The men are surprised as Renaer dashes in. Before anyone else can act, Hugo fires off his magical insult at the bald human man. The man looks down as he is affected by Hugo's magic, "I'm not a coward...am I?" he asks himself in a sad, and frankly pathetic, tone.
As he says this, Renaer goes in and stabs him straight through the heart. He drops to the ground lifeless. Next, Renaer moves on to engage the grey-skinned dwarf. He goes for a stab with his rapier followed by a dagger strike, but the armored dwarf blocks both strikes with his shield.
Zyllee attempts to wrack his brain with her magical bell, but he manages to shake off her magic with some strange resilience. Callan's first bolt goes a bit wide and misses the dwarf completely.
Afterwards, the grey-skinned dwarf looks down at his fallen comrade, "Krentz?! KRENTZ?!" he asks as his eyes widen. But the look in his eyes quickly change to rage, "YOU KILLED KRENTZ! NOW....NOW I'M ANGRY!" he yells.
Suddenly, the four and a half foot tall dwarf begins to grow in size as his rage overwhelms him, forcing Renaer back a few feet in response. "YOU'RE NOT GOING TO LIKE ME WHEN I'M ANGRY! RAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" the giant dwarf booms. He readies his large war pick to strike.
Hugo rolled a 4 for damage on vicious mockery so that was nice. It took the dwarf's action to increase in size.
Zyllee's eyes widen In surprise. She glances at her companions momentarily wondering if they have taken on more than they can handle. Scowling , she once again summons the horrible bell that racks his mind.
Toll the dead once again with a 13 DC wisdom save to negate.
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Hugo watches their first target die rapidly and says quietly to no one in particular "oh dear, I was hoping to just get him to yield."
As the other dwarf grows to a much larger size Hugo is snapped out of his malaise by the impressive feat. "WHOA ugly! Talk about overcompensating for one's lack of....size!"
Hugo attempts to insult the dwarf, but he keeps yelling the name of his fallen friend, "KREEEEEEEEENTZ!!!" He doesn't appear to even pay attention to Hugo's spell as the magic is just shrugged off. The same goes for Zyllee's bell. Something about this dwarf makes him resilient to magical effects. Callan attempts to fire a crossbow bolt, but the damn thing gets jammed and he has to dislodge and throw the bolt out onto the ground.
Neverember attempts to stab at the dwarf twice. One strike is deflected by the dwarf's shield while the other is unable to pierce his thick scale mail armor. He swiftly drops down and goes for a third strike with his dagger and manages to stab the dwarf in the leg. Blood runs down the dwarf's leg where a nasty gash is left.
The dwarf, having shrugged off several attacks, seems to ignore the damage caused by the dagger and retaliates by slamming his enormous war pick straight into poor Renaer. The noble almost manages to dodge out of the way of the strike, but he just barely gets clipped in the shoulder by the giant weapon.
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Zyllee frowns in frustration as he ignores her spell again. Hearing Callen she nods. She unsheathes her rapier and waits for an opportune moment. When she sees an opening she lashes out in a blur.
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Hugo swallows hard out of fear but nods at Callan's words. Watching Renaer fight and get wounded he is inspired towards courage and returns the favor. "He's just a bigger coward now, Renaer! My dragons are on you!" The bard conjures up a bit more magic but that which attacks the flesh rather than the mind. Violent and somewhat unstable force energy not unlike lightning blasts the dwarf, accompanied by a loud crackling sound.
Renaer goes in for a stab with his rapier just as Zyllee follows up from his side. She pierces right between the plates of the dwarf's armor as he focuses on Renaer. Hugo fires a cracking beam of force towards the large dwarf, but he manages to block it with his shield. However, this gives Callan the opening he needs as he fires a crossbow bolt that sticks right in the dwarf's left eye with a squish.
The dwarf goes from yelling out in pain to silence as his form shrinks back to normal size and collapses on the ground.
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Renaer turns to you all and says, "Excellent work, but we must quickly continue forward. I get the feeling we're close."
As the four of you continue making your way through the next hallway you eventually end up in a long hall. Threadbare curtains hang on the east wall of the long hall, in the middle of which a muscular half-orc in dingy robes stands with his foot on the chest of a male human with wavy red-blond hair. Fire burns around the orc’s clenched fist, and his victim cries and squirms helplessly beneath him. "Please, sir, I...this has to be a big misunderstanding. AHHH! Not fire! NOT THE FACE!" the victim cries out in fear.
