"Given these Humans have stage coach-sized flying machines that can land on rooftops, this entire building may be little more than another a trap." Dageron adds, hoisting himself up behind Travin. He offers the junkman a push up (( Help Action )).
After determining that the coast around them was clear and Travin had created the next hole above them, she sends Eloise to the next floor and swaps with her again, keeping an eye open for threats while the others work their way up.
Popping through to the 27th floor, the Dawn Guard has time to look around before they realize it is lined with multiple glass windowed rooms, each of which is lined with a big upright box. There are multiple of the weird vampires moving about the floor, working on things, as well as some sort of weird watchman in the corridor between rooms. It has one big fat eye in the middle of its body as well as multiple writhing eyestalks on top, each outfitted by a optical organ of its own. The thing literally turns all eyes toward the Dawn Guard before the air around it shimmers. A mass of tentacles dangling under its body pulse and draw up and down, almost like the thing is trying to clinch its fist.
Five of the vampire things turn and look toward the Dawn Guard from all different directions...
Travin panics and rips a patch off of his robe, summoning a handful of gems, he scoffs and stuffs them in a pocket before tearing at another patch and it transforms into a scroll which travin opens and looks at.
Shavaris swallows hard as she sees the creepy creatures that seem to have inhabited this building. What are those big upright boxes and what are the vampires even doing??
Without another thought, Eloise moves to stand next to Shavaris's target and Shavaris sends Sick and Twisted towards the closest of the vampires.
Attack: 23, Damage: 13
Attack: 32(crit!), Damage: 19
Sneak attack (due to Eloise): 15
Then a ghost-like apparition of Shav lifts off of the vampire and heads over to the watcher, delivering 7necrotic damage.
“Wait, Shavaris! Oh bloody hells. I thought we would just speed away from these creepy ass things, but you want to fight them?” Adam puts his hand down to his light saber… looking at the situation.
Sick and Twisted do as their master commands; they cut through the space between Shavaris and the nearest of the weird vampires as easy as they cut through the vampires belly. Black blood splatters on the floor and three of the strange fly creatures crawl from it immediately while a coil of intestines loops out of its stomach and piles around its feet. That doesn't stop it, though. The vampire lurches, preparing to move.
Ralik, though, is faster.
"Oah!" He cries, immediately diving into the fray next to his sister, a bubble of darkness following him, enshrouding the already wounded vampire. The darkness flows of his target and then beyond, leaving the vampire in even worse condition than it was...but not dead.
Ralik keeps moving, heading toward the weird thing covered in eyestalks.
The vampire slowly begins to scoop up its guts and cram them back into its abdomen...and they actually start reeling themselves in while it tries to decide what to do next. Black eyeballs fall on Shavaris...and it begins to run toward her...
Shavaris about gets sick as the vampire shoves in its guts and they start reeling themselves in. Getting control of herself, she backs away from the encroaching creature and Eloise trails it to stay within melee range, giving Shavaris the upper hand.
She smiles at Ralik's willingness to follow her into battle and yells back to Adam, "And leave these foul creatures to exist?! No!!"
She flings her beautifully crafted weapons at it again, if one cuts it down, the other will head towards one of the flies.
"Of course. The existence of some random foul creature outweighs the existence of all of Hyboria..." Dageron mutters to himself as he takes in the scene. Holding Shatterspike outstretched before him, Dageron simply walks through the nearest plate glass wall (( Move Action )), then slices it effortlessly at the seems of the upright box in that room (( Attack Action 1 )). He pries the new 'lid' open (( Bonus Action )), and prepares to strike down whatever is inside (( Second Attack Action held )).
