Vin simply stays still, watches and listens. He certainly doesn't want the Rocs too excitable, let alone aggressive. One misplaced foot would likely be catastrophic to him and his companions.
"You know", he says quietly addressing Muir. "If you want to hunt for strange necrotic worms, the best member of our party to call on is Neferox. She could likely sniff them out easily. Why don't you warn the Rocs she will be approaching and I will call her over?", he suggests.
Back with those that haven't approached, Neferox stands and waits.
"hello? you were not answering my question... was there being soreness?" griff calls out again, becoming more and more nervous. He gives Gewyn and Neferox a nod and swaps over to his bow, stepping out from around the corner to try to see what is happening.
With Vin's reccomendation for the extraction laid out on the table, Muir goes to check out the remaining eggs first. Surely if the remaining eggs had been affected, clues could be found here, and Elthana's observation only consolidates this fact. After a short back and forth between the female Roc and Muir, he manages to persuade (nat 20) her to let him examine the remaining eggs.
He approaches and touches each egg, laid out in somewhat of a semicircle. Finding them hard shelled as eggs should be, he does notice some shell fragments under them, moving to see properly, a barbed and whip like probuscus shoots out from underneath the nearest egg atttacking twice, then the other three eggs also lash out, barbed attacks sinking into muirs flesh, the eggs remain still, the Roc behind Muir arching its neck to try getting a better veiw of what muir is doing, four of the eight attacks hit Muir, unseen by everyone else he lets out a pained scream, Both Roc's recoil in surprise and the female shreiks, obviously panicked by the commotion near her unborn young,
(the four attacks that hit do, 10, 10, 8 &11 peircing damaged, and an additional 8, 11, 9 & 5 necrotic damage. 72 damage total, unless Muir can negate some with a reaction?)
Chaos erupts as the Roc's panic, but are unsure who or what to attack, Muir falls to the ground unconscious, the eggs remain still. Initiative begins.
Vin backs away as the Rocs swing into motion, knowing staying close had become more dangerous. He couldn't see Muir, but he was fairly certain he heard him scream and collapse, but he wasn't sure he could get to him to check on him.
"Um, did Muir just collapse?", he asks the others as he tries to avoid the Rocs and manoeuvre to somewhere he can better see.
As all the commotion starts, Neferox starts moving forward, tentatively at first then picking up speed.
Vin
Movement: Trying to get a good vantage point to see Muir, who should be lit up by the coin Action: Dodge
Neferox
Movement: 30 feet towards Vin Action: Dash 30 feet towards Vin
"Quick, use the Portal Compass!" Sam shouts out immediately upon realizing Muir is in distress...
"We're gunna need another healer," he says barely seconds later, accepting Muir's fate and deciding it best to just move on.
Alternatively....
Sam grumbles once he realizes Muir is in distress. The grumbling has a low, scratching, rock against rock kind of tone against it... Cause it's actually not so much Sam grumbling as it is his armor spreading across his skin and giving it a stone-like appearance. (Stoneskin from Earthencore Plate cast as an Action...) As the stoney plating spreads across Sam, the Half-Orc stretches and shifts, apparently growing into the new form. Well, definitely growing... Sam changes size as well as skin-type, becoming large. (Bonuc Action Giant's Might for size change.)
But wait! There's more...
Sam surges into action (action surge) ((Err, scratch that. No surge. Now seeing the actual distances involved here Sam has nothing left to do but to walk towards Muir while making soothing, reassuring sounds and gestures towards the Rocs.))
Elthana immediately uses her Shadow Step and disappears on one side of the roc (BA), reappearing next to the fallen Muir. Unsure what had happened, she keeps her eyes peeled for danger as she tentatively touches her friend, sending11hp back to him.
There is a disgusting stretching and tearing sound as Sam's undead skin, unaccustomed to his resizing antics, begins to split to accommodate his growth, he feels no pain as his skin tears away and barely notices it as the stoneskin spell begins covering him in a thick stony hide.
