Johnathan is unable to react as the hit from Ralik causes him to fall to the ground. The attack from Vigo also causes him to fail another death saving through.
Dageron uses all his effort and barrels towards Johnathan (Movement 30', +Action: Dash, +Action 2: Dash). He stops between Ralik and Johnathan, hoping to redirect the onslaught. At Ralik he growls, "He is already dead. Fight me you weak-willed traitorous puppet!"
The vampire previously guarding the door springs into action, crossing the room toward Ralik, Dageron, and Johnathan, seemingly attracted by the smell of blood on the battlefield...
Vigo steps back into the room, moving toward the fireplace again, near where he had been sitting.
"Little piss ant." Vigo says with a snarl, focusing on Dageron. "It is almost your turn! Wait for it!"
His hand flicks out and his fingers snap before there is a thunderous explosion against Dageron's chest. If Dageron is unable to defend himself, he is thrown backwards, hitting the wall where the bookshelf is and falling prone...
Turn Summary
Carpathian Vampire B Movement: Moves behind Ralik
Vigo the Carpathian Movement: Moves 10 feet back into the room Action- Attack w/ Disruptive Thunder: Targeting Dageron. 21 to hit. 28 thunder damage. 1 bludgeoning damage from wall impact.
Post Order
Ralik (DM) Vigo the Carpathian Johnathan Dageron DM Shavaris Travin DM Adam DM
Coughing and spitting from the shit that got in her lungs she lashes out at the vampire again,
Attack: 24, Dam: 11
Next attack, nat 1
Sneak attack damage: 11
She then disengages and follows Travin down the hole. As she does, Eloise unleashes her incantation and attacks the vampire as well (same one that Shav was fighting)
Travin hearing the continued fighting and the voice of Vigo once again, becomes worried about his friends, why had Vigo left just to return? What had he fetched? What does he mean 'its almost your turn'? Who is he talking to?
Travin clambers on the desks of the office tables to the south of him to get a better look at what is going on. As he spies Vigo he knows what he must do. Not knowing the irony of his next attack Tracing brings out a golden statuette a perfect mould of Jonathan's hand with a middle finger raised to the sky, Trav points it at what he can see of Vigo and screams out "ABRAAAAA-KAAAAAA-FUUUUUUCKYOUUUUU!" Smashing the golden obscenity in his hands a streak of force pierces through the hole in the floor blasting the area around it up and out everything is chaos and everyone within a 300ft area momentarily deafened from the blast, (17 to hit, Vigo makes a DC 16 Con save taking 43 force damage on a fail and 21 on success, this attack ignores resistance. If that misses willing to use a tides of chaos to reroll the attack)
The Carpathian Vampire dies in the onslaught from Shavaris and Eloise before its sickly pale body collapses to the floor and begins to break down, the black goo that makes up its blood flowing freely onto the floor.
It's Vigo, though, that looks most surprised when the Dawn Guard begins to rally. He would have never in all his life considered the pile of depressed garbage that comprised Travin Tiller to be a threat. He is rocked by the power of Travin's attack and knocked backwards as the glass windows beyond shatter and spray outward into the night. He has time to have a surprised look on his face before he is blown through the hole and into the night sky...
Seeing what has happened to its master, the hulking pet in the hallway reacts. There are green sparks that begin to flash around Travin's head...
Turn Summary
Vigo the Carpathian Fails Con Save (NAT 1!) and gets blown out the window into open air!
Vigo's Pet Action- Casts a Spell on Travin Tiller...
Updated Post Order
Ralik (DM) Vigo the Carpathian Johnathan Dageron DM Shavaris DM Travin DM Adam DM
Travin grabs his head in pain, and then his shoulders slump, when he looks up again his eyes are half closed, the spark of any sentience behind them completely gone, drool spools from his mouth as he slowly turns to Shavaris and says "brrrullll ahaaaaabob. Seluffffrin tabibbly yeeeeeh!" and then begins trying to eat the handle of his chainsaw.
(Travin is under the effects of feeblemind, no idea for how long, maybe permanent?)
Adam moves east, saying “Johnathan!” as he runs, jumping over the table if necessary. He uses a point of ki to travel further during the round, hoping to reach Johnathan’s body from the south. When he does, he pulls out a potion of healing and forces it down his mouth, hoping to heal him and raise him up. “Not leaving a man behind….” Adam says as he does so.
((Adam will use action surge if needed to reach him, but uses a point of Ki for Step of the Wind and hopefully reaches him.))
