Crimson Sands of Time

Aoo attack

10 

damage 

15 +3 fire 

<That's a miss.

So, I've been thinking avoid how this combat is dragging a bit.  Unfortunately a lot of the moves these guys have are control abilities so, they end up needing saves which really ruen the game.  If anyone doesn't like the idea, let me know, but I'm thinking of just rolling the saves in these acrion stopping cases just to keep things moving.  I think we're all using the same randomizer engine not real dice, so since since there was never really any agency in the save, I do t think it's a player satisfaction issue.  I do worry rhst there could be a missed shield use or some potentially foefotten bonus like guidance or an equipment effect kr something,  but most of thst should cone through on the cahracter sheet and it would be a definite retcon case.  Whether or not to use a reaction spell slot after the fact us not so cut and dry. Thats why im gesitant to just roll PC saves to keep the action going. In this case (most cases) it doesnt matter, its either/or attack roll / saving throw but there are surely some cases where the text include "on a hit... make a DC ## XYZ save or ..." and those are the ones im most concerned about.  Still, all of this seems trivial compared to the risk of disengagement, so i think I'm going to roll these saves and people can comment to me after the fact.>

Grapple check 1 (acrobatics) 16 vs 16 opposed.

That's resolved.  The shadar-kai wizard is dragged into the labyrinth if sewers through a newly widened hole in the wall.

Updated map

FYI Using the rules for squeezing in the narrow canal tunnel, despite the actual morphology of this thing being very serpentine. This restriction would only effect Sam, who can also squeeze in this way, but the rukes on squeezing (see below) also grant AD to attackers. It has maguc resistance, so the DA from a Dex save vs magic would be a straight roll to save.

Oli 28 ✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️▶️

Sam 23 ✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️▶️

Monster 19 ✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️⏸️

Tetrevess 17 ✅️✅️✅️✅️▶️

Randy 9 ✅️✅️✅️✅️▶️

Trisk 6 ✅️✅️✅️✅️▶️

Ethan 3 ✅️✅️✅️✅️▶️

All PCs are up.  I'd advise moving in your preferred order in thw narrow passage if you choose to follow directly.  A fair amount if this map is known to you by accounts from your patron, but it won't include everything.  If you csn see it in the Mao, your PC was made aware it's there. Fancy navigating might require a survival check, but not if you're following in the heels of the demon.  Also, you too csn destroy walls to open passages marked in the map, but detecting them requires an active perception check. The base DC is 13 assuming adequate lighting fir the vision of the PC searching it.  That's all moot if you just follow it.

All turns are at your discretion. Holding action for another PC us not required (ever) you csn just fo after them. A held action using only reaction fir movement or action (the standard case) only applies if waiting for an npc or environmental effect.

"Damn it! It got away!" Ethan growls as he gets up from the water and smashes a wall to find a passage to chase after it, but not before he helps Oli get Randy back onto the surface first. "We need to find a passage to get to the last monster... Everyone destroy the walls, preferably on different sides so that we can ambush it and save that guy! There should be something that can we can run across to save him!" 

Strikes a portion of the wall: 28 

AOO Attack: 10 (Miss)

"NO!" Randy screams as he witnesses Trisk get caught in the last demon's grasps as it swims away. "Damn it! Bunny boy! Ethan! Get me out of this mess so I can help us find another path to track it down!" He furiously screams before he immediately starts to ram his cannon (it's handheld) into the walls to break it down (16 to hit)

Ethan and Randy manage to find the spots where tbe water is flowing through grates under the surface and demolish sections of wall.  Entering from adjacent corridors, they meet at an intersection. 

Oli uses his action to dash, movement, and Cunning Action to dash to follow Randy and Ethan and move a little ahead of them to head off the demon.

<ooc: Oli is not invisible any more but I don't know how to remove it in Owlbear Rodeo. I have moved Oli's token in OwlBear Rodeo.>

The invisible ring and rogue token were linked. To remove the ring, I first unlinked the pair then selected the ring and deleted.

Tetrevess, Trisk and Sam are up

Oli 28 ✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️

Sam 23 ✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️▶️

Monster 19 ✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️⏸️

Tetrevess 17 ✅️✅️✅️✅️▶️

Randy 9 ✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️

Trisk 6 ✅️✅️✅️✅️▶️

Ethan 3 ✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️

Tetrevess uses the Telepathic bond to try to talk to Trisk “Trisk-  if you can escape let us know, if not, tell me where you are and I will try to get to you.”

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Tetrevess uses the Telepathic bond to try to talk to Trisk “Trisk-  if you can escape let us know, if not, tell me where you are and I will try to get to you.”

 “Why do we always have to deal with stuff like this T” spits on the floor 

(sorry for my recent absence but I was in the hospital.)

Trisk will cast Dimension Door and teleport back to where the main cluster of the group is.

He will start to answer Tetrevess telepathically (purple) and finish answering verbally (blue) when he appears among his allies again.

"It grabbed me unexpectantly and crashed through some walls into another tunnel... but yeah, I can free myself. If we hurry maybe we can track it down, it's not very subtle in it's movements."

Ok, so do you want to go find where it went, assuming you wish to do so.  This is the job Gafna Bilton sent you to do, but its bot a railroad; it's up to you.

The demon does something, but if there's nobody there to see it, I'm not describing it.

(ooc: is it making any noise? does it leave a slime trail or anything?... maybe blood or ichor from any wounds?... just trying to see how easy/hard it might be to track down through the tunnels.)

"Oh hey, you made it out in one piece. You all had us worried there. We were in the middle of smashing some walls so that we can find a path to track that stupid fiend who tried to abduct you down. Do you know which way is it heading? Because that will determine which direction I should clear the path to." Ethan replies as he takes down another wall to try and find a pathway for them to follow (16 to hit)

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(ooc: is it making any noise? does it leave a slime trail or anything?... maybe blood or ichor from any wounds?... just trying to see how easy/hard it might be to track down through the tunnels.)

 It's swimming through the water. With the sound of the water poring in from the streets above, echoing through the twisting corridors, it woukd be very hard indeed to hear it moving. It's scaly, not slimy and it's swimming.  But you know where it was 6 seconds ago.

Trisk will direct Ethan to where it just was.

"It grabbed me and smashed through that wall and tried to swim off with me in that direction."

Pointing out the direction to Ethan and the others.

"It can't have gone far."

<Walls are static targets, no need for a roll to hit (regardless of what the dmg says; i know 3.5 made you roll, not truly certain if 5e does RAW) .  If you're looking for a 'secret passage' (really just an archaic patchwork of rebuilt tunnels from different periods in the city's history) it would be a perception check, but I can apply the modifiers, and these are successful.>

As Ethan smashes another wall, Trisk, following behind corrects "Not the left wall, go right"