Griff looks to Gewyn, a worried determination in his eyes, "EGG HUNTERS, things of nightmares they are being for any bird kind. They are destroying the eggs and eating the insides, then they are posing as the eggs and waiting to eat the parents... We should be getting a height advantage, the egg hunters cannot fly." And with that Griff runs forward 30ft and then lifts off using his dash to gain a 30ft height advantage.
"Okay, here we go," Gewyn says. He rolls forward out of his half-crouch, and in a swirl of rubbery Hafgufa leather, he vanishes. Now Invisible, he runs towards Muir to see what is happening while hoping not to agitate the rocs. His stomach sinks as he thinks about the possibility of the oddly sympathetic creatures losing their young.
Muir opens his eyes staring up at Elthana and the female roc and says faintly "The worms have attacked the eggs....warn the others." He squawks to the female roc as well warning her about the worms attacking and his friends helping defeat them. He gets up and begins to twinkle in the form of a chalice providing bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet. He drinks a healing potion and stands next to the female Roc
As Muir moves away from the Eggs, one lashes out at him once more (AoO 20 to hit, 10 piercing damage, 16 necrotic damage) the loxodon after croaking out his warning and healing himself hits the ground once more, bleeding profusely from wounds that are slowly darkening with dead flesh.
With Griff in the air, Neferox on the way to help, along with an invisible Gewyn, light shines out from Muir like a homing beacon illuminating the back wall. Hector runs east around the injured Roc and then similar to Elthana he shadow steps to the west side of the broken eggs.
With all of this commotion the injured Roc brings itself to it's feet and looks around for the source of hostility, finding none it prepares to attack anything that attacks it. The female Roc also is having a hard time figuring out who to levy her anxiety at and screeches at Muir and elthana, an obious warning to move away from her Eggs.
Two of the Eggs behind Muir which a moment ago had been solid, begin deflating quickly revealing the reality of what the group is actually dealing with. A small creature with six little legs and a slimy face with fins on the side, its abdomen is a bulbous and loose ball of skin one of the deflated ones releases a could of poisonous spores from its butt which immediately fills an area within a 30ft radius of it. (Con save dc 14 from Muir, Vin, Elthana, hector and Both Rocs, or be poisoned for one minute, limiting you to either an action or BA per turn, no reactions, save again at the end of each turn) The second Egg hunter runs towards hector and attacks with two Barbed probuscus which lash out of it's mouth, one of the attacks sink into the old man's flesh (8 piercing damage, 10 necrotic.)
The other two eggs remain in their disguises and lash out at Elthana with two barbed probuscuses each (15, 17, 22 & 28 to hit, the two that hit do 11 & 7 piercing damage and 9 & 8 necrotic damage)
Frustrated that he is not closer and cannot do more, Sam lets out a vicious roar and chucks a couple handaxes at these creepy crawly things as he moves towards them as best he can between the Rocs... Even as Sam rushes forward to do as he can, a warm, pink trimmed amber light seemingly flows from Sam and soars forward to rest momentarily over Muir, healing the druid for 3 hit points. It's not much but it should open his eyes once more... (Bonus Action - Warlock feature Healing Light.) Sam is too enraged and focused on the worm things to even notice...
Handaxe vs Eggworm: 12 to hit for 15 slashing damage 2nd Handaxe vs Eggworm: 24 to hit for 15 slashing damage Through Giant's might, if either hit it does an extra 3 damage... Sam will use his Inspiration to reroll the first attack roll - It is now a Nat 1 to hit. Nice. Good use of inspiration there...
