Barty's "Beyond Twilight" (Rikirta Part 3)

Garu, her face turned into a sullen expression at the sight of the clothes, looks through the racks to see if there is recognition of any of the items and also to see if anything is obscured behind the racks.

For Garu:

Area Description:

The room is 25-by-15 foot, with a single door closed at its opposite end. Racks line the walls filled with hanging clothes of peasants, nobles, and religious garb. Most of the clothing appears to be in good order, but a few of the outfits have visible blood stains upon them.

Reasonably confident that no critters might come from behind the racks, Garu attempts to open the door quietly.

The room beyond this door is spacious, almost 30 feet long and 20 feet wide. It appears to be completely empty, with the same orange rock wall and carved stone floor, and has a single closed stone door in an alcove along the right wall.

OOC: Ready to advance once the next action is taken.

Harmony was very surprised by the rack of clothes, wondering why they would keep here and for what, noting the blood stains. She would go along quietly with Garu through the door and look around.

OOC: Ready to advance once the next action is taken. There has been no change within the room yet.

Aisha whispers to the other two to check the walls, and the nearby things to look for something that may push, as there has to be something like that that the group is missing. And much to her own chagrin, she moves to the door that hadn't been touched yet, attempting to open it quietly with her tail, so her hands could stay on her bow.

The door opens for Aisha into another chamber with a closed stone door at the far end.

This chamber has a direct tunnel to the sky in the center of the room. With the dim light of the night sky coming through, the sides of the room are bathed in shadow. A small pool has formed in the center, where water and snow have fallen in over the years.

Aisha takes note of the pool and that she should avoid it if possible. Regardless of traps... it'll make noise. here eyes shine though, feelign she may have found where the group needed to go. She returns to them, grabbing them by the collars and saying \Aisha thinks she knows where they are... we might be able to gain the sneak on them if we go nyow. Aisha cannyot afford another spell though, she will save it for healing... if it comes to it. Shall we go?

she says, and if they agree (or dm moves forward)  With tsavi still watching the entrance. Aisha would sneak ahead for once, to gain sight of the targets and land the first strikes.... 

Aisha stealth: 17

And aisha would attack atleast two seperate targets if possible. otherwise double tap one with appropriate modifiers etc.

Harmony was surprised to be grabbed by the collar, hearing Aisha as she nodded back. "Yeah, let's go." she had said back to her. She would follow, letting Aisha scout ahead first.

Garu walks in the direction as Harmony casting a look in Aisha’s direction. “Let’s find the party”

OOC: Sorry for the delay, unexpected travel issues have kept me from posting and I've run out of time today. Will try to get an update in tomorrow.

OOC: Alright, finally home! Sorry about that.

Aisha opens the door into a 20-by-25-foot chamber. The walls here are cut rougher than the previous rooms, and bits of wood and bone have been arranged into beds throughout the room. Five undead humanoids whirl toward the door as they see it open. They stand over the remains of a number of other humanoids, two of them still digging into the bodies with their hands and teeth. Long, freakish tongues fall from the mouths of the other three as they charge toward you.

Initiative:

Round 1 Order:
Players <=====
Enemies

Placement:
Three ghouls and two zombies are attacking the party.
All combatants are within movement range.

OOC: First combat in a long time! There's no surprise here because the opening of the door revealed the party to the monsters, but the party has won the initiative!

Aisha hadn't expected this, though she should have. And she quickly let two arrows fly at whatever was the closest and most targetable, not aiming for things behind any degree of cover. Whispering to the others that there were enemies ahead.

A1 - 11

A2 - 6

Also aisha technically had a redied action, if you agree, 1-2 more shots on relevant target(s)

Ugh redoing, i forgot to use the combat roller...

Attack: 19 Damage: 8

Attack: 12 Damage: 9

Garu steps up to the nearest undead foe and unleashes 2 melee attacks with her silvered weapon:

Attack: 24 Damage: 5

Attack: 13 Damage: 10

If one of the attacks lands, she will use a 1st level spell slot to use Divine Smite to add 3d8 damage (2d8 for the spell slot, 1d8 since undead/fiend):
18

Harmony had heard Aisha, shocked and disgusted at seeing the undead creatures. She knew her usual spells would not work on these, shooting out an arrow at the closest one too instead.

Attack: 26

Damage: 7

OOC: Readying an Action is a combat mechanic, so I tend not to use it outside of combat in situations where both sides of combat are aware of each other. When used too often it can quickly become a replacement for initiative and a free surprise round. This actually just came up recently in my Roll20 group and we looked into it - Christopher Perkins sums up the rule pretty succinctly here.

Combat resolution incoming... (doing it in separate posts now while the forum dice roller is bugged to high hell).

DM Screen: