Ilam, mostly ignored till now, times a bolt perfectly striking the creature in the shoulder.
Klin nimbly dodges the strange arm attack but Daventry is not as lucky. The arm strikes her solidly and wraps around her waist as it does so. Her skin is cut and torn as the creature's strange joints twist the appendage around her. To your terror you find yourself grappled to the strange creature but it gets worse. Every time the creature blinks and flickers out or reality so do you. Every time you disappear you see a new plane, a new reality. You see everything but you see nothing all at once. The planes and realities change at a horrific pace. While you are grappled you are also blind and deaf from the constant shifting of the time and space.
The Man in Black's gate pulls Lunoris up and out of the water. The motes of energy dim as the happens and the Fey looks down at Sylvarie with sadness, "I love you" She says one last time before she is sucked into the black portal.
Even in the chaos the water of the pool was still. Nothing could disturb the surface of perfect glass... until Sylvarie started weeping. When the first tear hits the water a monsoon rises up out to pool and the chaos triples in the bath house. The huge wave of water does not crash down, instead it takes on the shape of a giant women's face. The bloody water mixes and swirls above you until red settles around that perfect face in a beautiful mop of vibrant, curly red hair.
"NOT HERE" booms the voice with power as the water crashes down on everyone and everything in sight. The Man in Black yells in desperation, "No!" As his form is completely washed away pushed from the room. The nightmare creature staggers but holds it's ground still grappling Daventry.
Daventry you feel a cleansing power, a chance for freedom as you are baptized in the bath house water. You need just let it in and ask for forgiveness. (If you choose this path make a DC15 Con Save)
As the pool is now empty Sylvarie stands quietly in the center holding Fistandia in her arms. The gnome coughs weakly and opens in her eyes.
OK Ludolf and Triäsa you may go. I think I am doing writing chapters for the day ;)
Locked in the horror of the planeshifting monster's grip, Daventry feels the wash of the temple's waters across her skin.
She feels the tug of the tome on her mind and heart, the insatiable call for more power. To embrace the secrets of the void, to achieve such magical skill that none could stand in her way. Its constant temptation to dive deeper, seek more. Become more than just a girl from the swamp who stole something not meant for them.
She opens her eyes, and only sees the voidsent abomination gripping her close. At what cost? Either she will eventually be responsible for something so horrid, or... gods forbid, this could very well be her fate.
"Not like this. Not as this. To hell with this power! To hell with you!"she shouts. At the void, at the monster, at the man in black, she shouts, though the others just hear a primal roar from her.
Ludolf briefly stands awed by the quick series of dramatic events unfolding before his gray piercing eyes, struck with dismay as the Man in Black let's the darkness of the void devour the pure and innocent Lunaris. Seeing Daventry caught in the twisted claws of the nightmarish creature that once was the faux Jarlaxle, the old man steps foward and calls down a Hex on the creature (Hex, str) to hopefully weaken it's hold on the brave maiden in it's grasp. He then turns his gray piercing eyes on the abomination, blasting it back to it's nightmarish realm with blasts of gray crackling eldritch force.
It would take a crit to ID.... so you crit, this has been wild.
SO! You recall a legend of a creature in your uncle's library. The legend tells the story of creature of the Far Realm, a Dimensional Shambler. This creature was the perfect thing for kidnapping. It would roam the planes serving some master and abducting whatever it was called to do. These creatures were able to teleport and shift planes at will and could drag most creatures through these shifts with no resistance. It fits the description of this creature perfectly. In the legend it was defeated by a magical slashing sword that caused it tremendous damage.
As you realize what your foe is your first blast crashes into the creature while the second goes wide.
(I also realized that Klin get a free unarmed attacked in the creature as he analyzed it with his flurry of blows and it missed him. He is a complicated little character. attack 23 damage 6)
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"The thing, it's a Dimensional Shambler, it might be vulnerable to magical slashing blades, we must stop it from taking Daventry back to the Far Realm."Ludolf says with desperation, closing in on the abomination.