Sam is angry and annoyed and not at all feeling like he has done enough. As such he surges and does more! (Action Surge used.) Having no more ranged weapons, Sam slams his maul angrily against the cavern floor as he struggles forward, first to the left and then to the right. On each angry slam of the maul against the stone floor a ripple is created - A roaring rockslide from the point of impact streaking more or less forward and toward the Eggworm foes. ((Stone flavored Eldritch Blast)
1st Eldritch Blast rockslide vs Eggworm: 20 to hit for 6 force damage 2nd Eldritch Blast rockslide beam vs Eggworm: 23 to hit for 5 force damage
One of Sam's handaxes spins through the air heading for one of the still inflated egg hunters which still resembles an egg, The female Roc sees this and in a moment of motherly protection jostles Sam and gets in the way, (roll damage, as the Roc intentionally takes it)
Finding his footing and concentrating on the threat in melee with Elthana and Muir, the second hand axe hits it's mark slashing open the abdomen of the already deflated egg hunter. In reaction the egg hunters skin becomes hard and shiny (reaction, gives itself resistance to slashing) but the next two blasts of eldritch energy come shooting through the floor and it was not prepared. It takes the damage and begins bleeding.
Muir wakes once more, and though the poison in the air has not affected him, he feels dizzy from losing consciousness so often in such a short period if time.
Vin coughs a little as the poisonous cloud engulfs him, but manages to fight off any ill effect it might have had. Seeing Muir fall once again, he steps forward and reaches for the power within his ring, healing his loxodon companion.
He then backs away, out of the poisonous cloud whilst taking out his broom. He mounts up and retreats further, up and away from the battle to his overwatch position, although not as fast or far as he would like as the broom feels sluggish.
"If there are more of those creatures in the injured Roc, more may appear any moment, be vigilant. And keep them away from Muir, they might try to enter him", he warns the others as he moves.
Whilst he is doing that, Neferox is bounding towards Vin as fast as she can go. As Vin takes to the sky, Neferox doesn't seem to realise but her path also curves upwards into the air, flames flying from her paws leaving a trail of fire as she does.
Vin
Con Save: 16+4=20 (Success) Movement: 5ft next to Muir Action: Use ring of spell storing, cure wounds at level 3 on Muir - Heals: 1+3+7+5=16 Feee Action: Take out broom of flying Movement: Backs away 10ft, mounts the broom of flying and then moves 25ft South and into the air (Luck roll 7, half speed on broom of flying)
Neferox
Movement: 30 feet towards Vin Action: Dash 30 feet towards Vin, arcing up into the air
One of Sam's handaxes spins through the air heading for one of the still inflated egg hunters which still resembles an egg, The female Roc sees this and in a moment of motherly protection jostles Sam and gets in the way, (roll damage, as the Roc intentionally takes it)
Handaxe vs Eggworm: 12 to hit for 15 slashing damage <<Snip>> Sam will use his Inspiration to reroll the first attack roll - It is now a Nat 1 to hit. Nice. Good use of inspiration there...
((So the Inspiration was used to reroll the 12, the damage was 15... Not sure if we are using Inspiration as it replaces original roll or if we choose which to use... But if I get to choose, I choose the Nat 1!))
Elthana is too surprised by what she was able to do for Muir to notice much else. Gazing at her hands that just healed her friend, she did not see the attack until it was too late and two barbed probuscuses lash out at her. Screaming from the attack and honestly, surprise, she coughs a bit as the cloud surrounds her.
Realizing the situation she is in, she looks around for something to hit and seeing the bloodied one, she attacks.
Attack: 20, Magical damage: 8
Attack: 22, Magical damage: 10
She then focuses her ki and disengages with a BA, heading her 40' under the female roc in a SW direction, to get out of the cloud.
Elthana's strikes land perfectly, though the force is not enough to stop the small creature from moving, it does seem to be just about clinging on to life
Elthana's strikes land perfectly, though the force is not enough to stop the small creature from moving, it does seem to be just about clinging on to life
Well crap, if it's THAT close to going down then Sam will Invoke the Rune on his ring and turn Elthana's first attack (20 to hit for 8 damage) into a Crit! Elthana, roll us up some crit damage!! And make it better than 8 or else...
"Muir, follow my voice." Gewyn's voice drifts magically through the air, though he is nowhere to be seen. But the power in his voice fills Muir, along with Sam, Elthana, Griff, and Nef with an inspiring warmth. (Mantle of inspiration: Movement as a reaction with no AoO, and 8 temp HP.)