Travin stows away the scroll having it quick at hand if necessary, he then moves up toward the eye stalk creature to see whether he can get within 30ft of it, at which point he calls out "IRIS-pectfully admits that puns might be a little CORNEa, yeh! Ands we mights not see EYE to EYE on this, hmmm? Buts I thinks you'd make a great teacher! Yeh yeh, it looks likes you can coordinates so many PUPILS heh heh!!" Weaving his terrible puns with magic he casts Hideous Laughter on the eyestalk creature (WIS SAVE 16) and then he moves back a little hopefully out of reach, taking out his chainsaw he revvs it up and gives a sly grin and a nod to Johnathan (bardic inspiration! D8)
Johnathan gives a nod to Travin as he shoots 2 eldritch beams at the big eye creature. He spends his movement backing up as much as possible to give room for other members.
Action. Eldritch blast on eye monster
Beam 1: To hit 18(with bardic inspiration). Damage: 10 force.
Beam 2: To hit 25. Damage: 13 force.
Echo remains at the lower floor and will inform any who are still below on the situation above.
The eyestalk creature jerks as if struck when Travin makes his deplorable pun, then falls to the ground where it writhes, every eye blinking fast while its tentacles whip around in confused circles. It looks like its having fits of pain and...well, something else, before Johnathan blasts the hell out of it. The second blast allows it to slowly start to hover up from the ground...
Nearby, one of the bampires crashes through a glass wall and into the main corridor, making its way straight toward Ralik in his ball of darkness, but stumbles clumsily as it tries to reach in for him...
Updated Post Order
Ralik Shavaris Travin Johnathan DM Dageron DM Adam
Dageron calls from the strange container he cut open, "Human inside, probably alive. Looks like her blood is feeding something a floor below us. Are we actually planning on addressing every supposedly evil thing we come across as we ascend this building? If so, we may not make it to the top, and even if we did, we'd probably be spent in the process. Can we just skip these pawns and keep moving?"
As he speaks, he slides his sword into the cranium of the person within the tank (( Attack Action 1 )). He then walks calmly towards the next tank, the illusion from the bangles dropping fully, his sword likewise shattering the glass wall in between. Arriving at the next tank, be thrusts his sword into its center (( Attack Action 2 )).
The eyeball thing begins to float again, turning its ire on Travin first. A beam of energy shoots out at Travin, while another eye looks into the darkness of Ralik's charge and fires twice, seeming to have no effect on the charging sword mage...
Another vampire, seeing what Dageron is doing, rushes toward him...
Updated Post Order
Ralik Shavaris Travin Johnathan DM Dageron DM Adam
“Gotta say, I agree with the professor on this one. Mr. Punji Sticks has the right idea. Keep destroying the guys in the tanks. I’m gonna take on Mr. Googley Eyes.”
Adam pulls out his lightsaber and activates it, running toward the Eyestalk Thingy. He takes two swipes at it. The second swing really seems to cleave into it.
Inquisitor’s Lightsaber swing 1 : 34 to hit, for 17 points of slashing damage, and 5 points of radiant damage (HP maximum reduced by the amount of radiant damage).
Inquisitor’s Lightsaber swing 2 : (Nat 20!) 36 to hit, for 19 points of slashing damage, and 14 points of radiant damage (HP maximum reduced by the amount of radiant damage).
All of the eyes of the eyeball thing turn toward Adam as he rushes in slashing. It tries to get off some shots, but its cut down faster than it can react, falling to the floor in a pile and slowly starting to dissolve into goo.
Ralik shifts direction, the ball of blackness he's hiding in moving immediately to intercept the vampire rushing toward Dageron. He cuts two vicious swipes into the vampire, spraying black blood...from which the strange flies from before begin to emerge.
One flies straight into the blackness around Ralik, and then the battlemage yips in pain. Suddenly the speed of the black ball slows down...
Updated Post Order
DM Shavaris Travin DM Johnathan DM Dageron DM Adam
"I see your point!" Shavaris calls out, "But for now take out those sources and Ralik and I will handle the riffraff, don't waste any spells until we get higher!"
And using Eloise to flank whichever vampire is closest, Shavaris will continue to take out the spawns, avoiding the disgusting flies and moving from one vampire to the next as she can.
Seeing the eye creature slain and the others asking to move along travin is more than happy to oblige.
