Aerois - Episode 121: Call of the Herald

Katie Morrison as Aila

 Kim Richards as Nova V'ger

Rhiannon Frost as Sentry

 Tom Hazell as Qillek Ad Khollar

**Call of the Herald** is the 121st episode of the Aerois Campaign. It was broadcast live on both the Yogscast Twitch channel and highrollersdnd Twitch channel on 1st August 2021 from 5PM to 8PM BST.

*The fate of the Guardian race hangs in the balance as Overlord Voracitor challenges Sentinel Prime to a duel!*

## **Summary**

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### **Recap**

*"Seeking to aid Sentry in her quest to rescue the Guardian race, the party have reached the Conduit Tower in the City of Glass. Outside, above the transmuted city streets, the party faced off against a flying war machine controlled by Overlord Voracitor, leader of the Hadar-corrupted guardians who now call themselves the Dominators.*
*Destroying the airborne construct, the party rush down and into the tower itself, where they find Herald and two other guardian allies defending the tower. Herald explains that the magical devices used to power the Conduit were damaged since she was last here; she needs their help to repair it. Working together, the party restore the ancient Solwynn enchantments but as they took the final steps to do so, a giant construct smashed sections of the tower to assault them and as the battle goes on Sentry is called to the Conduit above to begin the ritual whilst the others must defend the power crystals as it goes on."*
### **Part 1**

*A titan Dominator is attacking the tower and Overlord Voracitor challenged Sentinel Prime to a duel!*

(Mark announced that he has made some tweaks to Lucius’ abilities and to his prismatic gauntlet: his abilities will now be able to be used to alter magitek and dragon’s breath abilities, but spellbreaker will still be a little more limited it its use.)

Herald calls again to Sentry saying that they have one chance to activate and use the Conduit before it is destroyed – there are feral Guardians swarming everywhere. There is the sound of breaking glass from something smashing through the wall of the room above. Herald confirms that Aila and Nova must continue to complete the circuit until Sentry has used the Conduit.

The two giant hands of Destructor (the giant Dominator) continue to pose a threat to the party in the room below. Aila hits the right hand and Lucius casts a twinned *chromatic orb*, only hitting the right hand with acid. Nova shoots a beam from the *wall of light* at the right hand, severing one of the fingers. The right hand grapples Aila again and starts to drain her life force.

Sentry drops the hand, casts *protection from energy (fire)* on Nova and heads upstairs: when she reaches the top, Chipper and Scout are pressed up against the wall, huddled in fear and Herald stands protectively in front of the Conduit. There is a giant hole in the ceiling above Herald, and standing in front of her is a Dominator, powerfully built and resembling Sentry, but all in black stone and metal and red musculature. Overlord Voracitor looks at Sentry, “Ah, Sentinel Prime, I’ve been waiting for this. This sort of thing should be handled between the true successors of our people’s future”. Sentry can still see subtle hints of what once was Breeze, a Guardian that desperately wanted to help his people, now thoroughly twisted and glutted on the power of Hadar. “Let us finish this,” he says to Sentry, “one against one”.

The left hand hits Lucius in the face. Quill casts *sacred flame* on the right hand and then moves behind the *wall of light* – as he approaches the opening where the head had been, he can see the titanic body of Destructor below him. Crawling up the body like a scaffold are perhaps 300 feral Guardians with more heading their way – Lucius’ call and the sound of the construct fighting have summoned them to the tower. Quill is too stunned to speak, just staring at the oncoming tide, and behind him there is a sudden hideous cracking and then an eruption as one of the lens crystals explodes (it is the last one that Lucius fixed). The crystal is broken into millions of tiny pieces and the power that was coursing up into the Conduit fades to nothing. Nova knows that she will have to replace the crystal to get the Conduit working again.

