Aerois - Episode 120: The Tower of Glass

Katie Morrison as Aila

 Kim Richards as Nova V'ger

Rhiannon Frost as Sentry

 Tom Hazell as Qillek Ad Khollar

**The Tower of Glass** is the 120th episode of the Aerois Campaign. It was broadcast live on both the Yogscast Twitch channel and highrollersdnd Twitch channel on 25th July 2021 from 5PM to 8PM BST.

*The party are on the way to find Herald in the City of Glass...and are attacked by a new kind of Dominator!*

## **Summary**

### **Announcements**

* Mark welcomes everyone and introduces the players.
* Sponsors this week are D&D Beyond and Mag of Holding (by Penny Dragon Games).
* High Rollers played Animal Adventures: the Faraway Sea last Thursday. The YouTube VoD should be available soon.
* This Thursday HR will be playing the new Avatar: Legends RPG using the Powered by the Apocalypse system.
* Merch: Next Sunday the Trell limited edition pin will be released. The Starbane coffee mug is still available.
* Highrollersdnd YouTube channel is 5000 subs away from 100K. The crew requests everyone to subscribe to the YouTube channel.

### **Recap**

*"The party have arrived in the City of Glass, so they can rescue Herald and many Guardians before the allies of Kalus Valkyrian can take the city. With battles raging in the air and outside the city, our champions move through, in search of Herald. On route, they encounter groups of feral Guardians, individuals who have lived past their normal limits and become animalistic creatures. Sentry stops and uses the power of the Matrix to attempt to help several of them, taking in their near dead spirits into the Genesis Relic, and replacing them with brand new souls. Three such Guardians are restored: Archer, Pumpkin and Barrier. With these three in tow, the heroes return to the Temple of Siaksa, where they had once fought against Herald when she was nearly corrupted by Hadar, hoping to find Herald there; but in their place the party comes across a group of Dominators, Guardians who have fully embraced Hadar's corruption, and after a battle rescue two Guardian allies: Smasher and Sweep. Sweep reveals that they remained at the temple to pass on a message if Sentry arrived: Herald has travelled to a huge tower, to recover an old Solwynn relic called the Conduit, which allows certain Guardians to connect over great distances, once used to lure in Guardians to the city for Herald to control and use. Under a fly spell, the party make haste for the tower, and as they arrive, they are confronted by another corrupted Guardian, a Dominator they had encountered long ago who now calls themselves 'Overlord Voracitor'."*
### **Part 1**

*On the way to find Herald in the City of Glass the team are attacked by a new kind of Dominator!*

The flying ship, an Aetherjet, hovers 80 feet above the ground while the party, flying, hovers 20 feet below it: the ship is pointing its weapons at them. The buildings of the city surround them, some translucent, others frosted, but all made of this glass-like resin, transmitting an eerie light around the area. Many of the buildings and statues in the area are broken, and behind the ship is a tall glass tower, clouded and foggy as if made of ice – they cannot see into it. The main entrance is at the base of the tower, currently being blocked by the ship in front of them.

Aila flies up onto the ship and attempts to disable some of its weaponry – this is difficult as the weapons are built into the ship as part of the bodies from which it is made. When Aila blasts it with lightning damage, she notices that it seems to resist some of the damage. Its weapons also begin to hum and crackle with lightning, as if it has channelled the lightning damage that it has resisted into its own weapons. The ship then shunts forwards, attempting to hit her with engine wash which she avoids. Nova moves to hover over a nearby building, but away from the group and *eldritch blasts* the ship – it resists some of the damage, and again channels the resisted energy into its own weapons.

Its main gun, the ‘nose’ of the Aetherjet, uses the stored lightning and force energy and shoots a beam 10 foot wide and 60 foot long from the ship. Quill sacrifices Elder Quill to shove Lucius away from the beam while Quill manages to fly out of the way and avoid most of it; Sentry takes the beam full in the face as it carves through part of the wall of the building nearby. The Aetherjet then flies straight ahead and starts to pivot back towards the party.