Carving a square in the ceiling just above where the creature was, the solid block comes splattering down on to the residual ichor and Travin moves to try jumping up, "Travin wishes wes had a grappling hooks right now hmm? Yeh yeh!" (17 acrobatics to try ascending to the next floor)
Sick and Twisted rend dead flesh with the easy of a hot knife through butter. The vampire closest to Shavaris takes a hard hit, but doesn't go down, although black blood is spilled with ease.
Travin is easily able to pull himself up to the next floor.
Another of the black flies that had emerged from the blood Ralik spilled flies into his orb of darkness...but nothing else seems to happen...
Updated Post Order
DM Shavaris Travin DM Johnathan DM Dageron DM Adam
Johnathan closes his eyes as he begins to focus his magic through his eyes. When they open his eyes are a cloudy white colour as he looks around for a moment. The floor below and above look clear, I’m also seeing a human in every box on this floor. Let’s finish this off quickly before reinforcements surround us. Johnathan seems confused on the party wanting to leave this mess to fester but will remain near the hole in the ceiling in case everyone decides to leave.
Echo will fly up to the next floor with Travin and remain near him for the moment.
Action: Ghostly vision
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"Given these Humans have stage coach-sized flying machines that can land on rooftops, this entire building may be little more than another a trap." Dageron adds, hoisting himself up behind Travin. He offers the junkman a push up (( Help Action )).
After determining that the coast around them was clear and Travin had created the next hole above them, she sends Eloise to the next floor and swaps with her again, keeping an eye open for threats while the others work their way up.
Perception 26
Popping through to the 27th floor, the Dawn Guard has time to look around before they realize it is lined with multiple glass windowed rooms, each of which is lined with a big upright box. There are multiple of the weird vampires moving about the floor, working on things, as well as some sort of weird watchman in the corridor between rooms. It has one big fat eye in the middle of its body as well as multiple writhing eyestalks on top, each outfitted by a optical organ of its own. The thing literally turns all eyes toward the Dawn Guard before the air around it shimmers. A mass of tentacles dangling under its body pulse and draw up and down, almost like the thing is trying to clinch its fist.
Five of the vampire things turn and look toward the Dawn Guard from all different directions...
DM of AURYN: The Measure of Devotion - Escape from New York
DM of Legacy of NIMH
Travin panics and rips a patch off of his robe, summoning a handful of gems, he scoffs and stuffs them in a pocket before tearing at another patch and it transforms into a scroll which travin opens and looks at.
Travin Tiller, Junk Dweller Bard, AURYN.
The Ironmaiden, Questionable Artificer, Descent into Avernus.
DM, Peacekeepers of Northmorrah
Shavaris swallows hard as she sees the creepy creatures that seem to have inhabited this building. What are those big upright boxes and what are the vampires even doing??
Without another thought, Eloise moves to stand next to Shavaris's target and Shavaris sends Sick and Twisted towards the closest of the vampires.
Attack: 23, Damage: 13
Attack: 32 (crit!), Damage: 19
Sneak attack (due to Eloise): 15
Then a ghost-like apparition of Shav lifts off of the vampire and heads over to the watcher, delivering 7 necrotic damage.
“Wait, Shavaris! Oh bloody hells. I thought we would just speed away from these creepy ass things, but you want to fight them?” Adam puts his hand down to his light saber… looking at the situation.
Sick and Twisted do as their master commands; they cut through the space between Shavaris and the nearest of the weird vampires as easy as they cut through the vampires belly. Black blood splatters on the floor and three of the strange fly creatures crawl from it immediately while a coil of intestines loops out of its stomach and piles around its feet. That doesn't stop it, though. The vampire lurches, preparing to move.
Ralik, though, is faster.
"Oah!" He cries, immediately diving into the fray next to his sister, a bubble of darkness following him, enshrouding the already wounded vampire. The darkness flows of his target and then beyond, leaving the vampire in even worse condition than it was...but not dead.
Ralik keeps moving, heading toward the weird thing covered in eyestalks.
