“Where are you going? Don’t be shy now”, Rum calls as the queen resists his stun and flees, dodging out the way of his final attempt to stop her.
He quietly thanks the Great Dragon for bringing the cloak into his possession, as the swarm of spiders jump him but fail to strike true passed the illusion the cloak produces.
As he looks to follow the queen, he tries to move and finds his legs covered in webbing. He strains against it and manages to break free, jumping up and grabbing hold of some vines above him.
He quickly scrambles upwards, trying to avoid the spider creatures attacks as he marshals the inner wellspring of speed his feline form provides. He then swings across the vines and roots hanging from the ceiling of the cavern, moving in the direction of the queen and trying to spot where she went.
“Come out, come out, wherever you are”, he chants as he looks for the queen, his tattoo flaring brightly as he moves.
Action: Strength Save (with Bardic Inspiration) - 3+7+4 = 14 (Success - no longer restrained) Special: Feline Agility (doubles his movement speed to 80ft walking and climbing) Movement: Up the vines dangling down next to him and across the ceiling after the queen as far as he can get Perception: 13+8=21 to spot the queen. Bonus Action: Activates the Eldritch Claw Tattoo - Eldritch Maul feature Defence: Until he takes damage any attacks are at disadvantage against him Reaction: He does have reactions, will post again if applicable
More than half of the Gohmas around Rum try to bite him as he flees but are unable to. With him out of the way, they begin to fall back, spiked peril be damned, into the darkness and the fog. Part of them follow him, leaping up to the ceiling and then disappearing into the roots and vines, darkness and fog, while several of them try to run through the spiked trap to escape. Those that run through the spikes die. Four of them stop moving and curl up on themselves as they go, while a fifth, one of the bigger ones, gets pretty scratched up but escapes to hide itself in the dark.
Only four Gohmas remain visible. The rest, including the Guard Gohma, disappear into the darkness and fog...
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Greko Tuto Big Gohma Lelith Ro Oten Kora Rum Big Gohma Sorry Small Gohma
Greko walks up to the edge of the thorns and lets his bright persona light up in front of him 10 feet and dimly another 10 feet beyond. He notices one of the larger Gohma spiders struggling to escape being injured by his thorns. Greko holds his concentration, bends down and takes one of the vines with the thorns on it. He speaks loudly in Druidic casting thorn whip. The vine in his hand shoots out at the foul creature pulling it back to what is certain to be its death.
Lelith blended perfectly into the shadows and the roots, seemingly entirely invisible, her keen eyes were on the hunt. Her prey will not escape. It will die by her hand one way or another. And so her powerful senses found her finally. Lelith moved with precision out of her hiding place, she still blended in with the environment around her as she carefully aimed at her target before nocking two arrows at it.
Lelith's arrows hit their mark; a loud screech echoes through the cavern. The Queen turns and moves again...with smaller Gohmas falling from her as she goes that immediately begin to scatter into the cavern.
Ro, being too far away to see, and with no verbal indicator of the Queen's position, is unable to do anything to stop her latest retreat. He climbs down to the floor below, preparing to go in search of her.
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Greko Tuto Lelith Ro Oten Kora Rum Big Gohma Sorry Small Gohma
This post has potentially manipulated dice roll results.
Oten peers into the gloom, but can't make out any shapes. Hefting his javelin, he runs off in the direction he last heard the Queen, ready to strike down any Gohma that come into view.
Readied attack: Attack 1: 14 Damage: 8
Attack 2: 17 Damage: 9
Condition: Attacks if he sees a Gohma that he can be sure isn't his comrade.
Rum accidentally bumps into a hanging tendril of some sort, and is immediately grabbed by the incredibly sticky fiber of the thing and is hauled toward it. Claws lash out, missing at first...then sinking in deep...
The Gohmas come out of nowhere, like they've seen Lelith the whole time. Like they've known her every movement. She is swarmed with terrifying efficiency. She see's them as they emerge from the dark fog all around her and is able to defend, killing the element of their surprise, but there are many. She dodges the first, but is instantly covered in webbing. More web is sprayed past her with no effect. A Guard Gohma leaps from the dark and continues to wind her in webs. As this is happening, a small Gohma lands on her back and buries its fangs in her while one of its brethren misses completely. One Gohma that she hadn't even seen yet appears next to her face, fangs flashing.
Sorry slides down from their elevated place near the entrance and stalks forward, trying to see what she can.