Quill flies up to 90 feet in the air and tries to hit it with *sacred flame* but misses. The jet uses its Lifeseeking Missile ability (see trivia) and shoots a missile that targets and moves towards Aila. Lucius holds his sword aloft and uses it to shout across the city, *“Sentinel Prime is here in the City of Glass to offer all Guardians salvation. Any able fighters, seek out the tower! Do not give in to the influence of Hadar!”* His voice bounces off the smooth surfaces of the buildings around them and echoes throughout the city; several panes of glass crack with the reverberation. Voracitor tells Lucius that he is wasting his time and that reinforcements will not matter if he can claim the Prime Matrix.

Lucius then throws a *chromatic orb* of acid at Voracitor who, as a reaction, throws magical chaff: it looks as if the spell will miss, but through his chromatic mastery (seeking spell metamagic), Lucius manages to control the spell to ensure that it hits and adds insult to injury with a streak of Dichromancy.

Sentry moves towards the missile, grapples it, then *misty steps* onto the Aetherjet and slams it into the cockpit. It explodes, damaging both the jet and Sentry – the necrotic damage taken means that neither of them can heal until their next turn. Aila hits the jet with her hammer, then Nova flies over and hits the jet with Tiangong – the *green flame blade* does not seem to power up its engine weapon, even though it demonstrates resistance to it.

The Aetherjet, with Sentry, Aila and Nova hovering above it, shoots upwards 60 feet with *storm assault* – Sentry and Aila move to the side and let it past them while Nova stays attached and takes damage – she loses the ability to fly and has to hang on for dear life. Aila grabs Sentry mid-air as she also loses the ability to fly. The jet angles down towards the ground and sprays Quill with its magitek cannon but misses. Quill casts *mass cure wounds* which heals everyone but Sentry (because of the missile effect). The jet moves 30 feet away, trying to shake Nova off, but she manages to hold on. Lucius hits the jet with another acid-based *chromatic orb* and Dichromancy, and it starts to look heavily damaged.

The jet does another *surging storm: storm assault* – it enshrouds itself with lightning and force energy and blasts forward in the direction it is facing. Nova clings to the jet as it moves and takes damage as it heads towards the tower, smashing into the side, taking damage to itself and damaging the tower. The jet repositions, retreating 30 feet and taking Nova with it. Aila jumps over to the jet, slamming it with her hammer and tearing one of the engines out, destabilising it; with her second attack, she also does lightning damage, and the jet begins to explode from the inside. The jet, now 140 feet in the air, explodes – both Aila and Nova take damage. The jet begins to fall to the ground, and Aila grabs Nova just in time before she follows. The jet is now a smouldering wreck with lightning occasionally arcing over it, and some of the smashed tower has fallen on top of it; Nova watches it for a time, but there is no movement from within.

They make their way into the tower, narrowly avoiding being hit by two crossbow bolts and a beam of light: Herald warns them that they will have to fight if they are with the Dominators. Sentry announces herself and Herald, Chipper and Scout emerge from behind some bookcases; they seem mightily relieved to see her. Herald tells Sentry that she has Rook’s body at the top of the tower next to the Conduit – she used Rook because he had Royal authorisation and his gauntlet imprint allowed her to activate part of the Conduit.

Chipper and Scout nod to Sentry, noting the change in her appearance since they last saw her and saying that they came to the City of Glass because of Herald’s summoning – they hold Breeze accountable for taking them in at Kalie’s Rest and understand that he has now transformed into something else. Sentry tells them that Hadar has taken control: at the mention of Hadar, Quill notices that Herald pulls away from them all. Herald says that the jet they just downed has been harassing them for a few hours and that an airship crashed recently, damaging some of the devices that power the Conduit which Herald believes will help all the Guardians in the City of Glass. Lucius is cautious, asking Sentry if she thinks that Herald is herself and OK – Sentry is fairly certain that she is, but is not sure and will keep a look out.