"No magical slashing here," Triäsa says as she starts casting Force Bolt at the aberration. "That sounds more like Dav's specialty." (Spell Attack: 17 Damage: Unable to parse dice roll. force)
She continues her song again from before, granting Bardic Inspiration to Ludolf this time. (add d8 to one ability check, attack roll, or saving throw, lasts 10 minutes)
Triäsa's magic crashes into the creatures side adding to the wounds the creature accumulates. Her song briefly drowning out the monotone howl from it's insectoid head.
Pardot is up!
Round 2! Fight!
Pardot
Klin
Naked Daventry
Ilam
Sylvarie
Lunoris
Thing of Nightmares (119)
Man in Black
Ludolf
Triäsa
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((lol @ the initiative list saying 'naked daventry' :P))
Pardot looks over to Ludolf and holds up his sickle, saying, "This is a magical blade... Though it's never been used for slashing anything more than grass..."As he says that he slashes it through the air, almost as a practice swing, but still at range and instead simply sending the same star bolt and small fireball towards the being.
BA: star form and star arrow: Attack: 14 Damage: 9 Action: produce flame: Attack: 21 Damage: 5
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Again Pardot's starlight misses it's mark however the flame along the creatures grows, this time engulfing his leg melting the sagging flesh from whatever lies beneath
Klin resumes his onslaught trying to free his friend from the strange appendage. He strikes with his book and fists repeated.
Book Club!:14Damage:9
Kick to the "face": 17Damage: 8
Flurry of Blows!
Kick to the "knee":10Damage: 6
Punch to the "gut":28Damage: 7
Ilam quickly reloads as he shakes the water out his hair
Attack: 13Damage: 4
Sylvarie holds the now conscious and not screaming Fistandia in her arms. She runs with the gnome outside to the courtyard behind bath house hoping to evade the strange creature:
Stealth: 23
Naked, grappled, blind, deaf but not unconscious Daventry you are up! (this is how I amuse myself...)
Pardot
Klin
Naked, grappled, blind, deaf but not unconscious Daventry
Ilam
Sylvarie
Lunoris
Thing of Nightmares (134)
Man in Black
Ludolf
Triäsa
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Everyone else sees the grappled form of Daventry become completely immersed in the tidal wave of Sune's power, her body completely disappearing below the wave for a moment. As the wave subsides, the bright blue runic brands that cover her entire back and arms wash away like old body paint, dripping off her skin like nothing was there. Similarly, the contrasting colors of her white hair with the black streak dissolve away, leaving behind a (wet) strawberry blonde.
She shouts, not in pain, but something more exuberant.
As she does, her body is suffused with a radiant flash of light, which seems to leave a momentary impression of transparent golden armor over her chest and a winged helm on her head.
Two of Klin's four attacks land solidly while Ilam's arrow fall harmless to the ground.
The creature continues to blink in and out of existence moving in it's strange jerky manner, however, the motions are much slower and it take longer for the creature to blink each time. It is as if it's energy has been greatly depleted.
Daventry's transformation seems to puzzle the creature as it shows some sign of awareness for the first time. The shambler raises Daventry and opens it's strange insectoid maw and tries to take a giant bite out of her shoulder.
Perception: 18
Bite Attack: 29Damage: 7Piercing+ 11Force
It again tries to wrap its clawed, elongated arm around Klin
Claw: 19Damage: 11Piercing+ 10Force
Ludolf and Triäsaare up
Pardot
Klin
Naked, grappled, blind, deaf but not unconscious Daventry
Ilam
Sylvarie
Lunoris
Dimensional Shambler (149)
Man in Black
Ludolf
Triäsa
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Awed again, now by Daventry's inspiring transformation, as she had been blessed by Lady Firehair herself, Ludolf turns with renewed resolve to face the nightmarish creature, his gray piercing eyes blasting the abomination with gray crackling eldritch force.
Daventry almost takes a brutal bite attack to exposed skin, but the creature's jaws seem to scrape against an invisible force instead, keeping her innards from going outwards.
As the monster slashes at Klin, Daventry attempts to strike at the creature, but her blindness from the planeshifting makes it difficult to land a lethal blow.