Aila breaks free of the grappling hand and hits it again, knocking some of the armour plating off it. Lucius stands, shocked and horrified, staring at where the lens was – he holds his hands up to his head and mutters an apology over and over again; he is unable to act. Nova calls out to him that it is not his fault, but that failure is an opportunity to begin again; she moves up to look at the shattered lens to see what she can use to replace it. The giant right hand grapples her and pulls her backwards.

Sentinel Prime faces off against her opponent, pulling up her sword and lowering her purple visor. “You are no successor to the Prime. You are a vessel of vanity and greed that only serves to consume you and everything around you. You have no legacy here.” This enrages Voracitor, who has an energy cannon on one arm and a flail with a barb-headed end (The Fist of Avarice) in his other hand. Sentry hits him with her first blow, but he ripostes the second, knocking Her Majesty’s Rose out of her hand and across the room, saying, “Foolish Prime. Clearly you have not been working on your warrior skills, hanging around with your fleshy friends. Too much time home making, not enough time war making.” He hits her with his flail but misses with his eldritch hand cannon which blasts a hole in the wall behind Sentry.

Down below, the giant left hand shoots its cannon, filling the room with flame and burning everyone in the room downstairs. Quill casts *sacred flame* at the right hand grappling Nova and the golden feathers tear off a few more metal plates. He then flies over to some glass debris to see if he can find something large enough to act as a replacement lens for the machine. With one hit, Aila destroys the right hand, so she heads to the left hand and hits it, stunning the cannon.

Lucius takes a deep breath, strengthens his resolve, and goes over to help Quill. Lucius sees differently to other people – his magic revolves around colour. When he looks at the other lenses, they give off a prismatic, magical hue – the glass on the floor is wrong somehow in that it is clear and lifeless: there is no light to it. He thinks that he might be able to make something out of ice that is similar to the lenses, so tells Quill to stop looking. Nova moves back to her place in the Conduit and shoots another beam from the *wall of light* at the left hand, tearing metal plates off it.

Meanwhile, Sentry drops and rolls, reclaiming Her Majesty’s Rose, hitting Voracitor and knocking him prone. He responds by gripping Sentry’s side and sucking out some of her life force, healing himself in the process: “You denied me your power once, Prime, but I will take it if I must. I will rip out your optics!” He tries to grab one of Sentry’s eyes, but misses, hitting her instead in the side of the head. Herald calls out offering to help and Sentry accepts it causing Voracitor to scorn Sentry for accepting aid in a one-on-one battle.

The giant cannon hand cannot fire, so just smacks Aila in the face. Quill heals Nova and casts *guidance* on Lucius: he then sees the first of the feral guardians starting to squeeze through the hole in the wall left by the machine’s head. Fortunately, the opening can only fit four of the swarm through at a time.

Aila hits the left hand three times, removing most of the armour plating; the cannon is bent inwards, lightning is arcing up and down and it begins to smoke. Lucius turns and sees the swarm of feral guardians; he becomes angry, shouts “You’re not welcome here!”, points his finger at them and casts *prismatic spray*. A rainbow of colours hits the swarm: many are incinerated, some are electrocuted, some choke and gag on poison, and a large number seem to be blinded and then go transparent – the swarm halts under this incredible display of magic. Lucius turns and nods to Quill, his eyes shimmering in prismatic colour rather than the usual orange and blue, then turns away, starting to shape an icy prism between his hands that he can fit into the machine. Nova hits the left hand with *eldritch blast* and destroys it, revealing yet more feral guardians making for the hole in the side of the tower.

Sentry wrestles with Voracitor, telling him that without her friends she is nothing. This amuses him, “That’s right, Prime. Without these pathetic individuals holding you up, you are nothing. I am the true inheritor of our race!” Sentry is riled, “My friends make me strong; your greed makes you weak!” Voracitor tries to blast Sentry in the leg with his cannon to prevent her from running – it knocks her back 10 feet, making her teeter on the edge of the hole he previously blasted in the wall. Voracitor stands and gloats, “Ah, I thought you would be more of a challenge, Prime. To see you so pathetic before me, it seems that Root failed in his successor. Still, perhaps Hadar will find a place for you after I am done.” He raises his cannon point blank at Sentry, but a piece of glass, shaken loose from the ceiling by Sentry’s collision with the wall, falls and ruins his aim. Herald casts *healing word* on Sentry.

