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Buppido and Turvy rushed after the Prince when he left the tower.
Stena shoots the quaggoth after getting to the other side of Jimjar.
Jimjar leapfrogs her and shoots at the quaggoth as well.
Attack: 24 Damage: 13
Shuushar scurries to the tower.
The quaggoth slashes at Eldeth, but it's moving a bit haltingly, with Lia and Io's magic having affected it.
Attack: 21 Damage: 7 Attack: 20 Damage: 8
Eldeth staggers under the second blow, barely able to stay on her feet.
Topsy bolts out of the tower, passing Buppido and catching up with her brother.
<GO.>
Io's sending crackles through the link, sending a chill through each of you at the frost in her tone. There is a rumbling grating, a glacial reverberation of frozen magic shifting and flexing. Eldeth's breath is visible as frost rimes the area around Io.
Quaggoth Con Save: 22
Frost crackles around the creature, but it shakes it off.
((Since other stalactites were mentioned, you'd all know that the one at the far end of the bridge is where Mistress Ilvara and Shoor reside, as well as where the drow go to worship Llolth.))
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Lia peers out again, and can’t believe that this quaggoth is still standing. It seems to be soaking up a huge amount of punishment and keeps on coming. And yet there’s even another, fresh-looking one, coming snuffling up right behind.
She thinks a message, to her cell mates within range: <Fall back if you can, towards the falls!… If you need a weapon or can use armour, grab it on the way past the armoury!!>.
Then she calls over to the stubbornly resilient quaggoth, “Turn a blind eye! Take your friend and go sleep in your den… LEAVE US ALONE!!”.
((Cast a spell action (vicious mockery): WIS save (DC13) or take 1 (psychic damage) and have disadvantage on next attack)).
This time, she heads back up to the armoury, with Galingal((or as far back up that way as she can with her move after her attack)).
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Lex looks about for some rope, and not seeing any, snags a dagger and tucks it in Stool's sling before hustling out of the tower to between the twins on the swaying rope bridge.
A very woozy, injured Eldeth staggers away from the quaggoth and makes it to Stena on the bridge.
A trio of drow approach along the curving cliff that wraps around to the bridge, the lead two pulling up hand crossbows to fire.
Attack: 23 Damage: 8 Attack: 11 Damage: 7
The Prince bellows and holds his ground to keep them from getting a good shot at any of those behind him.
Turvy grabs hold of the bridge in his left hand and leans out to shoot at the drow before swinging back onto the wooden slats of the bridge.
Attack: 16 Damage: 8
Two bolts thud into the Prince as Turvy's goes wide. The third drow is one of the elites, who shouts in Undercommon.
"What are you doing, you mad forking beast? Stop pretending you're anything but a deluded slave!"
The Prince bellows and leaps the last part of the bridge, landing in front of the drow and slashing at him.
Attack: 7 Damage: 7 Attack: 18 Damage: 7
He's too incensed to focus, and the drow evades his blows.
Thom looks even more concerned when he sees the trio of drow approach from the south. Although, he was kind of expecting it.
Thom sends to the Prince <YES YOUR HIGHNESS! DESTROY THEM AND WE SHALL GET YOU HOME!>
He doesn't think the Prince has a chance. He's not sure any of us do.
Thom has no shot at the new drow so he decides to hang back and take another shot at the quaggoth still pressing from the NE bridge, the one beside lo.
So he'd move two squares east, take the shot, but then this time move two squares SW.
Longbow, advantage: 14 Damage: 10
((Spider, would picking up equipment that is in the guard post use up an action? I am just planning for Thom's next few turns. Thank you))
Oh, Spider if you'll allow it, Thom would also send to Galingal <mate, I'm running low on ammo. Can ye toss down one of those crossbows? Bolts too, yeah?>
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Thom drops the lead quagoth facing off against Io.
Galingal getting dressed?
Stena takes a shot at the remaining quaggoth, and manages to hit it. She ducks into the guard tower and tucks some studded leather under her arm.
Jimjar fires a bolt at the quaggoth and likewise retreats into the guard tower, shifting everything into one arm to be able to claim a shortsword with the other.
Shuushar waddles to the doorway, ready to move when the bridge clears up ahead.
