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** [[spoiler: Most notably, **Aila** gets to see one of these when she [[ImprovisedLightningRod tanks multiple bolts of lightning]] when they get to the [[PerpetualStorm Valley of the Storm]], meeting the Storm King and getting a belt which increases her strength.]]

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** [[spoiler: Most notably, **Aila** ''Aila'' gets to see one of these when she [[ImprovisedLightningRod tanks multiple bolts of lightning]] when they get to the [[PerpetualStorm Valley of the Storm]], meeting the Storm King and getting a belt which increases her strength.]]
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** [[spoiler: When Quill dies, Hesper lifts his soul into the sky so Kelara can guide him past the cradle. They chat for a while before he goes to .]]

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** [[spoiler: When Quill dies, Hesper lifts his soul into the sky so Kelara can guide him past the cradle. They chat for a while before he goes to .into the afterlife.]]
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* AfterlifeAntechamber: [[spoiler: We get a few examples of this during some of the party's near-death / death experiences.]]
** [[spoiler: Notably averted with Sentry, since she's a guardian - for her, she just falls asleep and doesn't wake up.]]
** [[spoiler: When Quill dies, Hesper lifts his soul into the sky so Kelara can guide him past the cradle. They chat for a while before he goes to .]]
** [[spoiler: Most notably, **Aila** gets to see one of these when she [[ImprovisedLightningRod tanks multiple bolts of lightning]] when they get to the [[PerpetualStorm Valley of the Storm]], meeting the Storm King and getting a belt which increases her strength.]]


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** In episode 34, Ravs plays a human storm sorcerer named Johan - a mysterious fisherman touched by Hesper and Zephyr who the party encounter on their way out of Myrskyr.
*** [[spoiler: He returns in episode 55 on a magical storm cloud to remind the party of duties they need attend to in the Valley of the Storm.]]
*** [[spoiler: The party encounter Johan again in episode 89, where he helps them navigate through a temple of Hesper at the center of the valley.]]
** In episode 48, Bouphe plays a triton bard named Drexciya, who temporarily joins the party to help them infiltrate a sahuagin settlement and save her people.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Kim and Katie both act like this. In Katie's case it extends into her character. In Kim's case it most definitely does not.
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With the Lightfall campaign finished, they now play in Mark’s new campaign, “Aerois,” a world of Magitek, airships, and long-forgotten secrets after a cataclysmic war ended centuries ago. They did return to the Lightfall characters for a [[SequelSeries Sequel Miniseries]] taking them on a multidimensional adventure [[spoiler: to rescue Trellimar from his infernal contract]] as part of a promotion for the official Fifth Edition module "Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus".

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With the Lightfall campaign finished, they now play in Mark’s new campaign, “Aerois,” a world of Magitek, airships, and long-forgotten secrets after a cataclysmic war ended centuries ago. They did return to the Lightfall characters for a [[SequelSeries Sequel Miniseries]] taking them on a multidimensional adventure [[spoiler: to rescue Trellimar from his infernal contract]] as part of a promotion for the official Fifth Edition module "Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus".''TabletopGame/BaldursGateDescentIntoAvernus''.
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* ActingForTwo: In the very brief interim between [[spoiler:Sentry being resurrected and Oriya parting ways with the party, Rhiannon played them both at the same time.]]

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* ActingForTwo: In the very brief interim between [[spoiler:Sentry being resurrected and Oriya parting ways with the party, Rhiannon played them both at the same time.]] And then ''again'' [[spoiler: when Qill gets resurrected and Tom has to play both Pyri and Qill.]]



** Episode 32, "Whispers of the Void": [[spoiler: Qill dies fighting the Herald of Hadar, and the rest of the party learns [[CosmicHorrorReveal just what Hadar]] ''[[EldritchAbomination is]]'', and that Aila's lost tribe, and Aila herself, were originally from another planet enlisted by Starbane to fight Hadar.]]

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** Episode 32, "Whispers of the Void": [[spoiler: Qill dies fighting the Herald of Hadar, a Hadar-touched former Starbane agent, and the rest of the party learns [[CosmicHorrorReveal just what Hadar]] ''[[EldritchAbomination is]]'', and that Aila's lost tribe, and Aila herself, were originally from another planet enlisted by Starbane to fight Hadar.]]
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* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: What [[spoiler:Root Prime]] said concerning any potential plan to completely destroy [[spoiler:Hadar. As long as there is hunger in the universe, Hadar's power will have a path to return.]]
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In January 2020, Tom and Rhiannon started a daming stream on the HR Twitch channel called Chaos Twins. And then in April 2020, during the UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic, they started a full campaign of ''TabletopGame/CurseOfStrahd'', in addition to the Aerois campaign.