Quill, still amazed at what Lucius managed to do previously, casts T*hunderwave* at the onrushing feral Guardians, doing damage and pushing them backwards – it holds them back for a short while. Aila lifts the giant hand, spilling feral guardians back outside the hole – she pushes it into the breach and uses it to hold the feral horde back from this side of the tower.

Lucius creates a *vitriolic sphere* and uses his chromatic control to change the magic and create a magical lens of ice – it Is beautifully crafted and sized perfectly. He gives the ice crystal to Nova who places it in the machine: the Conduit lights up, but the chains are still broken and need to be connected.

### **Part 2**

*Sentry makes her final stand against Overlord Voracitor in the tower of glass! It's time to raise a Guardian army!*

Nova has fitted the replacement lens in place and starts to move back to her place between the broken links on the eastern side of the room. Sentry raises her sword, points it at Overlord Voracitor, saying, “The Prime and this world will never be yours. It’s time to put you down, Lord Voracitor” and runs directly at him, trying to impale his matrix with Her Majesty’s Rose. She hits it, causing him pain and forming a crack along its surface: Voracitor looks badly injured, saying, “No, I am the only one that can save our race! You will lead them to doom, I will lead us to glory!” With her blade stuck in his chest, Voracitor punches Sentry in the face, grabbing onto one of her eye sockets and trying to remove it.

Quill casts another T*hunderwave* to push the wave of feral Guardians to the south of the tower back. Aila is still holding the giant hand in the breach to the west of the tower; Lucius, seeing her preoccupied, steps up and connects himself to the circuit. Nova casts *wall of light* in the gap to the south to try to block off the entry to the feral Guardians trying to enter the tower there, then re-connects to the circuit. The Conduit, the metallic pillar in the room above with an oval crystal at its tip, glows with golden light like the Prime Matrix. Herald turns and places her hand on the column, her eyes turn golden like Sentry had seen in her first visions, and she leans with her hand held out to Sentry, “Prime, now!” Sentry punches Voracitor, her hand digging into his metal jaw, and she activates her flame lance at the same time, shooting a gouge of fire into his head, “My strength comes from those who believe in me, I need to be strong for them. You’re weak here, Voracitor”. He screams as the flame erupts through his metal skull. He falls to the ground clutching his face and in agony says, “No! I cannot fail! Hadar will…please, Sentinel Prime! Hadar will consume us all!” His body collapses and his matrix begins to crystallise and collapse.

Sentry turns to Herald with her hand extended, and as soon as their hands touch, Sentry’s vision turns bright golden. For a moment, she is floating free in the golden river within the Prime Matrix, the river that is filled with the souls and sentiences of an untold number of Guardians: alongside Sentry is Herald’s presence. Herald appears in a white spectral form, all the battle damage has been repaired – her limbs and wings are whole, and she looks resplendent like she did in those early visions. Herald opens her eyes, and they appear to stretch on forever as she speaks, “Sentinel Prime, I am connected to approximately 798 Guardians present here in the City of Glass. I’m afraid this may be the only time we can use the Conduit. I don’t think it will be able to last any other transferences, but right now we have a chance to reach all of them.” Sentry tells her that she will go ahead despite the potential consequences. Sentry reaches out, assisted by Herald – Sentry is prepared for the strain of trying to reach so many Guardians, but Herald sacrifices herself to take it instead. The crew downstairs see the feral Guardian swarm pushing into the room and tripping over each other…suddenly stop. Their dull, lightless matrices and eyes suddenly flare to life.

