(Homebrew) Heroes of Bardstown

[OK!  Rohuzar's last kick will do the trick.  Assuming that Aubrey and Leelan will once again ready arrows this round... just need to know what Grugga does...]

The heavy door finally gives way under Rohuzar's boot, the iron hinges crack and the door falls forward into the library.  Immediately a few things happen....

Leelan and Aubrey, your prepared attacks go off, so roll your attacks.  Ranged attacks at disadvantage as the target is prone.

Rohuzar, a loathsome gaze falls upon you as soon as the door is out of the way.  Make a CON save DC 12 or take 12 necrotic damage (no damage on successful save).

Finally, in the moments after this resolves, smoke billows out into the hall.  Grugga, Rohuzar and Aubrey, make CON saves DC 12 or become blinded until the end of your next turn, your eyes watering from the heat and acrid smoke.  Guilim and Leelan, the thick smoke is mercifully above your heads and there is no save necessary.

((Frankly, Grugga probably would have tried to open it again. I'll go ahead and roll, and then maybe Rohuzar can have a turn, since I'm before him in initiative))

Str: 11 + 2 for athletics

Adv from crowbar

Con save in case I open the door and the loathsome gaze hits me instead
22

Con save for blind
15

As Rohuzar kicks in the door Aubrey notices the nothic and immediately fires a beam of golden crackling force towards it.
Eldritch blast: 8 Force: 10
He then tries to avoid getting smoke into his eyes.
Con save: 17

Leelan releases his prepared shot.

Attack: 13 Damage: 3

[Grugga acts before Rohuzar, so it was indeed Grugga who popped the door]

He leans into it, leveraging open the lock with his crowbar.  Then he is immediately caught in the Rotting Gaze of the Nothic, taking 12 necrotic damage.

[Everything else happens as in the above edited post, but now Rohuzar still has an action this round.]

Those who aren't temporarily blinded by smoke see a large library space.  Narrow bookshelves line some of the walls, and a large flat table takes up space along another wall.  In the center of the room, two wooden, coffin-like boxes are burning, with humanoid-looking limbs hanging out from the lids.  Also piled there are books, a few chairs, and ashes that may have once been papers or maps.  

Lying flat on its belly under the smoke, to one side of the fire, is the Notic.  It is a grotesque creature, shaped somewhat like a man, but with hideous claws and a single, glowing eye in the center of its head.

Why now?  No sense in seeking awful truths.  Doom is all there is to learn.  Shut it out and take bliss in ignorance.

ROUND ???

• Leelan  (readied attack)
• Aubrey  (readied attack)
• Guilim  (Help with opening door)
• Nothic (readied attack)  
• Grugga  (Opened Door)
• Rohuzar

Then we go right back around to the start of the next round.

Rohuzar moves to the Nothic and raises his battle-axe high. 

"You have no chance against all of us. Surrender."

Intimidation 16 

And he'll swing for non-lethal strikes if it attempts to get up or move away

The Nothic looks up at Rohuzar, its expression utterly alien.

Surrender?  There is no resistance.  We just float.  You'll watch the water and float too?

His attack on the prone creature hits home though.  It seems real enough, and more subject to physical injury than that cursed elemental was.

[Back around to Leelan]

With the door finally opened, Leelan takes a second to take in the scene. 

Being a bit to far back, Leelan will hold his position and nock another arrow. He will hold his fire until there is a clear line of sight with the creature.

Aubrey moves into the library, stopping as he gets eyes on the nothic (Square south of Grugga).
There he uses his telekinetic powers to shove the nothic into the fire (One square to the east Str 13).
Then he readies an eldritch blast for when the nothic decides to stand up.

Nothic STR 10
or fire damage 6

Aubrey telekinetically shoves the Nothic and it does a reverse stop, drop and roll, into the bonfire, popping up on its turn.

Wonders.  It tastes like… burning!

When it hits the bonfire, ashes and smoke flare up and scatter about the room.  A partially burned chair and a corpse spill out the other side landing near the desk.

((late save for Zip for the smoke. Forgot about that for him until just now))
Zip CON: 3

Grugga coughs and chokes on the acrid smoke billowing out of the small underground room, he turns around to clear his eyes with his cape, when he's suddenly struck on the arm with the Nothic's powerful magical gaze. The skin on his bicep immediately begins to rot and bubble up in a mass of dead grey skin, revealing the partially rotted muscle underneath. The Orc yelps and grabs his arm, forcing himself into the room but taking a moment to recover. He bundles up against the wall and pulls his cape in front of him like a matador, to hide where exactly his is - hopefully preventing more beams of necrotic energy from hitting him. ((Grugga moves blindly into the top right corner of the room. Uses dodge action))

Meanwhile, Zip's crystal eye has been layered with soot. It spends the turn heating up its crystal to burn the particles off.

Guilim will continue to stay in his his place, holding back to attack the creature if it gets to close to him.

The Nothic stands up inside the fire [Aubrey, your readied attack can trigger] and it appeared terrifyingly nonplussed that it is burning.  It steps out of the bonfire, shuffling forward in a way that appears like stop motion - like you are missing some of the movements or your eyes can’t quite see the whole thing.  
It looks wounded, but it’s eyes seem regretful rather than pained.  It stand before Rohuzar and looks him in the eyes.

Knowledge shared is so hateful.  So desperate to see your own ruin?

Rohuzar must make a CON save DC 12 or take 11 necrotic damage as the creatures rotting gaze harms his flesh.

Seeing the aberration rise up in the fire, Aubrey unleashes a beam of golden crackling force towards it.
Eldritch blast: 12 Force: 6

Rohuzar con save 20 

(Not sure if we’re at the top of initiative again. If not just consider this my next turn.)

Leelan shimmies through his companions to enter the room and get a visual on the creature, that his now a living pillar of flame. (Move to the square west of the doorway)

He quickly scans it for weaknesses to aim at. (Bonus action Slayer’s Prey)

He will then release the arrow he had prepared but never got to fire.

Attack: 18 Damage: 10

Slayer’s Prey: 6