Pizazz's Beyond Annihilation

(Well, he'd have had to roll 4 or less to miss my AC, but it was worth a shot!). 

On taking the damage from the green flame skull, Mordekai glares back at the undead before pointing a menacing finger at him and casting Hellish Rebuke as a reaction.  (DC18 DEX save or take 17 Fire damage - half on a successful save).

Mal Dex Save: 19

 [OOC: Oops, that should have been a Con save which is even worse, either way I failed.]

Flames singe the green flame skull in return for his release of negative energy.  The creature seems to be barely standing.

For the two that can see in the howling maddening darkness, you can see Zendrak cast a spell, look around, and then run off towards the green flaming skull undead... 

Zendrak : 21 vs DC 20 or take 24 psychic damage.

You also note the golden lion, clearly blinded in the darkness, swing his blade around and charge the other two undead creature...****y to bounce off an invisible wall of force that must surround the two of them.

(waiting...)

Zendrak: 28 | dark lion: 22 | armored undead: 22 | elf and half-elf: 21 | goat-creature: 21 | Kari: 20 | Thay Lich: 20 | green-flame skull: 18 | ThayWar1: 18 | Mordekai: 16 |  Purple guys: 16 | Undead skeleton : 15 |  Kenku: 15 | Kurik: 14 | ThayWar2: 12 | Mal : 11 | bald human : 7 | ThayWiz2: 7 | sledgehammer thing | Distrubance: 6 | Half-elf Armored woman: 4 |  Golden Lion: 3 | ThayWar1: 2

*Per our discussion in the chat, Kurik would have moved west to get out of the darkness and chitter chatter.  In response to the other darkness thing.  Kurik will tense his body at the last moment and use stones endurance to reduce damage by 11

Kurik will then take his move and try to see if there is any place to move to get out the of the radius of the tenticle darkness.  If there there is, that doesn't involve moving towards the lich, he shall move that distance.  Then he would target any creature that looks monsterous or undead such as one guy Kari or the other seemingly golden adventurers.

Move: as described above, to get out of both darkness radius's if possible, otherwise head as far as he can towards an edge without going nearer to the lich.

Action: Eldrich blast an undead

Attack: 16 Damage: 7

Attack: 26 Damage: 13

Attack: 16 Damage: 8

(Oh, except, unless I'm mistaken, it's not Kurik turn yet!  Next is Kari....) 

Kari, the babbling insanity darkness surrounding you vanishes and you're greeted with an entirely changed scene across this strange battlefield. 

She glances around trying to take the chaos around her in.  The black lion and bald human have clearly just slain the green flame skull undead, bits of it are skittering all about.  The golden lion was trying to get to the other two undead, but....he seems to be playing the role of "mime", since there seems to be an invisible barrier between him and the undead.  A crackling wall of fire is up and seems to contain some figures moving within.  Zendrak, Kurik, and Mal are scattered about the battle.  The Thayans have advanced though are staying close together.  Meanwhile the strange magical disturbance with it's thrashing tentacles is hanging 20 feet up in the corner and slamming at anything that seems to be unleashing any sort of magic. 

The air elemental next to Kari is still thrashing about blindly. 

Kari's action!

(the light blue circle is the range of the disturbances tentacles)

Kari is feeling more level-headed now but still isn't sure what to do. She abandons the air elemental and moves to stand between Mordekai and Zendrak. She shoots Mal a concerned look because of how beat up she is but doesn't have anything to help with that. Who are we actually fighting here? She holds her attacks in case she can reach someone who is attacking her or her allies.

Rage drops (no attacks and no damage taken), move 15 ft, ready the attack action

The wall of flames abruptly goes out, the elven wizard with a rapier in his hand slashes into the huge hammer creature.  A crack of thunder explodes from the things knee and it's turns into stones and crashes into the ground, smashing into big chunks of rock. 

The flying goat creature hurdles down more ice at the half-elf who is now crouched over the fallen half-elf woman in armor. 

Mordekai, Kurik, and Mal may all go.

Zendrak: 28 | dark lion: 22 | armored undead: 22 | elf and half-elf: 21 | goat-creature: 21 | Kari: 20 | Thay Lich: 20 | ThayWar1: 18 | Mordekai: 16 |  Undead skeleton : 15 |  Kenku: 15 | Kurik: 14 | ThayWar2: 12 | Mal : 11 | bald human : 7 | ThayWiz2: 7 |  Distrubance: 6 | Half-elf Armored woman: 4 |  Golden Lion: 3 | ThayWar1: 2

Mal looks around herself and sees that two enemy for es are converging on where she happens to be standing, "**** this." she utters, and then moves toward Kurik as best she can and then uses her BA to dash to just south of Kurik.