Meanwhile, seated on a raised platform to the south is a nightmarish figure wearing black robes. It has large white eyes and rubbery purple skin, with four tentacles encircling its inhuman mouth. It cradles and gently caresses what appears to be a disembodied brain with bestial, clawed feet.
Upon seeing you, the nightmarish figure rises from the stone chair, sets its pet down, and glides across the room towards the double doors in the west wall. It exits the room.
The bodies contain human-sized leather armor, a scimitar, a light crossbow, dwarf-sized scale mail, a war pick, a shield, and three javelins. Nothing else of value. Feel free to pick anything up you want.
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"By the nine hells, they just keep getting uglier!" Hugo conjures up familiar magic once again, this time to assault the half-orc to cripple his mind and prevent him from hurting Floon. "After we dispatch this one, I dare not go on for fear of what might offend my eyes, and nose, next!" It is then that Hugo's eyes fix on the tentacled mouthed figure and it's brain pet. The bard freezes and his jaw drops open. "Too late..."
Zyllee shudders as she sees the tentacled mouth creature and it's pet brain. Looking back at Gloom and the half-orc she grits her teeth in determination before rushimg forward to engage him with her rapier.
Zyllee will move straight ahead to get to the half-orcs flank. I'm assuming someone else will be there for sneak attack. If not please ignore the extra damage.
Callan quails as he sees the ugly thing before them, and is immensely relieved when it decides to depart. An orc he can handle, not so much... whatever that was. Enough of that, just need to grab Floon, and get the heck out. He raises his crossbow again and fires.
The orc looks down at his flaming fists with great concern, "I didn't want to be born a half-orc, okay? I know we aren't the prettiest lot..." He seems greatly distressed by this revelation. Meanwhile, Renaer dashes in and attempts to strike him from the right, but the half-orc manages to throw up a magical shield as he does so. This deflects the first strike, but Zyllee comes in from the left and pierces through with a sneak attack, catching him in a major artery in the thigh.
The half-orc falls to the ground dead.
Callan fires a bolt at the brain with legs but in his panic does not aim as well as he could have. The bolt ricochets off a nearby wall.
Suddenly, the brain with legs scurries towards Zyllee as she watches on in terror, but Renaer dashes in front of her and intercepts the creature with two strikes, one from his rapier and another from his dagger. The brain, now heavily injured and bloodied, leaps onto Renaer's head and digs into his skull with its bestial claws.
He screams out in pain as the nightmarish thing latches on to him.
Callan knows a little about mind flayers and intellect devourers. He knows that they are known to live in an area known as the Underdark and the mind flayers (or illithids) use intellect devourers as hunters and pets. He also knows that they attack the minds of creatures and assault one's intellect.
Hugo knows a bit more. He has heard stories and tales that illithids aren't just from the Underdark, though that is where the ones on the prime material plane currently reside. Illithids are the scourge of sentient creatures across countless worlds. Psionic tyrants, slavers, and interdimensional voyagers, they are insidious masterminds that harvest entire races for their own twisted ends. They once controlled empires that spanned many worlds. And they subjugated and warped whole races of humanoid slaves. All of them are conjoined to a central "network" of collective consciousness that hatches plots both far-reaching and evil.
Also they eat brains and take over people though Hugo is not sure of the details of such processes. Except for eating brains that is. That one is fairly straightforward.
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Hugo watches the intellect devourer leap onto Renaer's head and calls out in support of the swordsman while carefully aiming his next eldritch blast. "Come on, Renaer, a pretty face trumps brains any day!" Touching his own drown face briefly he adds more quietly and much less enthusiastically "unfortunately...".
Not trusting his skill with the crossbow enough to fire it at Renaer's head, Callan instead moves forward to Floon, working to remove whatever bindings he has, "We're here to get you out, Volo sent us."
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She looks on in Horror as the strange creature latches onto Renaer's head. Moving back some instinctively she once again summons the eldritch bell to toll for the creature.
She casts toll the dead. DC 13 wisdom save to avoid damage.
Hugo, from behind, blasts the bad brain and blows it off the back of Renaer's head. Following up, Renaer angrily stabs the creature in the frontal cortex with his dagger.
The wrinkly thing flops over on its side with a squish.
Once the fight has ended, Renaer goes to grab Floon to hurry and get him out of this place. But before he can, Floon stands up and begins weeping as he hugs both Renaer and Zyllee together. "MY HEROES!" he cries as he embraces the two. He then looks to Renaer as he continues sobbing, "It was so terrible, Renny, so terrible...They thought I was you and they put me in a cage and the food was awful and there WASN'T EVEN ANY WINE, RENNNNYYYYYYYY!!"
