Into the Mists-The Condemnation of Strahd

As soon as Ban gets the door shut, she's moving forward. Once she reaches the top, the eladrin is looking for an escape. Ban will Dash towards the door and fling it open. Into the next room out, it isn't exactly what Ban was expecting, but she wasn't sure exactly what she was expecting recently. Ban will take visual queues from others and proceed in the group's overall direction. The eladrin shakes her head, not sure if she's seen this area of the mansion with her memory so foggy. 

Con Save: 6

DM: Sorry Tio, I was aware of your immunity, just did a mass post.

With half the party coughing Gillain leads the way to the exit. The smoke from the fireplace keeps pouring into the room, slowly obscuring everyone's vision and as Gillain gets close enough to the door it disappears. The door frame and opening remain but, the door itself is gone.
Instead, it has been replaced by Slashing Slythe Blades that swing erratically across the door frame. if someone comes even close to the door the blades lash out between the door frame. 

DM: Actions?

((OOC: oh my!! Are the scythes swinging like pendulums? Or spinning blades of doom? Are there any gaps past? Or can we time it and dive through? Or is it completely blocked? Thanks))

Gillain screeches to a halt in front of the doorway, and tries to assess whether anyone could still get past...

Gimble:

Just having picked up the box, Gimble sees the trap at the doorway and has an idea from his shorter perspective.

”Quick!  Grab a couple of chairs and put them legs up facing inward in the doorway!”  He calls, thinking the legs and seats will catch the scythes and the opening below will allow egress while staying below the smoke as much as possible.

Tio will take a second to study the blades as they begin to swirl back and forth, readying herself. She prepares a dodge action as she jumps through looking for the right moment when the blades won’t hit her.

[The dodge action allows for adv. on dex saves.]

Gimble:

Grabbing a chair and dragging it over, Gimble is distraught that no one else seems to have payed attention to his (in his own mind at least) brilliant solution.

Gillain will watch, impressed, as Tio attempts to dodge her way through. She’ll also help Gimble try and jam the mechanism with chairs leaving a gap to crawl through underneath.

The house continues to shake and rumble and fall down around the party. 
Gimble and Gillain attempt to move the chairs but they do not move. There are no bolts on the legs and no visible means of being attached to the floor but, they still can not be moved. 
DM:
For the purpose of not yanking everyone around:
There are ONLY two ways for the party to get past this obstacle (provided by the module).
1: is a straightforward attempt to Dodge at a DC of 15 (Dex)
2: spend 1 minute studying the blade patterns and attempt to follow the pattern and get through. This again is a DC of 15.  (Int)

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((OOC: oh my!! Are the scythes swinging like pendulums? Or spinning blades of doom? Are there any gaps past? Or can we time it and dive through? Or is it completely blocked? Thanks))

Gillain screeches to a halt in front of the doorway, and tries to assess whether anyone could still get past...

 The blades themselves "just appear" at random as someone approaches the door. 
3 come from the bottom of the door, 2 from each side, and 3 from the top.

Gimble:

After a panicked moment of trying to move the chairs and bash one of the windows to the outside with the wooden box he just lifted, Gimble approaches the bladed door and tries to assess the trap, considering it might be magical or illusory.

Arcana:  7

If he still can’t figure it out, he tries to jump through as quickly as possible and dodge all the blades as he moves.

Ban, desperately looking for a way out as she coughs hard, follows Tio's lead and examines the swinging patterns for just a couple full cycles. Without waiting for more than two, she rushes forward towards the blades with a Dodge and leaps through, tumbling back into her feet upon completion and continuing away from this horrid place.

Straight Dex check: 20

Quote from Scott_R_Simmons >>

Gimble:

After a panicked moment of trying to move the chairs and bash one of the windows to the outside with the wooden box he just lifted, Gimble approaches the bladed door and tries to assess the trap, considering it might be magical or illusory.

Arcana:  7

If he still can’t figure it out, he tries to jump through as quickly as possible and dodge all the blades as he moves.

 Gimble studies the blades and determines, to his mind, they are not illusionary.

Quote from Hanyouslayer >>

Ban, desperately looking for a way out as she coughs hard, follows Tio's lead and examines the swinging patterns for just a couple full cycles. Without waiting for more than two, she rushes forward towards the blades with a Dodge and leaps through, tumbling back into her feet upon completion and continuing away from this horrid place.

Straight Dex check: 15

 Ban waits a couple of moments and successfully timing the blades she dives and flips through the doorway. The blades miss her and she finds herself in the main room on the first floor of the house. 

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1BUkdoyg6jnEwzCuH2PV2zqvP9hEV2v2HoUuLzW8xEPw/edit

DEX: 13

Gillain sees Ban get through!

She kisses her amulet, and doesn’t bother timing it at all. She just runs at the opening, trusting her armour and her faith...

DEX check: 16 

Gimble:

Gimble runs through the blades, twisting and turning to try and avoid taking damage.

Dexterity: 11

Gillain is able to time the blades right and makes it through.
Tio attempts to make it through but makes a miscalculation. The blades cut into her metal body as she passes through and takes 14 hp of damage. 

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1BUkdoyg6jnEwzCuH2PV2zqvP9hEV2v2HoUuLzW8xEPw/edit

Bob gulps. He wasn't the least dexterous dwarf ever, but he did tend to waddle and shuffle about. Running at any speed certainly wasn't his specialty. But run he did!

Dex save: 16