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In January 2020, Tom and Rhiannon started a daming gaming stream on the HR Twitch channel called Chaos Twins. And then in April 2020, during the UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic, they started a full campaign of ''TabletopGame/CurseOfStrahd'', in addition to the Aerois campaign.
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In January 2020, Tom and Rhiannon started a daming stream on the HR Twitch channel called Chaos Twins. And then in April 2020, during the UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic, they started a full campaign of ''TabletopGame/CurseOfStrahd'', in addition to the Aerois campaign.

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* AbortedArc: After the events of "The Purge", [[spoiler: ''everything'' the party had planned and all of their quests are thrown out the window because 1) Sentry was dead and resurrecting her was top priority, and 2) they weren't even on the same continent anymore.]]

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* AbortedArc: AbortedArc:
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After the events of "The Purge", [[spoiler: ''everything'' the party had planned and all of their quests are thrown out the window because 1) Sentry was dead and resurrecting her was top priority, and 2) they weren't even on the same continent anymore.]]
** And then again in episode 69, [[spoiler: when an exploding Hadar rift shunts them to the plane of Elysium, which had been taken over by Starbane Empire. At least nobody died this time.
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''High Rollers'' is a weekly TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Fifth Editioncampaign featuring members of the {{LetsPlay/Yogscast}}. Sessions are livestreamed on {{Website/Twitch}} every Sunday and later uploaded to the [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvSp-8FGBzxnsRLDk73O4c-5ymN1KeNNb&ab_channel=YogscastLive Yogscast Live]] channel on Youtube.

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''High Rollers'' is a weekly TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Fifth Editioncampaign Edition campaign featuring members of the {{LetsPlay/Yogscast}}. Sessions are livestreamed on {{Website/Twitch}} every Sunday and later uploaded to the [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvSp-8FGBzxnsRLDk73O4c-5ymN1KeNNb&ab_channel=YogscastLive Yogscast Live]] channel on Youtube.
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* HiddenElfVillage: [[spoiler: Aerois is this to the rest of the universe, a rogue planet hidden far from any stars, deliberately removed from the conflict between Starbane and Hadar.]]


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* SmallSecludedWorld: [[spoiler: As Starbane reveals, Aerois was a rogue planet out in the middle of space, which Siaska found and created Life for, and sealed away from the rest of the universe with the Cradle]].
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* AGodAmI: Tharizdun the Beholder thinks they're ''actually'' Tharizdun the god.
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* WhamEpisode: This campaign has an established pattern that in return for [[spoiler:the death or ressurection of a character]], the party gets Earth-shattering revelations.
** Episode 26, "The Purge": [[spoiler: Sentry dies attempting to infiltrate the Brightflame Abbey, and the rest of the party then meets the BigBad Kalus Starbane face-to-face, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero having given him an avenue to infiltrate Aerois]], and learns that [[ReallyRoyaltyReveal Valla is his long-lost daughter]].]]
** Episode 32, "Whispers of the Void": [[spoiler: Qill dies fighting the Herald of Hadar, and the rest of the party learns [[CosmicHorrorReveal just what Hadar]] ''[[EldritchAbomination is]]'', and that Aila's lost tribe, and Aila herself, were originally from another planet enlisted by Starbane to fight Hadar.]]
** Episode 36, "Goblins and Guardians": [[spoiler:Sentry is resurrected by the Midwife's Forge, and the party learns more about what happened to Solwynn and where the City of Glass is.]]
** Episode 38, "The Elensato Enquiry": [[spoiler:Qill is resurrected by a high priestess of Siaska, meanwhile Lucius's entire family is assumed dead in an explosion that destroyed their home, but Lucius himself doesn't believe that they would let that happen to themselves and is investigating the conspiracy that announced him dead as well to destroy his family's company.]]
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* MadScientist: Nova, most evidently when she concocts a plan to [[spoiler: nullify the resource cost of Raise Dead by having Qill get struck by lightning in the Valley of Storms, even if it doesn't get to happen and they resurrect QIll more conventionally.]]

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* MadScientist: Nova, most evidently when she concocts a plan to [[spoiler: nullify the resource cost of Raise Dead by having Qill get struck by lightning in the Valley of Storms, even if it doesn't get to happen and they resurrect QIll Qill more conventionally.]]
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* MadScientist: Nova, most evidently when she concocts a plan to [[spoiler: nullify the resource cost of Raise Dead by having Qill get struck by lightning in the Valley of Storms.]]

