The Long Road - Game Thread

Quote from JcAndD >>

Can I use Reduce in the door?

(The spell description does say "a creature or an object". Other DMs suggested that it should not work on every door, so don't be surprised if there may be excuses in the future for the spell not working. I'll let you know before you burn a spell slot.

For this encounter, you can Reduce the door... You may want to give Jorin a chance first, and if he is having trouble, you can have him try again versus a wee tiny door.)

Hildigrim can also try to pick the lock if it isn't knocked down or reduced first.

Jorin is more than happy to bust down the door!  Guiltysparc is happy to let another player try one of their toys if they'd like as well.

Quillary will let the spikes sink away, and will check on the animals, making sure they are not near death. As a result, she will rejoin the party in last place, a little late.

Quote from Guiltysparc >>

Jorin is more than happy to bust down the door!  Guiltysparc is happy to let another player try one of their toys if they'd like as well.

 Nah, go loud! It’ll let me save it anyway.

Quote from Mingofaust >>

Quillary will let the spikes sink away, and will check on the animals, making sure they are not near death. As a result, she will rejoin the party in last place, a little late.

Drusk is with Quillary. (I mentioned that he was using a Healing Word on the bear to keep it from dying, so he would also be checking the animals.)

Jorin: Athletics check versus door.

Hildigrim: Volo Perception check with advantage (listening at the door to the bedroom platform)

Volo perception check with advantage (for some reason heard in my mind spoken by Laura Bailey as Jester): 23

Jorin has acquired a taste for headbutting and does so on the door.  Athletics: 18

Volo hears Noke chanting something inside. Hard to make out the words through the thick door... almost sounds like "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo". Then some crashing noises, then heavy footsteps, increasing in frequency and getting louder, like something is charging towards the door. (Through the mental link to Hildigrim, Volo suggests in a panic that he no longer wants to be right in front of that door.)

Jorin walks up to the door, stretches his arms, cracks his knuckles... then headbutts the door, sending the wooden wreckage scattering into the platform. The only part of the door left is the lock and handle. Jorin walks into the room, and unlocks the door.

(From the earlier map, the eastern half of the middle platform is a combination library and lab, the southwest quarter is a sitting room, and the northwest quarter is a dining room/kitchen.)

Hildigrim sends Volo to the pocket dimension and then brings him back 20 feet away from the door. "I believe Noke has summoned some reinforcements," Hildigrim says during this.

OoC - "Jorin walks in and unlocks the door" lol

Bursting through the door, destroying the SW wall of the middle-platform, is Noke riding a Bed Dragon Wyrmling. The beast looks like a dragon carved from wood, with billowing bedsheets for wings and a tail that ends in a soft pillow. (Someone made s 3D-printed figure based on this module, to give you an idea what it looks like: link to image.)

For the map:

Hildigrim and Pascal can have 3/4-cover where they are, but will have to move to get line-of-sight on the bed dragon. Same for Jorin, the door to his west is open, but he can only see to the NW. Drusk and Quillary are out on the lawn, and will only get half-cover from the ruined outhouse.

The "MA" is the multiple animals (unconscious), in case any AoE spells are cast outside (which might kill them).

The middle platform is 20' up, the righthand platform is 10' up. Everyone without line-of-sight heard that wall crumbling, and Jorin breaking the other door.

Everyone post their actions, including initiative and an extra d20. (If it uses the breath weapon, I'll need saves.)

Pascal just stares at the creature, blinking, “Whu... what...” Pascal just sighs and moves to get a line of sight, “Twin size...” and points a finger at the bed dragon, casting Reduce DC 14 Save.

Initiative: 4

The Bed... Has a Breath Weapon: 11???

Jorin cheers Pascal's witty wordplay then charges off towards the bed dragon, axes whirling!

• Initiative: 13
• Move: full movement towards the bed dragon, I think he can make within melee range?
• Bonus action: RAGE
• Action: Battleaxe Attack: 26 Damage: 12 + 5 radiance damage 
• Extra roll: 15

Edit: Next set will be Reckless due to his now extreme rage!!

Hildigrim is a picture of amazement. Like a child seeing his first Christmas tree. Standing stock still, jaw dropped, eyes wide.

No action.

No bonus action.

No movement.

So. As a note, we cannot harm the bed now. Hildigrim wants the race car bed, we need to get it for him.

Quote from DirtyDogP >>

Hildigrim is a picture of amazement. Like a child seeing his first Christmas tree. Standing stock still, jaw dropped, eyes wide.

No action.

No bonus action.

No movement.

OoC - can players nominate other players for inspiration?

Quillary looks up at the commotion, then twirls her stick. With a shrug at Drusk, she races off to join the battle. 

Move and Dash. 

(With the SW wall of the middle platform destroyed, Quillary & Drusk can see Noke and the polymorphed bed, and vice versa. Quillary can do a ranged attack, run the long way around to get to the middle platform, or approach & try climbing up. From post 2778, Quillary is 20' away horizontally and 20' vertically... And I need an init roll.)

Drusk will move 5' closer, and use the Dodge action. As a bonus action, summon Spiritual Weapon and have it bash the dra-bed thing.

"Noke may be cuckoo, but I think he still values his animal friends. I hope their presence near us means no breath weapon, which might harm them."

Init: 15  Attack: 10 Damage: 5

Eh... nah, Quillary will stick to her dash. Her ranged attacks are okay, but she’d rather get up there  

Initiative: 16