Heart of Tyre: Episode 20

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***Heart of Tyre* Episode 20** was streamed on Arcadum's Twitch channel on December 14, 2020, and premiered on Arcadum's YouTube channel on March 27, 2021.

## Summary

Summary by av5hadow, copied from Verum Weekly:

The last we left the Tops in their struggle, Seren psionically sucked the psychosis of the memory that is Thomas Teal the Riftblade. Believing that she will go down soon, Ives runs up to Morc and gives a Potion of Healing to the blind half-orc. Morc asks Ives to hit him with a cocaine arrow, believing that it will cure his blindness. Ives declines the request (and Arcadum will talk to Russ about Morc’s addiction at a later date).

As predicted, Thomas takes Seren down with his weapon and even tries to pull a fast one. He Overwhelms his second strike on Seren, but her Wisdom save prevents her from entering stasis. (Another Nat 20. “Good job, b\*tch.”) Dranf lands a Hold Person on the Riftblade, however the Warrior’s Tenacity (a Reaction) in Thomas prevents him from being Held. Despite his blindness Morc knows where the unconscious satyr is and revives her with Ives’ Potion of Healing. Thomas uses an unidentified ability which then activates another unidentified ability. The second ability summons spheres that send bolts at Seren. Neve identifies the spheres as Rift Bolts which lock on a random enemy and hurl a bolt of energy, striking at them continuously. Neve then feeds a Potion of Healing to Seren before hiding behind Morc. Resisting her Depthar self (as at the start of her turn, the Depthar for now has a chance of controlling her for the turn), Seren gets back up and plants down her healing tree.

Thomas moves so that Morc, Neve, and Derok are around him and uses Whirling Negation with Overwhelm. Derok's Charisma fails him, and he ends up in a stasis prism. Not wanting to be in there for a whole minute, he Dispels the prism. Thomas summons another sphere and it randomly targets Seren, downing her! Neve learns of Conflux, an ability that allows Thomas to set one of his resources to the same amount of another one of his resources. Conflux was the ability that activated the first Rift Bolt. The psionic presence in Seren wishes to help, and the unconscious Seren accepts the help, which increases her Infection to 3. Neve goes to Seren’s side and feeds her a Potion of Greater Healing. Neve now only has one Potion of Greater Healing left. Seren informs the party about what she learned. The party could trick Thomas to lower one of his resources with Conflux by lowering the second resource with a readied action. Seren Dispels the Rift Bolts that have been targeting her. Ives goes over to Seren and heals her with his Flaming Sword.

Morc waits for the moment when Thomas gets paralyzed by Hold Person. Ives considers the effects that cocaine would have on Thomas, and he then fires two cocaine arrows at the ground next to Thomas. However, Thomas doesn’t get affected by the drugs. Ives blurts out “Well, sh\*t!” and throws up his arms.

Thomas Overwhelms an unidentified AoE ability in which Morc, Neve, Seren, and Derok get caught. Luckily, only Seren winds up in stasis. Derok baits a reaction from Thomas. Thomas attempts to use Overwhelm with his attack, but the Wild Magic Sorcerer Bends his Luck and doesn’t go into stasis. Now that Thomas is unable to use Warrior’s Tenacity, Derok casts Hold Person on Thomas, twice. Thomas manages to resist the first, but he wasn’t able to do so with the second as Derok Heightened the second spell. This activates another Indigo Wild Magic Event. A Rift Storm appears over the Scar. Every round the Storm will activate a Wild Magic Effect. Dranf uses the Negator this time.

With Thomas paralyzed, Morc goes into his Iass form, his hair turning white and the symbol of his goddess embodying his chest. He attacks Thomas twice and summons 5 Iass Spears. The Spears allow Ives and Neve to attack Thomas with arrows. Thomas does not withstand the barrage of arrows and he falls. The fourth boss of the Indigo Trial is defeated. (Upon summoning the third spear, Morc gains a new Iass ability, the Silver Spear. It allows him to teleport to an enemy within 30 feet if he lands an attack against it.)

Immediately after Thomas goes down, Morc rushes to where the cocaine arrow had landed. Since Seren’s infection has gone up in this fight, the once quiet whispers in her head are now demanding her attention. She now needs to always split her concentration between keeping the voices at bay and maintaining spells (meaning that she makes Concentration Checks at disadvantage). A pillar rises, the Neverend’s cracked mask is restored, and the trial continues.

## Featured Characters

### Main Characters

* Lord Antonius Volnaris
* Ives
* Neve
* Madd Morc
* Seren