Pizazz's Beyond Annihilation

Wisdom save 18

"No rest for the wicked," Kurik says as his armor ripples a little in response.  He raises his sword with a slightly shaky hand.  He draws his shield with the other and makes three quick slashes in the dragon's direction before turning head after the others.

Bonus: Raise shield

Action: Eldritch blast at dragon

Move: 30f after the others.

Attack: 21 Damage: 11

Attack: 16 Damage: 11

Attack: 10 Damage: 8

Kurik sweeps his sword back and forth....echoes of energy washing off of the blade and sliding across the space between him and the dragon, only to break against the massive beasts hide with little or no effect.  Then he runs. 

Kari gets the hint, and gets up with a grunt and rushes through Mordekai's darkness.  

Zendrak looks back as Mal and Kurik rush past and takes a few quick steps and peers around the corner, and then strides quickly after Kari, "Looks like a really old miserable ***** that one. Probably not going to talk our way out of this one."  He lets out a laugh as he rushes after Kari. 

Mordekai's action.

Kari:  do you run straight across the next room, to the door on the far side and open it, or do you take a left and go down a short hallway to the door with the bar that hasn't been placed across it.  

((I think I'd go straight, after getting out of the darkness))

Kari pushes open the large steel double doors on the far side of the bunk room.  A ten foot wide passage leads away. Forty feet on, it opens up into an widened intersection.  The hallway continues on another perhaps another 100 feet into more natural cave openings.  To the right it branches down another hallway that she can't see down from here, and to the left, a short indent and another large steel door.

She can hear the sound of Gith voices echoing down from the right. 

Mordekai's action!

Mordekai will follow Kari, ideally staying far enough behind for the darkness not to interfere with her leading the way, and giving Kurik the chance to stay within the darkness that he can also see out of, if he wants. 

He'll watch behind the group and hold an Eldritch Blast readied in case the dragon appears.

Mordekai backs up a ways....keeping his eyes glued to behind the group, with only a quick glance past Kari down through the heavy steel doors.  The dead dragon body present a pretty significant barrier to another dragon getting through.  Mal and Kurik have both hurried around the corner and are now swallowed by Mordekai's darkness. 

The massive form of an elder red dragon just "appears" in the room by the group.  The dragons head darts about looking at the wall of darkness....its pupils dilating as it looks at black.  However the creature seems to make direct eye contact with each and every person in the group.  The lizard voice is thick and guttural as it speaks, though its voice is unmistakably female, "One at a time....I pick you off and you die....watching each other scream in terror...."  

It lunges forward, its jaws clacking and claws sweeping out in deadly arcs as it tries to kill Mal. Mordekai lets loose with bolts of crackling eldritch energy that he'd been ready with.  

Mordekai, make your attacks.

Bite Attack on Mal: 36 Damage: 23 + 7 fire damage.

Claw Attack on Mal: 33 Damage: 16

Claw Attack on Mal: 24 Damage: 15

Mordekai, Kari:  DC 21 Wisdom saving throw or become frightened for 1 minute. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.  (remember to use disadvantage if frightened)

Everyone is up (including Mordekai again!). 

Because we're in a chase scenario, here's a map so you understand the layout a bit better. Squares are 10 foot squares on this map. (and oops, Zendrak is by the door next to Kari)

As Mal makes a run to join up with Kari the red dragon appears at her back again and she feels its teeth and then its first claw rake down her back as she falls down to the ground unconscious.

 Mal turned to run to where Kari located as the dragon appears and barely ducks the bite attack but the two claws rake down her body leaving gaping rends in her flesh. She stumbles away as she aims her crossbow at the dragon and once more aiming for its face.

Sharpshooter Crossbow: Attack: 21 Damage: 24 Necrotic Damage: 7

Sharpshooter Crossbow: Attack: 18 Damage: 21 Necrotic Damage: 8

Sneak Attack if dragon is within 5' of Kurik: 7

Then she will move the rest of the way to Kari and through the door if she is able to using her BA again to disengage.

 Wisdom save: 2

[OOC: And again not touching that that post so as to not mess with the rolls]

Crit Damage for 1st Necrotic Damage: 4

Crit Damage for 2nd Necrotic Damage: 8

Crit Sneak Attack: 5

Mal steps forward out of the darkness facing the massive, evil, raging dragon.  Fear flutters in her heart but she beats it down and fires twice.  Two bolts bury themselves in the dragon, one just missing an eye and sticking between two armor plates into its cheek...while the other slams into a soft part of the dragons neck.  The eyes fill with murderous rage at the pain felt.  Then she slips back into the shadows and rushes through the darkness, hands out, hoping not to trip or fall over anything....though stumbles past some sort of furniture, sending crystal chess pieces scattering to the floor in the blackness.  

