One latches onto Sarith, his skin going even paler as it begins feeding. Thom gets a second one, while Eldeth collects her first. Buppido goes down, a stirge latched onto his neck. Two latch onto Derendil, the elf in quaggoth form bellowing in anger.
Lex grabs the head of the one attached to her and pulls it free, the proboscis questing about, still trying to latch on.
Lia tries to rally the party, “That’s it! More and more are falling. Keep it up!…”.
She stays where she is and turns to the nearest creature to her (or on her). She uses her action to cast vicious mockery again, saying, “Missed me! …Oooooh, and another one bites the dust!!…”. ((WIS save DC13 or take 1 (psychic damage) and disadvantage on next attack)).
"Aaaaarrrggghh get these things off me matessssss!" (-14 total)
(Can Thom use his bow if they are sucking him? Doesn't really make sense that he'd be able to shoot them off himself. Would he have to take out his sword? Would he be able to do that and attack in one turn to try and cut one off?)
((He may be able to shoot some off... if they latch onto his leg, etc, but he could also grab them and yank them out too. He'd be able to draw and attack with one action if he wishes.))
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Galingal keeps ducking his head down and swatting about with his shield to keep the stirges off of him. He looks around quickly to get the lay of the battle.
If any stirges are within melee range, he slashes out at them with his rapier, stabbing at one on his back swing as well. If there aren't any, he will move over to Thom and help him pull off the ones attached, grabbing which ever one Thom doesn't.
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Lia's insults finish one of the stirges, it bumps against her foot as it falls to the ground.
Thom and Galingal both miss their attacks, and while Galingal could make it to Thom's side, he has two of the creatures still flying about him, and in pushing past Shuushar and Sarith, may expose himself to attacks from those creatures as well.
Sarith pulls the one that is biting him off, cursing in Elvish.
Attack: 22 Damage: 5
Stool reaches for the one that Lex has in her hand.
Attack: 5 Damage: 3
Buppido lies there on the floor, beside Lia, the stirge growing fat on his blood.
One of the stirges gets past Galingal's defenses, the probocis slipping into his muscle as he can feel it wriggling about.
Shuushar gently slaps away the one trying to feed on him, the kuo-toa managing to have avoided getting bitten, but his pacifist ways haven't helped thin the herd any.
Sarith goes down the one in his hand flapping free as his grip relaxes.
Stena avoids the bite, but Lia gets chomped.
Thom is getting drained by one of the stirges feeding on him, as is Eldeth, who succumbs and drops to the cave floor between Stena and Lia. Buppido on the other side of Lia continues to be fed on, and a pair of them drink deep from Derendil.
Jimjar slashes at two of the ones on Derendil, trying to clear the big quaggoth of the pests.
Attack: 10 Damage: 7 Attack: 20 Damage: 6
Shuushar pulls the stirge free of Sarith, but looks around at Galingal wide eyed (even for a kuo-toa), unsure what to do with the creature in his hands.
Galingal collects another parasite, Shuushar manages to not get hit yet again, even though he's no longer taking a defensive stance. Stena gets nailed, the proboscis inserting in her clavicle, and Thom drops to the ground.
((There are about a dozen or so stirges, though most seem to be clustered around Sarith, Galingal and Shuushar, with the drow going down so quickly, and Shuushar not taking an active roll in combat, it's been left to Galingal to do all the work.))
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Lia hears the seemingly distant call, over the chaos of the swarming, biting creatures: ‘Anyone got healing?!… … Anyone got healing?!…’. She sees her companions fall one by one. At the same time, she winces in pain as one of the stirges bites at her head and neck, turning her white hair and neck red with her own blood, clearly needing vital healing herself, badly…
For a second she looks at Lex, and her eyes… are they just black voids of hatred?! Is that a look of fury and death on her face?… or just a strange shadow… maybe just a grimace of pain?…
She blinks away some blood, and closes her eyes at her own pain. And suddenly her breathing slows… Her eyes open and for a second her eyes seem to glow with a radiant light! She surveys the scene around her with a calm detachment, and without a thought for her own needs, she reaches down to touch Buppido and also point towards Thom.
Lia speaks a single word, in celestial, and her eyes flare bright, and her hands seems to glow also, as both Buppido and Thom are healed…
Action: Racial trait, Healling Hands on Buppido for 2hp.
After the effort of healing, and as the glow around Lia subsides, the grimace of pain reappears and she growls with a voice like gravel, “Grrrrr-get this thing off me!!…”.
Stena switches to her short sword and swings at the nearest stirge.
Attack: 17 Damage: 9
Stena slashes one out of the air!
Eldeth strikes around her with her hammer.
Attack: 11 Damage: 9
Jimjar slashes out twice with his shortsword, while Shuushar continues cowering.
Attack: 5 Damage: 7
Attack: 13 Damage: 6
Sneak on hit: 4
Stena > Eldeth > Jimjar > Shuushar > || Stirges (22) > Lex > Lia > Thom > Sarith > Stool > Buppy > Galingal > Stirges (11) >
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
Three more fall to the efforts of the dwarf and the deep gnome!