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A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
Adam doesn't need action surge as he vaults the table and grabs his friend, stuffing the healing potion into his mouth. It does, however, create a bad situation, where a bulk of the Dawn Guard is suddenly clustered in one corner.
Vigo breaks down into the dark mist again, floating with ease back into the building through the hole he was blown out of and rematerializing just inside. The winds of New York City howl around the hole, whipping the white hair of the seeming immortal.
A grin, malicious, malevelant, and mirthful tugs his mouth.
"I'm a little disappointed in Lord Vader." He says, maintaining his defiant, powerful stance. A stance that indicates he believes that he is in control of the situation. "He made the lot of you seem much more dangerous than you really are. No matter. Hyboria will soon be destroyed, and every dream, every hope humanity ever had will killed with it, and this world will be mine."
He gently makes a blowing action with his mouth, and a cloud of green vapor appears all around Dageron, Johnathan, Adam, and Ralik. Even the Carpathian Vampire is caught in it.
Vigo's pet floats down the hallway, pulling itself along with chains and tendrils of gore at a slow but steady pace. The chains swipe out, tearing down even more of the wall and leaving another pillar in bad shape, while the terrible smell and creeping miasma of the pet seeps into the room.
Vigo's hold over Ralik is finally broken when the warrior is hit by the damage from the cloud of death. He gasps, the break catching him off guard, inhaling a huge lungful of toxins. He begins to cough and weaken, not looking good as he looks around, wildeyed and terrified.
The Carpathian continues to watch, his disturbing grin growing wider.
"May as well finish what I started." He says, attacking again with his life sucking power. Her targets Ralik, with blood being pulled from his eyes and ears and mouth, even his scalp, to cross the room to Vigo, before returning his concentration to Johnathan. "To throw away the gift I have given you? To dare challenge me? To defy me and break my spell? To the grave with you."
The building shakes, and there is a rumbling reverberation that travels through its very foundation. There are noises before. Some the dull sounds of materials breaking, others the sharp tinkle of busted glass. Vigo's grin becomes a frown.
"A minor inconvenience."
Turn Summary
Vigo the Carpathian Movement w/ Bonus Action: Moves back into the building in cloud form and reconstitutes Action- Casts Cloud Kill @ Lvl 6: Targeting Adam, Dageron, Johnathan, and Ralik. All targets need to make a DC20 Con Save or take 25 damage, or 12 on a successful save. The area is heavily obscured so attacking out of the cloud is at Disadvantage.
Vigo's Pet Movement: Moves 20 feet down the hall Action: Tears down the walls to the hallway with its chains Information: There appears to be the same creeping miasma for 30 feet around it, shimmering and distorting the air around it with a sickly hue, as when it was encountered in the library...
Ralik Breaks Vigo's hold over him, but Crit Fails his Con Save against Cloudkill, then takes another hard hit from getting his life siphoned...
Updated Post Order
Ralik (DM) Vigo the Carpathian Johnathan Dageron DM Shavaris DM Travin DM Adam DM
Johnathan eyes flicker for a moment as he sees a spell casting towards the group again. He tries to focus his energy in the spell but is unable to break it in his current condition. As the spell hits he falls unconscious again.
Reaction: Counterspell (7 on dc 16 charisma check, Counterspell failed)
Dageron realizes he can't stay in the cloud, and can't leave Johnathan behind either. He grabs the fallen mage and drags him fifteen feet south, out of the cloud and behind the large globe as he seeks cover.
Sallow skin begins to slough off the Carpathian Vampire trapped with the members of the Dawn Guard in the cloud of toxic gas. It powers on, devoid of its own will as it follows whatever compulsion it is that drives it. It reaches out, trying to grab Ralik, but misses him.
Vigo keeps up his concentration, the slow stream of blowing air leaving his lips to keep the cloud across the room in place...
Turn Summary
Dageron Action to drag Johnathan out of Cloudkill, using his full movement (15 feet) to get to cover
Carpathian Vampire Action- Attack: Targeting Ralik. 17 to hit (MISS)
Updated Post Order
Ralik (DM) Vigo the Carpathian Johnathan Dageron DM Shavaris DM Travin DM Adam DM
Dageron grabs Johnathan (Action 1) and runs (Action 2: Dash + movement) into the hole Travin made to the lower level. As he jumps in he yells, "The Junkman said this was the way, and we cannot beat the flesh construct and its master combined in our current state. Someone grab Travin!"