As they make their way up the tower, they realise how delicate the structure is – some of the stairs have chipped and broken away. Further up, they see the first part of the tower that has not been transmuted to resin, and there is a perfect spherical chamber above them that has been protected from the effect somehow.

They emerge into a room with four crystal lenses with crystals built into them sitting at the cardinal points; most are broken into many pieces. Attached to each lens is a magitek device, and between each pair of crystals around the centre are vine-like connections chaining two gems to each other. Two of the chains are broken and shattered and surrounded by glass and debris from a fallen staircase and ceiling – it looks as if the falling staircase has broken the connection between the gems. The lenses look as if they should be pointing towards the ceiling, but all are twisted, broken and misaligned.

Herald says that the damage only happened recently, when they went downstairs to protect the tower, and that she does not know how to repair the damage. She tells them that the four crystals focus energy up into the Conduit itself, and then those with a Royal designation can reach out and connect with other Guardian matrices within a certain distance. The Conduit was used to coordinate Guardian forces within a city such as Solwynn, Kamina City and many others. Herald has left Rook’s body upstairs so that they can gain access to the Conduit, but they must first fix the damage in this room.

Nova examines the device in the room: each of the gemstones needs to be repaired (which she believes could be done with a mending cantrip, but must be done very carefully), the lenses also need to be realigned which will take precision and a keen eye as well as some strength. The most difficult repair, she thinks, will be the two damaged connecting cables/chains: currently they will not stretch to meet each other, so they will need to be replaced with something that will conduct energy over the 10-15 feet or more where the cables do not meet – Nova suggests that they use their own bodies unless they can find something else long enough that is capable of conducting the energy. Lucius suggests trying to salvage parts from the jet they have just downed and Aila thinks they should check upstairs.

Lucius recommends that Quill checks upstairs once Herald says that it is only the inactive Conduit up there and winks at Quill – Herald sees it and says that she understands that Lucius still has doubts about her, “You have doubts about me, I understand that. I know how close I came to being like them. I have not forgotten what I did in this place, to Rook and many other Guardians: I have not forgotten how close I came. Sentinel Prime gave me a chance to prove myself, to undo the evil that I’ve done here. Please trust me. I want to make good on what I did here, and before the day is done, I will.”

Sentry tells Herald that she has already proven herself. “It is not a matter of proving myself, Sentinel Prime. I understand that I have earned *your* faith, but that doesn’t undo the things I did here. This Voracitor – I was one step away, *one step*, from becoming just like them. You saved me from that – you stopped me before I made that final deal with Hadar, but I killed a lot of Guardians here. I controlled them, I used them like puppets. I need to make that right. I need to give them back the life that I stole from them by helping you and fixing this Conduit.” As hard as it is to read Guardians, Quill is fairly certain that Herald is being sincere.

### **Part 2**

*The party must repair the conduit to use this tower of glass but the Dominators will stop at nothing to destroy it!*

The open room upstairs is mostly translucent and has been affected by the transmutation into glass, except for a small spherical area in the centre of the room where there is a large metal column inscribed with runes and decorated with inlaid crystal and aetherium. Connected to it are chains of warded runes that are engraved into the floor and walls of the tower itself. Rook’s large warrior-like body, engraved with rose and vine themes, lies at the foot of the metal column with his hand resting up against it – they know that he had been one of the bodyguards of Queen Astoria of Sowynn, and that he was once known to Sentry. Quill does not note anything that would indicate Hadar corruption about Rook’s body, and suspects that the runes provided the warding that protected the contents of this tower from damage when the structures fell. He also notices that there are sections in the floor that have metal discs in them, and he believes that the focusing lenses from the room below need to be pointing into these in order to capture the magical energy. There does not appear to be anything to repair upstairs.