More of the creatures attempt to latch on, however.
Attack on Galingal: 18 Damage: 4
Attack on Shuushar: 6 Damage: 4
Attack on Sarith: 21 Damage: 7
Attack on Sarith: 8 Damage: 5
Attack on Thom: 22 Damage: Unable to parse dice roll.
Attack on Stena: 15 Damage: 5
Attack on Eldeth: 21 Damage: 4
Attack on Lia: 10 Damage: 7
Attack on Buppido: 9 Damage: 4
Attack on Jimjar: 6 Damage: 6
Attack on Derendil: 25 Damage: 10
Attack on Derendil: 25 Damage: 7
Lex > Lia > Thom > Sarith > Stool > Buppy > Galingal > Stirges (11) > Stena > Eldeth > Jimjar > Shuushar > || Stirges (22) >
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
One latches onto Sarith, his skin going even paler as it begins feeding. Thom gets a second one, while Eldeth collects her first. Buppido goes down, a stirge latched onto his neck. Two latch onto Derendil, the elf in quaggoth form bellowing in anger.
Lex grabs the head of the one attached to her and pulls it free, the proboscis questing about, still trying to latch on.
Lia > Thom > Sarith > Stool > Buppy > Galingal > Stirges (11) > Stena > Eldeth > Jimjar > Shuushar > || Stirges (22) > Lex >
Currently being fed on:
Sarith
Thom (2)
Eldeth
Buppido (down)
Derendil (3)
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
((oops, realized Derendil hasn't been going!))
Initiative: 9
((Makeup attacks, 2 rounds))
Attack: 18 Damage: 6
Attack: 9 Damage: 6
Attack: 13 Damage: 6
Attack: 15 Damage: 5
Lia > Thom > Sarith > Stool > Buppy > Galingal > Stirges (11) > Stena > Eldeth > Jimjar > Shuushar > Derendil || Stirges (22) > Lex >
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 tries to rally the party, “That’s it! More and more are falling. Keep it up!…”.
She stays where she is and turns to the nearest creature to her (or on her). She uses her action to cast vicious mockery again, saying, “Missed me! …Oooooh, and another one bites the dust!!…”. ((WIS save DC13 or take 1 (psychic damage) and disadvantage on next 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
((He kills the two that were still flying about.))
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
"Aaaaarrrggghh get these things off me matessssss!" (-14 total)
(Can Thom use his bow if they are sucking him? Doesn't really make sense that he'd be able to shoot them off himself. Would he have to take out his sword? Would he be able to do that and attack in one turn to try and cut one off?)
WIS Save: 7
((He may be able to shoot some off... if they latch onto his leg, etc, but he could also grab them and yank them out too. He'd be able to draw and attack with one action if he wishes.))
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
Galingal keeps ducking his head down and swatting about with his shield to keep the stirges off of him. He looks around quickly to get the lay of the battle.
If any stirges are within melee range, he slashes out at them with his rapier, stabbing at one on his back swing as well. If there aren't any, he will move over to Thom and help him pull off the ones attached, grabbing which ever one Thom doesn't.
Action - Rapier - Attack: 23 Damage: 9
Bonus Action - War Priest - Rapier - Attack: 18 Damage: 7
I think Thom would indeed as quick as he can, stow his bow and take out his sword and slash at one of the stirges sucking on him.
Shortsword stirge-shave: 12 Damage: 8
To Galingal when he comes over "THANKS MATE!"
Lia's insults finish one of the stirges, it bumps against her foot as it falls to the ground.
Thom and Galingal both miss their attacks, and while Galingal could make it to Thom's side, he has two of the creatures still flying about him, and in pushing past Shuushar and Sarith, may expose himself to attacks from those creatures as well.
Sarith pulls the one that is biting him off, cursing in Elvish.
Attack: 22 Damage: 5Stool reaches for the one that Lex has in her hand.
Attack: 5 Damage: 3
Buppido lies there on the floor, beside Lia, the stirge growing fat on his blood.
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
Stool impales the stirge and snakes it back under the flap of the backpack, Lex laughing at her little clean up crew.
Attack on Galingal: 12 Damage: 4
Attack on Shuushar: 6 Damage: 6
Attack on Sarith: 25 Damage: 8
Attack on Stena: 7 Damage: 5
Attack on Lia: 14 Damage: 7
Feed on Thom:6
Feed on Eldeth:7
Feed on Buppido:4
Feed on Derendil:5
Feed on Derendil:6
Stena > Eldeth > Jimjar > Shuushar > || Stirges (22) > Lex > Lia > Thom > Sarith > Stool > Buppy > Galingal > Stirges (11) >
Currently being fed on:
Thom (2)
Eldeth
Buppido (down)
Derendil (3)
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
One of the stirges gets past Galingal's defenses, the probocis slipping into his muscle as he can feel it wriggling about.
