MTG: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms

Weneon darts after Tabaqui, she will try to locate their quarry as well

Perception 23

The cellar.

Bare stone and wooden rafters make up this low, six-foot-tall cellar. Dry sand is scattered throughout a room that is almost parched—despite the nearby seashore. Perhaps this windowless cellar was magically made to keep the kegs, barrels, and sacks here from moldering.

There is a stone is set in the center of the ceiling. It is a dark, jagged stone with veins of gold, all etched with arcane runes and sigils, very much out of place here. It’s about the size of a loaf of bread and weighs about 10 pounds.

Three bottles of fortified wine from the Sword Coast, never opened, still sit amid straw in a crate in the southeast corner of the cellar. Each bottle is now worth 70 gp.

Morwena Wis save 11

Calner hears Morwenas thoughts as she struggles with the betrayal she's faced.  The betrayal she committed and what she must do now that she's been forsaken.

{When he looks at the Realms, Tyreus only sees a place to be conquered or plundered out of spite.

Morwena tried (and failed) to convince him the Realms could make him powerful—that he could carve out a part of the Sword Coast for them to rule together—and that’s when she knew Tyreus would not share power.

Tyreus is an angry and sometimes petulant person. He thinks if he gathers enough power, he can make a place for himself in the world where he can be strong and, finally, find happiness.}

<See, if you talked to the last wizard you'd already know who Tyreus is.  You got his name back there, but that's about it.  Technically, someone has already seen him, wearing a green cloak and holding a white book.>

Marlyrh strolls outside the house through the solarium

Long and empty tables run the length of this room, along the walls and down the center, stained where pots and planters once sat. Now they’re all stacked beneath the tabletops on a floor still stained with good dirt. Sylvene never got around to accomplishing as much gardening as she intended. Nothing grows in this room anymore.

A golden disc, about the size of a platter and made to resemble a stylized sun, hangs on a wall in this room. It is worth 250 gp.

Outside, she finds a garden.

Overgrown to the point of choking on itself, this garden is dotted here and there with signs marking the original plots of herbs and vegetables, many of which clearly no longer grow here. The air smells like sweet basil. Lively herbs have overtaken much of the garden, but some carrots and turnips still grow here, too

Random roll: 6

Angus amiably walks into the cellar as he was instructed and looks for something the key could open.  He examines the stone in the ceiling... are there any keyholes?

Investigation 7

 (So does Tabaqui have any idea where the wizard is?)

"We would like our key back," he says.

Marlyth orders the first Seagull to guard the entrance when she examines the contents of the garden. She instructs the other bird to pluck some fresh carrots and turnips while she attempts to hear if there's some kind of movement inside the house (Passive Perception 15). Finally, she attempts to remove the Golden Disk from the wall at the same time crying out:

"Hello! Who's there? Mal? I saw your footsteps outside and don't try to escape from the person who saved you. That's uncivilized."

Marlyth: Nobody in the garden.  Your pals are in the house, definitely making noise.

Tabaqui can search the house. But she might be outside at this point, though that would moat likely leave footprints in the sand.  He see no new ones, but would see the same ones the seagulls followed if he ventures out.

So in the cellar we have Angus and Weneon? Let me double check 

Yes.  So, Angus is investigating the ceiling and Wen is actively searching for a hidden someone.

Stealth check 14

Incredibly, Weneon thinks he sees something stirring in the shadows of the basement.  She is not surprised (in the mechanical sense) when something pounces from the shadows at Angus (who is surprised)

The [Tooltip Not Found] slashes at Angus and tries to bite him before striding from his shadow to Wenons, seemingly disappearing into the floor and reappearing again near the small humanoid, slashing again, at her this time.

GSH x A claw 14 for 18

                Bite 27 for 21

GSH x W claw 13 for 14

Weneon is up this round for all subsequent rounds.

<Roll initiative>

Marlyth is in room 9 (Solarium - which should face south, but it's a demiplane, so I guess it doesn't matter so much) most of you are in room 2.

Post in any order, but mecha is follow the initiative 

GSH initiative 5

I'll see about making a map.for this tonight.  By all means, deploy your initiative bonus things for this one.

Greater shadow horror

[Tooltip Not Found]

Huh.  Well, check ******* if you want to know

(Ouch)

Angus' Initiative: 7

Angus will retreat up the stairs if the path is clear and lay hands on himself for 45hp healing.

I was kind of expecting everyone else to roll initiative.  There's absolutely no reason this thing is going to stay in the cellar.  In fact, I rolled for time of day randomly.  There was about a 12% chance it was going to jack you on the beach the minute you arrived.  So I'll give people a chance to roll that there initiative and we'll proceed from there. 

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Marlyth orders the first Seagull to guard the entrance when she examines the contents of the garden. She instructs the other bird to pluck some fresh carrots and turnips while she attempts to hear if there's some kind of movement inside the house (Passive Perception 15). Finally, she attempts to remove the Golden Disk from the wall at the same time crying out:

"Hello! Who's there? Mal? I saw your footsteps outside and don't try to escape from the person who saved you. That's uncivilized."

 Sleight of Hand 13

(Initiative 11, rolled in gamelog)

Sorry I missed the sleight of hand. There's no issue taking the disk.  It's yours, enjoy.

Safeguard Initiative: 6

4

Tabaqui initiative 18

(the timeline got a little confusing there, Tabaqui may have been in the cellar as well.  If not, he will rush down).

Tabaqui nocks an arrow and lets it fly at the Shadow Horror, then using his bonus action, begins to dodge

Shortbow Attack: 15 Damage: 15 + Sneak attack (if someone is within 5ft of Horror) damage: 18 

(bah, crit fail)

Here is the whole map.  I've only got two folks in the basement.   

I did say Tabaqui heard something in the basement, but I didn't think he walked down, so the first round involves surprised Angus, insurprised Weneon. 

Initiative seems to go shadow horror first [23], so assuming nobody else is ahead of him, he might move alot.  He's very mobile. 

I don't think this changes any of the posts I've read but I'll check again and I wanted to clarify confusion if there was any.

(When I said very mobile. It can move up to 160ft in a round.  Imagine it with Haste?)

So let's figure out where everyone is, actually, at the end of round 1.