Herald gestures to Rook’s body and tells Sentry that she hopes that once they are finished in the tower, she will be able to speak to him again: she knows that when a Guardian goes feral there is still an ember of life in their matrix, but she is not sure whether this happens when a Guardian is destroyed. Sentry attempts to connect to Rook’s matrix and feels that it is cold and lifeless – there is not a soul inside with which she can communicate. It appears that if a Guardian falls in combat or their matrix is destroyed, that is their end. Sentry wonders if there is any way to get him back – Herald says that Root may have answers, and that there were other bearers, Primes, before Root; they do not even know where the Prime Matrix came from.

Herald says that while they do not worship gods, they should have faith that there is an answer and a way to save Guardian spirits when they are gone. She says that the Prime Matrix may have a greater power and purpose than just returning a tired spirit to its embrace and replenishing a Guardian’s lifespan, and that she believes that Sentry may be the one to find out what this greater purpose is.

Nova and Lucius start to attempt to repair the broken gemstones. Lucius starts to panic a little and Nova has to calm him down. They repair one crystal each. Nova does well, but Lucius uses the same technique he used on the Stormchaser to mend the damaged spear shard of Tiangong, and he is taken back to when his lung was pierced, he could not breathe and was dying – he cannot focus and thinks that he may have made some mistakes. Nova drops everything to talk to him: he tells her that he is not coping, and Nova says that she can sympathise. The way that she manages the pressure of knowing that they are trying to save the universe is to break things down into manageable tasks; right now they are here to help Sentry, and that means fixing these crystals – they can deal with the other things later. Tiangong chimes in to say that it takes a being of significant power to mend an Eterna, and that both Nova and Tiangong believe in Lucius’ abilities.

They move onto the next crystals: Lucius has listened to Nova and Tiangong, but while he trust Nova, his mind is taken back in flashes to him and Sentry being trapped in another dimension with Hadar, with a feeling of emptiness and nothingness washing over him. His mind drifts, and while the gem looks to be repaired, it is, in fact, full of tiny cracks that make the gem incredibly brittle.

Sentry and Aila go outside to see if they can salvage something from the Aetherjet. They hear and feel a booming noise and reverberation – it could be a stampede of many things or a single giant footstep echoing throughout the city. Neither Sentry nor Aila know what parts they are looking for in the mangled remains of the downed jet, so they grab whatever they think will be useful as they hear that loud noise getting closer and closer. When they drag in what they have salvaged, none of it is useful for bridging the gaps in the chains. It appears that they will have to use their bodies to bridge the gaps – Nova suggests Aila and herself as the volunteers.

Herald goes up to the upper room ready to activate the Conduit once there is power and says that she will call for Sentry when it is time to use the device – she suggests that they hurry; if the noise they are hearing is the feral guardians, she says that using the Conduit will allow Sentry to stop them. Nova plants the Rod of Alertness on the floor, which lights up the room and makes them all a little harder to hit for 10 minutes. Once Herald is upstairs, she activates the Conduit; the crystals downstairs begin to hum with power, and the runes on the floor light up. The three crystals that are connected spark to life and raw magic begins to flow between them and channels up to the roof. The crystal to the south has two broken chains, however, and the magic flails everywhere.

Nova and Aila step into the spaces. Aila is raging, and Nova casts *alter* self to give her body vents to allow the excess magic to drain away. They pick up the ends of the chains: Aila has endured much worse on the bow of the Stormchaser while flying in to the Valley of Storms, but for Nova, it is quite painful - it feels like her insides are on fire and her blood is burning. As they hold onto the chains, they experience flashed visions of thousands of Guardians screaming and crying in rage, fear, hunger, and loneliness. The Conduit appears to be drawing in the voices of all nearby Guardians and channelling them through the two who are completing the circuit. They maintain the connection for 5-10 minutes, and the others watch as the chamber fills with crackling lightning and thunder. Over this din, Quill can hear from outside the scrabbling of a large number of feral guardians, but also an indistinct and muffled voice: this is followed by the sound of metal snapping together and the thunderous boom of a single noise from outside the tower. Herald yells down that the Conduit is still not charged and will need a little bit longer.

