I kept meaning to make a big cinematic post about this but didn’t have the energy, and the end result is that it didn’t get highlighted the way it deserved. So, shoutout again to Audie The Utility Wizard, for what was arguably the most clutch single spell in the entire Siege of Suncrest.
The scene, roughly: Andromeda, our paladin, is conscious but at a single hitpoint--I think Guard-Captain Olassa, herself a low-level paladin, got her up with a Lay On Hands but couldn’t do more, then retreated again to cover the breach.
So. Andromeda, not only a heavy-hitting tank but also the party’s only real healer, is at one hitpoint. She’d previously flown over the heads of the retreating party to get another party member out of danger, so she’s also alone.
She is also ten feet away from the advancing fae commander.
The fae commander has multiattack. Triple multiattack. She hits hard and well--counting on her missing her attack even once would require a disastrously poor roll on her part. Odds are very good that all of those blows would hit. She has also been established as methodical, unhurried, and incredibly fucking cruel. Everything she does is, functionally, a taunt. There is no way she won’t go for the barely-stirring, bloodied young paladin as viciously as possible.
Understandably, the party is panicked, and Audie’s player is frantically flipping through spells trying to find something that Audie can pull off with dwindling spell slots without killing Andromeda. The only thing that seems viable is one final casting of Banishment. It won’t fix everything--it’s been established that with the planes converging, fae don’t banish permanently, so she’ll be back in one minute--but it will buy them sixty seconds without the fae commander on the battlefield so Andromeda can run.
But the DC is not that high, the odds that it will fail are very good, and the fae commander’s turn is before Andromeda’s.
(I, the DM, am internally screaming and trying DESPERATELY to find a way to avoid going Full Mollymauk over here, but mostly trying to think of a way to deliver this death blow in a way that is respectful and meaningful to the character as well as how to talk the player through it in the aftermath. I was speedrunning some stages of grief, y’all, it was fucking OVER for Andromeda at this point.)
Audie, OOC: It just says ‘a creature within range’.
DM: Yeah?
Audie, OOC: ............Can I banish Andromeda?
That is EXACTLY what she does. Audie calls to Andromeda--who had at that point been failing death saves and was barely conscious--not to resist, then casts Banishment and snaps her into a safe, harmless pocket dimension. It’s concentration-based, and dropping concentration is free; so all she has to do once it’s Andromeda’s turn again is stop concentrating and we have our paladin back, ready to Run Like Fuck.
So like. EVERYTHING Andromeda does from here on out is the result of a single extremely clutch battlefield decision to use Banishment as a utility support spell, and not a combat spell.
Slow. Fucking. Clap.
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aún no empezaba con su búsqueda de polaroids, se había quedado sentada en el mismo lugar desde que llegó, observando como el caos se despliega ante sus ojos. sacó un pepero de la cajita que tenía en las manos. " ¿crees que el castigo sea muy terrible? " muerde el bastón de galleta y extiende la cajita para ofrecerle a la persona que está más cercana a ella. " ¿quieres? — me parece que esto es una tortura para los nuevos, ahora tendré que socializar por obligación. "
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Holy color
All I did was looked up opal
Then found all of that
This is what I think what color holy looks like.
Very pretty, these gifs all are, aren't they :)
It should also definitely remind an angel of heaven with the coloration.
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