With the spectral horror he had been fighting destroyed Amadi gets a chance to look around. He looks west to see where he heard the sound earlier and see where the crow keeps coming from. As he does so he moves 15 feet to the west to get a better look. He then moves south stepping around and past Sylvio to flank Spectre II.
As he moves closer he see sees that Sunny is fairly hurt so he quietly whispers a Healing Word (BA) and Sunny is healed for 6 hit points.
After getting into position he raises his war hammer again, the runes flashing red, and strikes at Spectre II taking advantage of the position he is in.
A moment of confusion takes hold of Gabriel’s mind as he stops to think about Sweeps’ words. The entire place was a spell. As a wielder of magic yourself you had heard of a few expressions of conjuration magic capable of enacting this kind of effect. The easiest to remember was Damiplane, but it couldn’t be the case. Demiplane creates an empty area and this place have chandeliers, not to mention the portcullis. No, it has to be Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Mansion, although, there was clearly nothing that could be called magnificent in this dark room. That is the incantation the barbarian felt.
On the other hand, Amadi fails to recall anything of such magic. Instead, the warrior cast his eyes upon the corridor in front of him and from the distance he can see the opened end of a metalic structure. Being himself a proper member of Most Careful Order of Skilled Smiths & Metalforgers, Shadeflame can immediately identify it as the gate of an oubliette. Created by a spell or not, the place where the five adventurers now stood was a dungeon.
The notion does not shake the warriors resolve but rather strengths it. A reason more to not be there, a reason more to fight. And fight he did. By moving past Sylvio, the blacksmith take position in the opposite side of Sweeps, creating a flanking formation against the second spectral figure to appear and wielding Anvilfist once again. Righteous raining down with the blessed weapon, hitting its mark and invoking the fire rune to shackle the enemy in flaming chains . The undead is clearly affected and becomes more translucent.
Notes:
@Everyone, the Spectral Figure II is Restrained and looking rough. @Gruba, as per Gabriel's success it is revealed that the space where you all stand is a Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Mansion.
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Sunny feeling very ill at the the injuries she's suffered, decides that she must heal herself or become a liability to the group. Upon her next opportunity she will cast cure wounds upon herself 10 as another hit will put her long past saving.
Forgot to mention second level - but did roll as such. Though It doesn't feel like I did...here is my arcana11 in case its still of any assistance.
(Wasn't sure I hit so I'm adding this now as I know I hit)
As Amadi strikes the spectre with Anvilfist the runes suddenly blaze even brighter! "May you be shackled in flame!" he cries and the spectre takes an extra 8 fire damage.
Fiery shackles then appear holding the creature.
Fire Rune (Special)
When you hit a creature with an attack using a weapon, you can invoke the rune to summon fiery shackles: the target takes an extra 2d6 fire damage, and it must succeed on a STR saving throw (DC:14) or be restrained for 1 minute. While restrained by the shackles, the target takes 2d6 fire damage at the start of each of its turns. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, banishing the shackles on a success. Once you invoke this rune, you can’t do so again until you finish a short or long rest.
Seeing the spectral figure restrained in fiery chains, Sweeps smiles and gets to work, bringing his maul around in two furious blows. The first spectral figure had dissipated without returning and he is trying to send the second figure to the same fate.
As a smile take hold of his lips, the barbarian rises his maul and assaults the spectral figure in front of him. One, two attacks. Both hit, precise, strong. Sweeps feels once again that his strikes are dealing less damage than they should but even then the undead in front, restrained by the flaming chains conjured through a giant kin rune, suffers visibly. It becomes more and more transparent, and everyone can tell it is close to dissipating.
The fact seems to bring a new layer of despair to the amalgamation of damned souls, for it opens its mouth in the direction of the genasi, letting a wail of the most pure dread while its binds burn it. At the same time, deeper into this dungeon, the crow-like entity move its wings, taking the northernmost hallway and moving back to the battle. Close to the fray, the exanimate cast its eyes, white and devoid of any life, upon Sunny. The tortle had lost herself in her thoughts for but a moment. Remembering the words of Sweeps about the place being a spell she immediately that magic contained in the Glyph of Warding was Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion, a conclusion interrupted as she can once again feels a feverish heat trying to take hold of her body, but that would the least of her worries for the flying terror dives into her direction, talons seeking and sinking into her neck. For the second time the ranger is brought down.