With her free action, she slowly pushes the handle of the chainsaw out of Travin's mouth, but looks up towards the floor above. Hearing Dageron's yell she breathes a little easier, hoping the others heed his advice and join her and Travin in the floor below. They had a portrait to find right? Ooh.. but how were they going to find it now with Travin in this state?
Shaking her head clear, she focuses on her sister... Eloise springs to life, unaffected by the miasma emanating from vigo's pet. She turns to Vigo, her ethereal form solidifying for a moment as she draws the same blades Shavaris owns and sends them flying towards the vampire.
Attack: 18, Damage: 15
Attack: 18, Damage: 9
Using Action Surge...
Attack: 25, Damage: 12
Attack: 15, Damage: 15
And Unleashing Incantation..
Attack: 18, Damage: 14
While Eloise slashes away at the vampire, Shavaris takes this moment to rest a bit and uses her Second Wind to regain 11hp.
Vigo sneers as the ghost of Eloise rushes for him, but steps away easily enough from her first two swings. The third one tags him though, and black ichor splatters the floor from a gash in his arm, before the follow misses him completely. Even in her fury, Eloise finds it hard to keep up with the ducking, dodging warrior-mage of eons past as he avoids most of what she has to throw at him, circling around her as he moves.
He's sniffing the air as she assails him, searching for something around him...but it becomes clear quickly that he's not searching for anything more than a memory.
"Your soul has the scent of my work on it..." He tells her, mocking her. "You're so close to vengeance...and still so very far away..."
There is rumbling thunder suddenly as Vigo reaches out, putting his hand on Eloise and blowing her into ethereal wisps, sending the tendrils of ghostly smoke out the busted window...
Turn Summary
Vigo the Carpathian Movement: Moves 10 feet around Eloise Action- Attack w/ Disruptive Thunder: Targeting Eloise. 31 to hit, 26 damage, moves her 45 feet... (But Echoes dissolve after 1 damage so...)
Updated Post Order
Ralik (DM) Vigo the Carpathian Johnathan Dageron DM Shavaris DM Travin DM Adam DM
Travin let's the chainsaw drop away from his mouth and looks to Shavaris', she's an ally, a friend, that much he can comprehend. Same with Dageron as he jumps down to join them.
With loud noises and fighting going on over head Travin yells a little, a primal scream that instinct would dictate is meant to scare away predators, because right now he certainly feels like prey. He runs to a corner, by the stairs, but not knowing how the door works properly he merely huddles in the corner, shrinking into his pile and whimpering in gibberish.
Unphased by the thundering roar from Vigo, the pet turns its attention toward the corner. It seems like it's operating on the same wavelength as Vigo. Probably something telepathic. Its many grotesque eyes shift from Adam, to Ralik...and stop. The Warlock, already badly hurt, secures its ire, and it opens its mouth, vomiting a stream of acid straight at him. Ralik goes down in a smoking heap as the acid saturates him and his clothing...
Turn Summary
Vigo's Pet Action- Squirt Bile: Targeting Ralik. DC20 Dex Save (Ralik rolled 18) or take 38 damage...
Updated Post Order
Ralik (DM) Vigo the Carpathian Johnathan Dageron DM Shavaris DM Travin DM Adam DM
Adam moves southwest out of the toxic cloud, then starts to move westward to get closer to Vigo. He uses a point of Ki to travel 60 feet with his movement instead of 30. He pulls out his throwing glaive and heaves it at Vigo, the bound weapon returning to his hand for a second throw. He ends his movement behind the desk where Vigo was originally sitting. He ducks down behind it to give himself some cover from the ugly acid spitting thing in the hall.
Thrown glaive 1 : 11
Thrown glaive 2 : 28 to hit, for 8 points of slashing damage.
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A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
Vigo gloats and waxes poetic as he watches the Dawn Guard flee, though most of his attention is on Ralik's smoking body.
"Strahd is a fool." He says, ignoring Adam as he fled the cloud of destructive gas. "The book he stole, trying to use it against me, and instead pulling this fool out of unlife and into an entirely new world..."
His hand raised, and a cloud of acid fell over Ralik, adding to the destruction of his limp form.
"Had I known I could use it to lure the greatest threat to my aspirations into a trap, I would have let him steal it sooner."
His gloating is cut short as the glaive whizzes through the air. Adam's trusty weapon cuts a gash along one of Vigo's shoulders, eliciting a snarl. His rusty red leather armor is left stained as black blood drains down over it. It's not the Carpathian that acts next, though, as he reaches up to staunch the loss of necrotic blood. It's the pet, which pulls itself further down the hall with its chains before tearing more of the wall out and reaching through to grab Ralik's dissolving body. The Warlock dies again with only part of his band there to witness his demise as he's pulled into the hallway and stuffed into the creatures mouth, bones crunching as he is devoured.