The distressed man cries into Renaer's shoulder.
As he looks back to the three of you, Renaer can't help but chuckle just a little at the dramatic display, "Let's get you out of here, okay my friend? By the look of you, you must have suffered a lot in my place. You have my sincerest apologies. Now let's go."
After being initially caught off guard by Floon's hug and crying, Zyllee does notice in the room to the east a secret tunnel with fresh air breezing in through the cracks. She thinks it may be a quick way out of here.
Hugo's face does not hide his disgust at Floon's overly dramatic display. "Oy vey, I'm all for drama but this simply won't do. No, No, No. Come, my dear Floon, this, nor the stage for that matter, is any place for you after that performance. Let's get you to safety."
Hugo checks the brain and half-orc body for any items, symbols, etc. of interest and also scans the room one last time for the same before they depart. He also takes a quick peak behind the nearest curtain on the way out.
(Callan and Hugo find a spellbook on the half-orc and a small chest behind the chair near where the brain was with two potions of healing in it and 18 gold.)
Zyllee looks at Floon in surprise as he hugs them and cries. Thankful that the awkward moment is over she notices something odd. There seems to be a faint breeze blowing from the east She moves in that direction and notices a secret tunnel. The air coming into the room from it seems very fresh. " Hey guys... I think this is an easier way out. There is a tunnel over here....the air is fresh like outdoors. "
Callan nods, "Yep, yep, sounds good, lets get out of here quickly before that mindflayer comes back. Careful though, they might've left a watch covering this path too."
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The men are surprised as Renaer dashes in. Before anyone else can act, Hugo fires off his magical insult at the bald human man. The man looks down as he is affected by Hugo's magic, "I'm not a coward...am I?" he asks himself in a sad, and frankly pathetic, tone.
As he says this, Renaer goes in and stabs him straight through the heart. He drops to the ground lifeless. Next, Renaer moves on to engage the grey-skinned dwarf. He goes for a stab with his rapier followed by a dagger strike, but the armored dwarf blocks both strikes with his shield.
Zyllee attempts to wrack his brain with her magical bell, but he manages to shake off her magic with some strange resilience. Callan's first bolt goes a bit wide and misses the dwarf completely.
Afterwards, the grey-skinned dwarf looks down at his fallen comrade, "Krentz?! KRENTZ?!" he asks as his eyes widen. But the look in his eyes quickly change to rage, "YOU KILLED KRENTZ! NOW....NOW I'M ANGRY!" he yells.
Suddenly, the four and a half foot tall dwarf begins to grow in size as his rage overwhelms him, forcing Renaer back a few feet in response. "YOU'RE NOT GOING TO LIKE ME WHEN I'M ANGRY! RAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" the giant dwarf booms. He readies his large war pick to strike.
Hugo rolled a 4 for damage on vicious mockery so that was nice. It took the dwarf's action to increase in size.
Zyllee's eyes widen In surprise. She glances at her companions momentarily wondering if they have taken on more than they can handle. Scowling , she once again summons the horrible bell that racks his mind.
Toll the dead once again with a 13 DC wisdom save to negate.
Damage: 4
Callan's eyes go wide as the dwarf more than doubles in size, "Oh my..." Quickly, he reloads and fires off another bolt.
Attack: 6 Damage: 10
Welp, tales of my prowess with the crossbow are going to be mixed. Nat twenty to start, and now a series of misses and a nat 1 :P
Hugo watches their first target die rapidly and says quietly to no one in particular "oh dear, I was hoping to just get him to yield."
As the other dwarf grows to a much larger size Hugo is snapped out of his malaise by the impressive feat. "WHOA ugly! Talk about overcompensating for one's lack of....size!"
Vicious Mockery DC14
Damage: 4
Hugo attempts to insult the dwarf, but he keeps yelling the name of his fallen friend, "KREEEEEEEEENTZ!!!" He doesn't appear to even pay attention to Hugo's spell as the magic is just shrugged off. The same goes for Zyllee's bell. Something about this dwarf makes him resilient to magical effects. Callan attempts to fire a crossbow bolt, but the damn thing gets jammed and he has to dislodge and throw the bolt out onto the ground.