Notes:
@Everyone, the Specter II is looking really rough/translucent. You may all consider that the crow entity is from this point onward in melee range. @Gunner, make a Wisdom Saving Throw (DC15) @Jynne, make a Constitution Save (DC15) and a Death Save. As by her successful Arcana Check, Sunny knows the space where the party stands is a Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion that was contained in the Glyph of Warding found in Jacob's corpse. As Sunny is brought down before her initiative count the action to heal herself does not take place and no spell slot is consumed. @Gruba, it is now Gabriel's turn.
Sweeps tries to push the wailing sound of the specter out of his mind
Wis Save: 7
Watching the crow attack Sunny again, he shouts to the others "Can we go block off the area where this cursed crow is coming from? Maybe next time we kill it, we can stop it from coming back"
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Sunny'sConstitution save 18Death Save 12
If possible, Sunny would have shared anything she discovered via arcane or otherwise with anyone close by as she learns it hoping to aid the group move towards a solution to their situation.
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Desperate to keep the fallen Tortle in the living realm, Gabriel chants across the room "Heal and stand again my friend!" (casts healing word at 2nd level for 7 HP healing as a bonus action)
Resolving to help take down the attackers as well, to help reduce the incoming damage, Gabriel then directs two blasts of arcane force at the specters (targeting spectrer II first, moving to III if II goes gown)
Blast one: Attack: 25 Damage: 6
Blast two: Attack: 15 Damage: 3
The first attack to hit will deal an additional 5 radiant damage.
(No movement, Gabriel is still 20ft up. Radiant Soul now used 3/10 turns)
Realising the nature of their location, Gabriel shouts to his colleagues: "We're inside a mansion spell! Could be trapped here for up to 24 hours before it disperses and there will only be one exit"
He thinks he has learned of the physical dimensions allowed by such a spell, but struggles to recall them for sure.
@DM: I hope the info relayed by Gabriel was allowable and not too meta, happy to edit if needed
Sunny opens her eyes once again, her spirit severely dimmed at repeated views of death and an odd phrase echoing in her head from her Uncle Mikey about forgiveness and pizza. It must have been close this time. She never did find out what pizza was as they time together was short.
Shaking her head to bring herself back to the reality of her situation. "This is really starting to feel personal!" Her usual softer demeaner breaking, her golden eyes blazing as she shouts this out. "Like this thing doesn't like females or something. What does it see in us?"(referring to herself and Bertha).
She rises looking for the nearest enemy, unsure if she should focus on the crow or one of the Specters. Does the Crow attack her because it is threatened by her? Is there something I can do that it fears? She can Silence the room, but this seems like it would hinder more than help and she can only sustain it if she can hold concentration. Its attacks would break that quickly. Drawing her blades she looks for a target deciding on her next move.
Getting up and drawing blades of course doesn't occur until her turn, just for flow
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Sylvio growls in frustration as the crow claws Sunny and knocks her unconscious again. Seeing that one of the specters continues to burn in its bindings and is fading quickly, he choose to slide up behind the crow flanking it with Sunny. “Sylvio does-a not know what-a you are, but he knows that-a you don’t like-a the steel.”
He slashed at its head with the scimitar and then swings towards the second creature and stabs with the short sword. He then glides up next to Sunny and turns around raising his weapon in a guarding defense.
Booming blade attack 19 for 8 slashing damage 1 thunder damage and 16 sneak attack.
If needed the short sword attack is 17 for 6 piercing damage.
He turns to look down at Sunny “Get up-a you lazy tortoise , it’s-a no time for a nap-a!”
Amadi grits his teeth as he swings his hammer and then calls upon the power of the runes shackle the specter.
"A magical mansion eh? Then we are in its dungeon which is fitting as we are prisoner's here. I will finish this specter off and then see what I can do about that blasted crow. By the name of Gond this feels like the work of Shar. Perhaps our poor tortle friend followed Selune and was made a target."
And so it was that once again the tortle was brought to the ground and the aasimar intone a healing word. As he sees Sunny open her eyes, Gabriel turns his attention back to the third spectral figure to appear. He casts an Eldritch Blast against it, but this time his attacks miss the mark.
Sylvio calls the ranger in a rather comical way before advancing against the entity that focusing on her seemed to completely ignore everyone else. With his Booming Blade the elf once again brings down the feathered undead and with his short sword he stabs the second of the apparitions. With a last wailing echo the amalgamation of damned souls dissipates.