On the stairs, Ront the orc gives a shuddering sigh and doesn't draw a new breath.
The far quaggoth steps over its fallen kin and strikes at Io.
Attack: 9 Damage: 5 Attack: 13 Damage: 5
Where the claws seem like they should hit, they skitter off her skin, sending ice chips flying.
Topsy moves up behind the Prince and attempts to leap off the bridge into the waterfall.
Acrobatics: 3
Her foot gets tangled as she goes over, and her brother cries out as her head rebounds off a spray slickened rock as she plunges into the darkened mist below.
"GO!!"
Io shrieks, a roar of arctic fury whipping around the bridges, droplets of waterfall spray that had carried in her direction freezing and pattering to the rock. Frost rimes her form, which is looking more and more jagged and inhuman. Eldeth's eyes are wide, her frosty breath coming rapidly as she struggles to breathe in the rapidly cooling air.
Io flings her arms to the side, with a snap her manacles and other restraints shatter, bits of metal flying as her hair is whipped by the chill wind swirling about her.
From her position up in the armoury, Lia hears Io’s shriek.
<By the gods!!…>. She thinks this ‘to herself’, but some of the sentiment of that probably leaks out to everyone too, through the spore network.
((Maybe a little of this leaks out too…))
Lia hears the shriek itself, but something else too. To Lia’s ears, attuned to the weave, Io’s shriek doesn’t seem to rebound naturally off the strings of weave around her… It’s almost like the weave itself is becoming brittle, like cracked glass. It sounds like fingernails on a blackboard to her. Or like the sound of a faint crack on a frozen lake, a little way off, as you walk across it. One that warns of a bigger cracks on the way...
<Oh no!…What magic is this?!…>, she thinks, rising panic in her eyes…
”Crossbow <crossbow>!”, Lia both-thinks-and-shouts to Thom. “And bolts <Bolts!>”, she says, handing both down to him, through the hatch…
”ANYONE NEED ANYTHING ELSE? <Else?!>”, she shouts/thinks to everyone nearby, “I THINK WE HAVE TO GO, NOW!!”.
She remains where she is though, while there are still others beneath her in the guard tower, and while Galingal is still getting sorted beside her.
"It seems we've run out of time," Galingal says to Lia. He needs a few more seconds to finish getting into the armor but from the sounds below, it doesn't appear that he has that luxury. "Let's go."
With, one leather sleeve hanging free, Galingal slips the shield into place and scoops up the rest of the gear he had organized: the thieves' tools, daggers, rope and his rapier. Galingal moves over to the hatch and jumps down into the room below.
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((I'm going to leave Lex with an open-ended readied action for when Arty is able to post, she'll stay out of folks way and jump over if it comes to it, otherwise attempt to help as needed.))
Galingal dropped down, and helps hand the crossbow and bolts off to Thom from Lia.
Eldeth dashes across the swaying bridge as ice begins to coat the ropes, making it to the tower.
The pair of drow facing off against the angry quaggoth pull free their shortswords and stab at the Prince. He seems to pay them very little mind.
Attack: 10 Damage: 7 Attack: 20 Damage: 7
The elite swings up onto the rope bridge connecting to the large stalactite, and pounds on the door before extending a hand towards the bridge, where glowing green bits of light settle over the Prince, Lex and Stool, Turvy, and Buppido.
Thom sends to Lia and Galingal <thanks mates! Agreed, let's go!> and Thom would grab the hand crossbow and bolts, put them somewhere in his armor and then move across the bridge to where Topsy, Turvy and Buppido have jumped and he also hold on to his body and tries to jump down feet first.
Galingal watches as Thom gathers his gear and leaps over the side of the bridge. He raises one eyebrow at the act but from what he can see and the drow coming from the other direction there doesn't look to be an alternative.
He nods at the others then races to the railing closest to the waterfall, leaps up to get a foothold to take off from and then plunges down.
Acrobatics: 15
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Stena hustles past Jimjar and fires at the quaggoth in the lead.
Attack: 24 Damage: 4
Buppido and Turvy rushed after the Prince when he left the tower.
Stena shoots the quaggoth after getting to the other side of Jimjar.