Lelith finds herself getting surrounded by even more Gohmas. More fail to bite her, until one of the Guard Gohmas grabs her and sinks its fangs into her lower back.
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Greko Tuto Lelith Ro Oten Kora Rum Crablike Critter Small Gohma Big Gohma Big Gohma Guard Gohma Big Gohma Small Gohma Small Gohma Small Gohma Small Gohma Sorry Small Gohma Big Gohma Small Gohma Small Gohma Guard Gohma
Lelith let out a blood-curdling scream as she felt Death itself brush her soul with a tender hand. Her anger flared and she did not hold back her curses. "You demented, blithering, lamebrained pieces of SHIT! I will flay you alive and feed you to mongrels, inferior wretches!"
Rum get’s dragged up by the tendril, the creatures claws digging deep into his shoulder. The creature attempts to wrap the tendril around him and restrain him, but he digs in deep and marshal’s his strength, managing to fend it off.
But as he escapes it’s clutches and it let’s go, he falls down the 20 feet it had lifted him.
Channeling the dragon within, spectral draconic wings once more emerge from his back and he floats gently to the ground.
He looks up at the crab like creature, the same type that had snagged Lelith before. “Uh-uh, don’t be too friendly, I like my personal space”, he admonishes it.
Strength Save (Disadvantage): (14, 17) + 4 =18 (Success)
Reaction: Slow Fall - Reduces falling damage by 25
Greko hears Lelith yell and loses concentration on his spike growth spell with concern for her. He quickly changes his twinkle to that of a chalice continuing to burn brightly for 10 feet and dimly another 10. He moves up, cautiously, until he can see Lelith.
"O? O?!?" Tuto shudders at first, thinking a tiny spider has landed on him, then holds his chest when he notices the familiar fairy. Lelith's cry of pain calls his attention, and he rushes over without a thought, making a b-line for the Guard Gohma.
Attack: 18 Damage: Unable to parse dice roll.
Bonus Attack: Attack: 19 Damage: 3
Will use Defensive flourish if first attack hits: 8
Lelith quickly retrieved a potion from her Bag of Holding and downed it in one go, she felt her wounds mending slightly and her bleeding stop. That'll have to do for now. She quickly moved a dozen or so feet in the air to avoid any more attacks.
Ro looks at the alcove that Rum had previously yelled was the Queen Gohma's last location. With the help of his friend's directions, his darkvision and his bullseye lantern; Ro could make out the queen's form deep within the alcove. The wizard begins to chant, "Should you dark creatures flee into the night, we, the Twilight Embers, shall drag you into the light!"
The space around the Queen Gohma begins to distort and warp. This distortion attempts to wrap itself around the queen, trying to teleport her to a clearing nearby Lelith, Rum and Ro where the party can better lay the hurt on the queen.
Action: cast Vortex Warp on the Queen Gohma Queen must succeed a DC 16 Con Save or be teleported to the purple star in the provided image.
"Damn, I can hardy see a thing," Oten rumbles, piviting to look in the last reported location of the Gohma Queen. With that, he dashes 60 ft in her direction and tosses his light-emitting device, hoping to get a visual.
The light darts through the dark and near the recess in the far end of the cavern. It illuminates more than a few arachnid-legs as Gohmas begin slipping into the dark and the camouflage of the roots.
Kora hears Lelith's cry and zooms forward into the dark, their soft blue glow faintly illuminating the cavern.
"Hey! Do you need help!?" The little Fairy calls as she goes.
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Greko Tuto Lelith Ro Oten Kora Rum Crablike Critter Small Gohma Big Gohma Big Gohma Guard Gohma Big Gohma Small Gohma Small Gohma Small Gohma Small Gohma Sorry Small Gohma Big Gohma Small Gohma Small Gohma Guard Gohma
Rum looks across to where Lelith screamed, noticing she moved up and out of a large group of spider creatures. He then looks up at the ceiling at the crab-like creature.
“Choices, choices”, he says with a grin.
“Shoo, Crabbie!”, he says to the crab creature and aims an upper cut at it. His tattoo flares and fiery ink tendrils flow from his fist toward it, looking to strike it in an eye.
He then turns back to the group of spider creatures under Lelith. He carefully moves towards them, looking to avoid any more traps.
“Leave her alone, friend Lelith is not a people person, and definitely not a spider person!”, he says before he once again gets that fur ball feeling. Arching his back he then suddenly brings his muzzle forward and a spray of lightning flows from his mouth, engulfing the group of creatures.