As he shouts, Gewyn dashes forward to get closer to the action. (Dash 60 feet)
Muir now feeling a lot better than being unconscious uses his movement to head 10ft towards hector and drops the coin Sam gave him, effectively lighting up all of the egg hunters, he then weaves through the legs of the injured Roc and takes up position behind Sam as the half orc struggles to push through the two gargantuan creatures.
All the while a shrieking squawk is yelled out by Muir who is trying desperately to explain the situation to the Rocs. (Persuasion nat 20!)
Griff flies 30ft forward and draws an arrow into his longbow, he takes aim at the bloodied egg hunter, which is still oozing from Elthana's supercharged punches, and letting loose the aaracockra's arrow Peirce's through it's head pinning it limply to the back wall. Dead.
Hector, having received a wound from the egg hunter in front of him decides to lash back in similar fashion, his fingers grow into blackened claws and he strikes forward much like he did when killing the invisible stalker sent after you all by Akiin. The two strikes both hit, claws slashing through the egg hunters flesh and blackening with necrosis, hector has the small beast grappled almost instantly. (23 and 21 to hit, 22 total slashing dam, +15 necrotic damage)
Understanding what Muir is saying the Rocs turn hesitantly on the creatures that had been disguising themselves as their already dead offspring. The injured Roc snaps its beak down towards hector, it's massive sharpened maw grappling on to the head of the creature that hector already has grappled, there is no tug of war, the head merely separated from the body and Hector is left with bloodied entrails and the skin husk of a creature whose insides are currently raining down upon him from a Rocs beak above. (18 to hit, 26 piercing damage)
The second Roc, the female cocks it's head at the eggs and looks alot closer stepping forward, the egg hunters barbed proboscis' whip out from underneath alerting the Roc to exactly what is wrong, before it can attack the Roc snaps at it with it's beak (21 to hit, 32 piercing) lifting it's weight up it presses it's body against the wall and slashes out with it's talons too (25 to hit, 26 slashing damage) the egg hunter is shreds sprayed against the wall before it can even get off its first attack. But that cannot be said of the last remaining egg hunter.
Deflating from it's egg form, it lashes out with both barbed proboscis towards the Roc that just sundered it's hatchmate. The first attack goes wide (13) but the second hits the female Roc in the breast where the proboscis latches on (22 to hit, 11 piercing dam) the wound immediately festers and necrotic tissue begins falling off. (8 necrotic dam) Using it's movement the egg hunter pulls on it's proboscis and reels itself up to the wound where it begins burrowing, but not before it exhales the last of the poison from its butt, catching the both Rocs, Sam and Muir in a poisonous cloud (DC 14 con save or become poisoned for 1 minute, limiting action economy to either an action or bonus on their turn only)
Both Rocs begin shrieking, sneezing and becoming sluggish as the poison takes them over.
The egg hunter is still wiggling in the female Roc's wound as, the party is up!
(Three visible egg hunters died this round, one is still alive and is reachable but in the chest wound of the female Roc, if that egg hunter dies we will stay in init order, as there are still four live egghunters in the injured Roc's wounds but not currently visible/attackable.)
Sam doesn't even think about it. When he sees the eggworm attacking the female Roc he reacts. If he had thought about it he probably would justify the action by pointing out that the party would be in a lot bigger problem if the Rocs decided they were part of the problem. Or if the female died and the male alone thought to attack the problem. Point is, they were assisting the Rocs... So assist he shall.
Sam uses his maul to pound against the cave floor causing a wave of force to flash out and redirect the eggworm's second attack from the Roc to himself... There is no other eggworm to direct it to (is there? This is last one, yes? There is not.) and while he will kick himself later for not redirecting the attack to Neferox, he takes the blow himself. Perhaps the little shitworm will choke on his undead flesh...
So SAM is attacked with 22 to hit, 11 piercing damage and 8 necrotic... The piercing is halved due to his stoneskin and maybe undead helps against necrotic? DM will have to let me know...
Sam Con save as I assume it still ass-gas-bombs us... 13. Appropriately just a wee bit too low. Inspiration already used in a futile effort last round... Sam has nothing else that'll boost that save or anything SO... Sam is poisoned and can only take an action or a bonus action.
