Wait so opal is from a group that worshipped a luxon beacon and split her soul in half when she was a baby and when her two halves came back together she became a warlock for the other half of her soul what the FUCK
What a good idea to have the gems lead into moments of roleplay over the past weeks. What a good way to make sure we get both and catch up now that they’re back.
she's a 20th level psi warrior fighter base, and the backpack lets her use echo knight abilities. this all tracks--4 attacks, 2 action surges, 12 psionic power dice (+1 if regained on a bonus action) at a d12, and the ability to manifest two echoes at once. i'm going to guess that she uses two-weapon fighting based on the damage rolls from her offhand weapon. plus 3 legendary actions that she could use to attack with either weapon, dash, psi-powered leap (80 ft), telekinetic control (2 actions, move target 30 ft in a direction of her choice), and 3 legendary resistances.
if they hadn't immediately dealt with the backpack she could have been flashing all over the battlefield, 10 attacks each in the turns that she used action surge, 6 otherwise, split across multiple opponents or targeted to one. given her place in initiative, this could have been a full massacre before she went exaltant if she had hit the casters and healers first, instead of chetney. she had the movement for it.
speaking of that: she regained both action surges and presumably all of her psi power dice, gained resistance to all damage, and a +3 bonus to AC. I'm guessing the state was triggered by a damage threshold. i'm willing to bet that if she didn't have the health potion they might have gotten her down within the round, assuming the threshold is 1/4 of the total or something like that, and the 66 she got back brought her back over half.
on the other hand, even given the multiple deaths and 1 permadeath, bell's hells really worked hard on this one. ashton and fearne using the shards and doing big damage. fcg keeping the party up with 2 mass cure wounds and a revivify. laudna debuffing with bane and getting damage in with the eldritch blasts. imogen getting the backpack off. orym using bait and switch to defend imogen and overall being a tiny tank. chet dying, coming back, and still going around to get imogen up. so many crits. fcg's hail mary.
they got her now, so there's no more shadow assassinations, and they won't be splitting attention when they come back to kill ludinus.
So yes obviously Ashton will be fucked up over this but I see so much potential in one of FCG’s last acts being to Revivify Chetney with his last diamond, and Chet never got the chance to thank him.
Oh!! I took this for myself but in case some of you were wondering about the tillable earth on meadowlands farm type (ignore the barn and silo, but the coop is in its default place) and no one's shared this yet, here ya go.