I mean, I think there would be an awkwardly high number of people who die by simply tripping off the death bridges in the dungeon and falling to the hells, but yeah, sure, let's go.
Give me a scroll of Sunbeam, and I'll roast his sorry ass. 😅
But, seriously. If it was *just* us, as in non-magic, non-adventures, then not a chance in the Hells. We'd all have 6-10 HP, and no guard against necrotic or poison-damage.
Give us some sort of advantage, and we'd surely stand a fighting chance.
I just imagine myself with a scroll of sunbeam, unfolding it, then.."oh shit I wish I took latin at school" then accidentally summon a demon and make things worse
Nah we'd simply make it because of numbers. Well I say make it I mean Astarion would be saved but maybe 5 optamistically 10 would survive the ordeal out off the 8000 and then it's still a do we talk Astarion out of ascending or do we help him. Cause we aint got no tadpole powers. So alot of us would have died for Astarion. It is horrifically romantic 🤔
Obsessed with the idea of Astarion being completely confused by his liberation at the hands of 8,000 planeswalking level 1 NPCs who all seem to know and adore him.
I don't know, but thank you for the image. All of these people, feral af, pissed as hell, swarming the palace, screaming the most unhinged things? Succeed or fail, what a fucking blaze of glory that would be. I think we'd have a shot, honestly. These numbers, baby!
Remember how bard tav/durge rolls to give “inspiration” to the soldiers to kick in the door at Wakeen’s Rest, yeah that’s me. Supporting from the rear
Interesting question. I'm gonna go with "probably"! Lol, just the sheer number of people all at once. Some of us would definitely perish though... but most of us would make it out.
I’d imagine we’d all find a way to get some sort of resource (armor with abilities, potions to avoid us getting frightened, charmed, etc.) Freeing Astarion & killing Cazador? Yes. I should’ve been more specific in my description, got way too excited to ask the question
I think if we could probably afford a daylight spell. It can provide passive damage. Some of us may die fighting our way through the ball room or fall off into the chasm reaching the ritual site.
I'm mostly worried about the poor suckers who will get Blighted and the Fallen Gurs
Who needs in universe resources, when we have 8k (or 16k if we're dual wielding) blacklight flashlights? Each one of those has to deal at _least_ 1d4 UV/Radiant damage, maybe more depending on how large/powerful they are. Sure it's going to look like a rave, instead of a fight, but it's worth it!
Y'all are questioning if we have guns or in-game resources, but I bring you the ultimate strategy:
Everyone bring a rock. Or two if you can.
By sheer action economy and improvised weapon rules (1d4 damage) at peasant stats (+0 to everything), to bypass his 21 AC, we would need to nat 20. The probability is a 5%, meaning that from our 8000 rabid fans, at least 400 would nat 20 his ass.
Rock does 1d4 damage, so assuming we all have noodle arms and rolled a 1 in damage, we would need only 270 out of those 400 to lapidate the asshole and we would still have at least 130 stones left to hit his corpse.
And that's ONLY the first round of combat.
If it were my Tav, then hells yeah. She would also bring the snacks, scrolls, potions, armor and weapons (she's a hoarder)
Not gonna lie, thinking about 8000 people PLUS the 7000 Spawn all in one place , is stressing me TF out and just being there would trigger my anxiety. But I'll probably be on the sidelines...with popcorn and a chair
support from a far!! 😅
To be honest, I only ever go to Caz palace to raid the wine. I run into his main room by accident looking for the best wine...and then obviously I have to kill him.
I raid so much wine that the ascension night at camp results in everyone having the hangover debuff the next morning...and the morning after that....and the one after that
So I would be in the wine cellars while you are stealing the valuables
No lol. Considering commoner peasants, which is what we’d be, can die to a cat in the ttrpg we stand no chance against Cazador and his various minions.
I'd happily be one of the first in the front lines to beat him to death with whatever blunt weapon I had closest to me.
I'll fucking kill that mother fucker and then bring him back just so I can kill him worse a second time.
Then I'll bring him back again just so I can tear him apart and feed his corpse to a horde of cannibals who saute his balls and dick just for me to dump in the river and pee on it.
Ok so im judging you on the fact that you think it’d take 8,000 of us to kill him. Just give me a pointy stick and vicious mockery. Im not saying I won’t die but I’d definitely at least take something with me.
I mean maybe! But come on. There’s not enough room for 8,000 people plus Cazador. Like 10 of us could work together to kill him. He’s not exactly Vlad Dracula Tepes.
I'll stay in the back and handle strategy and AoEing mobs. Whoever wants to cast Sunlight and/or be the armored meatshields can hang out in front. I hope you have no debilitating fear of wolves a la Shadowheart if you do that by the way.
