
AABRIA: Woo!
TRAVIS: Let's go!
AABRIA: Yes!
BRENNAN: The spell-
MARISHA: Was it a Disintegrate or something?
BRENNAN: No, this is why Resilient Sphere is such a perfect choice. The spell that was coming your way and Nydas' way and Zerxus' way was Circle of Death.
AABRIA: Oh my god.
TRAVIS: What is it?
BRENNAN: A 60-foot radius sphere of necromantic energy, 8d6 necrotic damage to everybody within that. She was about to- Even her own.
It would've killed both of her mages. It would've killed all of her followers here. Now, in my mind, something that deals 8d6 necrotic damage, if it goes out for 60 feet, how much damage would it deal? [BWOom] So she goes-
MARISHA (PATIA): A black cloud enwrapped in the bubble.
BRENNAN: So she goes, "I've always hated you." [WHOOM, throws a hand forward] and you [whoosh, brings hands together]. Scintillating blue energy. The blue of brumestone.
MARISHA: Yes.
BRENNAN: [vwoom] "EEAAUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGHH!!!" [splatter] "AUUUUUGH!!" Withering her own skin, "NGHHAAAAAAAHHH!!!". The spell escapes and recurses and recurses and recurses, and she drops to the floor. I will say this, Patia, I leave it up to you because on a 19 plus 10 is a 29 arcana check. Do you want her dead or incapacitated?
AABRIA: Let's go. We just dutch ovened- Dutch ovened her with her own necromancy.
MARISHA (PATIA): My original intent was to keep her alive so we could get information from her... but this is pretty fabulous.
LOU (NYDAS): I've got some stuff.
MARISHA: You've got some stuff?
LOU (NYDAS): I've got some stuff.
LUIS: Download complete.
LOU (NYDAS): I pulled some mems.
LUIS: Some mems.
MARISHA (PATIA): Okay. That's right, you did your Detect Thoughts shit. Then you know what? She did it to her own damn self. Patia, as she like crushes in, and you see the runic glow of the brumestone that mirrors and the brumestone around her necklace flashes as she crushes in. She just goes, "Oh. I didn't get a chance to tell her that I've always hated her, too." That's it.
BRENNAN: [gasp] A withered skeleton collapses into dust on the ground.

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