Sarai will edge forward until she can see into the room, but not so far she has to enter the room. She doesn't have a good weapon to use on the blob, and no magic for it, either. Instead, she will peer into the fog and try to perceive anything of note (Perception: 16) while drawing her Pistol and Readying an attack on anything that might jump out of the fog.
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ey/em/eirs, or they/them works, too (just not he). Role-playing since that keep on those borderlands. Here's my D&D stuff. I love it so.
The fog makes it very difficult to see into the room. You too can see the ooze on the ceiling, but you believe that is only because it has no real skill in such things. You can only make out vague, still shapes in the fog.
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DM - Elustran Days ~ Fate/False Revelation
Rex'aliha - Hoard of the Dragon Queen ~ Mozu of Worms- The Stormpoint Mountains ~ Muireach Maon- Shepherd’s Crossing ~ Crownsguard - Storm King’s Thunder ~ Gunnar Wayland -Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians ~ POUF!- Ex-Ravens ~ Pascal LaRoux - Long Road Dragon Heist
"A shrewd tactician will avoid direct confrontation when the opportunity for an easy victory presents itself," replies Caster. "Fondness of direct confrontation speaks of nothing but hubris."
"Hmm..." Oz says sagely as he peeks around Caster. "On the ceiling you say? BURN!" As he says the last word, he points his finger and a fire bolt streaks into the room and towards the ceiling. Attack: 18. Damage: 14.
Interwebz follows his master along the ceiling, illuminating his way.
The bolt of flame streaks through the smoky room and flashes within it. The ooze is much drier, but still clings to the ceiling.
Matthias steps behind Oz as he brushes a thumb on a runic stone in his hand. He flicks it down the hall as it splits into three smaller chunks. The chunks fly rapidly toward the ooze and detonate into a flash of blue light!
Imani waves her hand toward the room, but fails to dispel it.
Lancer is going to walk through the field, attempting to dispel it on his own 14. However, while the bounds of the field strain against the invisible force around Lancer, it does not break. Instead, Lancer enters the radius of the field. There’s a ripple around him as he stops, “Ah. That’s not good.” He turns to face Caster, who is in the doorframe. That’s his turn!
Dream walks up behind everybody near the door frame to the questionable and problematic room. As she approaches, she seems to pull a pouch from thin air that is small, dark blue, and covered with stars. She scatters from this pouch something that looks like yellow dust that begins to shimmer as she speaks softly, "Allow yourself respite. Close your eyes and lay your head down to sleep. Sandur í Svefn~ All Humanity Must Slumber!" With that, the dust energizes and flies out into the room--
Dream then walks into the room, prepared to make two attacks with her umbrella.
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DM: Adventures in Phandalin [Khessa], The Dread of Strahd[Darya], Dragons of Stormwreck Isle [Rook], Baldur's Gate Mysteries [4-Player] Player: Oona in MO's Icewind Dale Ru's Current Status
Masters may make a Clairvoyance check at that, with Imani already knowing what that is.
Meanwhile, the sand slowly spreads outward, clinging to the walls, the air, everything is covered in a faint golden tint. One can’t shake the fact that everything seems a bit... Drowsier... There is no immediate effect.
However, as Assassin enters the room, walking past Caster, she suddenly freezes as the ripple courses out around her. She stops and stands next to Lancer. Both block your way.
The pudding, meanwhile, slithers another 60 feet out of the room!
Caster will call forth an investiture of wind to try and disperse the golden sand. The underground air whips up into a frenzy, and if the sand doesn’t disperse, Caster will fly over Lancer and Assassin to follow the bloody ooze.
Caster blasts forth into the fog beyond the room, following after the ooze and (61), follows after the ooze. You easily catch up to it 60ft past the room.
Sarai takes the situation in, glances over her shoulder as she pulls out her pistol again. "Stand back," she tells Oz and Imani and Berg the Fourth. Looking into the room, at Dream and Thorcules, she adds, "Not you two. You huddle up and stay very still." She stands 11' back of them, and raises the pistol... then lowers the pistol. She curses fluently in Hebrew. Then again in Sylvan.
"I can probably hit them, but I don't think it'll knock them into their senses. I think someone needs to dispel this effect, whatever it is. After all, the rest of us also need to cross this threshold."
She looks to Oz, Imani, and Berg helplessly.
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Matthias rolls his eyes and gestures to Lancer to speak.