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* MadScientist: Nova, most evidently when she concocts a plan to [[spoiler: nullify the resource cost of Raise Dead by having Qill get struck by lightning in the Valley of Storms.Storms, even if it doesn't get to happen and they resurrect QIll more conventionally.]]

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* ActingForTwo: In the very brief interim between [[spoiler:Sentry being resurrected and Oriya parting ways with the party, Rhiannon played them both at the same time.]]



* CursedWithAwesome: Lucius's opinion of [[spoiler: The Fairy Princess's Crown, which turned him into a giant pixie and gave him new powers while being, in the Dungeons and Dragons sense, cursed.]] Everybody else disagrees with him.

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* CursedWithAwesome: Lucius's opinion of [[spoiler: The Fairy Princess's Crown, which turned him into a giant pixie and gave him new powers while being, in the Dungeons and Dragons sense, cursed.]] cursed]]. Everybody else disagrees with him.


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* PutOnABus: [[spoiler: After Sentry is resurrected, with her role as Rhiannon's temporary character fulfilled Oriya parts ways with the party, taking Skorb back to his previous owner while they head off to Gusthaven.]]
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* CursedWithAwesome: Lucius's opinion of [[spoiler: The Fairy Princess's Crown, which turned him into a giant pixie and gave him new powers while being, in the Dungeons and Dragons sense, cursed.]] Everybody else disagrees with him.
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* ShockAndAwe: Aila has a special racial affinity with lightning. [[spoiler: After she finds a Javelin of Lightning, she has the Midwife's Forge merge it with her hammer to create a lightning hammer that returns to her hand.]]


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* SummonToHand: [[spoiler:After Aila gets her hammer merged with a Javelin of Lightning, it gains the ability to return to her hand after she throws it.]]

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* WhamLine: At the end of a quest to stop a crazy fire cult [[spoiler: from unwittingly summoning a army of demons from one of the Nine Hells, they manage to get to the portal they were going to come through, distract the Archdevil while they stall for time, and then Valla punches in a seemingly random code to change the portal's co-ordinates, closing the portal. Woohoo, day saved! [[OhCrap And then the portal opens again, to a new location]]. It's a dark room, lit by points of light that glitter like stars. [[WhamShot At the far end of the room is a man, sitting on a throne. The party instantly recognise him]]: [[BiggerBad Kalus Starbane]]. He gets up, surprised, and walks through the portal, seeing Valla standing in front of the portal controls, and says to her:]]
--> "[[spoiler:Valla, my daughter...]]"

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* WhamLine: At WhamLine:
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the end of a quest to stop a crazy fire cult [[spoiler: from unwittingly summoning a army of demons from one of the Nine Hells, they manage to get to the portal they were going to come through, distract the Archdevil while they stall for time, and then Valla punches in a seemingly random code to change the portal's co-ordinates, closing the portal. Woohoo, day saved! [[OhCrap And then the portal opens again, to a new location]]. It's a dark room, lit by points of light that glitter like stars. [[WhamShot At the far end of the room is a man, sitting on a throne. The party instantly recognise him]]: [[BiggerBad Kalus Starbane]]. He gets up, surprised, and walks through the portal, seeing Valla standing in front of the portal controls, and says to her:]]
--> ---> "[[spoiler:Valla, my daughter...]]"]]"
**The party [[spoiler: successfully manage to resurrect Sentry, and with Pyri's watch, return to Gusthaven to have Quill revived. Upon arrival, however, they're led to a room where a High Elf mentions there is something to discuss. The party is then led to the Elenasto estate, where Mark's description goes as follows:]]
---> "As you round the corner, you expect to see the beautiful manor with the ivy crawling up the trellises. You expect to see the large stone buildings. [[spoiler: But you don't see that. You see blackened stone and ruined timber, scorch marks, and an empty shell of a building that is no more.]]



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* RaceAgainstTheClock: After [[spoiler: Sentry dies]], the party has 10 days to find [[spoiler:somebody with the ability to cast Raise Dead before Sentry is gone forever]].

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* RaceAgainstTheClock: After [[spoiler: Sentry dies]], the party has 10 days to find [[spoiler:somebody with the ability to cast Raise Dead before Sentry is gone forever]].forever. Even with Skaldi casting Gentle Repose to extend the time limit they manage to bring her back within seven days, but now they have to do it again with Qill]].
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** TheBigGuy: Aila. A barbarian with a [[DropTheHammer big hammer]].