Reaction: Sentinel Attack, rolled a 2 and 20 at disadvantage :(
Triäsa is amazed at Daventry's transformation. She again hurls a mote of magical energy ( Force Bolt at the aberration that is holding Daventry. (Spell Attack: 16 Damage: 4 force)
"We are going to get you free Dav. Just hold on!" She shouts.
Ludolf's first blast misses the creature and crashes into a piece of wet glass behind it. Perhaps it was Sune's linger influence in the water or perhaps he was just lucky but the bolt ricochets and strikes the creature in the back. His second shot takes a more direct route hitting it squarely in the chest.
The creature's movements are sluggish as it blinks very very slowly.
Daventry's impromptu attack misses as she swings blindly and Triäsa bolt misses as well.
Pardot and Daventry can go. I don't have time for a NPC post at the moment but will post when I can later.
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Please hold. There are some rolls there that will require more things to happen... I don't have the chance to make another post at the moment...
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(My god have I been posting alot today...)
Ilam, mostly ignored till now, times a bolt perfectly striking the creature in the shoulder.
Klin nimbly dodges the strange arm attack but Daventry is not as lucky. The arm strikes her solidly and wraps around her waist as it does so. Her skin is cut and torn as the creature's strange joints twist the appendage around her. To your terror you find yourself grappled to the strange creature but it gets worse. Every time the creature blinks and flickers out or reality so do you. Every time you disappear you see a new plane, a new reality. You see everything but you see nothing all at once. The planes and realities change at a horrific pace. While you are grappled you are also blind and deaf from the constant shifting of the time and space.
The Man in Black's gate pulls Lunoris up and out of the water. The motes of energy dim as the happens and the Fey looks down at Sylvarie with sadness, "I love you" She says one last time before she is sucked into the black portal.
Even in the chaos the water of the pool was still. Nothing could disturb the surface of perfect glass... until Sylvarie started weeping. When the first tear hits the water a monsoon rises up out to pool and the chaos triples in the bath house. The huge wave of water does not crash down, instead it takes on the shape of a giant women's face. The bloody water mixes and swirls above you until red settles around that perfect face in a beautiful mop of vibrant, curly red hair.
"NOT HERE" booms the voice with power as the water crashes down on everyone and everything in sight. The Man in Black yells in desperation, "No!" As his form is completely washed away pushed from the room. The nightmare creature staggers but holds it's ground still grappling Daventry.
Daventry you feel a cleansing power, a chance for freedom as you are baptized in the bath house water. You need just let it in and ask for forgiveness. (If you choose this path make a DC15 Con Save)
As the pool is now empty Sylvarie stands quietly in the center holding Fistandia in her arms. The gnome coughs weakly and opens in her eyes.
OK Ludolf and Triäsa you may go. I think I am doing writing chapters for the day ;)
LunorisMan in BlackDM -- The Candlekeep Mysteries 1 & 2 Discord PCs -- Christian Dembele Forum PCs -- Edryd Breckon, Fizzlebit Forton Thornberry the Fourth
Locked in the horror of the planeshifting monster's grip, Daventry feels the wash of the temple's waters across her skin.
She feels the tug of the tome on her mind and heart, the insatiable call for more power. To embrace the secrets of the void, to achieve such magical skill that none could stand in her way. Its constant temptation to dive deeper, seek more. Become more than just a girl from the swamp who stole something not meant for them.
She opens her eyes, and only sees the voidsent abomination gripping her close. At what cost? Either she will eventually be responsible for something so horrid, or... gods forbid, this could very well be her fate.
"Not like this. Not as this. To hell with this power! To hell with you!" she shouts. At the void, at the monster, at the man in black, she shouts, though the others just hear a primal roar from her.
Forgive me.
Daventry Constitution Save: 21.
Aldrik Reinholdt in Dragon Heist
Daventry in The Candlekeep Mysteries, and her bag
Ludolf briefly stands awed by the quick series of dramatic events unfolding before his gray piercing eyes, struck with dismay as the Man in Black let's the darkness of the void devour the pure and innocent Lunaris. Seeing Daventry caught in the twisted claws of the nightmarish creature that once was the faux Jarlaxle, the old man steps foward and calls down a Hex on the creature (Hex, str) to hopefully weaken it's hold on the brave maiden in it's grasp. He then turns his gray piercing eyes on the abomination, blasting it back to it's nightmarish realm with blasts of gray crackling eldritch force.