Lancer, in turn, speaks up, “Right, so, please don’t vaporize anything. I have enough of a Magic Resistance skill that this charm won’t be able to bind me for long. I would imagine it can only hold me for a few more seconds... might be longer, not really an exact science here...”
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DM - Elustran Days ~ Fate/False Revelation
Rex'aliha - Hoard of the Dragon Queen ~ Mozu of Worms- The Stormpoint Mountains ~ Muireach Maon- Shepherd’s Crossing ~ Crownsguard - Storm King’s Thunder ~ Gunnar Wayland -Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians ~ POUF!- Ex-Ravens ~ Pascal LaRoux - Long Road Dragon Heist
Imani turns to Mathias and pitches her voice low, "Mat, even if your servant manages to wriggle out of that spell, it's still going to catch at least some of the four of us when we try to move through it. I'm not strong enough to dispel this trap, but Lancer is." She bites her lip, embarrassment written across her face. "Use a command seal- order him to destroy this spell. I know that's asking a lot, but unless we find a way to move forward, we're not going to be able to stop these werewolves from destroying the city."
Matthias sighs. He pulls out a small, delicately crafted runic stone. It looks as if the wood that has been carved on has a glossy sheen to it. He tosses it into room, as it flashes brightly on impact with the floor. In an instant, the fog in the room (but not the continuing hallway) vanishes entirely as Matthias casts Dispel Magic at 6th level.
Matthias continues onward, “Make no mistake, I will not be wasting a command seal on a matter as trivial as this. However, there is no sense in wasting time. We have a servant to kill. Shall we be off?”
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DM - Elustran Days ~ Fate/False Revelation
Rex'aliha - Hoard of the Dragon Queen ~ Mozu of Worms- The Stormpoint Mountains ~ Muireach Maon- Shepherd’s Crossing ~ Crownsguard - Storm King’s Thunder ~ Gunnar Wayland -Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians ~ POUF!- Ex-Ravens ~ Pascal LaRoux - Long Road Dragon Heist
Lancer stretches his body, now freed once more, and rolls his neck, “Appreciated, Master, thought I would’ve had it in just a moment.” Matthias remains stoic, “The time it would’ve taken would be an unnecessary waste of our resources. Now, if you would, kill the creature.” Lancer spins his spear, “With pleasure.”
Lancer assumes a running stance and, with a miniature sonic boom, tears off down the hall with immense speed. He reaches Caster and the slime and stabs at it with intense power! Lancer uses Power Striker to take a -10 to the attack, but a +20 to the damage, Attack: 5 Damage: 37 piercing damage. The sheer force from the blow alone whips some of the air as the pudding is strewn all across the hall. In an instant, Lancer dashes back down the hall to Matthias, “Done.”
Matthias turns to the rest of the group with a very self-content eye-brow raise.
Sarai will edge forward until she can see into the room, but not so far she has to enter the room. She doesn't have a good weapon to use on the blob, and no magic for it, either. Instead, she will peer into the fog and try to perceive anything of note (Perception: 16) while drawing her Pistol and Readying an attack on anything that might jump out of the fog.
ey/em/eirs, or they/them works, too (just not he).
Role-playing since that keep on those borderlands. Here's my D&D stuff. I love it so.
Campaign links for Game Log access because DDB has abandoned the forum dice roller, apparently.
Radiant Citadel by cbaer8 ~•~ Stormwreck Isle by Rforrest14 ~•~ Wildspace by Rhanloi ~•~ Rise of Tiamat by SteveThaiBinh ~•~ The Long Road currently by me
The fog makes it very difficult to see into the room. You too can see the ooze on the ceiling, but you believe that is only because it has no real skill in such things. You can only make out vague, still shapes in the fog.
DM - Elustran Days ~ Fate/False Revelation
Rex'aliha - Hoard of the Dragon Queen ~ Mozu of Worms - The Stormpoint Mountains ~ Muireach Maon - Shepherd’s Crossing ~ Crownsguard - Storm King’s Thunder ~ Gunnar Wayland - Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians ~ POUF! - Ex-Ravens ~ Pascal LaRoux - Long Road Dragon Heist
"A shrewd tactician will avoid direct confrontation when the opportunity for an easy victory presents itself," replies Caster. "Fondness of direct confrontation speaks of nothing but hubris."