The vampire slowly begins to scoop up its guts and cram them back into its abdomen...and they actually start reeling themselves in while it tries to decide what to do next. Black eyeballs fall on Shavaris...and it begins to run toward her...
Post Order
DM
Shavaris
Travin
Johnathan
DM
Dageron
DM
Adam
Shavaris is up, followed by Travin and Johnathan!
DM of AURYN: The Measure of Devotion - Escape from New York
DM of Legacy of NIMH
Shavaris about gets sick as the vampire shoves in its guts and they start reeling themselves in. Getting control of herself, she backs away from the encroaching creature and Eloise trails it to stay within melee range, giving Shavaris the upper hand.
She smiles at Ralik's willingness to follow her into battle and yells back to Adam, "And leave these foul creatures to exist?! No!!"
She flings her beautifully crafted weapons at it again, if one cuts it down, the other will head towards one of the flies.
Attack: 26, Damage: 8
Attack: 23, Damage: 11
Sneak Attack: 16
"Of course. The existence of some random foul creature outweighs the existence of all of Hyboria..." Dageron mutters to himself as he takes in the scene. Holding Shatterspike outstretched before him, Dageron simply walks through the nearest plate glass wall (( Move Action )), then slices it effortlessly at the seems of the upright box in that room (( Attack Action 1 )). He pries the new 'lid' open (( Bonus Action )), and prepares to strike down whatever is inside (( Second Attack Action held )).
Travin stows away the scroll having it quick at hand if necessary, he then moves up toward the eye stalk creature to see whether he can get within 30ft of it, at which point he calls out "IRIS-pectfully admits that puns might be a little CORNEa, yeh! Ands we mights not see EYE to EYE on this, hmmm? Buts I thinks you'd make a great teacher! Yeh yeh, it looks likes you can coordinates so many PUPILS heh heh!!" Weaving his terrible puns with magic he casts Hideous Laughter on the eyestalk creature (WIS SAVE 16) and then he moves back a little hopefully out of reach, taking out his chainsaw he revvs it up and gives a sly grin and a nod to Johnathan (bardic inspiration! D8)
Travin Tiller, Junk Dweller Bard, AURYN.
The Ironmaiden, Questionable Artificer, Descent into Avernus.
DM, Peacekeepers of Northmorrah
Johnathan gives a nod to Travin as he shoots 2 eldritch beams at the big eye creature. He spends his movement backing up as much as possible to give room for other members.
Action. Eldritch blast on eye monster
Beam 1: To hit 18(with bardic inspiration). Damage: 10 force.
Beam 2: To hit 25. Damage: 13 force.
Echo remains at the lower floor and will inform any who are still below on the situation above.
All hell breaks loose.
The eyestalk creature jerks as if struck when Travin makes his deplorable pun, then falls to the ground where it writhes, every eye blinking fast while its tentacles whip around in confused circles. It looks like its having fits of pain and...well, something else, before Johnathan blasts the hell out of it. The second blast allows it to slowly start to hover up from the ground...
Nearby, one of the bampires crashes through a glass wall and into the main corridor, making its way straight toward Ralik in his ball of darkness, but stumbles clumsily as it tries to reach in for him...
Updated Post Order
Ralik
Shavaris
Travin
Johnathan
DM
Dageron
DM
Adam
Dageron is up!
DM of AURYN: The Measure of Devotion - Escape from New York
DM of Legacy of NIMH
Dageron calls from the strange container he cut open, "Human inside, probably alive. Looks like her blood is feeding something a floor below us. Are we actually planning on addressing every supposedly evil thing we come across as we ascend this building? If so, we may not make it to the top, and even if we did, we'd probably be spent in the process. Can we just skip these pawns and keep moving?"
As he speaks, he slides his sword into the cranium of the person within the tank (( Attack Action 1 )). He then walks calmly towards the next tank, the illusion from the bangles dropping fully, his sword likewise shattering the glass wall in between. Arriving at the next tank, be thrusts his sword into its center (( Attack Action 2 )).