Eldritch blast: 23 Force: 13 Necrotic: 3
Eldritch blast: 9 Force: 13 Necrotic: 5
Also Arcana roll to determine what kind of creature this abomination is: 26
It would take a crit to ID.... so you crit, this has been wild.
SO! You recall a legend of a creature in your uncle's library. The legend tells the story of creature of the Far Realm, a Dimensional Shambler. This creature was the perfect thing for kidnapping. It would roam the planes serving some master and abducting whatever it was called to do. These creatures were able to teleport and shift planes at will and could drag most creatures through these shifts with no resistance. It fits the description of this creature perfectly. In the legend it was defeated by a magical slashing sword that caused it tremendous damage.
As you realize what your foe is your first blast crashes into the creature while the second goes wide.
(I also realized that Klin get a free unarmed attacked in the creature as he analyzed it with his flurry of blows and it missed him. He is a complicated little character. attack 23 damage 6)
DM -- The Candlekeep Mysteries 1 & 2 Discord PCs -- Christian Dembele Forum PCs -- Edryd Breckon, Fizzlebit Forton Thornberry the Fourth
"The thing, it's a Dimensional Shambler, it might be vulnerable to magical slashing blades, we must stop it from taking Daventry back to the Far Realm." Ludolf says with desperation, closing in on the abomination.
"No magical slashing here," Triäsa says as she starts casting Force Bolt at the aberration. "That sounds more like Dav's specialty."
(Spell Attack: 17 Damage: Unable to parse dice roll. force)
She continues her song again from before, granting Bardic Inspiration to Ludolf this time. (add d8 to one ability check, attack roll, or saving throw, lasts 10 minutes)
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Iromae Quinaea, Cleric || Roxana Raincrest, Rogue || Meira Dheran, Rogue || Qirynna Thadri, Wizard || Crisaryn Melkial, Sorcerer
Triäsa's magic crashes into the creatures side adding to the wounds the creature accumulates. Her song briefly drowning out the monotone howl from it's insectoid head.
Pardot is up!
Round 2! Fight!
LunorisMan in BlackDM -- The Candlekeep Mysteries 1 & 2 Discord PCs -- Christian Dembele Forum PCs -- Edryd Breckon, Fizzlebit Forton Thornberry the Fourth
((lol @ the initiative list saying 'naked daventry' :P))
Pardot looks over to Ludolf and holds up his sickle, saying, "This is a magical blade... Though it's never been used for slashing anything more than grass..." As he says that he slashes it through the air, almost as a practice swing, but still at range and instead simply sending the same star bolt and small fireball towards the being.
BA: star form and star arrow: Attack: 14 Damage: 9
Action: produce flame: Attack: 21 Damage: 5
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Again Pardot's starlight misses it's mark however the flame along the creatures grows, this time engulfing his leg melting the sagging flesh from whatever lies beneath
Klin resumes his onslaught trying to free his friend from the strange appendage. He strikes with his book and fists repeated.
Book Club!: 14 Damage: 9
Kick to the "face": 17 Damage: 8
Flurry of Blows!
Kick to the "knee": 10 Damage: 6
Punch to the "gut": 28 Damage: 7
Ilam quickly reloads as he shakes the water out his hair
Attack: 13 Damage: 4
Sylvarie holds the now conscious and not screaming Fistandia in her arms. She runs with the gnome outside to the courtyard behind bath house hoping to evade the strange creature:
Stealth: 23
Naked, grappled, blind, deaf but not unconscious Daventry you are up! (this is how I amuse myself...)
LunorisMan in BlackDM -- The Candlekeep Mysteries 1 & 2 Discord PCs -- Christian Dembele Forum PCs -- Edryd Breckon, Fizzlebit Forton Thornberry the Fourth
Everyone else sees the grappled form of Daventry become completely immersed in the tidal wave of Sune's power, her body completely disappearing below the wave for a moment. As the wave subsides, the bright blue runic brands that cover her entire back and arms wash away like old body paint, dripping off her skin like nothing was there. Similarly, the contrasting colors of her white hair with the black streak dissolve away, leaving behind a (wet) strawberry blonde.