In a matter of moments, Sentry pulls in and sends out surges of Guardian souls, hundreds of them. All of them, whether they are being reclaimed by the Prime Matrix or being released from it, are channelled through Herald: it tires and exhausts her, slowly but surely draining her of everything she has left. Eventually, it stops, and Herald’s form collapses – Sentry grabs and supports her spectral from. Herald whispers weakly, “I…wanted…to thank you. I did not deserve a second chance. Thank you for giving me one.” Sentry thanks Herald for all she has done, tells her how amazing she has been and that she will always be a part of her. “Till all are one,” whispers Herald as her spectral form within the Prime Matrix diminishes to a quiet bare speck – Sentry knows that she is safe within the Prime Matrix, but will not recover for a very long time.

From behind the *wall of light*, Quill and Nova hear a voice, “Friends of Sentinel Prime, we no longer represent a threat. Please allow us to pass through.” Nova drops the wall and they see an army of rusted and broken Guardians pulling themselves into the room. Some of them stand at attention, others slouch and hunch in strange ways, another walks over and tips a hat that it is not wearing, “Thank ye kindly, friends of Sentinel Prime. I’m Lasso. I believe that there’s quite a few of us here who are ready to serve our purpose. There’s a few more in the city, and we’re currently engaging the forces outside the City of Glass, but I’m not sure that we’re going to have much safety here. Many of the forces are en route.” Quill invites the Guardians to come upstairs to meet their Prime.

Sentry is on her knees in front of the Conduit holding Herald’s collapsed body: what was once a golden frame has now turned slate grey and is completely lifeless. Sentry is clearly moved by Herald’s sacrifice, but she says that Herald served her purpose and is within her now. They see three Guardians emerge from behind a pillar in the room: Chipper, Scout and another Guardian, familiar and missing a hand: the body of Rook places a hand on Sentry’s shoulder. Sentry flies to him and gives him a great big hug, astounded that he is back. The Guardian announces that he is not Rook, but Bishop, and that Rook needs much more rest – he is now safe within the Prime Matrix and resting. Bishop was Queen Astoria’s other protector, and he is here to replace Rook.

This moment of peace and triumph is broken by the sound of artillery from outside, and Quill gets a fragmented message from Dannica, “*Qillek…turned guns…your position…given up…en route…friends…escape plan…*” Quill sends a message to try to tell her where they are and tells the rest of the party that they must work out how to escape. Chipper reminds Sentry about the Guardians and rebels outside the City. Bishop calls the order, “Guardians! It’s time to put these new bodies to use. We march to war. Let’s go help our brothers and those who aided us!” The Guardians take weapons from the Dominator, from fallen Guardians and broken glass from their surroundings. They surge back down out of the tower to deliver an unexpected blow to the Gisellan forces outside the city.

Sentry picks up Herald’s body, but knowing that she is exhausted, Aila offers to carry Herald for her, which Sentry gratefully accepts. Outside the tower, they see not only Horizon, but also airships with the blue, white and silver banners of Gusthaven, and as they are leaving the tower, one familiar airship, now repaired, flies past them – the Stormchaser has come to them, and they see the familiar faces of Kamarra, Howard, Faeth and Penny. They notice that there have been modifications, still unfinished, that appear to be trying to enclose the open portion of the deck. The ballistae have been replaced with arcane cannons. They notice Penny and Thalia in the cannons, screaming at and firing on their enemies, while Azaria Perell appears to be monitoring performance. The Stormchaser swoops down low enough for them to board, and Oriya calls to them to apologise for being late.