Mordekai and Kurik of course can see through the blackness with ease....the massive dragon bearing down upon them.

It's difficult for Kari to really know what's going on through the darkness, but the dragons angered pursuit is obvious. 

Kari, Kurik, and Mordekai are all up.

Readied Eldritch Blasts from last turn...assuming this was before the WIS save to be frightened, but the dragon can see/smell past the darkness, so just straight rolls:

Attack: 19 Damage: 8

Attack: 25 Damage: 12

Attack: 28 Damage: 9

DC21 WIS save: 15

Realising that the darkness isn't an issue for the dragon, Mordekai drops concentration on it to allow the others to see better. He'll fire another 3 Eldritch Blasts at the dragon, before ducking back out of sight, to the door, but letting Kari and Zendrak go first.

"Can anyone get us out of here?"

Attack: 24 Damage: 13

Attack: 28 Damage: 10

Attack: 18 Damage: 13

Zendrak mutters, "If we must flee this place, I can teleport us away. But we have not found or destroyed the Phylactery...."

 Kari sounds afraid as she yells "Then let's find it quickly, hurry this way before those voices get here!" She runs 40 feet down the hall and looks like she really wants to run even further.

Held action to dash if everyone dashes.

Kari runs down the hall 40 feet, finding herself in the intersection.  To the right where she heard voices she sees, about 60 feet away a gang of Gith are walking this way.  The point at Kari when they see her, "There, intruder!  Surrender!!"

Zendrak rushes after Kari to where she's paused in the intersection.  Glancing up the hallway towards the Gith. He lets out a loud growl.

Kurik is up.

With a slight curse, Kurik just turns with the others and runs.  No fancy move, just persistent movement towards getting the heck out of there!

Full move and then dash action to move further.

Kurik hustles through the room with beds and chess sets and through the door, past Mordekai, and all the way down the passage to catch up with both Kari and Zendrak in the intersection. Far enough to see the Gith pointing down the hall at the intruders.  "Stop!  STOP!" they yell in heavily accented common.

One of the Gith, wearing half-plate, vanishes from the far end of the hallway and appears suddenly amidst Zendrak, Kurik, and Kari.  "Death comes swift for you, invaders!" she says, as female Gith swings a blade at Kurik. 

Attack on Kurik: 9 Damage: 4 + 11 damage

Meanwhile....the massive lizard chasing Mal through the winding tunnel is the stuff of nightmares. It gallops after her, it's body scraping against the ceiling, floor and walls rending chunks of stone from the hallway.  It then swings its claws at Mal.....

Claw Attack on Mal: 25 Damage: 13

Claw Attack on Mal: 25 Damage: 16

If she's still standing, it's jaws try to close on her....

Bite Attack on Mal: 28 Damage: 12 + 12 fire damage

....

Initiative:    Dragon 26 | Zendrak 25 | Gith2 22 | Kurik 18 | Mordekai 16 | Kari 16 | Mal 12 | Gith2 8 | GG 6 

The first claw strikes Mal...and though it seems like she should fall....she somehow keeps to her feet....a dark shadow swirls around her, propping her up. But the second claw to sweep through strikes and she drops in a bloody pile on the floor.  The dragon's evil eyes glances up at the group, and its neck winds down and it bites on Mal's body with a crunch.  Blood sizzles in the beasts fiery jaws.  (2 auto-fail death rolls for Mal due to auto-crit hit).

Zendrak looks around and the azure energy crackling in his eyes fade and he slumps a little.  Mentally everyone hears him say, "This is impossible....back to Mal's body now and I will get us out of here!"  He turns and runs back, directly at the dragon....and towards Mal's fallen body.   The gith nearby takes a swipe at him as he departs...

Attack on Zendrak: 9 Damage: 5 + 19 psychic damage.

The rest of the gith down the hall meanwhile come rushing towards the group.  The vanish at random as they run, bursting 30 feet closer...taking them all the way to Kurik and Kari....a couple of them vanishing and appearing on their flanks trying to surround them.  (4 are in positions to take AoO on Kurik or Kari should they run)

Zendrak slides to a halt before the massive dragon...just a few feet from Mal's body.  He seems to be holding onto some magical energy, ready to release it, and looks back for the other three.....holding for them to get back to him.

Kurik, Mordekai, and Kari are up.  

Mordekai runs back to Mal, as Zendrak suggests, and as he reaches he casts Cure Wounds on her for 7hp.

Kurik looks about and tries to find a space thst will allow them all to group up.  If he can, he will cast his scatter spell which will bring them all together, next to eachother and ready for Zendrak to do his thing.