Turn to be continued after I get a couple answers... :) Will ask in Discord now.
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Vin simply stays still, watches and listens. He certainly doesn't want the Rocs too excitable, let alone aggressive. One misplaced foot would likely be catastrophic to him and his companions.
"You know", he says quietly addressing Muir. "If you want to hunt for strange necrotic worms, the best member of our party to call on is Neferox. She could likely sniff them out easily. Why don't you warn the Rocs she will be approaching and I will call her over?", he suggests.
Back with those that haven't approached, Neferox stands and waits.
"hello? you were not answering my question... was there being soreness?" griff calls out again, becoming more and more nervous. He gives Gewyn and Neferox a nod and swaps over to his bow, stepping out from around the corner to try to see what is happening.
With Vin's reccomendation for the extraction laid out on the table, Muir goes to check out the remaining eggs first. Surely if the remaining eggs had been affected, clues could be found here, and Elthana's observation only consolidates this fact. After a short back and forth between the female Roc and Muir, he manages to persuade (nat 20) her to let him examine the remaining eggs.
He approaches and touches each egg, laid out in somewhat of a semicircle. Finding them hard shelled as eggs should be, he does notice some shell fragments under them, moving to see properly, a barbed and whip like probuscus shoots out from underneath the nearest egg atttacking twice, then the other three eggs also lash out, barbed attacks sinking into muirs flesh, the eggs remain still, the Roc behind Muir arching its neck to try getting a better veiw of what muir is doing, four of the eight attacks hit Muir, unseen by everyone else he lets out a pained scream, Both Roc's recoil in surprise and the female shreiks, obviously panicked by the commotion near her unborn young,
(the four attacks that hit do, 10, 10, 8 &11 peircing damaged, and an additional 8, 11, 9 & 5 necrotic damage. 72 damage total, unless Muir can negate some with a reaction?)
Chaos erupts as the Roc's panic, but are unsure who or what to attack, Muir falls to the ground unconscious, the eggs remain still.
Initiative begins.
Gewyn startles, and rises halfway up to his feet. "Griff, if it's the worst case scenario, what are we dealing with?"
Vin backs away as the Rocs swing into motion, knowing staying close had become more dangerous. He couldn't see Muir, but he was fairly certain he heard him scream and collapse, but he wasn't sure he could get to him to check on him.
"Um, did Muir just collapse?", he asks the others as he tries to avoid the Rocs and manoeuvre to somewhere he can better see.
As all the commotion starts, Neferox starts moving forward, tentatively at first then picking up speed.
Vin
Movement: Trying to get a good vantage point to see Muir, who should be lit up by the coin
Action: Dodge
Neferox
Movement: 30 feet towards Vin
Action: Dash 30 feet towards Vin
"Quick, use the Portal Compass!" Sam shouts out immediately upon realizing Muir is in distress...
"We're gunna need another healer," he says barely seconds later, accepting Muir's fate and deciding it best to just move on.
Alternatively....
Sam grumbles once he realizes Muir is in distress. The grumbling has a low, scratching, rock against rock kind of tone against it... Cause it's actually not so much Sam grumbling as it is his armor spreading across his skin and giving it a stone-like appearance. (Stoneskin from Earthencore Plate cast as an Action...) As the stoney plating spreads across Sam, the Half-Orc stretches and shifts, apparently growing into the new form. Well, definitely growing... Sam changes size as well as skin-type, becoming large. (Bonuc Action Giant's Might for size change.)
But wait! There's more...
Sam surges into action (action surge)((Err, scratch that. No surge. Now seeing the actual distances involved here Sam has nothing left to do but to walk towards Muir while making soothing, reassuring sounds and gestures towards the Rocs.))Elthana immediately uses her Shadow Step and disappears on one side of the roc (BA), reappearing next to the fallen Muir. Unsure what had happened, she keeps her eyes peeled for danger as she tentatively touches her friend, sending 11 hp back to him.