The eyeball thing begins to float again, turning its ire on Travin first. A beam of energy shoots out at Travin, while another eye looks into the darkness of Ralik's charge and fires twice, seeming to have no effect on the charging sword mage...
Another vampire, seeing what Dageron is doing, rushes toward him...
Updated Post Order
Ralik
Shavaris
Travin
Johnathan
DM
Dageron
DM
Adam
Adam is up!
DM of AURYN: The Measure of Devotion - Escape from New York
DM of Legacy of NIMH
“Gotta say, I agree with the professor on this one. Mr. Punji Sticks has the right idea. Keep destroying the guys in the tanks. I’m gonna take on Mr. Googley Eyes.”
Adam pulls out his lightsaber and activates it, running toward the Eyestalk Thingy. He takes two swipes at it. The second swing really seems to cleave into it.
Inquisitor’s Lightsaber swing 1 : 34 to hit, for 17 points of slashing damage, and 5 points of radiant damage (HP maximum reduced by the amount of radiant damage).
Inquisitor’s Lightsaber swing 2 : (Nat 20!) 36 to hit, for 19 points of slashing damage, and 14 points of radiant damage (HP maximum reduced by the amount of radiant damage).
All of the eyes of the eyeball thing turn toward Adam as he rushes in slashing. It tries to get off some shots, but its cut down faster than it can react, falling to the floor in a pile and slowly starting to dissolve into goo.
Ralik shifts direction, the ball of blackness he's hiding in moving immediately to intercept the vampire rushing toward Dageron. He cuts two vicious swipes into the vampire, spraying black blood...from which the strange flies from before begin to emerge.
One flies straight into the blackness around Ralik, and then the battlemage yips in pain. Suddenly the speed of the black ball slows down...
Updated Post Order
DM
Shavaris
Travin
DM
Johnathan
DM
Dageron
DM
Adam
Shavaris is up, followed by Travin!
DM of AURYN: The Measure of Devotion - Escape from New York
DM of Legacy of NIMH
"I see your point!" Shavaris calls out, "But for now take out those sources and Ralik and I will handle the riffraff, don't waste any spells until we get higher!"
And using Eloise to flank whichever vampire is closest, Shavaris will continue to take out the spawns, avoiding the disgusting flies and moving from one vampire to the next as she can.
Attack: 28, Dam: 9
Attack: 32, Dam: 14
Attack: 28, Dam: 3
Sneak attack add on: 12
Seeing the eye creature slain and the others asking to move along travin is more than happy to oblige.
Carving a square in the ceiling just above where the creature was, the solid block comes splattering down on to the residual ichor and Travin moves to try jumping up, "Travin wishes wes had a grappling hooks right now hmm? Yeh yeh!" (17 acrobatics to try ascending to the next floor)
Travin Tiller, Junk Dweller Bard, AURYN.
The Ironmaiden, Questionable Artificer, Descent into Avernus.
DM, Peacekeepers of Northmorrah
Sick and Twisted rend dead flesh with the easy of a hot knife through butter. The vampire closest to Shavaris takes a hard hit, but doesn't go down, although black blood is spilled with ease.
Travin is easily able to pull himself up to the next floor.
Another of the black flies that had emerged from the blood Ralik spilled flies into his orb of darkness...but nothing else seems to happen...
Updated Post Order
DM
Shavaris
Travin
DM
Johnathan
DM
Dageron
DM
Adam
Johnathan is up!
DM of AURYN: The Measure of Devotion - Escape from New York
DM of Legacy of NIMH
Johnathan closes his eyes as he begins to focus his magic through his eyes. When they open his eyes are a cloudy white colour as he looks around for a moment. The floor below and above look clear, I’m also seeing a human in every box on this floor. Let’s finish this off quickly before reinforcements surround us. Johnathan seems confused on the party wanting to leave this mess to fester but will remain near the hole in the ceiling in case everyone decides to leave.
Echo will fly up to the next floor with Travin and remain near him for the moment.
Action: Ghostly vision