(If it's okay to continue speaking out of turn)
DM - Storm King's Thunder PbP | Yet Another Storm King's Thunder PbP
Current: Eogard Duramastar, Human Twilight Cleric/Star Druid | Eiren Lathrana, Shadar-Kai Eldritch Knight/Bladesinger | Arugula, Rabbitfolk Armorer
Survivor: CrispyDM's Saltmarsh as Syltra | SarcasticFury's Strahd as Hadrian Frozenspark | Forge of Fury as The DM
"Nothing about Berserker says 'shrewd tactician,' rather it all screams 'hubris,'" Sarai notes, keeping her voice low.
ey/em/eirs, or they/them works, too (just not he).
Role-playing since that keep on those borderlands. Here's my D&D stuff. I love it so.
Campaign links for Game Log access because DDB has abandoned the forum dice roller, apparently.
Radiant Citadel by cbaer8 ~•~ Stormwreck Isle by Rforrest14 ~•~ Wildspace by Rhanloi ~•~ Rise of Tiamat by SteveThaiBinh ~•~ The Long Road currently by me
In a moment of uncharacteristic self-awareness, Imani whispers to her friend. "Seems like a prerequisite for the magical types in this war."
Imani Jones - Lv 11 Warlock of The Living City - Variant Human| Fate/False Revelation
Wick Stumbleduck - Lv 4 Lore Bard - Forest Gnome | Elustran Days
Khurah - Lv 3 Star Druid - Half-orc | Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians
Dale Swanson - User of the Sound of Silence Stand - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Sunset Investigations
Ayaci Vikerfjell - Lv 8 Rune Knight | Variant Human | Storm King's Thunder
"Hmm..." Oz says sagely as he peeks around Caster. "On the ceiling you say? BURN!" As he says the last word, he points his finger and a fire bolt streaks into the room and towards the ceiling. Attack: 18. Damage: 14.
Interwebz follows his master along the ceiling, illuminating his way.
Oscar "Oz" Diggs, Human Technomancer Wizard (10)/Rogue (1) - Fate/False Revelation, PbP
DM, Kaden Tolgalen
The bolt of flame streaks through the smoky room and flashes within it. The ooze is much drier, but still clings to the ceiling.
Matthias steps behind Oz as he brushes a thumb on a runic stone in his hand. He flicks it down the hall as it splits into three smaller chunks. The chunks fly rapidly toward the ooze and detonate into a flash of blue light!
Missile 1: 5 force damage
Missile 2: 2 force damage
Missile 3: 2 force damage
Yet, the ooze remains.
DM - Elustran Days ~ Fate/False Revelation
Rex'aliha - Hoard of the Dragon Queen ~ Mozu of Worms - The Stormpoint Mountains ~ Muireach Maon - Shepherd’s Crossing ~ Crownsguard - Storm King’s Thunder ~ Gunnar Wayland - Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians ~ POUF! - Ex-Ravens ~ Pascal LaRoux - Long Road Dragon Heist
Imani waves her hand toward the room, but fails to dispel it.
Lancer is going to walk through the field, attempting to dispel it on his own 14. However, while the bounds of the field strain against the invisible force around Lancer, it does not break. Instead, Lancer enters the radius of the field. There’s a ripple around him as he stops, “Ah. That’s not good.” He turns to face Caster, who is in the doorframe. That’s his turn!
DM - Elustran Days ~ Fate/False Revelation
Rex'aliha - Hoard of the Dragon Queen ~ Mozu of Worms - The Stormpoint Mountains ~ Muireach Maon - Shepherd’s Crossing ~ Crownsguard - Storm King’s Thunder ~ Gunnar Wayland - Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians ~ POUF! - Ex-Ravens ~ Pascal LaRoux - Long Road Dragon Heist
Dream walks up behind everybody near the door frame to the questionable and problematic room. As she approaches, she seems to pull a pouch from thin air that is small, dark blue, and covered with stars. She scatters from this pouch something that looks like yellow dust that begins to shimmer as she speaks softly, "Allow yourself respite. Close your eyes and lay your head down to sleep. Sandur í Svefn~ All Humanity Must Slumber!" With that, the dust energizes and flies out into the room--
Dream then walks into the room, prepared to make two attacks with her umbrella.