There is a disgusting stretching and tearing sound as Sam's undead skin, unaccustomed to his resizing antics, begins to split to accommodate his growth, he feels no pain as his skin tears away and barely notices it as the stoneskin spell begins covering him in a thick stony hide.
Griff looks to Gewyn, a worried determination in his eyes, "EGG HUNTERS, things of nightmares they are being for any bird kind. They are destroying the eggs and eating the insides, then they are posing as the eggs and waiting to eat the parents... We should be getting a height advantage, the egg hunters cannot fly." And with that Griff runs forward 30ft and then lifts off using his dash to gain a 30ft height advantage.
"Okay, here we go," Gewyn says. He rolls forward out of his half-crouch, and in a swirl of rubbery Hafgufa leather, he vanishes. Now Invisible, he runs towards Muir to see what is happening while hoping not to agitate the rocs. His stomach sinks as he thinks about the possibility of the oddly sympathetic creatures losing their young.
Muir opens his eyes staring up at Elthana and the female roc and says faintly "The worms have attacked the eggs....warn the others." He squawks to the female roc as well warning her about the worms attacking and his friends helping defeat them. He gets up and begins to twinkle in the form of a chalice providing bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet. He drinks a healing potion and stands next to the female Roc
As Muir moves away from the Eggs, one lashes out at him once more (AoO 20 to hit, 10 piercing damage, 16 necrotic damage) the loxodon after croaking out his warning and healing himself hits the ground once more, bleeding profusely from wounds that are slowly darkening with dead flesh.
With Griff in the air, Neferox on the way to help, along with an invisible Gewyn, light shines out from Muir like a homing beacon illuminating the back wall.
Hector runs east around the injured Roc and then similar to Elthana he shadow steps to the west side of the broken eggs.
With all of this commotion the injured Roc brings itself to it's feet and looks around for the source of hostility, finding none it prepares to attack anything that attacks it.
The female Roc also is having a hard time figuring out who to levy her anxiety at and screeches at Muir and elthana, an obious warning to move away from her Eggs.
Two of the Eggs behind Muir which a moment ago had been solid, begin deflating quickly revealing the reality of what the group is actually dealing with. A small creature with six little legs and a slimy face with fins on the side, its abdomen is a bulbous and loose ball of skin one of the deflated ones releases a could of poisonous spores from its butt which immediately fills an area within a 30ft radius of it. (Con save dc 14 from Muir, Vin, Elthana, hector and Both Rocs, or be poisoned for one minute, limiting you to either an action or BA per turn, no reactions, save again at the end of each turn)
The second Egg hunter runs towards hector and attacks with two Barbed probuscus which lash out of it's mouth, one of the attacks sink into the old man's flesh (8 piercing damage, 10 necrotic.)
The other two eggs remain in their disguises and lash out at Elthana with two barbed probuscuses each (15, 17, 22 & 28 to hit, the two that hit do 11 & 7 piercing damage and 9 & 8 necrotic damage)
Everyone is up!
Frustrated that he is not closer and cannot do more, Sam lets out a vicious roar and chucks a couple handaxes at these creepy crawly things as he moves towards them as best he can between the Rocs... Even as Sam rushes forward to do as he can, a warm, pink trimmed amber light seemingly flows from Sam and soars forward to rest momentarily over Muir, healing the druid for 3 hit points. It's not much but it should open his eyes once more... (Bonus Action - Warlock feature Healing Light.) Sam is too enraged and focused on the worm things to even notice...
Handaxe vs Eggworm: 12 to hit for 15 slashing damage
2nd Handaxe vs Eggworm: 24 to hit for 15 slashing damage
Through Giant's might, if either hit it does an extra 3 damage...
Sam will use his Inspiration to reroll the first attack roll - It is now a Nat 1 to hit. Nice. Good use of inspiration there...