Jimjar leapfrogs her and shoots at the quaggoth as well.
Attack: 24 Damage: 13
Shuushar scurries to the tower.
The quaggoth slashes at Eldeth, but it's moving a bit haltingly, with Lia and Io's magic having affected it.
Attack: 21 Damage: 7
Attack: 20 Damage: 8
Eldeth staggers under the second blow, barely able to stay on her feet.
Topsy bolts out of the tower, passing Buppido and catching up with her brother.
<GO.>
Io's sending crackles through the link, sending a chill through each of you at the frost in her tone. There is a rumbling grating, a glacial reverberation of frozen magic shifting and flexing. Eldeth's breath is visible as frost rimes the area around Io.
Quaggoth Con Save: 22
Frost crackles around the creature, but it shakes it off.
((Since other stalactites were mentioned, you'd all know that the one at the far end of the bridge is where Mistress Ilvara and Shoor reside, as well as where the drow go to worship Llolth.))
Lia > Sarith > Lex/Stool > Eldeth > Turvy > Buppido > Prince > Thom > Galingal > Stena > Jimjar > Shuushar > Ront > Giant Spider > Quaggoth > Topsy > Io >
DM: Forged in Chaos, Spiders of the Abyss, The Sundered Way, Champions of the Citadel
Active Characters:
Breldo, Halfling Ranger | Kathryn, Wood Elf Rogue/Ranger | Kroshav, Dragonborn Paladin | T'laren Farsiel, Wood Elf Fighter | Trill, Kenku Bard | Val "Janellae", Mark of Shadow Elf Warlock
Lia peers out again, and can’t believe that this quaggoth is still standing. It seems to be soaking up a huge amount of punishment and keeps on coming. And yet there’s even another, fresh-looking one, coming snuffling up right behind.
She thinks a message, to her cell mates within range: <Fall back if you can, towards the falls!… If you need a weapon or can use armour, grab it on the way past the armoury!!>.
Then she calls over to the stubbornly resilient quaggoth, “Turn a blind eye! Take your friend and go sleep in your den… LEAVE US ALONE!!”.
((Cast a spell action (vicious mockery): WIS save (DC13) or take 1 (psychic damage) and have disadvantage on next attack)).
This time, she heads back up to the armoury, with Galingal ((or as far back up that way as she can with her move after her attack)).
GILLAIN OF ATHKATLA - Human Paladin - Into the Mists PHILLIP THE GRUNG - Grung Eldritch Knight - Tomb of Annihilation
ROBWIN WINDROBE - High Elf Wizard - Dragon of Icespire Peak EVE DARKSHORE - Tiefling Warlock - Rime of the Frost Maiden
ASH OF THE FIRE - Tabaxi Rogue - Ghosts of Marshswamp LIA STARBORN - Aasimar Bard - Out of the Abyss
<Eldeth, fall back!>
Quaggoth Save: 9
The beast seems to shake off Lia's words, and she scrambles into the armory, just making it up there and getting out of folk's way.
Sarith continues wriggling into the armor.
Lex/Stool > Eldeth > Turvy > Buppido > Prince > Thom > Galingal > Stena > Jimjar > Shuushar > Ront > Giant Spider > Quaggoth > Topsy > Io > Lia > Sarith >
Gear in the Armory:
Gear in the Guard Post
Gear to Escaping Slaves
DM: Forged in Chaos, Spiders of the Abyss, The Sundered Way, Champions of the Citadel
Active Characters:
Breldo, Halfling Ranger | Kathryn, Wood Elf Rogue/Ranger | Kroshav, Dragonborn Paladin | T'laren Farsiel, Wood Elf Fighter | Trill, Kenku Bard | Val "Janellae", Mark of Shadow Elf Warlock
Lex looks about for some rope, and not seeing any, snags a dagger and tucks it in Stool's sling before hustling out of the tower to between the twins on the swaying rope bridge.
A very woozy, injured Eldeth staggers away from the quaggoth and makes it to Stena on the bridge.
A trio of drow approach along the curving cliff that wraps around to the bridge, the lead two pulling up hand crossbows to fire.
Attack: 23 Damage: 8
Attack: 11 Damage: 7
The Prince bellows and holds his ground to keep them from getting a good shot at any of those behind him.
