Rowland scouts ahead and the group follows at a safe(ish) distance behind (in the marching order provided). Rowland picks up on the tracks of the derro that they're in search for. Backtracking until he identifies the marks left on the tunnel floor, Rowland signals this to the group. The faerzress is much stronger here as it pervades the air in a dense hue of dim light.
Rowland moves ahead until he hears a sound behind him! Stopping immediately and being as still as the rocks around him, he looks around carefully...other than the same tunnel walls and floors and ceilings that he's familiar with here, there's nothing that stands out. There appears to be some puddles of water, but that's pretty normal for these tunnels, he's noticed. So then what was that sound he wonders...
Rowland inspects the puddles nearby and while looking for indications that there's something unusual about them, or the tracks that have led him through this particular part of the tunnel, he feels the hair on the back of his neck begin to rise...
The puddles around him aren't made of water, he realizes quickly. These are gray oozes! They resembles a thick, viscous puddle of gray sludge, roughly 6 to 8 inches thick and about 14 feet across!
Knowing that his surrounded by these creatures with two behind and two in front of him, there's only one thing left for the experienced Ranger to do...silently soil his pants...which leads him to the second thing he must do, which is alerting his companions for help!
“I will go see what is going on. You boys move your asses. Don’t need another dead party member.”
Leon uses his bonus action to activate his boots and takes off running towards Rowland. Leon uses his action to dash. Leon sees Rowland surrounded and yells from 30 ft away, “Rowland do that thing where you teleport in the shadows over to me. The rest of the boys are coming.”
Rowland sees Leon approach and hears him call out. Just at that moment, the ooze in front of him morphs upwards and recoils, then in the blink of an eye, or perhaps faster, it (critical hit) strikes out with a large blob sized mass that literally knocks the wind out of Rowland's lungs (-25HP). In the moments that Rowland has to regain his breath, he hears the sizzle of his leather armor being reduced to nothing. (Rowland's leather armor has taken a -1 to AC and is considered destroyed since it's AC has been brought to 10 in this way)
The second Gray Ooze moves forward to strike out at Rowland. Its attack is much too slow for Rowland's quick reflexes (miss!). It makes a slurping sound and whoever heard it could only guess that it's either hungry, or frustrated or some combination of the two.
With a repeated slashing, Rowland reduces the Gray Ooze that struck him down to a lifeless, motionless mess on the tunnel floor. Then, using Shared Passage, he teleports away from danger, towards Leon, and moves a bit farther from the enemy, although keeps them in his sights for now.
This post has potentially manipulated dice roll results.
Elmo moves his maximum distance, bonus action to stealth:
Stealth check: 21
he will hold his action to attack the first Ooze that he sees.
Attack: 26
Dmg: 12
"Rowland good to see ye back! Aye Grem me mate, seems like forever ago that Glab was digesting folks horrifically while we watched. I miss the lad. If we see him again he better have been working on his jokes."
The group is ready to head out..
Rowland does a perception check on the puddles and surrounding ground to discern any foot prints 23
Initiative roll!
13 init roll
16
Grems init 22
Initiative: 15
Initiative= 214
Initiative Order:
Gremryl
Leon
Grey Ooze 1
Grey Ooze 2
Rowland
Elmo
Mikey
Grey Ooze 3
Grey Ooze 4
Seeing the oozes pop up with his dark vision and hears the shrill scream of Rowland
"Dam rangers! Cant take them anywhere! Sounds like he is mighty frightened lads! Time to smite!!"
Gremryl uses dash to get ahead
“I will go see what is going on. You boys move your asses. Don’t need another dead party member.”
Leon uses his bonus action to activate his boots and takes off running towards Rowland. Leon uses his action to dash. Leon sees Rowland surrounded and yells from 30 ft away, “Rowland do that thing where you teleport in the shadows over to me. The rest of the boys are coming.”
Rowland attacks ooze 3 twice with his long sword and one additional attack for dread ambusher
Attack: 29 Damage: 10
Attack: 16 Damage: 10
Dread ambusher
Attack: 15 Damage: 11 Plus 6
Rowland looks at Leon and uses shared passage to get 40ft closer to Leon as he rips off his armor and throws it to the ground.
“You do some of that tricky magic shit you do and keep me distracted. I will go get the boys.”
Rowland uses his movement and continues back towards the rest of the group but remaining in eye sight of Leon and the oozes.
based on math and all, I can assume Gremryl is now within sight of Rowland since he is 40ft closer and grems is 50 ft closer.
"Rowland, ye ok! blasted oozes! Those don't look like elmos friend oozey! was that ye smoking jacket? Sorry.. too soon lad! we got ye!"
Elmo moves his maximum distance, bonus action to stealth:
Stealth check: 21
he will hold his action to attack the first Ooze that he sees.
Attack: 26
Dmg: 12
"Rowland good to see ye back! Aye Grem me mate, seems like forever ago that Glab was digesting folks horrifically while we watched. I miss the lad. If we see him again he better have been working on his jokes."
Mikey will use his action to dash ahead and get as close to the action as possible