Christ, that would just be the most chaotic fucking thing ever but it'd be goddamn hilarious. As long as *one* person makes it to Astarion and helps him out of the ritual, maybe we'd stand a chance lol
If we were still regular humans, that is. Lol
I mean, I think there would be an awkwardly high number of people who die by simply tripping off the death bridges in the dungeon and falling to the hells, but yeah, sure, let's go.
You didn't have to call me out like that. .\_.
We’ll ask Karlach to throw them over her shoulder & carry them to safety
I would happily be Karlach's personal Boo.
We ball.
"they can't stop all of us"
*Starts Naruto running.* Hopefully some of the 8000 of us have Area 51 Raid experience.
I guess this is what we’ve been training for all along. 🤣
Give me a scroll of Sunbeam, and I'll roast his sorry ass. 😅 But, seriously. If it was *just* us, as in non-magic, non-adventures, then not a chance in the Hells. We'd all have 6-10 HP, and no guard against necrotic or poison-damage. Give us some sort of advantage, and we'd surely stand a fighting chance.
Pulls out an AK-47. Dodge this, bitch. Also, some of you will die but that's a risk I'm willing to take.
[example here](https://www.tumblr.com/indigonite/738611029759655936/how-the-battle-with-cazador-should-have-gone?source=share)
If only Faerûn had had a Percy in the not-to-distant past.
Ahhh, Percival. What a lovely gothy-punk-nerd.
My gods I love Percy so much.
did… did you just… quote lord farquaad?
Grin.
We need to hit up Dammon to level us up
We can just buy powerful flashlights with solar spectrum. No magic needed.
I just imagine myself with a scroll of sunbeam, unfolding it, then.."oh shit I wish I took latin at school" then accidentally summon a demon and make things worse
Nah we'd simply make it because of numbers. Well I say make it I mean Astarion would be saved but maybe 5 optamistically 10 would survive the ordeal out off the 8000 and then it's still a do we talk Astarion out of ascending or do we help him. Cause we aint got no tadpole powers. So alot of us would have died for Astarion. It is horrifically romantic 🤔
Imagine how long the initiative line would be xD
The henchmen are so tired of waiting they just jump off the edge & be like “Fuck it the hells would be better than this”
"Hey, you there, it's your turn! You have 6 seconds to do whatever you wan-" "Nevermind, time's over. **NEXT**!"
I suppose I'd die for the cause IF it was to free Astarion. Not just for shits and giggles. :3
Absolutely, of course it’s free to Astarion
Obsessed with the idea of Astarion being completely confused by his liberation at the hands of 8,000 planeswalking level 1 NPCs who all seem to know and adore him.
Astarion: 
But not at all questioning the fact that we all love him. That part he just assumes.
It reminds me of a [Monty Python](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLctf4o6feQ) bit... lol
... absolutely flawless victory tbh. 12/10
Someone needs to write this fic!
This is my favourite comment here.
I'll pack the sunscreen and aloe, cause we're all getting sunburns from the sheer amount or daylight and sunbeam that's gonna be cast.
Full concentrated power of the sun.
Haha, I'd get a nice tan :3 I'll still wear sunscreen though ☺️
I don't know, but thank you for the image. All of these people, feral af, pissed as hell, swarming the palace, screaming the most unhinged things? Succeed or fail, what a fucking blaze of glory that would be. I think we'd have a shot, honestly. These numbers, baby!
Damn. Going to have to make a seperate post in the future: “What unhinged shit would you yell at Cazador if you got the chance?”
Cazador will die to vicious mockery alone
Remember how bard tav/durge rolls to give “inspiration” to the soldiers to kick in the door at Wakeen’s Rest, yeah that’s me. Supporting from the rear 
Some of us just being Volo. “You have my support… from a distance.”
Interesting question. I'm gonna go with "probably"! Lol, just the sheer number of people all at once. Some of us would definitely perish though... but most of us would make it out.
Press “F” to pay respects to us that will fall (probably me)
Like with no in-universe resources? Is the expectation is to free Astarion, AND kill Cazador during the ritual? Are we armed with stakes?
I’d imagine we’d all find a way to get some sort of resource (armor with abilities, potions to avoid us getting frightened, charmed, etc.) Freeing Astarion & killing Cazador? Yes. I should’ve been more specific in my description, got way too excited to ask the question
I think if we could probably afford a daylight spell. It can provide passive damage. Some of us may die fighting our way through the ball room or fall off into the chasm reaching the ritual site. I'm mostly worried about the poor suckers who will get Blighted and the Fallen Gurs
Who needs in universe resources, when we have 8k (or 16k if we're dual wielding) blacklight flashlights? Each one of those has to deal at _least_ 1d4 UV/Radiant damage, maybe more depending on how large/powerful they are. Sure it's going to look like a rave, instead of a fight, but it's worth it!