The Gisellan forces were not expecting a counterattack – they resist for about an hour before they retreat. This gives them enough time to gather the Guardians and the Sanzesian Defence forces (the guerrillas fighters) onto Horizon so that they can leave. Quill is still keen to seek out this treasure that he has had the map for since the beginning when he found Sentry: at the word “treasure”, Oriya’s eyes light up. Lucius agrees and the Stormchaser makes a beeline for the spot on the treasure map. Dannica sends them a message telling them where to rendezvous after they have finished with their exploration. Lucius thanks Nova for her inspirational talk, for giving him the resolve, and admits that he has had some problems lately, is still going through things and is not sleeping: he says that he does wish to talk about his problems more. Nova reads to him from a small scroll that was given to her by her father:

> *You must never give into despair. Allow yourself to slip down that road and you surrender to your lowest instincts. In the darkest times, hope is something your give yourself, and that is the meaning of inner strength.*
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She gives the scroll to Lucius to keep which clearly means a lot to him, but he says that he “needs to do captain things” and walks off with his eyes welling up. Aila entertains the crew with tales of their battles: the wolf pack is totally enamoured, and Howard is the best audience one could hope for.

They take a long rest while Quill shows Oriya where to go to get to the glade marked on the map.

It takes a few hours to get to the tranquil glade with an old, ruined statue – they think that it could have been an old holy site or a memorial. The statue is of an enormous Dragon, but it looks nothing like the Dragonborn of Korsadi: it looks like a Devil and a Demon combined with a Dragon. It has fiendish qualities: jagged scales, horns and spiked tails, and looks vicious and evil. Standing up to it, holding an elongated katana, is a caped knight; at his side is a young boy in a simple tabard, his squire, carrying a lance, and the two of them are facing off against the Dragon.

Quill reads the note on the map:

*The knight and his squire were laid to rest in a tomb a day’s pilgrimage from the City of Glass. The lance they had used to defend our world stood between them; a symbol passed down between heroes. A statue of the great deed, the death of the Hell Dragon, Lazengorath, built in a great glade of flowers and stone, shrines to our beloved Star Mother.*

Quill thinks there must be a complex somewhere underneath but cannot see a way in: he casts *detect magic* and sees an inscription on the front of the statue:

> *May a knight and a squire, hearts conjoined, for whom towards spirals a path of destiny may pass.*
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Quill thinks that Sentry could pass as a knight but is not sure who the squire could be. Nova tells Quill that when he first met Sentry, he attended to her, carried for her, and travelled with her - she thinks that Quill is the squire. Sure enough, when Sentry and Quill approach the statue together, there is a greenish glow around the knight and the squire, and the base begins to retract to show them an opening with a staircase leading down.

The rest of the party stays on the ship with Faeth fussing over Lucius and making sure that he’s eaten and comfortable. Lucius goes down to the crew quarters to talk with the wolf pack and invites them to get off the ship and run around outside – they gladly do so, having play fights with each other and generally having fun away from the confines of the ship. Aila goes down to the statue and decides that she will enjoy being back in touch with nature by have a nap on the grass within viewing distance of the entrance to the underground passage.

Within the passageway, there is occasionally a sentry ward that seems to scan them, but nothing happens otherwise. Once they are far enough down the stairs, the main doorway behind them closes. At the base of the staircase are the tombs of a platoon of warriors in multiple side chambers: the tombs are marked with the symbol of a flaming skull with a split lance behind it - these look like the tombs of war heroes. At the end, in a large antechamber are two sarcophagi, one slightly smaller than the other. One is carved with the effigy of a great knight with a curved blade while the smaller effigy is the squire holding the lance. As they approach, the room grows cold, the light dims and there is a faint green glow as two spectral figures emerge. One is a large knight with flowing long hair and a big grin on his face, wearing a suit of armour with a long cape and a large curved sword perched on his shoulder. Beside him stands a young man, his tabard loose-fitting and wearing a neckerchief, a simple tunic and big boots – he carries the lance; he smiles and nods at them. The knight offers his hand to them and Sentry takes it: she is given a flash of images of the Valkyrian war.