Quill and Sentry run for the staircase, but before they can get there, something smashes through three of the walls of the tower. It is gigantic, as tall as the middle section of the tower. The creature is a giant Dominator – it is made up of multiple Dominators such as they fought outside the Temple of Siaska. Its fists have come through the east and west walls, and its face, with six glowing eyes, has created a hole in the south wall. A booming voice is heard, “Sentinel Prime detected. Under orders of Voracitor, engaging now”.

The right hand is like a giant metal gauntlet. The left hand is a giant cannon and there is an orange glow coming from deep within it. The head has six red eyes and is scanning around; as it is looks directly forwards, the magic in the device shuts off. Aila notices that she also feels less strong than normal – her magical belt and hammer are not working as they normally would. She rushes forward and smacks the giant in the side of the head, twice: its central eye flickers off, no longer glowing red, and all magic starts to function again, including in the device behind her. Aila returns to gather the loose ends of the chains again. The right hand punches Aila, grappling and restraining her and sucking the life force out of her.

Lucius throws an acid *chromatic orb* at the hand, and it drops her (for a moment he had not been able to feel magic until Aila had hit the head, then it came back on like a light switch). Nova creates a column with a *wall of light* in front of the creature’s head. Sentry enlarges and moves to the left hand – she sees the cannon hand starting to glow with power and feels heat building within it before it slams into her.

The red light on the head comes back on, suppressing any magical effects within its field which is a 60 foot cone (*antimagic field*). It then fires three rays at Sentry from its eyes: two pink rays and a black ray – she deflects the pink rays and avoids the black ray that destroys the staircase behind her.

Aila moves forward and hits the head twice again: the *antimagic field* drops as the central eye shuts off again, armour plating begins to fall off it, and it begins to smoke as the damage starts to take its toll. Herald yells down to them that they need to hold it off for a little while longer until the charging finishes. Aila is attacked again by the right hand, grappled and restrained, although she is still channelling magic through the device.

Lucius moves to the side of the room and fires another acidic *chromatic orb* at the head, melting it to slag – his Dichromancy hits the hand grappling Aila, but does not free her. Sentry gets underneath the giant left hand and pushes the cannon towards the roof and away from her allies, telling them to duck. This comes just in time as the hand cannon lets loose a geyser of flame that has been building up – it fills the entire room, but they just manage to avoid the damage. Quill’s *guiding bolt* does not manage to free Aila from the right hand.

Herald calls down to Sentry to come up because they are almost ready. The hands are still trying to reach them and the crystals, but Sentry hears something smash from up above as she starts to head upstairs…