She will then use her Action to hide as best as she can.

Stealth: 27

Mordekai, still confused about what's going on and who's on whose side, will move west (and a bit north, avoiding the black lion and the human with the staff - 30ft should just about get him out of range of the disturbance I think? Either way, he'd be trying to get away from it. Then he'll cast Calm Emotions, targeting where the red circle on the latest map is - basically into the middle of that little crowd. (A 20ft radius should hopefully cover all of that big group? Looking to cover the air elemental but not Kari if possible)

DC18 CHA save against the effect. Mordekai is essentially hoping to cause all those creatures to pause hostilities and become indifferent to each other, to buy some time to work out whose side everything is on! 

"Come on now, surely you can all just talk this out? What's everyone's problem today?"

Mordekai's voice seems to sooth the chaos in the middle of the battlefield, but a moment before the bald human runs to the two undead, hits the field, and then instead turns and unleashes a bolt of lighting into the sky at the flying goat owl creature, partially scorching the thing. 

Kurik's turn.

Kurik stands at the edge of the battle field, flaming sword in hand.  Unsure if some of them are neutral towards them or not, he at least assumed that the more beastial and undead were fair game.  He raised his sword towards the flying goat monster and then swung it three times sending out his three blast.

Action: Eldrich blast the flying goat thing

Attack: 28 Damage: 11

Attack: 20 Damage: 12

Attack: 27 Damage: 8

He then provides cover for Mal to hide.

Kurik looks about....considering his move, then decides to target the goat thing.  

Meanwhile, the magical vortex of chaos thing moves!  It floats out of the corner, rising a few feet, and gets it's tentacles into range and thrashes one at the half-elf, slamming him hard, one at the bald human, missing...and then one thrashes at Zendrak and another reaches out to strike Kurik.

Attack on Zendrak: 24 Damage: 10 + 26 force damage.

Attack on Kurik: 21 Damage: 10 + 23 force damage.

Then..... the half elf woman on the ground seems to awaken. She rolls to one side, looks about the battlefield, reaches into her bag....and then a number of the combatants up and vanish with no apparent sign of how....simply blinking out of existence.  The golden lion man, the dark lion man, the half-elf man, the half-elf woman, the bald human, and the elf wizard all simply vanish from existence leaving the battle field chaotic, but significantly more simplified. 

Kurik grimaces and flings magic up a the owl goat.  The first blast misses, but the second strikes, then the third..and....the owl goal thing explodes.  It explodes as if it were made of snow, and the snow puffs out and seems to slowly begin falling to the ground.  Before it can reach the ground though, it begins to coalesce about 20 feet up in the air, spinning slowly, then more quickly, and starting to glow and sparkle.....until it's a glowing vortex of light and snow that suddenly solidifies into a single shard of ice or crystal, blue and pure, that hangs in the air glowing.

A harsh hateful voice fills everyones minds...and you know it emanates from the hovering crystal.  "Foolish worm mortals, and meddlesome ancients! You peck and scratch over my prize. But meddle with a goddess at your own peril...I shall add you each to my garden of frozen souls!" 

Mal's turn!

Zendrak: 28 | armored undead: 22 | crystal: 21 | Kari: 20 | Thay Lich: 20 | ThayWar1: 18 | Mordekai: 16 |  Undead skeleton : 15 |  Kenku: 15 | Kurik: 14 | ThayWar2: 12 | Mal : 11 | ThayWiz2: 7 |  Distrubance: 6 | ThayWar1: 2

Mal was about to raise his hand and use one of the rings powers but upon hearing that things voice decides better not attract direct attention of it, for now. She will then move west 30' using her action and movement action while still trying to stay stealthy and will also use her BA for Second Wind. Attempting to move in behind the Thayans.

Second Wind: 12

Stealth: 16

Mal slips away from the flying crystal and around the sphere towards the back of the Thayans. 

Within the invisible sphere, the two undead seem to pace casually, glancing at one another in turn. The Thayans meanwhile seem to have advanced, raised a field up, and are standing clustered watching.  

Zendrak seems to have no compunctions about waiting however. Shaking off the result of his last spells, and seeing Shock fall, he glances back at the other two, and then walks menacingly towards them, lifting his blade which begins to crackle with black energy.  He seems to ignore the strange disturbance trying to smash at him. 

He takes a hand off the hilt of his weapon, and points a finger at the two undead. A green ray of energy hops off and zaps into the air before them. It's as if a glass sphere about them suddenly became visible, and then shatters into a thousand pieces around them.  Their protection is obviously destroyed. 

