#because now she is also distracted by my ancestral guardians so PSYCH u got disadvantage on every attack that's not me FOOL

[johnandrasjaqobis]

we had part 1 of dreamteam's final fight tonight (about 5 and a half hours of combat and boy howdy we ain't done)

and in a move i don't think i'll ever top

preceded by "okay so this is really really stupid but I have nothing useful I can do right now"

Vic got a high enough athletics check to grab Asmodeus, who we are currently fighting, while she was 15ft in the air. and then rolled a high enough athletics check to grapple her

which let me use this handy little magic item I've had since the beginning of the campaign, the manacles of weakening, which immediately drop her strength score by 4 and give a point of exhaustion.

we determined that the grapple check score set the DC for breaking free. so it was 27. and with that lowered strength she failed multiple times.

and I am still absolutely THRIVING from that, my little 21 year old half orc who went into this game just looking for a dwarf who had been kidnapped has now successfully grappled and weakened a god, not to mention the two crits he got on her while raging, like

that was just one insane thing out of so many insane things in this chunk of combat, dreamteam my beloved we're certainly going out with a bang