Sunny then voices her conclusion, that the monstrous crow was pursuing her because she is female. It certainly made sense when one stopped to think on the behavior of that creature, if one could call it that way. It had attacked Bertha first and without so much as looking to any other individual in the field of battle, but Sunny herself. Bertha had also suffered some sort of pain in her stomach and soon after the flying horror cast eyes upon her, just like happened with the beastmaster. Both women were being attacked in the same manner and the single thing they had in common was their sex.
Amadi is the next to thoughts into words. His theory was that everything happening was the work of the Shar. She is the goddess of darkness, loss and secrets, well known as Mistress of Pain and for triggering the Spellplague through the assassination or the goddess of magic, Mystra. Shadeflame, that was not only a fighter but also a cleric, Gabriel who was so deeply connected with the celestial, and Sunny who was a follower of Selûne, had also heard that Shar had created an entire source of magic called the Shadow Weave. If someone could craft a spell for the killing of innocents and hid its traces in such a manner that not even the Blackstaff of Waterdeep could notice its presence, it was her. It should be, right?
Any consideration about the possibility was interrupted when the third and last of the spectral figures opened its mouth, screaming against Sylvio. That and the familiar screech of the monstrous crow.
Notes:
@Everyone, the Specter II is dead. @Althax, make a Wisdom Saving Throw (DC15) for Sylvio. @Paladin, it is now Amadi's turn.
@Gunner, you can post immediately after Paladin. No need to wait for narration.
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Watching the shackled spectral figure dissolve under Sylvio’s attacks, Sweeps turns his attention to the lone spectral figure in front of Sunny. He quickly moves around the figure, flanking it between Sunny and himself, and attacks twice more with his maul. Recognizing by now that his strikes are not dealing full damage, he swings with all of his strength anyway.
With the spectral horror he had been fighting destroyed Amadi gets a chance to look around. He looks west to see where he heard the sound earlier and see where the crow keeps coming from. As he does so he moves 15 feet to the west to get a better look. He then moves south stepping around and past Sylvio to flank Spectre II.
As he moves closer he see sees that Sunny is fairly hurt so he quietly whispers a Healing Word (BA) and Sunny is healed for 6 hit points.
After getting into position he raises his war hammer again, the runes flashing red, and strikes at Spectre II taking advantage of the position he is in.
Attack: 23 Damage: 13
Arcana 1
A moment of confusion takes hold of Gabriel’s mind as he stops to think about Sweeps’ words. The entire place was a spell. As a wielder of magic yourself you had heard of a few expressions of conjuration magic capable of enacting this kind of effect. The easiest to remember was Damiplane, but it couldn’t be the case. Demiplane creates an empty area and this place have chandeliers, not to mention the portcullis. No, it has to be Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Mansion, although, there was clearly nothing that could be called magnificent in this dark room. That is the incantation the barbarian felt.
On the other hand, Amadi fails to recall anything of such magic. Instead, the warrior cast his eyes upon the corridor in front of him and from the distance he can see the opened end of a metalic structure. Being himself a proper member of Most Careful Order of Skilled Smiths & Metalforgers, Shadeflame can immediately identify it as the gate of an oubliette. Created by a spell or not, the place where the five adventurers now stood was a dungeon.
The notion does not shake the warriors resolve but rather strengths it. A reason more to not be there, a reason more to fight. And fight he did. By moving past Sylvio, the blacksmith take position in the opposite side of Sweeps, creating a flanking formation against the second spectral figure to appear and wielding Anvilfist once again. Righteous raining down with the blessed weapon, hitting its mark and invoking the fire rune to shackle the enemy in flaming chains . The undead is clearly affected and becomes more translucent.
@Gruba, as per Gabriel's success it is revealed that the space where you all stand is a Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Mansion.
Sunny feeling very ill at the the injuries she's suffered, decides that she must heal herself or become a liability to the group. Upon her next opportunity she will cast cure wounds upon herself 10 as another hit will put her long past saving.
Forgot to mention second level - but did roll as such. Though It doesn't feel like I did...here is my arcana 11 in case its still of any assistance.
(Wasn't sure I hit so I'm adding this now as I know I hit)
As Amadi strikes the spectre with Anvilfist the runes suddenly blaze even brighter! "May you be shackled in flame!" he cries and the spectre takes an extra 8 fire damage.
Fiery shackles then appear holding the creature.