As the static flickers from them, his eyes lock on the biggest of them, the guard. He spins around doing a roundhouse kick and once again his tattoo flares and fiery ink tendrils flow from his foot toward it.
He calls back over his shoulder to the others, “Slow going getting to that Queen, hey fellow Embers”.
Movement: 10ft Action: Draconic Strike (with eldritch maul) on Crablike Critter: 12+9=21 Damage: 1+6=7[fire], 3 [force], Total = 10 Breath of the Dragon on the group of Gohma where Lelith was: Damage: 6+1=7 [lightning], DC 19Dex save to take 3. 20ft cone or 30ft line (whichever hits most. Hoping 20ft cone would get them all!) Bonus Action: Draconic Strike (with eldritch maul) on Guard Gohma: 5+9=14 Damage: 5+6=11[fire], 2 [force], Total = 13 Defense: Until he takes damage any attacks are at disadvantage against him Reaction: He does have reactions, will post again if applicable
“Where are you going? Don’t be shy now”, Rum calls as the queen resists his stun and flees, dodging out the way of his final attempt to stop her.
He quietly thanks the Great Dragon for bringing the cloak into his possession, as the swarm of spiders jump him but fail to strike true passed the illusion the cloak produces.
As he looks to follow the queen, he tries to move and finds his legs covered in webbing. He strains against it and manages to break free, jumping up and grabbing hold of some vines above him.
He quickly scrambles upwards, trying to avoid the spider creatures attacks as he marshals the inner wellspring of speed his feline form provides. He then swings across the vines and roots hanging from the ceiling of the cavern, moving in the direction of the queen and trying to spot where she went.
“Come out, come out, wherever you are”, he chants as he looks for the queen, his tattoo flaring brightly as he moves.
Action: Strength Save (with Bardic Inspiration) - 3+7+4 = 14 (Success - no longer restrained)
Special: Feline Agility (doubles his movement speed to 80ft walking and climbing)
Movement: Up the vines dangling down next to him and across the ceiling after the queen as far as he can get
Perception: 13+8=21 to spot the queen.
Bonus Action: Activates the Eldritch Claw Tattoo - Eldritch Maul feature
Defence: Until he takes damage any attacks are at disadvantage against him
Reaction: He does have reactions, will post again if applicable
More than half of the Gohmas around Rum try to bite him as he flees but are unable to. With him out of the way, they begin to fall back, spiked peril be damned, into the darkness and the fog. Part of them follow him, leaping up to the ceiling and then disappearing into the roots and vines, darkness and fog, while several of them try to run through the spiked trap to escape. Those that run through the spikes die. Four of them stop moving and curl up on themselves as they go, while a fifth, one of the bigger ones, gets pretty scratched up but escapes to hide itself in the dark.
Only four Gohmas remain visible. The rest, including the Guard Gohma, disappear into the darkness and fog...
Updated Post Order
Greko
Tuto
Big Gohma
Lelith
Ro
Oten
Kora
Rum
Big Gohma
Sorry
Small Gohma
It is Greko's turn
DM of AURYN: The Measure of Devotion - Escape from New York
Greko walks up to the edge of the thorns and lets his bright persona light up in front of him 10 feet and dimly another 10 feet beyond. He notices one of the larger Gohma spiders struggling to escape being injured by his thorns. Greko holds his concentration, bends down and takes one of the vines with the thorns on it. He speaks loudly in Druidic casting thorn whip. The vine in his hand shoots out at the foul creature pulling it back to what is certain to be its death.
20
Damage: 2d6 (5, 6) [magical piercing] =
11
Tuto continues his pumpkin carving of the big gohma.
Attack: 20 Damage: 5
Bonus action: Attack: 19 Damage: 4
Greko's whip catches the Gohma and drags it onto the thorns, skewering it. It curls up, dead.
Another Gohma scurries into the shadows and disappears. The cavern goes eerily quiet...
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Greko
Tuto
Lelith
Ro
Oten
Kora
Rum
Sorry
Small Gohma
It is Lelith's turn
DM of AURYN: The Measure of Devotion - Escape from New York
Lelith blended perfectly into the shadows and the roots, seemingly entirely invisible, her keen eyes were on the hunt. Her prey will not escape. It will die by her hand one way or another. And so her powerful senses found her finally. Lelith moved with precision out of her hiding place, she still blended in with the environment around her as she carefully aimed at her target before nocking two arrows at it.
