Forest of Wonders DMless West Marches - Always Recruiting [Game Thread]

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A pile of kindling shivers, and stands up reveling itself to be four twig blights. These creatures seem mad at being gathered for firewood, and they attack! 

Gordon is not stealthing. Initiative: 13

The blights need initiative too! 6

Ini Blights: 7

Ini Rizo: 9

(for brevity I just rolled the ini for all blights, I guess we can assume it is within 20 feet range around us? Or should we roll for that?)

(given that Rizo has higher Ini than the blights, I just skip forward, sorry Dorian if I cut you, please feel free to do you turn if you can act before the blights)

Riyphou watches in surprise as the kindling begins to move. Thankfully, it is not very fast and he had time to prepare himself for this foe that he quickly recognises. He storms off towards the nearest blight, imbuing his club while running (Bonus action Shillelagh), and places his shield in between him and his enemy, before he brings down his club on the poor creature. 

Attack with Club (Shillelagh): Attack: 5 Damage: 2

(Lol, we had the same idea and got almost the same number :P They really are slow)

One twig blight fractures from Riyphou's blow and sinks down, remaining motionless.

Gordon will lift up a twig blight (grapple: 16 vs. 12) and put it in the fire pit. Page 249 of the DMG says that "stumbling into a fire pit" deals around 2d10 damage. So, if the grapple was successful, 11 fire damage to the blight. 

The blight goes up in flames, as that was more than five times the damage needed to kill it. Two left. 

Dorian sees the 4 twig surrounding the group. Finally, something to hit. He charges in and begins to attack the twigs surrounding.

initiative: 22

He will look at the twigs and begin to get angry. As he shouts with rage his finger nails extend to long claws . He quickly lashes out and attacks two of the twigs in quick succession.

Bonus action: Rage

Action: (2 claw attacks)

To hit: 9. Damage: 8
To hit: 17. Damage: 5

Consumed by battle rage, Dorian furiously strikes at the twig blights but his claws could not penetrate their bark. 

Within mere seconds since they attacked the group, two of the four blights have been put down. The two remaining twig blights attack at random in their fury. (1d6 - 1/2 Rizo, 3/4 Gordon, 5/6 Dorian)

(ooc: I'm sorry, I don't know what happened with the dice rolls. I get conflicting results for the post and the tooltip and when I tried to repair it, now I have the message that they are potentially manipulated. I try it here one more time but if it keeps failing me, please, can one of you roll for the blights? For brevity, in that case I'd say that Rizo misses this turn.)

The first twig blight attacks: 6, with a claw.

Attack: 12 Damage: 3

The second one attacks: 5, with a claw.

Attack: 4 Damage: 2

(If there is still one of the blights standing when it is his turn:)

Riyphou turns from the shattered twig blight to the closest one and brings down his club with a crushing blow. 

Attack: 11 Damage: 8

(Yeah, it worked now in the previous post. Didn't want to touch it with an edit, though :P The corrupted one is deleted in case anyone wonders. Please, go ahead and dispose of these bothersome twig blights. )

Dorian will continue to fight the remaining twigs in his rage with his claws.

To hit: 21. Damage: 5

To hit: 8. Damage: 8

Last one is a critical so and extra 5

Dorian's fury was only incited when his claws barely scratched the blights. Barely under control he threw himself on them, ravaging the twig blights to the point that only splinters remained. 

(Good work! That was our first threat, let's see what will be next.Mike_290490 will you roll us a new d20 and describe briefly what happens?) 

(Sure thing, I’ll keep us in the same area and introduce a new threat.)

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(Um… this doesn’t look good). As the party of three defeats the twigs at the camp a large copper dragon flies into view. It shadow covers the camp in darkness as the dragon descents to the party. Angry and annoyed the dragon speaks to the band, with an arrogance in its voice. Little mortals. Your kind have always been a tasty snack. He chuckles ever so slightly. But perhaps you can aid me and I will spare you, this time. I demand to know where Sylpeiros Greenvalen is. I seek a puny mage that is supposedly in the area. Give me the information or I’ll make a meal out of you all. The dragon lifts its head as acid starts to drip out of the corner of its mouth. It seems to be preparing to attack any who stand against him. Judging by the size of the dragon, it was quite old and powerful.

(Can I hop in on this fight? If I can, i would hop in as someone who has been pestering the dragon, and following him)

(Given that Rizo has the best scores in either, he can try. I guess you can chime in and help and give advantage, in that case just roll a +2 check and we assume the higher. That said, I believe it is just a Wyrmling due to our level: https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/copper-dragon-wyrmling I think we can handle it even if it doesn't go away.)

"Oh dear, Sylpeiros Greenvalen you say," Rizo claps his hand onto his side, "The Archmage? I fear I must tell you that you just missed him." Shaking his head in disbelieve, "We had lunch together an hour ago when we happened upon each other on the road. What an illustrious fellow. Maybe you can still catch him if you make haste. He was a bit in hurry, too, so don't dally. He went towards the town of Dolsela." 

Deception (DC 17): 

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(Can I hop in on this fight? If I can, i would hop in as someone who has been pestering the dragon, and following him)

(I don't know. We can also just do another one as soon as we get back. It does seem a bit contrived to add people in the middle, I don't really want to set the precedent. Still, if the other two really want this, I bow to the majority. )