Neverember attempts to stab at the dwarf twice. One strike is deflected by the dwarf's shield while the other is unable to pierce his thick scale mail armor. He swiftly drops down and goes for a third strike with his dagger and manages to stab the dwarf in the leg. Blood runs down the dwarf's leg where a nasty gash is left.
The dwarf, having shrugged off several attacks, seems to ignore the damage caused by the dagger and retaliates by slamming his enormous war pick straight into poor Renaer. The noble almost manages to dodge out of the way of the strike, but he just barely gets clipped in the shoulder by the giant weapon.
Alarmed, Callan inches back towards the door, he reloads and fires again. "Quit it with the indirect spells! He'll just keep shrugging them off!"
Attack: 25 Damage: 8
Zyllee frowns in frustration as he ignores her spell again. Hearing Callen she nods. She unsheathes her rapier and waits for an opportune moment. When she sees an opening she lashes out in a blur.
Rapier w/ advantage: 19
Damage: 8
Sneak attack dam: 1
Hugo swallows hard out of fear but nods at Callan's words. Watching Renaer fight and get wounded he is inspired towards courage and returns the favor. "He's just a bigger coward now, Renaer! My dragons are on you!" The bard conjures up a bit more magic but that which attacks the flesh rather than the mind. Violent and somewhat unstable force energy not unlike lightning blasts the dwarf, accompanied by a loud crackling sound.
Bardic Inspiration for our new friend.
EB attack: 13
EB damage: 1
Renaer goes in for a stab with his rapier just as Zyllee follows up from his side. She pierces right between the plates of the dwarf's armor as he focuses on Renaer. Hugo fires a cracking beam of force towards the large dwarf, but he manages to block it with his shield. However, this gives Callan the opening he needs as he fires a crossbow bolt that sticks right in the dwarf's left eye with a squish.
The dwarf goes from yelling out in pain to silence as his form shrinks back to normal size and collapses on the ground.
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Renaer turns to you all and says, "Excellent work, but we must quickly continue forward. I get the feeling we're close."
As the four of you continue making your way through the next hallway you eventually end up in a long hall. Threadbare curtains hang on the east wall of the long hall, in the middle of which a muscular half-orc in dingy robes stands with his foot on the chest of a male human with wavy red-blond hair. Fire burns around the orc’s clenched fist, and his victim cries and squirms helplessly beneath him. "Please, sir, I...this has to be a big misunderstanding. AHHH! Not fire! NOT THE FACE!" the victim cries out in fear.
Meanwhile, seated on a raised platform to the south is a nightmarish figure wearing black robes. It has large white eyes and rubbery purple skin, with four tentacles encircling its inhuman mouth. It cradles and gently caresses what appears to be a disembodied brain with bestial, clawed feet.
Upon seeing you, the nightmarish figure rises from the stone chair, sets its pet down, and glides across the room towards the double doors in the west wall. It exits the room.
The bodies contain human-sized leather armor, a scimitar, a light crossbow, dwarf-sized scale mail, a war pick, a shield, and three javelins. Nothing else of value. Feel free to pick anything up you want.
Actions pls.
"By the nine hells, they just keep getting uglier!" Hugo conjures up familiar magic once again, this time to assault the half-orc to cripple his mind and prevent him from hurting Floon. "After we dispatch this one, I dare not go on for fear of what might offend my eyes, and nose, next!" It is then that Hugo's eyes fix on the tentacled mouthed figure and it's brain pet. The bard freezes and his jaw drops open. "Too late..."
Vicious Mockery DC14
Damage: 3
Zyllee shudders as she sees the tentacled mouth creature and it's pet brain. Looking back at Gloom and the half-orc she grits her teeth in determination before rushimg forward to engage him with her rapier.
Zyllee will move straight ahead to get to the half-orcs flank. I'm assuming someone else will be there for sneak attack. If not please ignore the extra damage.
Rapier attack : 20
Rapier damage: 6
Sneak attack damage: @Kyrroeth game_die
Result: 1d6 (1)
Total: 1
Callan quails as he sees the ugly thing before them, and is immensely relieved when it decides to depart. An orc he can handle, not so much... whatever that was. Enough of that, just need to grab Floon, and get the heck out. He raises his crossbow again and fires.
Attack: 8 Damage: 8
The orc looks down at his flaming fists with great concern, "I didn't want to be born a half-orc, okay? I know we aren't the prettiest lot..." He seems greatly distressed by this revelation. Meanwhile, Renaer dashes in and attempts to strike him from the right, but the half-orc manages to throw up a magical shield as he does so. This deflects the first strike, but Zyllee comes in from the left and pierces through with a sneak attack, catching him in a major artery in the thigh.