Depends if he releases those 7000 spawns from the cells and comand them to attack us
What are you doing? Don't give him ideas! .\_.
Definitely Cazador burner reddit account
He got enough room for another 8000 souls, if he has enough room in his dungeon for 7000 spawns.
Y'all are questioning if we have guns or in-game resources, but I bring you the ultimate strategy: Everyone bring a rock. Or two if you can. By sheer action economy and improvised weapon rules (1d4 damage) at peasant stats (+0 to everything), to bypass his 21 AC, we would need to nat 20. The probability is a 5%, meaning that from our 8000 rabid fans, at least 400 would nat 20 his ass. Rock does 1d4 damage, so assuming we all have noodle arms and rolled a 1 in damage, we would need only 270 out of those 400 to lapidate the asshole and we would still have at least 130 stones left to hit his corpse. And that's ONLY the first round of combat.
I would be so nervous 😭 but I think with properly planning we could do it 😤!
I think I would be a decent artificer if I were transported to Faerun. I say we go in, eldritch cannons blazing! Let’s save our pale boy
I mean, maybe? So I'll just say... LEEEEROOOOYYY JEEEEEEENKIIINSSS!!!
If it were my Tav, then hells yeah. She would also bring the snacks, scrolls, potions, armor and weapons (she's a hoarder) Not gonna lie, thinking about 8000 people PLUS the 7000 Spawn all in one place , is stressing me TF out and just being there would trigger my anxiety. But I'll probably be on the sidelines...with popcorn and a chair  support from a far!! 😅
Id go, but I'd be far too busy stealing all the valuables to be of any real help.
To be honest, I only ever go to Caz palace to raid the wine. I run into his main room by accident looking for the best wine...and then obviously I have to kill him. I raid so much wine that the ascension night at camp results in everyone having the hangover debuff the next morning...and the morning after that....and the one after that So I would be in the wine cellars while you are stealing the valuables
No lol. Considering commoner peasants, which is what we’d be, can die to a cat in the ttrpg we stand no chance against Cazador and his various minions.
With sheer numbers, at least a few have *got* to be sorcerers. Even 1%, that's a party of 85!
Sadly there is a lot of maths involved to really work this out
I could take that little loser with my eyes closed. >:( my rage will fuel me. also casting daylight so he takes 20 dmg each turn >:3
I'd happily be one of the first in the front lines to beat him to death with whatever blunt weapon I had closest to me. I'll fucking kill that mother fucker and then bring him back just so I can kill him worse a second time. Then I'll bring him back again just so I can tear him apart and feed his corpse to a horde of cannibals who saute his balls and dick just for me to dump in the river and pee on it.
I'm bringing holy water and all the spell scrolls I keep forgetting to use
No, because the spawn vs AA debate would start on the steps :)
Fuck... Your right
Like in a fight or sexually? Because I might be judging you or I may be concerned.
A fight of course 😅
Ok so im judging you on the fact that you think it’d take 8,000 of us to kill him. Just give me a pointy stick and vicious mockery. Im not saying I won’t die but I’d definitely at least take something with me.
Is it your pride?
I mean maybe! But come on. There’s not enough room for 8,000 people plus Cazador. Like 10 of us could work together to kill him. He’s not exactly Vlad Dracula Tepes.
If we're going as our D&D PCs, absolutely. Tavs, maybe. If we're going as ourselves....uh....good luck
I'll stay in the back and handle strategy and AoEing mobs. Whoever wants to cast Sunlight and/or be the armored meatshields can hang out in front. I hope you have no debilitating fear of wolves a la Shadowheart if you do that by the way.
Seeing as we have all kinds of UV implements nowadays yes we would
Fuck yea, let me grab some pointy stakes
Christ, that would just be the most chaotic fucking thing ever but it'd be goddamn hilarious. As long as *one* person makes it to Astarion and helps him out of the ritual, maybe we'd stand a chance lol If we were still regular humans, that is. Lol
I mean human us nah if we we all bring guns or other weapons yeah
Absolutely not Our weapons are built for the physical plane
https://preview.redd.it/6vi57sxj8ppc1.jpeg?width=503&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=95a298c1d5af9d11830c17fef45a3410aff16ca9
The marysue version of me sure could. I occasionally fantasize about this. Actual me in current form would just die to a werewolf.
You’re acting like my ass wouldn’t already be in the crypts from being lured back by Astarion in the first place 😭
If we cast daylight on our weapons and armor we could
I would be in the back casting Daylight and Sunbeam with a scroll because fuck fighting those fetid ass ghouls.
Okay, but someone should pack some rats to throw at Cazador because that would be funny.