DM: Adventures in Phandalin [Khessa], The Dread of Strahd [Darya], Dragons of Stormwreck Isle [Rook], Baldur's Gate Mysteries [4-Player]
Player: Oona in MO's Icewind Dale
Ru's Current Status
Masters may make a Clairvoyance check at that, with Imani already knowing what that is.
Meanwhile, the sand slowly spreads outward, clinging to the walls, the air, everything is covered in a faint golden tint. One can’t shake the fact that everything seems a bit... Drowsier... There is no immediate effect.
However, as Assassin enters the room, walking past Caster, she suddenly freezes as the ripple courses out around her. She stops and stands next to Lancer. Both block your way.
The pudding, meanwhile, slithers another 60 feet out of the room!
DM - Elustran Days ~ Fate/False Revelation
Rex'aliha - Hoard of the Dragon Queen ~ Mozu of Worms - The Stormpoint Mountains ~ Muireach Maon - Shepherd’s Crossing ~ Crownsguard - Storm King’s Thunder ~ Gunnar Wayland - Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians ~ POUF! - Ex-Ravens ~ Pascal LaRoux - Long Road Dragon Heist
Caster will call forth an investiture of wind to try and disperse the golden sand. The underground air whips up into a frenzy, and if the sand doesn’t disperse, Caster will fly over Lancer and Assassin to follow the bloody ooze.
DM - Storm King's Thunder PbP | Yet Another Storm King's Thunder PbP
Current: Eogard Duramastar, Human Twilight Cleric/Star Druid | Eiren Lathrana, Shadar-Kai Eldritch Knight/Bladesinger | Arugula, Rabbitfolk Armorer
Survivor: CrispyDM's Saltmarsh as Syltra | SarcasticFury's Strahd as Hadrian Frozenspark | Forge of Fury as The DM
Caster blasts forth into the fog beyond the room, following after the ooze and (61), follows after the ooze. You easily catch up to it 60ft past the room.
DM - Elustran Days ~ Fate/False Revelation
Rex'aliha - Hoard of the Dragon Queen ~ Mozu of Worms - The Stormpoint Mountains ~ Muireach Maon - Shepherd’s Crossing ~ Crownsguard - Storm King’s Thunder ~ Gunnar Wayland - Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians ~ POUF! - Ex-Ravens ~ Pascal LaRoux - Long Road Dragon Heist
Sarai takes the situation in, glances over her shoulder as she pulls out her pistol again. "Stand back," she tells Oz and Imani and Berg the Fourth. Looking into the room, at Dream and Thorcules, she adds, "Not you two. You huddle up and stay very still." She stands 11' back of them, and raises the pistol... then lowers the pistol. She curses fluently in Hebrew. Then again in Sylvan.
"I can probably hit them, but I don't think it'll knock them into their senses. I think someone needs to dispel this effect, whatever it is. After all, the rest of us also need to cross this threshold."
She looks to Oz, Imani, and Berg helplessly.
ey/em/eirs, or they/them works, too (just not he).
Role-playing since that keep on those borderlands. Here's my D&D stuff. I love it so.
Campaign links for Game Log access because DDB has abandoned the forum dice roller, apparently.
Radiant Citadel by cbaer8 ~•~ Stormwreck Isle by Rforrest14 ~•~ Wildspace by Rhanloi ~•~ Rise of Tiamat by SteveThaiBinh ~•~ The Long Road currently by me
Matthias rolls his eyes and gestures to Lancer to speak.
Lancer, in turn, speaks up, “Right, so, please don’t vaporize anything. I have enough of a Magic Resistance skill that this charm won’t be able to bind me for long. I would imagine it can only hold me for a few more seconds... might be longer, not really an exact science here...”
DM - Elustran Days ~ Fate/False Revelation
Rex'aliha - Hoard of the Dragon Queen ~ Mozu of Worms - The Stormpoint Mountains ~ Muireach Maon - Shepherd’s Crossing ~ Crownsguard - Storm King’s Thunder ~ Gunnar Wayland - Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians ~ POUF! - Ex-Ravens ~ Pascal LaRoux - Long Road Dragon Heist
Imani turns to Mathias and pitches her voice low, "Mat, even if your servant manages to wriggle out of that spell, it's still going to catch at least some of the four of us when we try to move through it. I'm not strong enough to dispel this trap, but Lancer is." She bites her lip, embarrassment written across her face. "Use a command seal- order him to destroy this spell. I know that's asking a lot, but unless we find a way to move forward, we're not going to be able to stop these werewolves from destroying the city."