> *Sentry sees a great beast summoned – a Hell Dragon, a beast from another world brought here to serve as some great line-breaking monster, wreaking havoc across Aerois long before as a way to disrupt forces, and flying from place to place. The knight, in battered and broken armour, not the pure armour she sees the ghost and statue in, but broken and battered with the curved sword on one shoulder, is standing up to it, leading a gaggle of what look to be bandits, brigands and ruffians brought together by this cause. They leap from mountains onto the Dragon’s back, plunging in daggers with chains, and as they fall to the ground they attempt to slam the chains into the ground, trying to hold the beast down while the knight tries to chop at it and fight. Meanwhile, cowering, is this young boy, this squire, with no weapon in his hands. On top of the Dragon itself is a wicked-looking Valkyrian knight with the lance that Sentry had seen: she notes that it is made from a kind of alloy that she has never seen before and it glows with a purple energy. As they fight, the two of them clash, the Dragon breathing fire and bringing death to all the brigands and companions: eventually the knight on the ground throws his curved sword and impales the other knight who falls from its mount, the lance tumbling from his hand, but not before the knight on the ground is impaled by one of the dragon’s claws. As he looks over to the young boy, he grins. The young boy picks up the lance that was dropped by the mounted knight and charges forward, stabbing the Dragon’s body, impaling it, killing it, delivering a final blow with the impressive lance that seems to almost surge with light when he uses it.*
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The vision ends. The knight nods at the boy then kneels to him in respect. The boy holds out his hand. Quill takes his hand:

> *Quill sees the boy holding the lance, his friends lying dead around him; some of the brigands who still survive pick him up and herald him as a hero. They take him to towns, and as he grows older, he becomes a soldier and he takes the place of the caped man that was fighting before him. He takes the lance to great weaponsmiths and arcanists to remove what they think is the taint of Valkyrian, replacing it with a magic of their own, with enchantments and powers of Solwynn and other nations. As the boy uses it, it becomes an extremely powerful weapon, and he uses it to bring down giant Valkyrian mechanical troops and war machines until eventually he, too, is felled in battle. Those who survived take him and the corpses of the soldiers and bury them in this tomb: the lance is buried with the boy.*
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It it is not known what land the knight and the boy came from: it appears that they did not come from any noble houses, but that they were peasants, raiders or bandits who rose up out of nothing, found a legendary weapon and used it to go on fighting and defeating Starbane’s forces. Quill tells the spirits who they are and that they do not mean to disturb their rest. The bigger man just grins and waves at him, seemingly unable to speak. He puts his big hand on Quill’s shoulder, then takes the squire’s hand and Quill reads his lips when he says, “We are brothers. Our job was to carve a path towards the future for all those that would follow it. We were miners, drillers, diggers. It was always our job to carve the way for the next generation.” Quill tells him, “We will continue that journey for you, for future generations so that others may take our path as well.” The knight nods at him, “Be bold, be strong, be brave. Live well, die well.” The ghosts begin to fade and the lids of their sarcophagi glow and split in half and slide to the sides.

Inside the squire’s sarcophagus is a lance, looking more like a giant spear that one would wield on foot. Along its conical shaft are lines of silvery metal and runes that seem to go down the trace of it. Quill hears a whisper, he thinks from the squire’s ghost, the name of the lance, “Starbreaker”.

They notice runes on the sarcophagi – the names of the knight and his squire. The knight has the same name as the City of Glass: Sir Kamina. His squire’s name is Simon. Sentry turns to face Quill and places a hand on his shoulder – Quill hugs her and she returns it genuinely. Quill thanks Sentry for protecting him for the time that he has known her and swears that if she will be the knight, he is content to be the squire. Sentry thanks Quill for waking her and giving her a future – she says that she has always looked to her past and seen failure in it: she now sees that her future is aligned with the party, she is now ready to let the past go and keep moving forwards. “Let’s save Aerois”, she says, and when she says this, a pulse of green energy spirals along the shaft of the lance. When she picks the lance up, Sentry can feel that it is a powerful weapon.