Turvy grabs hold of the bridge in his left hand and leans out to shoot at the drow before swinging back onto the wooden slats of the bridge.
Attack: 16 Damage: 8
Two bolts thud into the Prince as Turvy's goes wide. The third drow is one of the elites, who shouts in Undercommon.
"What are you doing, you mad forking beast? Stop pretending you're anything but a deluded slave!"
The Prince bellows and leaps the last part of the bridge, landing in front of the drow and slashing at him.
Attack: 7 Damage: 7
Attack: 18 Damage: 7
He's too incensed to focus, and the drow evades his blows.
Thom > Galingal > Stena > Jimjar > Shuushar > Ront > Giant Spider > Quaggoth > Topsy > Io > Lia > Sarith > Lex/Stool > Eldeth > Drow > Turvy > Buppido > Prince >
Gear in the Armory:
Gear in the Guard Post
Gear to Escaping Slaves
DM: Forged in Chaos, Spiders of the Abyss, The Sundered Way, Champions of the Citadel
Active Characters:
Breldo, Halfling Ranger | Kathryn, Wood Elf Rogue/Ranger | Kroshav, Dragonborn Paladin | T'laren Farsiel, Wood Elf Fighter | Trill, Kenku Bard | Val "Janellae", Mark of Shadow Elf Warlock
Thom looks even more concerned when he sees the trio of drow approach from the south. Although, he was kind of expecting it.
Thom sends to the Prince <YES YOUR HIGHNESS! DESTROY THEM AND WE SHALL GET YOU HOME!>
He doesn't think the Prince has a chance. He's not sure any of us do.
Thom has no shot at the new drow so he decides to hang back and take another shot at the quaggoth still pressing from the NE bridge, the one beside lo.
So he'd move two squares east, take the shot, but then this time move two squares SW.
Longbow, advantage: 14 Damage: 10
((Spider, would picking up equipment that is in the guard post use up an action? I am just planning for Thom's next few turns. Thank you))
Oh, Spider if you'll allow it, Thom would also send to Galingal <mate, I'm running low on ammo. Can ye toss down one of those crossbows? Bolts too, yeah?>
((Depends what you want to do, but you have a free object interaction each turn.))
DM: Forged in Chaos, Spiders of the Abyss, The Sundered Way, Champions of the Citadel
Active Characters:
Breldo, Halfling Ranger | Kathryn, Wood Elf Rogue/Ranger | Kroshav, Dragonborn Paladin | T'laren Farsiel, Wood Elf Fighter | Trill, Kenku Bard | Val "Janellae", Mark of Shadow Elf Warlock
Stena will target the leading quaggoth, or the one behind it if it is dead, and then move back into the guard house (ending up south of Shuushar)?
If she can she'll grab the studded leather armor too.
Attack at disadvantage in case the shot is at the not glowing quaggoth.
Attack: 13 Damage: 5
Thom drops the lead quagoth facing off against Io.
Galingal getting dressed?
Stena takes a shot at the remaining quaggoth, and manages to hit it. She ducks into the guard tower and tucks some studded leather under her arm.
Jimjar fires a bolt at the quaggoth and likewise retreats into the guard tower, shifting everything into one arm to be able to claim a shortsword with the other.
Shuushar waddles to the doorway, ready to move when the bridge clears up ahead.
On the stairs, Ront the orc gives a shuddering sigh and doesn't draw a new breath.
The far quaggoth steps over its fallen kin and strikes at Io.
Attack: 9 Damage: 5
Attack: 13 Damage: 5
Where the claws seem like they should hit, they skitter off her skin, sending ice chips flying.
Topsy moves up behind the Prince and attempts to leap off the bridge into the waterfall.
Acrobatics: 3
Her foot gets tangled as she goes over, and her brother cries out as her head rebounds off a spray slickened rock as she plunges into the darkened mist below.
"GO!!"
Io shrieks, a roar of arctic fury whipping around the bridges, droplets of waterfall spray that had carried in her direction freezing and pattering to the rock. Frost rimes her form, which is looking more and more jagged and inhuman. Eldeth's eyes are wide, her frosty breath coming rapidly as she struggles to breathe in the rapidly cooling air.