Persuasion (Block watch- protecting the city): 14
Imani Jones - Lv 11 Warlock of The Living City - Variant Human| Fate/False Revelation
Wick Stumbleduck - Lv 4 Lore Bard - Forest Gnome | Elustran Days
Khurah - Lv 3 Star Druid - Half-orc | Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians
Dale Swanson - User of the Sound of Silence Stand - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Sunset Investigations
Ayaci Vikerfjell - Lv 8 Rune Knight | Variant Human | Storm King's Thunder
(Holiday inspiration, in case it's still valid: 16)
Imani Jones - Lv 11 Warlock of The Living City - Variant Human| Fate/False Revelation
Wick Stumbleduck - Lv 4 Lore Bard - Forest Gnome | Elustran Days
Khurah - Lv 3 Star Druid - Half-orc | Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians
Dale Swanson - User of the Sound of Silence Stand - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Sunset Investigations
Ayaci Vikerfjell - Lv 8 Rune Knight | Variant Human | Storm King's Thunder
Matthias sighs. He pulls out a small, delicately crafted runic stone. It looks as if the wood that has been carved on has a glossy sheen to it. He tosses it into room, as it flashes brightly on impact with the floor. In an instant, the fog in the room (but not the continuing hallway) vanishes entirely as Matthias casts Dispel Magic at 6th level.
Matthias continues onward, “Make no mistake, I will not be wasting a command seal on a matter as trivial as this. However, there is no sense in wasting time. We have a servant to kill. Shall we be off?”
DM - Elustran Days ~ Fate/False Revelation
Rex'aliha - Hoard of the Dragon Queen ~ Mozu of Worms - The Stormpoint Mountains ~ Muireach Maon - Shepherd’s Crossing ~ Crownsguard - Storm King’s Thunder ~ Gunnar Wayland - Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians ~ POUF! - Ex-Ravens ~ Pascal LaRoux - Long Road Dragon Heist
Lancer stretches his body, now freed once more, and rolls his neck, “Appreciated, Master, thought I would’ve had it in just a moment.” Matthias remains stoic, “The time it would’ve taken would be an unnecessary waste of our resources. Now, if you would, kill the creature.” Lancer spins his spear, “With pleasure.”
Lancer assumes a running stance and, with a miniature sonic boom, tears off down the hall with immense speed. He reaches Caster and the slime and stabs at it with intense power! Lancer uses Power Striker to take a -10 to the attack, but a +20 to the damage, Attack: 5 Damage: 37 piercing damage. The sheer force from the blow alone whips some of the air as the pudding is strewn all across the hall. In an instant, Lancer dashes back down the hall to Matthias, “Done.”
Matthias turns to the rest of the group with a very self-content eye-brow raise.
DM - Elustran Days ~ Fate/False Revelation
Rex'aliha - Hoard of the Dragon Queen ~ Mozu of Worms - The Stormpoint Mountains ~ Muireach Maon - Shepherd’s Crossing ~ Crownsguard - Storm King’s Thunder ~ Gunnar Wayland - Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians ~ POUF! - Ex-Ravens ~ Pascal LaRoux - Long Road Dragon Heist
Imani grins and rolls her eyes, genuinely impressed and starting to like this twerp in spite of herself.
Imani Jones - Lv 11 Warlock of The Living City - Variant Human| Fate/False Revelation
Wick Stumbleduck - Lv 4 Lore Bard - Forest Gnome | Elustran Days
Khurah - Lv 3 Star Druid - Half-orc | Boats, Rocks, and Ruffians
Dale Swanson - User of the Sound of Silence Stand - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Sunset Investigations
Ayaci Vikerfjell - Lv 8 Rune Knight | Variant Human | Storm King's Thunder
Caster rolls his eyes. He sets down on the ground, the wind whipping around him, as he looks around for an exit (or path to an exit).
DM - Storm King's Thunder PbP | Yet Another Storm King's Thunder PbP
Current: Eogard Duramastar, Human Twilight Cleric/Star Druid | Eiren Lathrana, Shadar-Kai Eldritch Knight/Bladesinger | Arugula, Rabbitfolk Armorer
Survivor: CrispyDM's Saltmarsh as Syltra | SarcasticFury's Strahd as Hadrian Frozenspark | Forge of Fury as The DM