The star speckled dome of the gorgon's demiplane begins to contract, descending toward the grass floor as the door frame is sundered, splitting to allow the portal to expand equatorially as the top of the door slides closer to the threshold.
"With the power of the stone, I am master of all subservient spaces created from its subordinate parts. Evidently, you've located a chip of the stone.
<I hope i'm describing this adequately. It is hard ro co orchestra d let alone describe. From inside the dome, the ceiling is collapse g ad the door is shifting g from a tall rectangle to a wide ovoid, unzipping the tip of the dome from the bottom as it expands. From the outside it looks like the sky is ripping apart from the hill made by the door, revealing a distorting starry sky within, (from the perspective of someone on the ground).
One by one, in rapid succession, the stats begin to fade.
*To do this, Tyreus just has to be within a mile of the stone of creation, attuned to it, and see the demiplane created by a chip or keystone of creation>
The water elementals dive in the shimmering slanted stone surface and slip toward Angus, trident extended.
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Tauzan would follow the path Angus had taken, moving through the one door, into the demiplane, and then through the other door he took. Not sure where he's going exactly, he will cautiously look out before the last door, trying to stay unseen. (Perception: 23, Stealth: 9)
Realizing the danger of the open flame, [Tabaqui] will quickly try to climb back up to the burning rag, yank it out and extinguish it in the mud. With his darkvision, he will search for any possible exit. is it possible to dig through the soft lakebed and tunnel up and around the stone ceiling?
Walks casts Sanctuary on herself and stays near Marlyth.
OOC: I seriously have no idea where everybody/anything is.
You're all in a bubble of force in the middle of a room on the floor of a lake with no water for a 100 ft from you. To one side is the shore, surrounded by the castle wall, though it now ends where the lake previously began. Beyond the 100 feet or so of muddy lakebed, the water stands poised to collapse into the dry lakebed, a sheer wall of water 30 feet high.
The central room, a rectangular space about 20x50ft with 10-foot walls and a central opening in the ceiling, is surrounded by 4 sloping stone slides, slick with rain, which lead down to the hole in the ceiling described previously. Angus has emerged from a door above one of those slides via a door thst has appeared on the floor within the dome shaped wall of force.
(Is Tabaqui's telepathic link to Calner still active? If so, he will reach out and describe his trapped situation to the sorceror, hoping someone can come extricate him from his muddy prison before he runs out of air.)
Tabaqui's two daggers in the wall slowed his fall enough that the damage was reduced (DM opinion?). Realizing the danger of the open flame, he will quickly try to climb back up to the burning rag, yank it out and extinguish it in the mud. With his darkvision, he will search for any possible exit. is it possible to dig through the soft lakebed and tunnel up and around the stone ceiling?
Its a 20ft hole, so without a climb speed, 2ft of movement per ft. No special exits exist. This is green sand, which is what you'll find inside a pool filter. The lid is crafted with stone shape and treated as stone. Tabaqui can extinguish the flame and dash to the roof of the well, with dash a bonus action, he still has an action at that point.
Tyreus looks at Angus and speaks a single word. Not shouting, but ordering confidently the simple command: "Prone." (DC 18 Wis save) as his points total he Paladin with two fingers outstretched, the ring worn on the lo ger digit stars to glow with an eery deep purple light.
Calner, within the gorgon's demiplane, sees Tyreus appear at the widening entrance, with the cloudy sky above the High Moor at his back. The soaking wet blue cape of the Cobalt Mage drips water o to the soft grou d of the gorgon's home. Her house and her petrified lover stand behind Calner, all in the mage's view ad the ceiling continues to descend to the floor and the opening to Highstsr Lake ever widens.
"Look!" commands Tyreus, gesturing toward the statue of a human behind Calner. The mage's bracers cast a blue hue as the light gleams from them. The stone statues eyes glow red, dimly at first, then brightly, shining like flashlights filtered crimson. At their centers, black pools appear as the pale stone turns to a flesh tone, darkening to a deep bronze and the statues hair falls to soft brown curls when the creature begins to twist its neck about, fighting to free itself from the petrifying grip of the stone tomb thats held him for untold ages.
