"Actually, wait, wait--" Alexandria says to Dennis after he casts that last ray of frost. "How are we gonna get down to the weapon if the thing is flooded? I get we wanna wipe out all these guys in one swoop, but even a destroy water spell can't get rid of all that water."
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"We're only connecting the first saltwater tank to the second saltwater tank, and flooding the dry tank in between," Dennis explained, readying another ray of frost. "Freeze."
The frozen glass creaks and shatters (22 damage is close enough). The poor crustaceans in the aquarium are swept towards the opening, while the scorpions run in vain from the flood.
Nine missiles come whistling up from the bottom of the pit (3 manticores with 3 attacks). Yuno moved back to avid the attacks, but the rest of you are exposed. Also, Yuno's coin behaved normally. Gravity is not altered in this area.
Against Dennis: (23 to hit, 9 damage) (7 to hit, 10 damage) (8 to hit, 5 damage)
Against Alexandria: (11 to hit, 4 damage) (13 to hit, 10 damage) (22 to hit, 10 damage)
Against Rowan: (16 to hit, 5 damage) (25 to hit, 4 damage) (12 to hit, 9 damage)
“Haha, yeah take that you dumb scorpions!” Alexandria mocks, turning away from the group waving her hands in no particular kind of motion, as if trying to get the wizards attention. “Ya see that, Kumpus!? Your plans suck and you should— ACK—!”
Just as she was taunting the missles hit her in the back, a little bit of blood sputtered from her mouth.
She turns back, an angry look about her with fire burning in the back of her eyes. “You’re gonna pay for that!” She yells as she moves back from their line of sight.
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Dennis winced as two of the three manticore spikes pierced his mage armor"Ow. Noted for next time, Yuno. I'll try to get the next layer broken, but I'll need to heal up as well." Saying this, he fired off another ray of frost before retreating back from the edge.
Ray of Frost against second layer glass: 17 | Damage: 10cold
Initiative:5
[Assuming we have Mathers with us, I'd like to request healing from him, if he even has any healing spells.]
One spike misses, going to the left. The second looks as if it would hit but it is diverted at the last second (mage armor). The final spike hits a barrier of force, bouncing off (arcane ward). Rowan steps back out of range. He turns to Dennis, "Why are we destroying this next tank? Won't that fill whatever little space is left in the third tank and then flood the area below?"
"I just need all the water sources to connect. After that, I'll start launching my attack." Dennis gritted his teeth as he pulled a cloth around his wound to stop the bleeding.
OoC: I've deleted Mather's so I don't know what spells he had, but how about this.
A strange look comes over Mather's face. Before you can stop him, Mathers makes a running dive into the 3rd tier of the ziggurat and climbs out into the manticore pen.
"I'm going for it!" He shouts as he charges past the three manticores to the barred door. The manticores open fire with tail spikes. Mathers shrugs off the first three hits, but the fourth staggers him and he is gunned down. This was the manticores' attack for the round, so his sacrifice has won you a brief respite.
The second layer of glass shatters. The flooded 2nd tier spills into the 3rd tier aquarium, overflowing it. Water rushes into the manticores' pen.
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"Well, great. That's fine though," Dennis inhaled sharply as he closed off the other wound. "I can make use of him later. None shall be able to escape my wrath." With his other hand, Dennis had propped open his spellbook to a page laced with evocation symbols. A crackling ball of light formed in the air before him, sizzling with power. Taking it in one hand, he strode over to the edge and aimed it down at an angle, going through the damp second layer and into the third aquarium. "Lightning Bolt." With a roar, the lightning sprung from his fingertips and shot into the water and tank.
Everyone in a line from Dennis to the aquarium glass surrounding the manticore pen must make a DC 16 Dexterity saving throw or take 30lightning damage, or half as much on a failed save.
[Assuming the water conducts the electricity, that might apply to the creatures in those areas as well.]
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OoC: I'm going to rule that anything standing in the water is targeted and fails its save. I applied the damage when I rolled for the monster' starting HP.
Snagletoothed Manticore HP: 21
Albino Manticore HP: 40
Scared Manticore HP: 31
All giant crayfish HP: 17
All sea lion HP: 48
Electricity courses through the flooded zigguraut, the water boiling around the point of the bolt's impact. A more effective tactic would be hard to imagine.
The manticores have recovered from the electric shock, but they have another issue on their hands. The sea lions are hungrily devouring crayfish that washed into the center, and the manticores are next.
Yuno is sitting at her safe distance and watching the chaos unfold. She is laughing at the plight of the creatures that are getting devoured. You can tell she's having a good time.
She still has her weapons firmly gripped; Ready to hack at anything that might climb out of the pit and try to attack the party.