Stealth Roll: 21
Perception Roll: 26
First Attack:
To Hit: 1d20 (6) + 9 = 19
Damage: 1d8 (5) + 6 [piercing] + 4 [Dreadful Strikes] + 4 [Hunter's Mark] = 19
Second Attack:
To Hit: 1d20 (11) + 9 = 20
Damage: 1d8 (1) + 6 [piercing] + 1 [Hunter's Mark] = 10
Lelith's arrows hit their mark; a loud screech echoes through the cavern. The Queen turns and moves again...with smaller Gohmas falling from her as she goes that immediately begin to scatter into the cavern.
Ro, being too far away to see, and with no verbal indicator of the Queen's position, is unable to do anything to stop her latest retreat. He climbs down to the floor below, preparing to go in search of her.
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Greko
Tuto
Lelith
Ro
Oten
Kora
Rum
Big Gohma
Sorry
Small Gohma
It is Oten's turn
DM of AURYN: The Measure of Devotion - Escape from New York
Oten peers into the gloom, but can't make out any shapes. Hefting his javelin, he runs off in the direction he last heard the Queen, ready to strike down any Gohma that come into view.
Readied attack: Attack 1: 14 Damage: 8
Attack 2: 17 Damage: 9
Condition: Attacks if he sees a Gohma that he can be sure isn't his comrade.
1d20 Roll for navigating the cavern: 16
Oten's first javelin toss doesn't hit, but the second pierces the poorly hidden Big Gohma in its upper abdomen, leaving a nasty wound.
Kora flutters over to Tuto, sitting down on his shoulder and leaning against his head. She says some soft words, and he feels soothed.
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Greko
Tuto
Lelith
Ro
Oten
Kora
Rum
Big Gohma
Sorry
Small Gohma
It is Rum's turn
DM of AURYN: The Measure of Devotion - Escape from New York
Rum follows the path the Queen made, making his way to a large hole in the wall.
”Don’t hide, come out and face me with honour!”, he calls into the hole, indicating to the others where she is.
He then activates his Dragonhide Belt, whilst standing in the gap meaning the queen would have to pass him to leave it.
Movement: 35ft towards the hole the Queen went into.
Action: Use Dragonhide Belt to recover 4 Ki
Defense: Until he takes damage any attacks are at disadvantage against him
Reaction: He does have reactions, will post again if applicable
Rum accidentally bumps into a hanging tendril of some sort, and is immediately grabbed by the incredibly sticky fiber of the thing and is hauled toward it. Claws lash out, missing at first...then sinking in deep...
The Gohmas come out of nowhere, like they've seen Lelith the whole time. Like they've known her every movement. She is swarmed with terrifying efficiency. She see's them as they emerge from the dark fog all around her and is able to defend, killing the element of their surprise, but there are many. She dodges the first, but is instantly covered in webbing. More web is sprayed past her with no effect. A Guard Gohma leaps from the dark and continues to wind her in webs. As this is happening, a small Gohma lands on her back and buries its fangs in her while one of its brethren misses completely. One Gohma that she hadn't even seen yet appears next to her face, fangs flashing.
Sorry slides down from their elevated place near the entrance and stalks forward, trying to see what she can.
Lelith finds herself getting surrounded by even more Gohmas. More fail to bite her, until one of the Guard Gohmas grabs her and sinks its fangs into her lower back.
Updated Post Order
Greko
Tuto
Lelith
Ro
Oten
Kora
Rum
Crablike Critter
Small Gohma
Big Gohma
Big Gohma
Guard Gohma
Big Gohma
Small Gohma
Small Gohma
Small Gohma
Small Gohma
Sorry
Small Gohma
Big Gohma
Small Gohma
Small Gohma
Guard Gohma
It is Greko's turn
DM of AURYN: The Measure of Devotion - Escape from New York
Lelith let out a blood-curdling scream as she felt Death itself brush her soul with a tender hand. Her anger flared and she did not hold back her curses. "You demented, blithering, lamebrained pieces of SHIT! I will flay you alive and feed you to mongrels, inferior wretches!"
Rum get’s dragged up by the tendril, the creatures claws digging deep into his shoulder. The creature attempts to wrap the tendril around him and restrain him, but he digs in deep and marshal’s his strength, managing to fend it off.
But as he escapes it’s clutches and it let’s go, he falls down the 20 feet it had lifted him.
Channeling the dragon within, spectral draconic wings once more emerge from his back and he floats gently to the ground.
He looks up at the crab like creature, the same type that had snagged Lelith before. “Uh-uh, don’t be too friendly, I like my personal space”, he admonishes it.