She shouts, not in pain, but something more exuberant.
As she does, her body is suffused with a radiant flash of light, which seems to leave a momentary impression of transparent golden armor over her chest and a winged helm on her head.
Action: What? Heal 25 hp.
Bonus Action: Huh? +2 AC.
Aldrik Reinholdt in Dragon Heist
Daventry in The Candlekeep Mysteries, and her bag
Two of Klin's four attacks land solidly while Ilam's arrow fall harmless to the ground.
The creature continues to blink in and out of existence moving in it's strange jerky manner, however, the motions are much slower and it take longer for the creature to blink each time. It is as if it's energy has been greatly depleted.
Daventry's transformation seems to puzzle the creature as it shows some sign of awareness for the first time. The shambler raises Daventry and opens it's strange insectoid maw and tries to take a giant bite out of her shoulder.
Perception: 18
Bite Attack: 29 Damage: 7 Piercing + 11 Force
It again tries to wrap its clawed, elongated arm around Klin
Claw: 19 Damage: 11 Piercing + 10 Force
Ludolf and Triäsa are up
LunorisMan in BlackDM -- The Candlekeep Mysteries 1 & 2 Discord PCs -- Christian Dembele Forum PCs -- Edryd Breckon, Fizzlebit Forton Thornberry the Fourth
Awed again, now by Daventry's inspiring transformation, as she had been blessed by Lady Firehair herself, Ludolf turns with renewed resolve to face the nightmarish creature, his gray piercing eyes blasting the abomination with gray crackling eldritch force.
Eldritch Blast: 11 Force: 11 Necrotic: 6
Eldritch Blast: 18 Force: 8 Necrotic: 3
+5 psychic damage from maddening hex
( Using Triäsa's bardic inspiration on the first attack + 1 )
( Gah, using final lucky reroll on that attack: 20 )
Daventry almost takes a brutal bite attack to exposed skin, but the creature's jaws seem to scrape against an invisible force instead, keeping her innards from going outwards.
As the monster slashes at Klin, Daventry attempts to strike at the creature, but her blindness from the planeshifting makes it difficult to land a lethal blow.
Reaction: Sentinel Attack, rolled a 2 and 20 at disadvantage :(
Aldrik Reinholdt in Dragon Heist
Daventry in The Candlekeep Mysteries, and her bag
Triäsa is amazed at Daventry's transformation. She again hurls a mote of magical energy ( Force Bolt at the aberration that is holding Daventry.
(Spell Attack: 16 Damage: 4 force)
"We are going to get you free Dav. Just hold on!" She shouts.
Rabbit Sebrica, Sorcerer || Skarai, Monk || Lokilia Vaelphin, Druid || Liivi Orav, Barbarian || Vanizi, Warlock || Britari / Halila Talgeta / Jesa Gumovi || Neital Rhessil, Wizard
Iromae Quinaea, Cleric || Roxana Raincrest, Rogue || Meira Dheran, Rogue || Qirynna Thadri, Wizard || Crisaryn Melkial, Sorcerer
Ludolf's first blast misses the creature and crashes into a piece of wet glass behind it. Perhaps it was Sune's linger influence in the water or perhaps he was just lucky but the bolt ricochets and strikes the creature in the back. His second shot takes a more direct route hitting it squarely in the chest.
The creature's movements are sluggish as it blinks very very slowly.
Daventry's impromptu attack misses as she swings blindly and Triäsa bolt misses as well.
Pardot and Daventry can go. I don't have time for a NPC post at the moment but will post when I can later.
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Daventry tries to wiggle free of the creatures grasp, taking advantage of its distraction.
Action: Acrobatics to escape: 18
(No move or BA)
Aldrik Reinholdt in Dragon Heist
Daventry in The Candlekeep Mysteries, and her bag
(For whatever it's worth, the Dimensional Shambler has disadvantage on Str checks due to Ludolf's Hex)