"If it isn't broken, you don't need to fix it. None shall escape my wrath. Lightning Bolt." Dennis fired off another bolt of electricity in the same fashion as he did before, before retreating back from the edge again. "Rowan, Raven, if either of you can manage that sort of thing, please feel free to do so. I'm a little burnt out at the moment."
Everyone in a line from Dennis to the aquarium glass surrounding the manticore pen must make a DC 16 Dexterity saving throw or take 32lightning damage, or half as much on a failed save.
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Alexandria’s eye twitches. They needed to get to the door at the bottom, past the manticores, but it looks like they’re gonna be fish food, which wasn’t the problem. It was the water.
She gets herself out of cover for a moment, reaching into her pouch before throwing something down the pit, her hands extending outwards. She casts snilloc’s snowball swarm in hopes to (somewhat) freeze the water and get rid of any of the other remaining creatures that Dennis didn’t manage to get rid of. After she’s done, she steps back in cover.
((Creatures must make a DEXDC save of 14 or take 13 damage. On a successful save, they take half damage.))
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Sea Lions: 32 HP
All others: Dead
The second lightning bolt is even more violent than the first, electrocuting the last of the crustaceans and manticores. The sea lions are too preoccupied with the feast laid before them to bother attacking you. Alexandria summons a snow flurry to freeze a small sphere of water around one of the sea lions.
Sea Lion Dex Save: 5
It drops to 20 HP, but for the first time it notices you. It rushes towards the wall on your side, building up speed, then makes a staggering leap 25 ft into the air. It lands with a thud in the drained aquarium on the highest tier, where it growls at you menacingly.
Also, the water at the bottom of the zugguraut is only 3 ft deep, so it could be traversed slowly.
"Actually, wait, wait--" Alexandria says to Dennis after he casts that last ray of frost. "How are we gonna get down to the weapon if the thing is flooded? I get we wanna wipe out all these guys in one swoop, but even a destroy water spell can't get rid of all that water."
Aeyd of the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk
Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm
Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid
Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue
Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm
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"We're only connecting the first saltwater tank to the second saltwater tank, and flooding the dry tank in between," Dennis explained, readying another ray of frost. "Freeze."
Ray of Frost: 26 | Damage: 11 cold
Dennis smiled as the first set of cracks began to appear in the glass.
The frozen glass creaks and shatters (22 damage is close enough). The poor crustaceans in the aquarium are swept towards the opening, while the scorpions run in vain from the flood.
Nine missiles come whistling up from the bottom of the pit (3 manticores with 3 attacks). Yuno moved back to avid the attacks, but the rest of you are exposed. Also, Yuno's coin behaved normally. Gravity is not altered in this area.
Against Dennis: (23 to hit, 9 damage) (7 to hit, 10 damage) (8 to hit, 5 damage)
Against Alexandria: (11 to hit, 4 damage) (13 to hit, 10 damage) (22 to hit, 10 damage)
Against Rowan: (16 to hit, 5 damage) (25 to hit, 4 damage) (12 to hit, 9 damage)
Yuno stays where she is (out of Manticore sight) and prepares to pounce should any of the Manticores fly up.
She snarks, "Nice idea you had there Dennis. Maybe now you know the importance of taking short breaks to recharge your 'killing spirit'"
“Haha, yeah take that you dumb scorpions!” Alexandria mocks, turning away from the group waving her hands in no particular kind of motion, as if trying to get the wizards attention. “Ya see that, Kumpus!? Your plans suck and you should— ACK—!”
Just as she was taunting the missles hit her in the back, a little bit of blood sputtered from her mouth.
She turns back, an angry look about her with fire burning in the back of her eyes. “You’re gonna pay for that!” She yells as she moves back from their line of sight.
Initiative: 20
Aeyd of the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk
Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm
Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid
Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue
Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm
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Dennis winced as two of the three manticore spikes pierced his mage armor "Ow. Noted for next time, Yuno. I'll try to get the next layer broken, but I'll need to heal up as well." Saying this, he fired off another ray of frost before retreating back from the edge.
Ray of Frost against second layer glass: 17 | Damage: 10 cold
Initiative: 5
[Assuming we have Mathers with us, I'd like to request healing from him, if he even has any healing spells.]
One spike misses, going to the left. The second looks as if it would hit but it is diverted at the last second (mage armor). The final spike hits a barrier of force, bouncing off (arcane ward).
Rowan steps back out of range. He turns to Dennis, "Why are we destroying this next tank? Won't that fill whatever little space is left in the third tank and then flood the area below?"
"I just need all the water sources to connect. After that, I'll start launching my attack." Dennis gritted his teeth as he pulled a cloth around his wound to stop the bleeding.