The iron lion and Banner of Blades envoys hold actions, attacking one target each (I've already selected) if the magical barrier fails for any reason.
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(When Tyreus fell and took damage, did he make a concentration save for the wall of force dome? Also for the spell holding back the water?)
Angus WIS save: 12
If the command spell succeeds, I suppose Angus' turn stops there.
If he makes his save, he will:
1) cast Branding smite on himself as a bonus action: first attack to hit does an extra 3 radiant damage and the target cannot become invisible
2) charge at Tyreus and attack with his longsword, adding a second-level divine smite to either or both attacks if they hit. (My understanding is that Tyreus is on the floor of the gorgon's demiplane. If I am mistaken, I would change this action, preferably to some other attack on the mage).
First longsword Attack: 20 Damage: 8magical slashing + 17radiantdamage
Second longsword Attack: 20 Damage: 14magical slashing + 15radiantdamage
Its a 20ft hole, so without a climb speed, 2ft of movement per ft. No special exits exist. This is green sand, which is what you'll find inside a pool filter. The lid is crafted with stone shape and treated as stone. Tabaqui can extinguish the flame and dash to the roof of the well, with dash a bonus action, he still has an action at that point.
Using his hands and daggers, Tabaqui will begin tunneling through the green sand to get around the stone barrier. Once again, he will try the telepathic link, "Hello? Anyone out there? A little help....?"
(When Tyreus fell and took damage, did he make a concentration save for the wall of force dome? Also for the spell holding back the water?)
Angus WIS save: 22
If the command spell succeeds, I suppose Angus' turn stops there.
If he makes his save, he will:
1) cast Branding smite on himself as a bonus action: first attack to hit does an extra 5 radiant damage and the target cannot become invisible
2) charge at Tyreus and attack with his longsword, adding a second-level divine smite to either or both attacks if they hit. (My understanding is that Tyreus is on the floor of the gorgon's demiplane. If I am mistaken, I would change this action, preferably to some other attack on the mage).
First longsword Attack: 27 Damage: 10magical slashing + 14radiantdamage
Second longsword Attack: 18 Damage: 14magical slashing + 13radiantdamage
< You see Tyreus on the ground within the open-topped cellar, but then hesr him speak to Calner and if youbturn, you will find he is standing there in the gorgon's demiplane.>
Angus resists Tyreus' command and charges the mage who now points to the statue past Calner.
Physical interaction with this figure reveals it to be an illusion, another like the one in Waltarn's tomb. It vanishes on contact, (limiting the mage's view of the interior of the dimension to what he can see through the widening doorway.)
(If you're keeping track, that's a double 1st level spell LA. The 7th level project image was the action. The mercenaries moved a few feet triggering the double LA, Angus triggered another LA that altered the statue.
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The water elementals follow Angus into the demiplane. They both try to grapple him. They want to drag him to and shove him back through the door that leads to the dome of force. If the first one succeeds, the other will do the same to Calner, unless Calner is turning to stone or something .. pending the save.
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Marlyth's Turn
Marlyth will cast Conjure Animals to summon a fey spirit which assumes the form of a Giant-Constrictor-Snake that resembles the undead snakes encountered outside the gorgon's demiplane, and commands it to attack. It occupies a huge area inside the torture room but extends it's tail through the shadowy door to constrict one of the armored Water-Elementals
Its a 20ft hole, so without a climb speed, 2ft of movement per ft. No special exits exist. This is green sand, which is what you'll find inside a pool filter. The lid is crafted with stone shape and treated as stone. Tabaqui can extinguish the flame and dash to the roof of the well, with dash a bonus action, he still has an action at that point.
Using his hands and daggers, Tabaqui will begin tunneling through the green sand to get around the stone barrier. Once again, he will try the telepathic link, "Hello? Anyone out there? A little help....?"