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** TheBigGuy: Aila. A barbarian with a [[DropTheHammer big hammer]]. [[spoiler:When Sentry and Qill die she temporarily takes up their roles as well]].
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* {{Atlantis}}: Sentry's memories of the last day of Solwynn are very similar to Atlantis', with the city being pulled under the ocean as a direct result of the Sundering.



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''High Rollers'' is a weekly TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons campaign featuring members of the {{LetsPlay/Yogscast}}. Sessions are livestreamed on {{Website/Twitch}} every Sunday and later uploaded to the [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvSp-8FGBzxnsRLDk73O4c-5ymN1KeNNb&ab_channel=YogscastLive Yogscast Live]] channel on Youtube.

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''High Rollers'' is a weekly TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons campaign Fifth Editioncampaign featuring members of the {{LetsPlay/Yogscast}}. Sessions are livestreamed on {{Website/Twitch}} every Sunday and later uploaded to the [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvSp-8FGBzxnsRLDk73O4c-5ymN1KeNNb&ab_channel=YogscastLive Yogscast Live]] channel on Youtube.



With the Lightfall campaign finished, they now play in Mark’s new campaign, “Aerois,” a world of Magitek, airships, and long-forgotten secrets after a cataclysmic war ended centuries ago.

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With the Lightfall campaign finished, they now play in Mark’s new campaign, “Aerois,” a world of Magitek, airships, and long-forgotten secrets after a cataclysmic war ended centuries ago.
ago. They did return to the Lightfall characters for a [[SequelSeries Sequel Miniseries]] taking them on a multidimensional adventure [[spoiler: to rescue Trellimar from his infernal contract]] as part of a promotion for the official Fifth Edition module "Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus".
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With the Lightfall campaign finished, they now play in Mark’s new campaign, “Aerois”.

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With the Lightfall campaign finished, they now play in Mark’s new campaign, “Aerois”.
“Aerois,” a world of Magitek, airships, and long-forgotten secrets after a cataclysmic war ended centuries ago.
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* TheChosenOne: The party knows four different chosen ones, and [[spoiler:all four]] of them are in the party or closely associated with them.
** Valla is a mysterious young girl with inherent magical power, under the protection of the church of Siaska, [[spoiler: because she's the [[ReallyRoyaltyReveal long lost daughter of]] [[BigBad Kalus Starbane]].]]
** Qill is explicitly the Chosen One of his god, H'esper, who sends him dreams and points him in the direction of things he wants influenced.
** [[spoiler:Sentry is a unique model of Guardian that must be brought to the City of Glass, dead or alive, or the fate of all guardians may hang in the balance.]]
** [[spoiler:Aila is the LastOfHerKind, a member of a long-thought extinct tribe of Elves. She was actually born more than 500 years ago, on another planet.]]
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* GuestStarPartyMember: In a twist from how it happened in the first campaign, the first new player character to join the party was played by one of the regular players, [[spoiler: Rhiannon specifically, because Sentry had been killed and the others given a quest to resurrect her, so she wouldn't have to just sit out the intervening sessions.]] The exact same thing happens with [[spoilers: Tom when Qill dies]].

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* GuestStarPartyMember: In a twist from how it happened in the first campaign, the first new player character to join the party was played by one of the regular players, [[spoiler: Rhiannon specifically, because Sentry had been killed and the others given a quest to resurrect her, so she wouldn't have to just sit out the intervening sessions.]] The exact same thing happens with [[spoilers: Tom [[spoiler:Tom when Qill dies]].
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* GuestStarPartyMember: In a twist from how it happened in the first campaign, the first new player character to join the party was played by one of the regular players, [[spoiler: Rhiannon specifically, because Sentry had been killed and the others given a quest to resurrect her, so she wouldn't have to just sit out the intervening sessions.]]

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* GuestStarPartyMember: In a twist from how it happened in the first campaign, the first new player character to join the party was played by one of the regular players, [[spoiler: Rhiannon specifically, because Sentry had been killed and the others given a quest to resurrect her, so she wouldn't have to just sit out the intervening sessions.]]]] The exact same thing happens with [[spoilers: Tom when Qill dies]].
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* CatapultNightmare: [[spoiler: The vision where Nova first sees Hadar leaves her waking up screaming in terror.]]
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* CosmicHorrorReveal: Episode 32, [[spoiler: where it's revealed that [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Hadar the Dark Hunger]] is attempting to infiltrate Aerois, and that more than 500 years ago Starbane was originally fighting him instead of the other gods.]]


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* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler: Aila is having such a hard time tracking down her lost tribe on Aerois... Because she wasn't born on Aerois, and her tribe isn't from there.]]

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