When you hit a creature with an attack using a weapon, you can invoke the rune to summon fiery shackles: the target takes an extra 2d6 fire damage, and it must succeed on a STR saving throw (DC:14) or be restrained for 1 minute. While restrained by the shackles, the target takes 2d6 fire damage at the start of each of its turns. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, banishing the shackles on a success. Once you invoke this rune, you can’t do so again until you finish a short or long rest.
Rolling the Dice
Spectral Figure II Strength Save: 7
Seeing the spectral figure restrained in fiery chains, Sweeps smiles and gets to work, bringing his maul around in two furious blows. The first spectral figure had dissipated without returning and he is trying to send the second figure to the same fate.
Attack: 20 Damage: 13
Attack: 16 Damage: 10
(Rolling with advantage for flanking)
Rolling the Dice
Monstrous Crow Attack (against Sunny): 20
Damage (against Sunny, if applicable): 26
Rolling the Dice
Fire Rune Damage (against the Spectral Figure II): 9
As a smile take hold of his lips, the barbarian rises his maul and assaults the spectral figure in front of him. One, two attacks. Both hit, precise, strong. Sweeps feels once again that his strikes are dealing less damage than they should but even then the undead in front, restrained by the flaming chains conjured through a giant kin rune, suffers visibly. It becomes more and more transparent, and everyone can tell it is close to dissipating.
The fact seems to bring a new layer of despair to the amalgamation of damned souls, for it opens its mouth in the direction of the genasi, letting a wail of the most pure dread while its binds burn it. At the same time, deeper into this dungeon, the crow-like entity move its wings, taking the northernmost hallway and moving back to the battle. Close to the fray, the exanimate cast its eyes, white and devoid of any life, upon Sunny. The tortle had lost herself in her thoughts for but a moment. Remembering the words of Sweeps about the place being a spell she immediately that magic contained in the Glyph of Warding was Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion, a conclusion interrupted as she can once again feels a feverish heat trying to take hold of her body, but that would the least of her worries for the flying terror dives into her direction, talons seeking and sinking into her neck. For the second time the ranger is brought down.
@Everyone, the Specter II is looking really rough/translucent. You may all consider that the crow entity is from this point onward in melee range.
@Gunner, make a Wisdom Saving Throw (DC15)
@Jynne, make a Constitution Save (DC15) and a Death Save. As by her successful Arcana Check, Sunny knows the space where the party stands is a Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion that was contained in the Glyph of Warding found in Jacob's corpse. As Sunny is brought down before her initiative count the action to heal herself does not take place and no spell slot is consumed.
@Gruba, it is now Gabriel's turn.
Sweeps tries to push the wailing sound of the specter out of his mind
Wis Save: 7
Watching the crow attack Sunny again, he shouts to the others "Can we go block off the area where this cursed crow is coming from? Maybe next time we kill it, we can stop it from coming back"
Sunny's Constitution save 18 Death Save 12
If possible, Sunny would have shared anything she discovered via arcane or otherwise with anyone close by as she learns it hoping to aid the group move towards a solution to their situation.
Desperate to keep the fallen Tortle in the living realm, Gabriel chants across the room "Heal and stand again my friend!" (casts healing word at 2nd level for 7 HP healing as a bonus action)
Resolving to help take down the attackers as well, to help reduce the incoming damage, Gabriel then directs two blasts of arcane force at the specters (targeting spectrer II first, moving to III if II goes gown)
Blast one: Attack: 25 Damage: 6
Blast two: Attack: 15 Damage: 3
The first attack to hit will deal an additional 5 radiant damage.
(No movement, Gabriel is still 20ft up. Radiant Soul now used 3/10 turns)
Realising the nature of their location, Gabriel shouts to his colleagues: "We're inside a mansion spell! Could be trapped here for up to 24 hours before it disperses and there will only be one exit"
He thinks he has learned of the physical dimensions allowed by such a spell, but struggles to recall them for sure.
@DM: I hope the info relayed by Gabriel was allowable and not too meta, happy to edit if needed
Sunny opens her eyes once again, her spirit severely dimmed at repeated views of death and an odd phrase echoing in her head from her Uncle Mikey about forgiveness and pizza. It must have been close this time. She never did find out what pizza was as they time together was short.
Shaking her head to bring herself back to the reality of her situation. "This is really starting to feel personal!" Her usual softer demeaner breaking, her golden eyes blazing as she shouts this out. "Like this thing doesn't like females or something. What does it see in us?" (referring to herself and Bertha).