OoC: I've deleted Mather's so I don't know what spells he had, but how about this.
A strange look comes over Mather's face. Before you can stop him, Mathers makes a running dive into the 3rd tier of the ziggurat and climbs out into the manticore pen.
"I'm going for it!" He shouts as he charges past the three manticores to the barred door. The manticores open fire with tail spikes. Mathers shrugs off the first three hits, but the fourth staggers him and he is gunned down. This was the manticores' attack for the round, so his sacrifice has won you a brief respite.
The second layer of glass shatters. The flooded 2nd tier spills into the 3rd tier aquarium, overflowing it. Water rushes into the manticores' pen.
"Well, great. That's fine though," Dennis inhaled sharply as he closed off the other wound. "I can make use of him later. None shall be able to escape my wrath." With his other hand, Dennis had propped open his spellbook to a page laced with evocation symbols. A crackling ball of light formed in the air before him, sizzling with power. Taking it in one hand, he strode over to the edge and aimed it down at an angle, going through the damp second layer and into the third aquarium. "Lightning Bolt." With a roar, the lightning sprung from his fingertips and shot into the water and tank.
Everyone in a line from Dennis to the aquarium glass surrounding the manticore pen must make a DC 16 Dexterity saving throw or take 30 lightning damage, or half as much on a failed save.
[Assuming the water conducts the electricity, that might apply to the creatures in those areas as well.]
OoC: I'm going to rule that anything standing in the water is targeted and fails its save. I applied the damage when I rolled for the monster' starting HP.
Snagletoothed Manticore HP: 21
Albino Manticore HP: 40
Scared Manticore HP: 31
All giant crayfish HP: 17
All sea lion HP: 48
Electricity courses through the flooded zigguraut, the water boiling around the point of the bolt's impact. A more effective tactic would be hard to imagine.
The manticores have recovered from the electric shock, but they have another issue on their hands. The sea lions are hungrily devouring crayfish that washed into the center, and the manticores are next.
Yuno is sitting at her safe distance and watching the chaos unfold. She is laughing at the plight of the creatures that are getting devoured. You can tell she's having a good time.
She still has her weapons firmly gripped; Ready to hack at anything that might climb out of the pit and try to attack the party.
"If it isn't broken, you don't need to fix it. None shall escape my wrath. Lightning Bolt." Dennis fired off another bolt of electricity in the same fashion as he did before, before retreating back from the edge again. "Rowan, Raven, if either of you can manage that sort of thing, please feel free to do so. I'm a little burnt out at the moment."
Everyone in a line from Dennis to the aquarium glass surrounding the manticore pen must make a DC 16 Dexterity saving throw or take 32 lightning damage, or half as much on a failed save.
Alexandria’s eye twitches. They needed to get to the door at the bottom, past the manticores, but it looks like they’re gonna be fish food, which wasn’t the problem. It was the water.
She gets herself out of cover for a moment, reaching into her pouch before throwing something down the pit, her hands extending outwards. She casts snilloc’s snowball swarm in hopes to (somewhat) freeze the water and get rid of any of the other remaining creatures that Dennis didn’t manage to get rid of. After she’s done, she steps back in cover.
((Creatures must make a DEXDC save of 14 or take 13 damage. On a successful save, they take half damage.))
Aeyd of the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk
Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm
Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid
Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue
Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm
/ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
Sea Lions: 32 HP
All others: Dead
The second lightning bolt is even more violent than the first, electrocuting the last of the crustaceans and manticores. The sea lions are too preoccupied with the feast laid before them to bother attacking you. Alexandria summons a snow flurry to freeze a small sphere of water around one of the sea lions.
Sea Lion Dex Save: 5
It drops to 20 HP, but for the first time it notices you. It rushes towards the wall on your side, building up speed, then makes a staggering leap 25 ft into the air. It lands with a thud in the drained aquarium on the highest tier, where it growls at you menacingly.
Also, the water at the bottom of the zugguraut is only 3 ft deep, so it could be traversed slowly.
"Ugh. It smells like all the bodies... All men must die." A familiar gong rang out above the sea lion's head.
The Sea Lion must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw (DC = 16) or take 9 necrotic damage.
"That was a bit extreme, but we are almost done."
Rowan points at the sea lion and a bright white beam shoots towards it.
Ray of frost Attack: 18 Damage: 5 cold
Yuno moves out of cover and gets closer. She is still ready to hack the sea lion to bits if it jumps on to the place the party is on.
The Sea Lion springs from the dry aquarium...
Wisdom Save: 5
..****y to be struck dead by your spells in mid air. The corpse flops lifelessly against the wall behind you.