## **YouTube Timestamps**

0:00 Mark trying to get out of frame
0:40 Out of frame again
1:51 1st sponsor: D&D Beyond
4:12 2nd sponsor: Penny Dragon Games
5:46 Pennywise Games
6:08 Animal Adventures: The Faraway Sea One-Shot
7:46 Avatar Legends RPG mini series
9:02 Sippin' Starbane mugs
9:16 Trellimar pin available August 1, 2021
10:34 HR suffered a real loss
10:59 5k away from Youtube Silver play button
12:24 Dun Duns
13:24 Recap starts
13:39 Recap starts
15:21 Recap ends
16:50 Battle map is out
17:57 Roll initiative
18:40 Low initiative team rolls
21:36 Annoyed at going first
22:17 Get on top of it
24:39 Resistant AND absorbs lightning
25:21 1st legendary action: Storm Assault
26:43 Aila's turn again...maybe?
26:55 Gun and run
27:51 Resistant AND absorbs force, too
29:46 2nd legendary action: Re-position
30:16 Aether Jet fires lightning, force beam
31:32 Might switch to physical dice
32:12 Elder Quill to the rescue
37:22 Legendary action: Life-seeking missile
40:00 Lucius uses the Captain's Command
40:47 Mariah Carey bottle cap challenge
41:28 Aether jet uses Magical Chaff
41:53 Seeking spell
43:16 Full acid damage
44:15 2nd legendary action: Pivot
44:40 Can I TAKE THE MISSILE
47:35 Voracitor the Chipmunk
51:41 Resistant to fire
52:16 Aether jet's turn: Storm assault
55:12 Nova's fly spell drops
57:08 Roll a d6 and I'm gonna shoot you
59:36 Mass Cure Wounds
1:00:16 Jet sound effect
1:00:37 Legendary action: Reposition
1:02:13 2nd Magical Chaff used
1:03:42 Legendary action: Storm assault
1:04:56 Almost max damage
1:05:30 Aether jet rams into tower
1:06:54 The Tower
1:07:56 It's in whacking range
1:08:12 Katie's 1st Nat 20 of the night
1:09:46 Lightning finisher
1:12:54 The jet doesn't transform?
1:15:45 Exactly at 69 hit points
1:16:26 Herald is safe in the tower
1:17:36 Where's Rook?
1:19:36 Herald's reaction to Hadar & Dominators
1:21:24 Lucius to Sentry via messenger rings
1:23:06 Conduit chamber map is out
1:28:00 Power cables is the biggest issue
1:28:56 Everyone can be a conduit
1:30:07 Nova's plan
1:31:27 Salvage Lord Voracitor's ship
1:32:10 Herald sees Lucius winking
1:32:24 Herald's guilt
1:33:12 The DM smiles ominously
1:35:12 You had to wink
1:36:29 Throbbing perception, gorging insight
1:36:39 Break starts
1:36:53 Battle predictions
1:38:15 Tom was the culprit, not the mods
1:38:26 Sponsor: MANSCAPED
1:44:15 No snacks for Rhi
1:46:58 Herald is the Winter Soldier
1:47:22 Break ends
1:49:48 Does Rook look Hadar-ian
1:51:34 Herald is Hadar
1:51:57 Insight the DM. DC 1
1:52:37 Herald is with the group
1:54:01 Talk to Rook now
1:54:41 Rook's soul is gone
1:58:36 Nova helps with Lucius' panicking
2:00:10 Dexterous with Mending
2:01:46 Lucius finally opens up
2:02:38 Compartmentalizing
2:03:25 Peptalk from Daddygong
2:04:34 All down to the roll
2:05:56 Only the audience knows
2:06:41 Something's coming
2:07:25 The best investigators
2:09:03 Actual garbage
2:10:07 Just like Aegis V
2:11:58 Herald also heals everyone
2:14:56 Rod of Alertness's Protective Aura
2:17:25 Katie's 2nd Nat 20
2:18:36 DM reasons for Alter Self
2:20:15 Pales in comparison to Divine Lightning
2:23:43 Huge Dominator Fists
2:24:59 Everyone's positions
2:24:19 Roll initiative AGAIN
2:25:49 Katie's 3rd Nat 20
2:26:28 Right and Left Hand description
2:27:04 Antimagic cone
2:29:23 Antimagic is off
2:36:56 GET BIG TIME!
2:38:41 Antimagic is back on
2:39:32 Artifacts aren't affected
2:40:31 Beholder-like ray beams
2:41:59 Mark struggling with ruling
2:43:12 Antimagic cone negates rays
2:45:28 Aila's magical muscles
2:45:48 TRIGGER WARNING: Red triangle
2:46:01 Rolling 4th Nat 20!!!
2:49:43 Lucius finishes the head
2:51:05 Lift that giant hand
2:55:36 Herald calls for Sentry
2:56:01 Something smashes up above
2:56:32 Outro/Donations
2:57:07 When the booty claps
2:58:34 Cinematic moves are cooler
2:59:29 FFXIV combats inspire and work
3:00:26 Donations
3:02:55 Burn bridges and only Aerois
3:07:01 Good-byes