He strides up to them both, moving between them and preparing to strike. 

The armored undead doesn't hesitate. He grabs the others hand and attempts to cast a spell.  Zendrak weaves tendrils of magic to try and stop the spell, but the undead just as quickly weaves his own. There is a clash of magic that sends green and blue sparks spraying into the air. Then the two undead vanish and appear at the body of the 3rd.  They both reach down and pick up a couple of items left behind by the dead creature.  

The crystal that everyone is now beginning to suspect may be the Ice Maiden herself floats there. Another child crystal appearing next to it, and glowing softly.  A ray of blue light lances out towards Kurik. 

Kurik, DC 21 Charisma save. 

Zendrak: 28 | armored undead: 22 | crystal: 21 | Kari: 20 | Thay Lich: 20 | ThayWar1: 18 | Mordekai: 16 |  Undead skeleton : 15 |  Kenku: 15 | Kurik: 14 | ThayWar2: 12 | Mal : 11 | ThayWiz2: 7 |  Distrubance: 6 | ThayWar1: 2

Mordekai mutters to Quinn, with a dead serious tone and a resigned determination in his eye, "Looks like we found ourselves in the right place."

Kurik charisma save 20

The group watches in horror as the blue ray strikes Kurik....and seems to draw him forth, shrinking him as it pulls him into the small crystal next to the larger crystal.  You can see the tiny form of him imprisoned within the icy glass!

Kari's turn!

Zendrak: 28 | armored undead: 22 | crystal: 21 | Kari: 20 | Thay Lich: 20 | ThayWar1: 18 | Mordekai: 16 |  Undead skeleton : 15 |  Kenku: 15 | Kurik: 14 | ThayWar2: 12 | Mal : 11 | ThayWiz2: 7 |  Distrubance: 6 | ThayWar1: 2

Reaction: Polearm Master Opportunity Attack - 16 Damage: 8 Slashing

Kari doesn't like not knowing what's going on, and this whole fight has had her on her heels. But now! Finally, something she knows is good to attack is within reach! She smiles and laughs in a slightly manic way before taking a couple of swings at the armored undead creature.

Bonus action: Rage

Movement: None

Action:

1st Attack -  28 Damage: 16 Slashing, 3 Rage

Extra Attack -  18 Damage: 16 Slashing, 3 Rage

Extra Effects:
• Ancestral Protectors - The first creature I hit has disadvantage on attacks against other targets, other targets have resistance to damage from that creature, until the start of my next turn
• Slasher - reduce a creature's speed by 10 until the start of my next turn
• Slasher - On a critical hit the target has disadvantage on all attacks until the start of my next turn

Reaction for this turn: If Zendrak stays within 30 feet and takes more than 25 damage I will reduce that by 12 (Spirit Shield)

Kari takes a swing at the armored warrior as he appears nearby, her glaive clanking off his heavy armor. Then she flies into a rage and swings again, bringing the thing down on it. The creature tries to raise a magical shield, but her glaive just manages to penetrate the magic, slamming through into the armor, and crashing down onto the armored form. It must have already been badly beaten and attacked because the thing crumples under her blows, collapsing to the ground in a heap of bones and metal plating...it's steel staff clangs to the ground nearby.  Then she takes an extra swing at the last undead nearby.  She slams her weapon into the undead, though it's surrounded in a sparkling cloud of haze.  Her weapon strikes true, sending chunks of bones flying, but a deathly cold flash bites back at her!  (20 cold damage to Kari.)

The Thayans meanwhile seem reticent to join the battle, but finally their leader says something, and a cascade of magic is flung from three of them, to crash out at the magical disturbance that is hovering over the battle. One releases a blast of lightning, and the other two release streaks of fire that lash out and explode in the air around the thing.  6 1

Zendrak: 28 | armored undead: 22 | crystal: 21 | Kari: 20 | Thay Lich: 20 | ThayWar1: 18 | Mordekai: 16 |  Undead skeleton : 15 |  Kenku: 15 | Kurik: 14 | ThayWar2: 12 | Mal : 11 | ThayWiz2: 7 |  Distrubance: 6 | ThayWar1: 2

 Fire erupts in the air around the disturbance.  The lightning bolt rips through it but just leaves the air crackling with ozone. The fire meanwhile seems to affect the thing, the flames burning away at the magic, but it also causes a strange ripple in reality to pulses away from the thing like a wave in the fabric of space....that strikes Zendrak, Kari, the remaining undead, Mordekai and Auril. 

Con save DC 12 for Kari and Mordekai.