If Angus is successfully grappled, additional grapple attempts are made against Calner, although the DC on look was 18, so he's currently looking at a Medusa-like effect
The star speckled dome of the gorgon's demiplane begins to contract, descending toward the grass floor as the door frame is sundered, splitting to allow the portal to expand equatorially as the top of the door slides closer to the threshold.
"With the power of the stone, I am master of all subservient spaces created from its subordinate parts. Evidently, you've located a chip of the stone.
<I hope i'm describing this adequately. It is hard ro co orchestra d let alone describe. From inside the dome, the ceiling is collapse g ad the door is shifting g from a tall rectangle to a wide ovoid, unzipping the tip of the dome from the bottom as it expands. From the outside it looks like the sky is ripping apart from the hill made by the door, revealing a distorting starry sky within, (from the perspective of someone on the ground).
One by one, in rapid succession, the stats begin to fade.
*To do this, Tyreus just has to be within a mile of the stone of creation, attuned to it, and see the demiplane created by a chip or keystone of creation>
The water elementals dive in the shimmering slanted stone surface and slip toward Angus, trident extended.
1. thrust, 2-handed: 22 for 8 piercing
2. thrown: 12 for 10.
Party is up.
Tauzan would follow the path Angus had taken, moving through the one door, into the demiplane, and then through the other door he took. Not sure where he's going exactly, he will cautiously look out before the last door, trying to stay unseen. (Perception: 23, Stealth: 9)
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Marlyth's Turn:
Marlyth will ready the spell Mirror Image but release the effect of the spell on Calner's turn to create three illusory duplicates of herself.
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Walks, Tabaqui and Calner are up
Walks casts Sanctuary on herself and stays near Marlyth.
OOC: I seriously have no idea where everybody/anything is.
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From post 2562:
Realizing the danger of the open flame, [Tabaqui] will quickly try to climb back up to the burning rag, yank it out and extinguish it in the mud. With his darkvision, he will search for any possible exit. is it possible to dig through the soft lakebed and tunnel up and around the stone ceiling?
You're all in a bubble of force in the middle of a room on the floor of a lake with no water for a 100 ft from you. To one side is the shore, surrounded by the castle wall, though it now ends where the lake previously began. Beyond the 100 feet or so of muddy lakebed, the water stands poised to collapse into the dry lakebed, a sheer wall of water 30 feet high.
The central room, a rectangular space about 20x50ft with 10-foot walls and a central opening in the ceiling, is surrounded by 4 sloping stone slides, slick with rain, which lead down to the hole in the ceiling described previously. Angus has emerged from a door above one of those slides via a door thst has appeared on the floor within the dome shaped wall of force.
Its a 20ft hole, so without a climb speed, 2ft of movement per ft. No special exits exist. This is green sand, which is what you'll find inside a pool filter. The lid is crafted with stone shape and treated as stone. Tabaqui can extinguish the flame and dash to the roof of the well, with dash a bonus action, he still has an action at that point.
Tyreus looks at Angus and speaks a single word. Not shouting, but ordering confidently the simple command: "Prone." (DC 18 Wis save) as his points total he Paladin with two fingers outstretched, the ring worn on the lo ger digit stars to glow with an eery deep purple light.
Calner, within the gorgon's demiplane, sees Tyreus appear at the widening entrance, with the cloudy sky above the High Moor at his back. The soaking wet blue cape of the Cobalt Mage drips water o to the soft grou d of the gorgon's home. Her house and her petrified lover stand behind Calner, all in the mage's view ad the ceiling continues to descend to the floor and the opening to Highstsr Lake ever widens.
Edit: More...
"Look!" commands Tyreus, gesturing toward the statue of a human behind Calner. The mage's bracers cast a blue hue as the light gleams from them. The stone statues eyes glow red, dimly at first, then brightly, shining like flashlights filtered crimson. At their centers, black pools appear as the pale stone turns to a flesh tone, darkening to a deep bronze and the statues hair falls to soft brown curls when the creature begins to twist its neck about, fighting to free itself from the petrifying grip of the stone tomb thats held him for untold ages.