Nova decides to take Thalia on a date to show her some of the greenery around the place, thinking that because she is a space pilot, she may never have seen grass and flowers. Nova takes her off the ship to somewhere quiet, telling her “I thought you’d like to see this, it’s grass, I don’t know if you’ve ever seen grass because you’ve been on a spaceship forever. This is a daisy, technical name Daisius…” Thalia interrupts her with, “Nova darling… I was a fucking princess of the Feywild, I know what fucking grass is. I come from a world of nature and flowers, do you not think I’ve seen a daisy before, you adorable little nerd?!” She grabs Nova and gives her a kiss on the forehead and then holds her, thanking her for being so kind and sweet.

Quill and Sentry return: Sentry sees them all enjoying themselves – Aila lying in the grass having a nap, the wolf pack running around like youths, Nova and Thalia hugging and off in their own little world, and she smiles. “This is the Aerois I want to fight for. Starbane can't take this, we can’t let him. Look at it, look at our world, look what it is: it’s wonderful, we can’t lose it.” Quill assures her that with the rest of them at her side, and stronger than they ever were, Starbane will have to do a lot to take it from them.

They head back and rendezvous with Horizon. Dannica, Prince Aridan, Reyn, and many others have updates and work for them. The attack on the City of Glass and the rescue of the Guardians has forced Kalus and the nations that have sided with him to take military action – ones that Horizon cannot be directly involved in because they are so small. Valla has not yet found any of the titan's domains.

Intelligence from Vortinssar says that they are being very defensive, not letting anyone get close. Borders are closed and people cannot enter or leave. It has an impressive military and a lot of Valkyrian forces defending it. It seems to be one of the key strategic locations of Kalus’ forces on Aerois.

## **YouTube Timestamps**

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13:16 DUN DUN
14:16 Recap starts
15:18 Recap ends
15:30 Arcane Chromat has been tweaked
19:03 Its name is Destructor
20:23 Aila missed an attack
23:10 Tracking remaining Wall of Light
25:37 Sentry makes her decision
26:13 Left cannon lets Sentry go
26:58 Voracitor's physical description
31:02 World War Z Ferals
32:17 Lens crystal explodes
37:13 Lovin' that RP Trott
43:04 Guardian duel
46:38 Corrupting smite
55:17 Lucius' prismatic is the answer
1:04:39 The swarm is here
1:06:58 Prismatic Spray
1:12:16 Badass Lucius
1:12:39 Prismatic eyes
1:14:56 Ferals crawling up
1:15:44 Chug a potion
1:20:23 Quill and Lucius ship forever
1:23:02 HODORRR!!
1:24:53 Lucius' ice orb
1:26:28 Break starts
1:27:05 Sponsored video: MANSCAPED
1:28:27 Sponsored video ends
1:34:40 Yes, I'm a SIMP. Sentry is my Prime.
1:35:08 Break ends
1:40:08 Nat 20 by Voracitor
1:42:28 Aila with the puns
1:49:43 Exactly enough
1:51:25 Sentry connects with the Conduit
1:52:10 Total of 798 Ferals
1:52:48 Herald redeemed
1:55:36 800 new Guardians added!
1:56:31 LASSO
1:57:22 Herald's lifeless body
1:58:28 Rook has been revived
1:58:57 Not Rook but Bishop
1:59:42 Sending from Danica
2:01:43 Commander Bishop
2:05:20 The Cavalry has arrived!
2:08:53 Gisellan forces retreat
2:09:59 Tom wants that treasure
2:10:47 Oriya hears treasure
2:12:13 Long rest
2:12:30 Portent rolls for the day
2:14:37 Note from Wade V'ger
2:15:40 Hype storyteller
2:17:01 Statue description
2:20:33 Quill is a squire
2:24:03 The wolf pack: they've escaped
2:27:24 The knight reaches out
2:27:50 Knight's LORE
2:30:18 Squire's LORE
2:32:43 Observant is so helpful
2:34:34 Lance is called Starbreaker
2:35:25 Kamina and Simon. Gurren Lagann reference
2:39:55 Nova's idea of a date
2:43:52 Episode ends
2:44:34 Time skip
2:46:10 Level Up
2:50:13 Valla will find the first Titan domain
2:50:27 Mark's Roadmap
2:51:19 Aila over 200 hit points
2:52:57 Outro Donations
3:03:56 Dick is not a verb
3:05:36 Bye bye bye~