Sam is angry and annoyed and not at all feeling like he has done enough. As such he surges and does more! (Action Surge used.) Having no more ranged weapons, Sam slams his maul angrily against the cavern floor as he struggles forward, first to the left and then to the right. On each angry slam of the maul against the stone floor a ripple is created - A roaring rockslide from the point of impact streaking more or less forward and toward the Eggworm foes. ((Stone flavored Eldritch Blast)
1st Eldritch Blast rockslide vs Eggworm: 20 to hit for 6 force damage
2nd Eldritch Blast rockslide beam vs Eggworm: 23 to hit for 5 force damage
One of Sam's handaxes spins through the air heading for one of the still inflated egg hunters which still resembles an egg, The female Roc sees this and in a moment of motherly protection jostles Sam and gets in the way, (roll damage, as the Roc intentionally takes it)
Finding his footing and concentrating on the threat in melee with Elthana and Muir, the second hand axe hits it's mark slashing open the abdomen of the already deflated egg hunter. In reaction the egg hunters skin becomes hard and shiny (reaction, gives itself resistance to slashing) but the next two blasts of eldritch energy come shooting through the floor and it was not prepared. It takes the damage and begins bleeding.
Muir wakes once more, and though the poison in the air has not affected him, he feels dizzy from losing consciousness so often in such a short period if time.
Vin coughs a little as the poisonous cloud engulfs him, but manages to fight off any ill effect it might have had. Seeing Muir fall once again, he steps forward and reaches for the power within his ring, healing his loxodon companion.
He then backs away, out of the poisonous cloud whilst taking out his broom. He mounts up and retreats further, up and away from the battle to his overwatch position, although not as fast or far as he would like as the broom feels sluggish.
"If there are more of those creatures in the injured Roc, more may appear any moment, be vigilant. And keep them away from Muir, they might try to enter him", he warns the others as he moves.
Whilst he is doing that, Neferox is bounding towards Vin as fast as she can go. As Vin takes to the sky, Neferox doesn't seem to realise but her path also curves upwards into the air, flames flying from her paws leaving a trail of fire as she does.
Vin
Con Save: 16+4=20 (Success)
Movement: 5ft next to Muir
Action: Use ring of spell storing, cure wounds at level 3 on Muir - Heals: 1+3+7+5=16
Feee Action: Take out broom of flying
Movement: Backs away 10ft, mounts the broom of flying and then moves 25ft South and into the air (Luck roll 7, half speed on broom of flying)
Neferox
Movement: 30 feet towards Vin
Action: Dash 30 feet towards Vin, arcing up into the air
((So the Inspiration was used to reroll the 12, the damage was 15... Not sure if we are using Inspiration as it replaces original roll or if we choose which to use... But if I get to choose, I choose the Nat 1!))
Elthana is too surprised by what she was able to do for Muir to notice much else. Gazing at her hands that just healed her friend, she did not see the attack until it was too late and two barbed probuscuses lash out at her. Screaming from the attack and honestly, surprise, she coughs a bit as the cloud surrounds her.
Realizing the situation she is in, she looks around for something to hit and seeing the bloodied one, she attacks.
Attack: 20, Magical damage: 8
Attack: 22, Magical damage: 10
She then focuses her ki and disengages with a BA, heading her 40' under the female roc in a SW direction, to get out of the cloud.
Elthana's strikes land perfectly, though the force is not enough to stop the small creature from moving, it does seem to be just about clinging on to life
Well crap, if it's THAT close to going down then Sam will Invoke the Rune on his ring and turn Elthana's first attack (20 to hit for 8 damage) into a Crit! Elthana, roll us up some crit damage!! And make it better than 8 or else...
:D
"Muir, follow my voice." Gewyn's voice drifts magically through the air, though he is nowhere to be seen. But the power in his voice fills Muir, along with Sam, Elthana, Griff, and Nef with an inspiring warmth. (Mantle of inspiration: Movement as a reaction with no AoO, and 8 temp HP.)
As he shouts, Gewyn dashes forward to get closer to the action. (Dash 60 feet)
Muir now feeling a lot better than being unconscious uses his movement to head 10ft towards hector and drops the coin Sam gave him, effectively lighting up all of the egg hunters, he then weaves through the legs of the injured Roc and takes up position behind Sam as the half orc struggles to push through the two gargantuan creatures.
