Crimson Sands of Time

Dispel would work. Its just dc16.

Ttsik finally sees the pattern in the runes ckearly and unlocks another sral on tbe sepulcher.  The pyramid itself shimmers briefly before a dust of ash lifts from its surface to join the nexus of dark fluid pouring up from the pools on the ground.

Randy dusabkes another arcane sigil as a burst of necroplasm swells forth from the pools, embigenning the nexus of dark magic at the ceter of the thetrwhedron to the penuktimate volume before it will surely hirst, its surface wobbling unstably as the opaque fluid sloshes about within the garvitstional void, beimg pulled to each floor at its tangent. 

(By my count, there is one success still needed to break Kazit Gul's spell. This js a real spell, btw, from an old book i have at home, forget the name at the moment, but the concept is a player resource fir evil campaigns. Anyhow, 1 success left.)

Anyone left to act? Ethan, i think, is still up (hard to track when im not looking for mumtiple days, etc.). Then Eira and back to Valindra and the Tyrant Shadow.

(Oh shoot I'm so sorry! I thought Ethan already went)

"Urgh... finish... the job...!" Ethan coughs, already too weak to do anything else after being hit by the recent dark cloud. He doubles over in pain but barely holds in the last of his conscience as he...

Actually, since The Simic himself is technically close to a sepulcher (even if it's one that's already broken), he'll do his best to seal this room's fate. Bringing his glowing bat up to his shoulders one last time, Ethan swings with the rest of his might at the sepulcher to pretty much burst whatever that's left of the ancient magic protecting this damned room.

Arcana: 24

When Ethan unlocks the 9th seal, the white pedestals around the room crumble to rubble and the dark pools dissipate, leaving behind black ash. The vortex overhead collapses, spilling black ash and diamonds onto the floor. Your glyph keys pulse with blue light and subtle vibrations. The black gates begin to pulse in time with the keys.

<suggested>

Also, you (anyone nearby) notice the gems the demilich left behind gleam with inner light.

The little girl rushes over to the raging Dwarves warrior still attacking to aid if she can.

The tyrant shadow again spams Shadows of Death. The shadow discharges inky-black shadows in a 90-foot-radius sphere around itself. Creatures in the shadows must succeed on a DC 22 Wisdom saving throw or take 36 necrotic damage and have the frightened condition for 1 minute. A frightened creature may repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a successful save, but taking the damage again on a failed save.

<effects, I think, Eira, Trisk Ethan and Randy.>

Valindra, seeing what is happening around her, curses the lot of you, "You shall not be rid of me so easily. Thay may look quite differnt when I return, but like myself, it will survive. Unlike you." She hisses these last words as she points to Tetrevess, casring power word kill on the scribes wizard. Tetrevess instantly falls dead.

With this, a latent contingency spell takes root, openeing a dimension door beside her to move to a distant shrine, whose doors turn to gargoyle, revealing Valindra emerges from the remote door opening within the sepulcher, reaching for her phylactery and preparing to cast a new spell. The tyrant shadow surrounds itself in black mist, then teleports near the sepulcher, where the gargoyles atrack it

22 for 5

5 for 5

14 for 5

6 for 5

12 for 5

6 for 5

The shadow momentsrily becimes amorphois, its substance falling tonthe floor below in an inky puddle, befire coallescing again into a smaller mass of dark fluid than it once was.  The room is clearly becoming unstanle, but the gargoyles have little recoirse and the shadow has not managed to escape for centuries, but now seems desperate to leave.

Players are up. (Dont worry about distances so much, the physicsl dimensions of the space are in flux, so odds are if you want to reach something, you probably can.) 

Piccolo runs at incredible speed to the injured Cha!jil and places hands on her wounds. With her tiny hands she quickly heals what she is able: healer: 17 healed

she smiles at her,  her huge eyes looking at her and for a brief moment, Cha!jil thinks she sees a spirit of nature. The tiny girl winks, Then she disappears, 

teleporting 30 feet toward Trisk. (Fey step)

( AoO on Valindra?)

Whilst Piccolo vanishes somewhere to deal with Chaji, Ethan notices something off about the room (Arcana, sorry I didn't know I had to make a second check: 22) before the same shadow gas almost incapacitates him to death. "Urgh! Dispel it again! hurry! Randy! Trisk! Piccolo! The phylactery! Destroy it and get out of- COUGH!" Ethan attempts to yell out again only to suddenly spew out blood upon choking on his last word.

Seeing Valindra trying to escape with the phylactery, Ethan will take 3 more brutal swings at their major target to make sure it's destroyed for good.

Baseball 1: 22, 9 Force

Baseball 2: Nat 1

Baseball 3: 19, 12 Force

If Valnidra is also within reach, Ethan will abuse his Sentinel ability to smack her down one last time, using his Hexblade's Curse as a BA for the first time since he wounded up here.

Sentinel Reaction: NAT 20, 25 Damage total (5 from Hexblade's Curse and 5 from pact; If Valindra dies, Ethan automatically regains 19HP)

If the rest decide to run after that, Ethan will also make a dive for the gates before he gets sucked into the depths of nowhere.

Trisk's WIS: 10 

Trisk's Arcana: 15 

(ooc: are we down to 4 players now?)

(ooc: anyone?...)

(Yep, they never returned)

( Damian_Mays backup account-  My account is currently buggered like quite a few others and when I post or PM I get this-  " You can only make 1 post every 1 sec.")  I have reported and will try and muddle through until they can fix)

Hey all.  So sorry life got crazy for me.  I think ive got more time now.  I need a summary but would like to rejoin.

YAY! Welcome back! We're back up to 5.

Due to the recent interruption on DND Beyond (and to catch Tesservett up) a brief summary or recap might be helpful.

(I haven't heard from our DM in a while. I wonder if he's locked out. Notifications are also not working, but some can't post on forums right now) I"m on Discord if anyone can't communicate here:  shimshon123)

<Hey guys. Just back from Japan and trying to get everything unpacked snd settled again. Monday is a holiday and then I have jury duty, (Yay!/ s). But, I definitely plan to post more in the coming weeks than was abme to while abroad.>

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Hey all.  So sorry life got crazy for me.  I think ive got more time now.  I need a summary but would like to rejoin.

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( AoO on Valindra?)

 https://x.com/JeremyECrawford/status/780815677724631040

According to JCraw, no. But I actually see the logic, but rhen instart thinking about what this wizard who had cast this spell a thousand times woukd do, and I dont see any reason why she wouldn't cast it between herself and the only melee ranged enemy nearby. So, I rule that DDoor can provoke an AoO, but it won't this time because she us actually stepping toward the dwarf into the teleportation spell. If another hostile creature was in melee range, one would get AoO.