Strength Save (Disadvantage): (14, 17) + 4 =18 (Success)
Reaction: Slow Fall - Reduces falling damage by 25
Greko hears Lelith yell and loses concentration on his spike growth spell with concern for her. He quickly changes his twinkle to that of a chalice continuing to burn brightly for 10 feet and dimly another 10. He moves up, cautiously, until he can see Lelith.
3 or a 6 d20 roll
13 perception roll to see Lelith.
"O? O?!?" Tuto shudders at first, thinking a tiny spider has landed on him, then holds his chest when he notices the familiar fairy. Lelith's cry of pain calls his attention, and he rushes over without a thought, making a b-line for the Guard Gohma.
Attack: 18 Damage: Unable to parse dice roll.
Bonus Attack: Attack: 19 Damage: 3
Will use Defensive flourish if first attack hits: 8
Lelith quickly retrieved a potion from her Bag of Holding and downed it in one go, she felt her wounds mending slightly and her bleeding stop. That'll have to do for now. She quickly moved a dozen or so feet in the air to avoid any more attacks.
Ro looks at the alcove that Rum had previously yelled was the Queen Gohma's last location. With the help of his friend's directions, his darkvision and his bullseye lantern; Ro could make out the queen's form deep within the alcove. The wizard begins to chant, "Should you dark creatures flee into the night, we, the Twilight Embers, shall drag you into the light!"
The space around the Queen Gohma begins to distort and warp. This distortion attempts to wrap itself around the queen, trying to teleport her to a clearing nearby Lelith, Rum and Ro where the party can better lay the hurt on the queen.
Ro Aleron (Ro the Red) -> Illithid, Wizard 8 (Chronugist) // AURYN
"Damn, I can hardy see a thing," Oten rumbles, piviting to look in the last reported location of the Gohma Queen. With that, he dashes 60 ft in her direction and tosses his light-emitting device, hoping to get a visual.
The light darts through the dark and near the recess in the far end of the cavern. It illuminates more than a few arachnid-legs as Gohmas begin slipping into the dark and the camouflage of the roots.
Kora hears Lelith's cry and zooms forward into the dark, their soft blue glow faintly illuminating the cavern.
"Hey! Do you need help!?" The little Fairy calls as she goes.
Updated Post Order
Greko
Tuto
Lelith
Ro
Oten
Kora
Rum
Crablike Critter
Small Gohma
Big Gohma
Big Gohma
Guard Gohma
Big Gohma
Small Gohma
Small Gohma
Small Gohma
Small Gohma
Sorry
Small Gohma
Big Gohma
Small Gohma
Small Gohma
Guard Gohma
It is Rum's turn
DM of AURYN: The Measure of Devotion - Escape from New York
Rum looks across to where Lelith screamed, noticing she moved up and out of a large group of spider creatures. He then looks up at the ceiling at the crab-like creature.
“Choices, choices”, he says with a grin.
“Shoo, Crabbie!”, he says to the crab creature and aims an upper cut at it. His tattoo flares and fiery ink tendrils flow from his fist toward it, looking to strike it in an eye.
He then turns back to the group of spider creatures under Lelith. He carefully moves towards them, looking to avoid any more traps.
“Leave her alone, friend Lelith is not a people person, and definitely not a spider person!”, he says before he once again gets that fur ball feeling. Arching his back he then suddenly brings his muzzle forward and a spray of lightning flows from his mouth, engulfing the group of creatures.
As the static flickers from them, his eyes lock on the biggest of them, the guard. He spins around doing a roundhouse kick and once again his tattoo flares and fiery ink tendrils flow from his foot toward it.
He calls back over his shoulder to the others, “Slow going getting to that Queen, hey fellow Embers”.
Movement: 10ft
Action:
Draconic Strike (with eldritch maul) on Crablike Critter: 12+9=21 Damage: 1+6=7 [fire], 3 [force], Total = 10
Breath of the Dragon on the group of Gohma where Lelith was: Damage: 6+1=7 [lightning], DC 19 Dex save to take 3. 20ft cone or 30ft line (whichever hits most. Hoping 20ft cone would get them all!)
Bonus Action:
Draconic Strike (with eldritch maul) on Guard Gohma: 5+9=14 Damage: 5+6=11 [fire], 2 [force], Total = 13
Defense: Until he takes damage any attacks are at disadvantage against him
Reaction: He does have reactions, will post again if applicable