Lia > Sarith > Lex/Stool > Eldeth > Drow > Turvy > Buppido > Prince > Thom > Galingal > Stena > Jimjar > Shuushar > Giant Spider > Quaggoth > Topsy > Io >
Gear in the Armory:
Gear in the Guard Post
Gear to Escaping Slaves
DM: Forged in Chaos, Spiders of the Abyss, The Sundered Way, Champions of the Citadel
Active Characters:
Breldo, Halfling Ranger | Kathryn, Wood Elf Rogue/Ranger | Kroshav, Dragonborn Paladin | T'laren Farsiel, Wood Elf Fighter | Trill, Kenku Bard | Val "Janellae", Mark of Shadow Elf Warlock
Io flings her arms to the side, with a snap her manacles and other restraints shatter, bits of metal flying as her hair is whipped by the chill wind swirling about her.
Lia > Sarith > Lex/Stool > Eldeth > Drow > Turvy > Buppido > Prince > Thom > Galingal > Stena > Jimjar > Shuushar > Giant Spider > Quaggoth > Topsy > Io >
Gear in the Armory:
Gear in the Guard Post
Gear to Escaping Slaves
DM: Forged in Chaos, Spiders of the Abyss, The Sundered Way, Champions of the Citadel
Active Characters:
Breldo, Halfling Ranger | Kathryn, Wood Elf Rogue/Ranger | Kroshav, Dragonborn Paladin | T'laren Farsiel, Wood Elf Fighter | Trill, Kenku Bard | Val "Janellae", Mark of Shadow Elf Warlock
From her position up in the armoury, Lia hears Io’s shriek.
<By the gods!!…>. She thinks this ‘to herself’, but some of the sentiment of that probably leaks out to everyone too, through the spore network.
((Maybe a little of this leaks out too…))
Lia hears the shriek itself, but something else too. To Lia’s ears, attuned to the weave, Io’s shriek doesn’t seem to rebound naturally off the strings of weave around her… It’s almost like the weave itself is becoming brittle, like cracked glass. It sounds like fingernails on a blackboard to her. Or like the sound of a faint crack on a frozen lake, a little way off, as you walk across it. One that warns of a bigger cracks on the way...
<Oh no!…What magic is this?!…>, she thinks, rising panic in her eyes…
”Crossbow <crossbow>!”, Lia both-thinks-and-shouts to Thom. “And bolts <Bolts!>”, she says, handing both down to him, through the hatch…
”ANYONE NEED ANYTHING ELSE? <Else?!>”, she shouts/thinks to everyone nearby, “I THINK WE HAVE TO GO, NOW!!”.
She remains where she is though, while there are still others beneath her in the guard tower, and while Galingal is still getting sorted beside her.
GILLAIN OF ATHKATLA - Human Paladin - Into the Mists PHILLIP THE GRUNG - Grung Eldritch Knight - Tomb of Annihilation
ROBWIN WINDROBE - High Elf Wizard - Dragon of Icespire Peak EVE DARKSHORE - Tiefling Warlock - Rime of the Frost Maiden
ASH OF THE FIRE - Tabaxi Rogue - Ghosts of Marshswamp LIA STARBORN - Aasimar Bard - Out of the Abyss
Lia chucks a few things down to Thom or whoever grabs them, and issues a warning about the need to depart.
Sarith moves closer to the door, gathering up the things he'd nabbed and getting ready to make a bolt for it.
Lex/Stool > Eldeth > Drow > Turvy > Buppido > Prince > Thom > Galingal > Stena > Jimjar > Shuushar > Giant Spider > Quaggoth > Topsy > Io > Lia > Sarith >
Gear in the Armory:
Gear in the Guard Post
Gear to Escaping Slaves
DM: Forged in Chaos, Spiders of the Abyss, The Sundered Way, Champions of the Citadel
Active Characters:
Breldo, Halfling Ranger | Kathryn, Wood Elf Rogue/Ranger | Kroshav, Dragonborn Paladin | T'laren Farsiel, Wood Elf Fighter | Trill, Kenku Bard | Val "Janellae", Mark of Shadow Elf Warlock
"It seems we've run out of time," Galingal says to Lia. He needs a few more seconds to finish getting into the armor but from the sounds below, it doesn't appear that he has that luxury. "Let's go."