Shuushar gently slaps away the one trying to feed on him, the kuo-toa managing to have avoided getting bitten, but his pacifist ways haven't helped thin the herd any.
Sarith goes down the one in his hand flapping free as his grip relaxes.
Stena avoids the bite, but Lia gets chomped.
Thom is getting drained by one of the stirges feeding on him, as is Eldeth, who succumbs and drops to the cave floor between Stena and Lia. Buppido on the other side of Lia continues to be fed on, and a pair of them drink deep from Derendil.
Stena > Eldeth > Jimjar > Shuushar > Derendil > || Stirges (22) > Lex > Lia > Thom > Sarith > Stool > Buppy > Galingal > Stirges (11) >
Currently being fed on:
Galingal
Sarith (Down)
Thom (2)
Eldeth (Down)
Lia
Buppido (down)
Derendil (3)
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 curses and chops at the stirge on Eldeth.
"Kill them before they drain us dry!"
Attack: 19 Damage: 6
((How many stirge are left?))
Stena clears the stirge off of Eldeth.
Jimjar slashes at two of the ones on Derendil, trying to clear the big quaggoth of the pests.
Attack: 10 Damage: 7
Attack: 20 Damage: 6
Shuushar pulls the stirge free of Sarith, but looks around at Galingal wide eyed (even for a kuo-toa), unsure what to do with the creature in his hands.
Derendil tears into the stirges remaining on him.
Attack: 24 Damage: 5
Attack: 12 Damage: 4
|| Stirges (22) > Lex > Lia > Thom > Sarith > Stool > Buppy > Galingal > Stirges (11) > Stena > Eldeth > Jimjar > Shuushar > Derendil >
Currently being fed on:
Galingal
Thom (2)
Lia
Buppido (down)
Derendil (3)
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
Jimjar slices one free, and Derendil gets his claws into another.
The stirges attack again, and some of those attached keep feeding.
Attack on Galingal: 18 Damage: 8
Attack on Shuushar: 17 Damage: 6
Attack on Stena: 6 Damage: 6
Feed on Thom: 5
Lex moves over and grabs the stirge off Buppido, pulling its mouthparts free with a sucking slurp. "Buppy and Eldeth are down! Anyone got healing?"
She holds the wriggling creature up for Stool to dispatch.
Lia > Thom > Sarith > Stool > Buppy > Galingal > Stirges (11) > Stena > Eldeth > Jimjar > Shuushar > Derendil > || Stirges (22) > Lex >
Currently being fed on:
Galingal
Thom (2)
Lia
Buppido (down)
Derendil
Currently down:
Eldeth
Sarith
Buppido
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
Galingal collects another parasite, Shuushar manages to not get hit yet again, even though he's no longer taking a defensive stance. Stena gets nailed, the proboscis inserting in her clavicle, and Thom drops to the ground.
((There are about a dozen or so stirges, though most seem to be clustered around Sarith, Galingal and Shuushar, with the drow going down so quickly, and Shuushar not taking an active roll in combat, it's been left to Galingal to do all the work.))
Lia > Thom (PM death save) > Sarith > Stool > Buppy > Galingal > Stirges (11) > Stena > Eldeth > Jimjar > Shuushar > Derendil > || Stirges (22) > Lex >
Currently being fed on:
Galingal (2)
Thom (2, down)
Lia
Derendil
Currently down:
Eldeth
Sarith
Buppido
Thom
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 hears the seemingly distant call, over the chaos of the swarming, biting creatures: ‘Anyone got healing?!… … Anyone got healing?!…’. She sees her companions fall one by one. At the same time, she winces in pain as one of the stirges bites at her head and neck, turning her white hair and neck red with her own blood, clearly needing vital healing herself, badly…
For a second she looks at Lex, and her eyes… are they just black voids of hatred?! Is that a look of fury and death on her face?… or just a strange shadow… maybe just a grimace of pain?…
She blinks away some blood, and closes her eyes at her own pain. And suddenly her breathing slows… Her eyes open and for a second her eyes seem to glow with a radiant light! She surveys the scene around her with a calm detachment, and without a thought for her own needs, she reaches down to touch Buppido and also point towards Thom.
Lia speaks a single word, in celestial, and her eyes flare bright, and her hands seems to glow also, as both Buppido and Thom are healed…
Action: Racial trait, Healling Hands on Buppido for 2hp.
Bonus action: healing word on Thom for 4hp.
After the effort of healing, and as the glow around Lia subsides, the grimace of pain reappears and she growls with a voice like gravel, “Grrrrr-get this thing off me!!…”.
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
Time slows for her as Lia calls forth healing for both Thom and Buppido.
Thom > Sarith > Stool > Buppy > Galingal > Stirges (11) > Stena > Eldeth > Jimjar > Shuushar > Derendil > || Stirges (22) > Lex > Lia >
Currently being fed on:
Galingal (2)
Thom (2)
Lia
Derendil
Currently down:
Eldeth
Sarith
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