Crimson Sands of Time

Sam utterly destroys the semi-dead wizard.

<I think this eliminates Ethans target, meaning you can change the action in the post above - just create a new one so i dont miss it. Sam still has attacks to spend as part of the attack action, the first hit did it. Also, it ends the frightened condition, which means Randy is free to act.>

Str is the ability for determining jumping distance. 

At what level does Picollo cast dispel magic? 

(Just level three so probably need to roll, failed with roll of 10), Cunning action (bonus action), dash backward out of LOS

 Tetrevess, Ethan and Randy are up.

(I wouldn't count Ethan's attacks on a vanquished enemy. If he can find a target, rhough, he can coose to apply rhkse results instead of rolling again.)

Seeing an argument about to unfold between Sam and Randy, Ethan steps in between of them with clenched fists; This is not what he hopes from the team at this point in time. "Stop it. Both of you. Enough!" He snarls in a dangerous tone. "The last thing we all need is to start a civil war amongst ourselves; The more we fight amongst each other, the more likely our enemies will take advantage of it. You guys can't cooperate, and I'll force you guys to take all the blows for the team. You think this is also what our newest member would like from us? Don't forget she's still bound by something and she's relying on us for her freedom. Last chance." He then moves to the front and looks at the trap that Trisk fell into before eying the distance between it and the other side of the passage.

"We can all easily make the jump or teleport over this, unless if you guys have any other solutions on how to get pass this without doing what I suggested." Either way, Ethan will be the first to jump over it if he can. (Athletics: 19)

(Unless if that phantasmal thing or Thuria is still around, there aren't any enemies that are in sight that Ethan can target)

(The girl reaches up for what looks like a piggy back ride she is much too small to make the jump, naturally. She weights 30 lbs. )

tetrevess wis save 27.

tetrevess looks into the pit and casts levitate on Trisk, helping lift him out. 

“err, yes no fighting amongst ourselves.  hard enough as it is.”.  his cloak transforms into a pair of wings and he flies over the pir. 

tetrevess will carry her across.

Just to note: the trap door is a 5x5 un a 10fr wide hallway. You could jump overl it, but also just walk around it. That's why I rolled the d2 to see if Trisk fell in in the first place.

 Ethan jumps over it withoit issue and into the blue-ish floaring semicorporeal giant disembodied ha d waiting on the other side.

<mechanically, Ethan occupies the space bit the hand, in a duct-tape-y sort of design decision, does not occupy the space it is in, owing, in part, to the elegant choice to make it an object. He can swing at the hand if he wants, or pursue Thuria around the corner,  but 30ft of movement only.gets him.to the hand, no sign of the wizard yet.>

The trap was described in post #5377, pictured #5380:

"a 5-foot-square section of floor, which forms a lid hinged on the inner side and lined with lead. (The lead on the lid prevents the magic of a closed trap from being detected.)"

Just waiting on Randy. I don't think he ever went since the hand showed up and tbe fear condition ended with tbe death of the wight red (pinkh?) wizard

(Yeah you're right; As soon as Ethan lands on the other side he'll attempt to slam his bat onto that... ghost... if it can even hit...)

Strike 1: 27, 7 Force, 5 Necrotic

Strike 2: Non nat 20, 8 Bludgeoning, 5 Necrotic

Randy still stares at Sam with an annoyed look, but immediately drops it when Ethan suddenly interferes. Whilst he ain't scared of Sam, he is so of Ethan, especially considering that he literally has the strength of a normal human soldier, possibly even more powerful than that. He wouldn't dare pick a physical fight with him at all. "Sigh... Fine. I'm sorry I yelled. I'll stop... if you move back in front... and if he does so too." He calmly breathes as he picks up his cannon and prepares to jump... at least, until he realises that the phantasmal thing is still there and he instead aims his cannon one more time at it...

BA Attack: 19 Damage: 13

If the ballista even makes any damage, Randy will follow up with a Fire Bolt; He literally can't use anything else at this point that's not in melee range, let alone without using spell slots.

Ethan strikes the giant shimmering semi-corporeal hand with his bat. It shrinks back reflexively from the slap on the wrist, but nit fast enough to avoid the follow-up.

Randy fires his cannon, but the hand is too fast, and nimbly dodges the blast. Once bitten, twice shy.

<@Wildland_Shifters: Why the 'if' for the fire bolt? It doesn't look damaged, but it did respond as if Ethan's attacks hurt.>

After the magical assist out of the pit trap by Tetrevess, Trisk will move around the pit and join the others on the other side in their fight against the disembodied hand.

Trisk casts Chill Touch at the disembodied hand.

Attack: 19 Damage: 13 necrotic damage, and it can't regain hit points until the start of my next turn. Until then, the ghostly, skeletal hand clings to the target.

If you hit an undead target, it also has disadvantage on attack rolls against you until the end of my next turn.

In an effort to downplay what just happened to him, "Yeah, I had to double check to make sure. That is indeed a nasty pit trap, be careful and watch your step."

Trisk tries to position himself as close to where Piccolo ended up on the other side of the pit trap, same side, left or right etc. etc.

Updated to include earlier surprise (!)

Tetrevess 21❗️ ✅️

Picollo 21 ❗️✅️

Ethan 20 ❗️✅️

Triskellion 20❗️ ✅️

Samogri 19 ❗️✅️

Monsters 14 ✅️▶️

Randy 7 ❗️✅️

The little hand passes right through the big hand's giant eye, ending up behind it.

Trisk's spell seems to have no effect.

Inexplicably,  the hand turns and scamoers away in its fingertips, rounding the corner Thuria did after firing the magic missiles.

(Piccolo has the feat, Alert: So she can't be surprised if conscious. This is also why I may want to roll initiative each time. Can get a very high one. You gain a +5 bonus to initiative, you can't be surprised while you are conscious, and other creatures don’t gain advantage on attack rolls against you as a result of being unseen by you.)

(@Dm Yeah sorry I said because when that hand came and you describe it as phantasmal I thought... you know, as with all ghosts, physical and ranged attacks will pass through them harmlessly as if they were made of some gas. That's what I imagined)

"Damn it! It went around the corner! After him!" Randy yells as he jumps over the trap; Shouldn't have gotten rid of [Tooltip Not Found] earlier he also realises... (Athletics: 16)

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(Piccolo has the feat, Alert: So she can't be surprised if conscious. This is also why I may want to roll initiative each time. Can get a very high one. You gain a +5 bonus to initiative, you can't be surprised while you are conscious, and other creatures don’t gain advantage on attack rolls against you as a result of being unseen by you.)

 My concern with rolling initiative every room is that it will slow down the game. But I will call for new initiatives at some point I deem appropriate.

I'm not going to rewind time now, but if I had known earlier, you might have had a chance to do something on round 1. I think 5e's surprised condition is far more confusing and cumbersome than the surprise round, but it's what we're stuck with.  Thus is why I almost never use it. Here I just thought it would be true for thus scenario.

That said, all PCs are currently up.

(No worries. One way to speed init is for you to roll all inutritive at once, instead of waiting for all of us to post.  Some of the 5e rules are awkward.)

what do we see as we go past the pit?