## **Featured Characters**

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

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

#### **New NPCs**

* Lasso
* Bishop
* Sir Kamina
* Simon

#### **Returning NPCs**

* Rook
* Chipper
* Scout
* Herald
* Oriya
* Overlord Voracitor
* Penny
* Thalia Whisperwind
* Faeth
* Kamarra
* Howard
* Azaria Perell

## **Featured Locations**

* Gisella
	+ City of Glass/Kamina City
	+ Glade (of the fallen knight and squire)
* Horizon

## **Trivia**

* Overlord Voracitor has the ability: Corrupting Smite (equivalent to a Divine Smite).
* Lucius casts an 8th Level *prismatic spray* at the feral guardian swarm. Mark was treating the swarm as one creature, but because it did not make sense in terms of the game, he got Trott to roll 1d6+2 to determine how many rays actually hit the swarm and then made that many saving throws for those beams. Trott rolled a five, so the swarm was hit by the following beams: 1 (red – fire), 1 (red – fire), 3 (yellow – lightning), 7 (violet – blinded or transported to another plane), 8 (reroll twice) – 4 (green – poison), 7 (violet).
* Kamina and Simon are references to characters in Gurren Lagann. Kamina is tall and well built, and carries a large sword over his shoulder. He desired to give future generations a world without fear.  Simon was known as “the Digger” and he begins the series as a short, unassuming and lonely young boy, but grows up into a commanding and well-loved man. Hailed for being like a drill, he became known as a legendary hero who overcame impossible odds both personal and universal and now stands eternally as a beacon for the good of all.
* Starbreaker is a +3 weapon and does an extra d6 of force damage on a hit. It has an extra property that can be used once per day. Mark says that if they had got it at level 1, it would have been in its unrepaired state: there were 3 states that Mark had prepared depending on when they got it.
* Nova initially decided to go into the crypt with Sentry and Quill, but decided to retcon that so that she could go on a date with Thalia to “show her some of the greenery”.
* At the end of this session, the characters level up to level 16.
* Rescuing the Guardians has given the Aerois forces an enormous military advantage, says Mark. The Guardians have millennia of battle prowess and tactics and if they fall, their souls can be reclaimed and a new one put into the body if Sentry is nearby. Horizon and the fleets of airships from Gusthaven are the other two major military assets that the Stormchasers have.
* “In the annals of Aerois history that will be written in the future, the Battle for the City of Glass (as it will be called), was the point at which this stalemate or impending threat kicked off.” Mark Hulmes.
* Mark tells the group to think of Azaria Perell as their Q or Tony Stark. She will make items for them because she is invested in seeing how far they are going to push things. She thinks that they are breaking boundaries of magic and is very excited to see what they are going to do. She also has plans for the Stormchaser. Arval is willing to bankroll the Stormchaser’s upgrades, to develop it as needed to face the threats of Valkyrian.
* Mark says that he has been looking at numbers for high level fights and that AC of enemies will go up because if it is AC15, unless they roll under 5, they generally all hit.
* Mark was asked in the donos by Arborebus how he comes up with names for worlds and places in them. Mark said that for worlds he just picks names that he thinks sound cool. For places he uses *adjective noun* e.g. heavy wood, dark town and he also uses old terms (e.g. wode = wood) and uses that instead (so “darkwode”).
* Lucius got to over 100 hit points on levelling up, so Mark said that now he cannot *power word: kill* him any more.
* After this episode it is suggested that there will be a 3-4 week time skip, the first time there has really been one in the series.

## **References**

1. ↑ https://gurrenlagann.fandom.com/wiki/Simon