The iron lion and Banner of Blades envoys hold actions, attacking one target each (I've already selected) if the magical barrier fails for any reason.
Angus is up (down?)
(When Tyreus fell and took damage, did he make a concentration save for the wall of force dome? Also for the spell holding back the water?)
Angus WIS save: 12
If the command spell succeeds, I suppose Angus' turn stops there.
If he makes his save, he will:
1) cast Branding smite on himself as a bonus action: first attack to hit does an extra 3 radiant damage and the target cannot become invisible
2) charge at Tyreus and attack with his longsword, adding a second-level divine smite to either or both attacks if they hit. (My understanding is that Tyreus is on the floor of the gorgon's demiplane. If I am mistaken, I would change this action, preferably to some other attack on the mage).
First longsword Attack: 20 Damage: 8 magical slashing + 17 radiant damage
Second longsword Attack: 20 Damage: 14 magical slashing + 15 radiant damage
(forgot to report that the first elemental strike did wound Angus, but he ducked the second thrown trident.)
Using his hands and daggers, Tabaqui will begin tunneling through the green sand to get around the stone barrier. Once again, he will try the telepathic link, "Hello? Anyone out there? A little help....?"
A spell is not holding back water, it is a function of the stone of creation, and the mage took no damage. That is what the winged thrull is for.
Spoiler:
The thrull is actually spawned by a magic item you can pick up if you defeat Tyreus.
< You see Tyreus on the ground within the open-topped cellar, but then hesr him speak to Calner and if youbturn, you will find he is standing there in the gorgon's demiplane.>
Angus resists Tyreus' command and charges the mage who now points to the statue past Calner.
Physical interaction with this figure reveals it to be an illusion, another like the one in Waltarn's tomb. It vanishes on contact, (limiting the mage's view of the interior of the dimension to what he can see through the widening doorway.)
(If you're keeping track, that's a double 1st level spell LA. The 7th level project image was the action. The mercenaries moved a few feet triggering the double LA, Angus triggered another LA that altered the statue.
The water elementals follow Angus into the demiplane. They both try to grapple him. They want to drag him to and shove him back through the door that leads to the dome of force. If the first one succeeds, the other will do the same to Calner, unless Calner is turning to stone or something .. pending the save.
Grapple contests:
WE1 8, 8, 7,
WE2 7, 21, 19,
PCs are up
Marlyth, Walks, Tauzen Calner are up. Tabaqui can still act
Humans 20 ✅
Angus Initiative 16 ✅⏱️⏱️⏱️
elementals: 14 ✅
Marlyth: Initiative 10 ▶️⏱️?
(Don't recall what was pending based in clock icon, a save probably - unless mistskenly carried forward)
Walks Initiative 10 ▶️
Tauzan Initiative: 9 ▶️
Tabaqui Initiative 6 ✅?
Calner's Initiative: 6 ▶️⏱️⏱️⏱️⏱️
Marlyth's Turn
Marlyth will cast Conjure Animals to summon a fey spirit which assumes the form of a Giant-Constrictor-Snake that resembles the undead snakes encountered outside the gorgon's demiplane, and commands it to attack. It occupies a huge area inside the torture room but extends it's tail through the shadowy door to constrict one of the armored Water-Elementals
Initiative: Giant-Constrictor-Snake: 14
Attack: Constrict x Water Elemental 1: Attack: 26 Damage: 18 Bludgeoning Damage
(On a hit, the target is grappled and escape DC is 16)
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(remind me, are these normal grapples that I contest with Athletics?)
Athletics checks (6, 14, 13, 17, 9, 7,)
If Angus is successfully grappled, additional grapple attempts are made against Calner, although the DC on look was 18, so he's currently looking at a Medusa-like effect