All the while a shrieking squawk is yelled out by Muir who is trying desperately to explain the situation to the Rocs. (Persuasion nat 20!)
Griff flies 30ft forward and draws an arrow into his longbow, he takes aim at the bloodied egg hunter, which is still oozing from Elthana's supercharged punches, and letting loose the aaracockra's arrow Peirce's through it's head pinning it limply to the back wall. Dead.
Hector, having received a wound from the egg hunter in front of him decides to lash back in similar fashion, his fingers grow into blackened claws and he strikes forward much like he did when killing the invisible stalker sent after you all by Akiin. The two strikes both hit, claws slashing through the egg hunters flesh and blackening with necrosis, hector has the small beast grappled almost instantly. (23 and 21 to hit, 22 total slashing dam, +15 necrotic damage)
Understanding what Muir is saying the Rocs turn hesitantly on the creatures that had been disguising themselves as their already dead offspring. The injured Roc snaps its beak down towards hector, it's massive sharpened maw grappling on to the head of the creature that hector already has grappled, there is no tug of war, the head merely separated from the body and Hector is left with bloodied entrails and the skin husk of a creature whose insides are currently raining down upon him from a Rocs beak above. (18 to hit, 26 piercing damage)
The second Roc, the female cocks it's head at the eggs and looks alot closer stepping forward, the egg hunters barbed proboscis' whip out from underneath alerting the Roc to exactly what is wrong, before it can attack the Roc snaps at it with it's beak (21 to hit, 32 piercing) lifting it's weight up it presses it's body against the wall and slashes out with it's talons too (25 to hit, 26 slashing damage) the egg hunter is shreds sprayed against the wall before it can even get off its first attack. But that cannot be said of the last remaining egg hunter.
Deflating from it's egg form, it lashes out with both barbed proboscis towards the Roc that just sundered it's hatchmate. The first attack goes wide (13) but the second hits the female Roc in the breast where the proboscis latches on (22 to hit, 11 piercing dam) the wound immediately festers and necrotic tissue begins falling off. (8 necrotic dam) Using it's movement the egg hunter pulls on it's proboscis and reels itself up to the wound where it begins burrowing, but not before it exhales the last of the poison from its butt, catching the both Rocs, Sam and Muir in a poisonous cloud (DC 14 con save or become poisoned for 1 minute, limiting action economy to either an action or bonus on their turn only)
Both Rocs begin shrieking, sneezing and becoming sluggish as the poison takes them over.
The egg hunter is still wiggling in the female Roc's wound as, the party is up!
(Three visible egg hunters died this round, one is still alive and is reachable but in the chest wound of the female Roc, if that egg hunter dies we will stay in init order, as there are still four live egghunters in the injured Roc's wounds but not currently visible/attackable.)
Sam doesn't even think about it. When he sees the eggworm attacking the female Roc he reacts. If he had thought about it he probably would justify the action by pointing out that the party would be in a lot bigger problem if the Rocs decided they were part of the problem. Or if the female died and the male alone thought to attack the problem. Point is, they were assisting the Rocs... So assist he shall.
Sam uses his maul to pound against the cave floor causing a wave of force to flash out and redirect the eggworm's second attack from the Roc to himself... There is no other eggworm to direct it to (
is there? This is last one, yes?There is not.) and while he will kick himself later for not redirecting the attack to Neferox, he takes the blow himself. Perhaps the little shitworm will choke on his undead flesh...So SAM is attacked with 22 to hit, 11 piercing damage and 8 necrotic... The piercing is halved due to his stoneskin and maybe undead helps against necrotic? DM will have to let me know...
Sam Con save as I assume it still ass-gas-bombs us... 13. Appropriately just a wee bit too low. Inspiration already used in a futile effort last round... Sam has nothing else that'll boost that save or anything SO... Sam is poisoned and can only take an action or a bonus action.
Turn to be continued after I get a couple answers... :) Will ask in Discord now.