The half-orc falls to the ground dead.
Callan fires a bolt at the brain with legs but in his panic does not aim as well as he could have. The bolt ricochets off a nearby wall.
Suddenly, the brain with legs scurries towards Zyllee as she watches on in terror, but Renaer dashes in front of her and intercepts the creature with two strikes, one from his rapier and another from his dagger. The brain, now heavily injured and bloodied, leaps onto Renaer's head and digs into his skull with its bestial claws.
He screams out in pain as the nightmarish thing latches on to him.
Callan knows a little about mind flayers and intellect devourers. He knows that they are known to live in an area known as the Underdark and the mind flayers (or illithids) use intellect devourers as hunters and pets. He also knows that they attack the minds of creatures and assault one's intellect.
Hugo knows a bit more. He has heard stories and tales that illithids aren't just from the Underdark, though that is where the ones on the prime material plane currently reside. Illithids are the scourge of sentient creatures across countless worlds. Psionic tyrants, slavers, and interdimensional voyagers, they are insidious masterminds that harvest entire races for their own twisted ends. They once controlled empires that spanned many worlds. And they subjugated and warped whole races of humanoid slaves. All of them are conjoined to a central "network" of collective consciousness that hatches plots both far-reaching and evil.
Also they eat brains and take over people though Hugo is not sure of the details of such processes. Except for eating brains that is. That one is fairly straightforward.
Hugo watches the intellect devourer leap onto Renaer's head and calls out in support of the swordsman while carefully aiming his next eldritch blast. "Come on, Renaer, a pretty face trumps brains any day!" Touching his own drown face briefly he adds more quietly and much less enthusiastically "unfortunately...".
Bardic Inspiration
EB: 22 Damage: 2
Not trusting his skill with the crossbow enough to fire it at Renaer's head, Callan instead moves forward to Floon, working to remove whatever bindings he has, "We're here to get you out, Volo sent us."
She looks on in Horror as the strange creature latches onto Renaer's head. Moving back some instinctively she once again summons the eldritch bell to toll for the creature.
She casts toll the dead. DC 13 wisdom save to avoid damage.
Toll the dead damage: 9
Hugo, from behind, blasts the bad brain and blows it off the back of Renaer's head. Following up, Renaer angrily stabs the creature in the frontal cortex with his dagger.
The wrinkly thing flops over on its side with a squish.
Once the fight has ended, Renaer goes to grab Floon to hurry and get him out of this place. But before he can, Floon stands up and begins weeping as he hugs both Renaer and Zyllee together. "MY HEROES!" he cries as he embraces the two. He then looks to Renaer as he continues sobbing, "It was so terrible, Renny, so terrible...They thought I was you and they put me in a cage and the food was awful and there WASN'T EVEN ANY WINE, RENNNNYYYYYYYY!!"
The distressed man cries into Renaer's shoulder.
As he looks back to the three of you, Renaer can't help but chuckle just a little at the dramatic display, "Let's get you out of here, okay my friend? By the look of you, you must have suffered a lot in my place. You have my sincerest apologies. Now let's go."
After being initially caught off guard by Floon's hug and crying, Zyllee does notice in the room to the east a secret tunnel with fresh air breezing in through the cracks. She thinks it may be a quick way out of here.
Arrow is where Zyllee notices the secret tunnel.
Hugo's face does not hide his disgust at Floon's overly dramatic display. "Oy vey, I'm all for drama but this simply won't do. No, No, No. Come, my dear Floon, this, nor the stage for that matter, is any place for you after that performance. Let's get you to safety."
Hugo checks the brain and half-orc body for any items, symbols, etc. of interest and also scans the room one last time for the same before they depart. He also takes a quick peak behind the nearest curtain on the way out.
(Callan and Hugo find a spellbook on the half-orc and a small chest behind the chair near where the brain was with two potions of healing in it and 18 gold.)
Zyllee looks at Floon in surprise as he hugs them and cries. Thankful that the awkward moment is over she notices something odd. There seems to be a faint breeze blowing from the east She moves in that direction and notices a secret tunnel. The air coming into the room from it seems very fresh. " Hey guys... I think this is an easier way out. There is a tunnel over here....the air is fresh like outdoors. "
Callan nods, "Yep, yep, sounds good, lets get out of here quickly before that mindflayer comes back. Careful though, they might've left a watch covering this path too."