## **Featured Characters**

#### **The Stormchasers (Player Characters)**

* Aila
* Nova V'ger
* Lucius Virion-Elluin Elenasto
* Qillek Ad Khollar
* Sentry

#### **Returning NPCs**

* Herald
* Chipper (a woodworking Guardian they met in Kalie’s Rest)
* Scout (a friend of Tracker’s they met in Kalie’s Rest)
* Rook

#### **Mentioned NPCs**

* Tracker
* Sweep
* Smasher

## **Featured Locations**

* Gisella
	+ City of Glass/Kamina City

## **Trivia**

* Mark accidentally referred twice to Penny Dragon Games as Pennywise Games.
* Voracitor’s ship has the following legendary actions:
	+ Surging Storm: Storm Assault – the jet enshrouds itself in lightning and force damage and blasts forward in the direction it is facing. Any player on top or nearby can spend a reaction to move 10 feet out of the way or roll a Dex saving throw to avoid getting hit by engine wash. Damage is 5d6 lightning damage and 5d10 force damage.
	+ Reposition – the ship can pivot to bring players into its weapons' focus.
	+ Scatter Fire: targets each creature in a 60 foot cone, doing 4d6 force damage to any creature it hits.
	+ Lifeseeking Missile – a small red aura begins to glow around the character with the most hit points. A red shard of crystal drops from the Aetherjet and launches towards the targeted creature, moving 30 feet when launched and every turn thereafter until it impacts with its target.
	+ **Damage**: Stored magic damage – 5d6 damage of each type of magic stored within it (plus 1d6 for the actual absorbed magic).
	+ **Movement**: can move 60 feet and pivot 90 degrees (max).
	+ **Reaction** (3 max): Magical chaff – the jet throws out scraps of metal and other junk causing any attack to be made at disadvantage.
* When Sentry uses its own missile against the Aetherjet, Mark uses his soundboard to have Voracitor complain bitterly about the damage. Unfortunately for immersion, his complaint comes out in chipmunk voice.
* To repair the device in the tower is a set of skill challenges:
	+ Repairing the gems needs either a plain Dex check (DC is higher than 4 but less than 12... maybe 10?) to use precision sculpt or use spells like Mending, or use investigation (DC is lower than 15... maybe 10?) to do fine detailed putting things back together using more of an intellectual approach. (Mark says in part 1 that Nova thinks that it would take a mending cantrip and an Int check DC? or arcane focus/concentration for each).
	+ Aligning the lenses requires a perception check (DC <27) and an athletics check (DC <29) to reposition (although he says in part 1 that it requires precision/keen eye/Dex and Str to reposition).
	+ To salvage items from the Aetherjet requires an Int check in order to know what to bring back. DC?
	+ To connect the chains requires a constitution check (DC>19) or take 3d10 psychic damage.
* Tom mentions that everyone in chat is talking about his throbbing perception, but that they have not talked about his gorging insight.
* Mark did not predict Sentry’s teleport slam dunk, but he did think there would be some shenanigans (like gust of wind to blow it back, knocking it away or absorbing it), which is why he gave the missiles AC and hit points.
* Mark blamed the mods for putting a poll in Twitch Chat: it was actually Tom who started the poll (he admitted this at the break). The poll was:

* At one point, Tom asks who is with him in the room: Mark replies Aila, Nova, Quill, Sentry and Hadar. Tom thinks that Mark has given something away, but Mark says that with two things beginning with H (Hadar and Herald), his brain will do funny things. Kim wants to insight check the DM, which reveals that he misspoke.
* Sentry pushing the left hand up saved the party from taking 11d6 (38) fire damage.
* There was a mechanic with the head that if it took 40 points of damage, the *antimagic cone* would switch off.
* Mark mentioned that his boss fights have increasingly been inspired by boss fights from Final Fantasy XIV.