With, one leather sleeve hanging free, Galingal slips the shield into place and scoops up the rest of the gear he had organized: the thieves' tools, daggers, rope and his rapier. Galingal moves over to the hatch and jumps down into the room below.
<Throw down or grab some rope, or better yet shove it in a pack and let's go!
Eldeth, run!>
((I'm going to leave Lex with an open-ended readied action for when Arty is able to post, she'll stay out of folks way and jump over if it comes to it, otherwise attempt to help as needed.))
Galingal dropped down, and helps hand the crossbow and bolts off to Thom from Lia.
Eldeth dashes across the swaying bridge as ice begins to coat the ropes, making it to the tower.
The pair of drow facing off against the angry quaggoth pull free their shortswords and stab at the Prince. He seems to pay them very little mind.
Attack: 10 Damage: 7
Attack: 20 Damage: 7
The elite swings up onto the rope bridge connecting to the large stalactite, and pounds on the door before extending a hand towards the bridge, where glowing green bits of light settle over the Prince, Lex and Stool, Turvy, and Buppido.
Prince Dex: 7
Stool Dex: 13
Turvy Dex: 17
Buppido Dex: 4
Lex Dex: 19
Stool and Lex are lit up with the green light.
Turvy dashes past Lex and Stool, diving off the rope bridge to follow his sister's plunge over the edge...
Acrobatics: 4
He makes it over a bit more carefully, but lands in the web below the bridge, becoming quite tangled.
Buppido > Prince > Thom > Galingal > Stena > Jimjar > Shuushar > Giant Spider > Quaggoth > Topsy > Io > Lia > Sarith > Lex/Stool > Eldeth > Drow > Turvy >
Gear in the Armory:
Gear in the Guard Post
Gear to Escaping Slaves
DM: Forged in Chaos, Spiders of the Abyss, The Sundered Way, Champions of the Citadel
Active Characters:
Breldo, Halfling Ranger | Kathryn, Wood Elf Rogue/Ranger | Kroshav, Dragonborn Paladin | T'laren Farsiel, Wood Elf Fighter | Trill, Kenku Bard | Val "Janellae", Mark of Shadow Elf Warlock
You begin hearing a faint squawking and droning sound coming from the north...
Buppido runs up behind the Prince and also attempts to heave himself into the falls.
"Haha! You drow cretins were never going to be able to hold me!"
Acrobatics: 15
With a nimble flip, the derro vanishes into the mist and darkness below, straightening to descend feet first.
The Prince roars and slashes at the drow in front of him, catching him with one of the claws.
Attack: 21 Damage: 4
Attack: 11 Damage: 4
Thom > Galingal > Stena > Jimjar > Shuushar > Giant Spider > Quaggoth > Topsy > Io > Lia > Sarith > Lex/Stool > Eldeth > Drow > Turvy > Buppido > Prince >
Gear in the Armory:
Gear in the Guard Post
Gear to Escaping Slaves
DM: Forged in Chaos, Spiders of the Abyss, The Sundered Way, Champions of the Citadel
Active Characters:
Breldo, Halfling Ranger | Kathryn, Wood Elf Rogue/Ranger | Kroshav, Dragonborn Paladin | T'laren Farsiel, Wood Elf Fighter | Trill, Kenku Bard | Val "Janellae", Mark of Shadow Elf Warlock
Thom sends to Lia and Galingal <thanks mates! Agreed, let's go!> and Thom would grab the hand crossbow and bolts, put them somewhere in his armor and then move across the bridge to where Topsy, Turvy and Buppido have jumped and he also hold on to his body and tries to jump down feet first.
He doesn't think he'll see the ice witch again.
Acrobatics: 7
Galingal watches as Thom gathers his gear and leaps over the side of the bridge. He raises one eyebrow at the act but from what he can see and the drow coming from the other direction there doesn't look to be an alternative.
He nods at the others then races to the railing closest to the waterfall, leaps up to get a foothold to take off from and then plunges down.
Acrobatics: 15