She rises looking for the nearest enemy, unsure if she should focus on the crow or one of the Specters. Does the Crow attack her because it is threatened by her? Is there something I can do that it fears? She can Silence the room, but this seems like it would hinder more than help and she can only sustain it if she can hold concentration. Its attacks would break that quickly. Drawing her blades she looks for a target deciding on her next move.
Getting up and drawing blades of course doesn't occur until her turn, just for flow
Sylvio growls in frustration as the crow claws Sunny and knocks her unconscious again. Seeing that one of the specters continues to burn in its bindings and is fading quickly, he choose to slide up behind the crow flanking it with Sunny. “Sylvio does-a not know what-a you are, but he knows that-a you don’t like-a the steel.”
He slashed at its head with the scimitar and then swings towards the second creature and stabs with the short sword. He then glides up next to Sunny and turns around raising his weapon in a guarding defense.
Booming blade attack 19 for 8 slashing damage 1 thunder damage and 16 sneak attack.
If needed the short sword attack is 17 for 6 piercing damage.
He turns to look down at Sunny “Get up-a you lazy tortoise , it’s-a no time for a nap-a!”
Noob
Amadi grits his teeth as he swings his hammer and then calls upon the power of the runes shackle the specter.
"A magical mansion eh? Then we are in its dungeon which is fitting as we are prisoner's here. I will finish this specter off and then see what I can do about that blasted crow. By the name of Gond this feels like the work of Shar. Perhaps our poor tortle friend followed Selune and was made a target."
And so it was that once again the tortle was brought to the ground and the aasimar intone a healing word. As he sees Sunny open her eyes, Gabriel turns his attention back to the third spectral figure to appear. He casts an Eldritch Blast against it, but this time his attacks miss the mark.
Sylvio calls the ranger in a rather comical way before advancing against the entity that focusing on her seemed to completely ignore everyone else. With his Booming Blade the elf once again brings down the feathered undead and with his short sword he stabs the second of the apparitions. With a last wailing echo the amalgamation of damned souls dissipates.
Sunny then voices her conclusion, that the monstrous crow was pursuing her because she is female. It certainly made sense when one stopped to think on the behavior of that creature, if one could call it that way. It had attacked Bertha first and without so much as looking to any other individual in the field of battle, but Sunny herself. Bertha had also suffered some sort of pain in her stomach and soon after the flying horror cast eyes upon her, just like happened with the beastmaster. Both women were being attacked in the same manner and the single thing they had in common was their sex.
Amadi is the next to thoughts into words. His theory was that everything happening was the work of the Shar. She is the goddess of darkness, loss and secrets, well known as Mistress of Pain and for triggering the Spellplague through the assassination or the goddess of magic, Mystra. Shadeflame, that was not only a fighter but also a cleric, Gabriel who was so deeply connected with the celestial, and Sunny who was a follower of Selûne, had also heard that Shar had created an entire source of magic called the Shadow Weave. If someone could craft a spell for the killing of innocents and hid its traces in such a manner that not even the Blackstaff of Waterdeep could notice its presence, it was her. It should be, right?
Any consideration about the possibility was interrupted when the third and last of the spectral figures opened its mouth, screaming against Sylvio. That and the familiar screech of the monstrous crow.
@Everyone, the Specter II is dead.
@Althax, make a Wisdom Saving Throw (DC15) for Sylvio.
@Paladin, it is now Amadi's turn.
17 Wisdom Save
Noob
With the second specter now dead and the crow stopped for the moment he moves in anticipation that it will return from the pervious route.
"I'll keep the crow busy to give you time to get Sunny back on her feet and deal with the other specter." He says as he moves away
He moves west towards the gate trying to get as close as he can. He then readies Anvilfist to strike the crow as soon as it comes into range.
Attack: 13 Damage: 12
As he stands ready he looks at the gate to see if it locks or if it is just a hole - is it in the roof or the floor?
I can't see the map right now so hope to move close to the gate in such a way it must pass him by.
Watching the shackled spectral figure dissolve under Sylvio’s attacks, Sweeps turns his attention to the lone spectral figure in front of Sunny. He quickly moves around the figure, flanking it between Sunny and himself, and attacks twice more with his maul. Recognizing by now that his strikes are not dealing full damage, he swings with all of his strength anyway.
Attack: 25 Damage: 12
Attack: 19 Damage: 9
(Note: updated location in Roll20)
(go team!)