Vigo takes a moment to utter an incantation, and blue spectral energy begins to swirl around him. It appears to be made of souls. One of them looks suspiciously like Ralik as Adam looks on at the cone of ghosts around the Carpathian.
"If you think this is bad, wait until you see what I have planned for your world." He grins to Adam as he steps toward the fireplace in the back of the room. "I am the power behind the Gmork. The Nothing. The resurrection of Lord Vader and the corruption that is Ganon! They are nothing but pawns to me, and here you are, trying to hack off the hand that holds their leash! Well, I will make sure that if you survive this ordeal, you'll go back to Hyboria with a story to tell. The story of how you met your match in the Cruel...the Torturer...the Sorrow..."
He doesn't linger any longer. He dissipates into fog...and disappears into the fireplace...and the Cloudkill disappears when he goes...
Turn Summary
Vigo the Carpathian Movement: Moves 10 feet toward fireplace, then turns into fog and disappears into the fireplace Action- Attack w/ Biting Acid: Targeting Ralik. Rolled 22 to hit. Another failed Death Save (2 of 3) Action- Spectral Shell: Magical armor cast on himself.
Vigo's Pet Movement: 20 feet down the hall toward the Elevator / Ralik Action: Destroys the wall, chain attack against Ralik. 20 to hit, another failed Death Save (3 of 3). Ralik is killed.
Updated Post Order
DM Johnathan Dageron DM Shavaris DM Travin DM Adam
Johnathan is unable to react as the hit from Ralik causes him to fall to the ground. The attack from Vigo also causes him to fail another death saving through.
Con save: 15
Death save roll: 15. 1 fail, 1 success
Dageron uses all his effort and barrels towards Johnathan (Movement 30', +Action: Dash, +Action 2: Dash). He stops between Ralik and Johnathan, hoping to redirect the onslaught. At Ralik he growls, "He is already dead. Fight me you weak-willed traitorous puppet!"
The vampire previously guarding the door springs into action, crossing the room toward Ralik, Dageron, and Johnathan, seemingly attracted by the smell of blood on the battlefield...
Vigo steps back into the room, moving toward the fireplace again, near where he had been sitting.
"Little piss ant." Vigo says with a snarl, focusing on Dageron. "It is almost your turn! Wait for it!"
His hand flicks out and his fingers snap before there is a thunderous explosion against Dageron's chest. If Dageron is unable to defend himself, he is thrown backwards, hitting the wall where the bookshelf is and falling prone...
Turn Summary
Carpathian Vampire B
Movement: Moves behind Ralik
Vigo the Carpathian
Movement: Moves 10 feet back into the room
Action- Attack w/ Disruptive Thunder: Targeting Dageron. 21 to hit. 28 thunder damage. 1 bludgeoning damage from wall impact.
Post Order
Ralik (DM)
Vigo the Carpathian
Johnathan
Dageron
DM
Shavaris
Travin
DM
Adam
DM
It is Shavari's turn, followed by Johnathan!
DM of AURYN: The Measure of Devotion - Escape from New York
Coughing and spitting from the shit that got in her lungs she lashes out at the vampire again,
Attack: 24, Dam: 11
Next attack, nat 1
Sneak attack damage: 11
She then disengages and follows Travin down the hole. As she does, Eloise unleashes her incantation and attacks the vampire as well (same one that Shav was fighting)
Attack: 16, Dam: 12
Travin hearing the continued fighting and the voice of Vigo once again, becomes worried about his friends, why had Vigo left just to return? What had he fetched? What does he mean 'its almost your turn'? Who is he talking to?
Travin clambers on the desks of the office tables to the south of him to get a better look at what is going on. As he spies Vigo he knows what he must do. Not knowing the irony of his next attack Tracing brings out a golden statuette a perfect mould of Jonathan's hand with a middle finger raised to the sky, Trav points it at what he can see of Vigo and screams out "ABRAAAAA-KAAAAAA-FUUUUUUCKYOUUUUU!" Smashing the golden obscenity in his hands a streak of force pierces through the hole in the floor blasting the area around it up and out everything is chaos and everyone within a 300ft area momentarily deafened from the blast, (17 to hit, Vigo makes a DC 16 Con save taking 43 force damage on a fail and 21 on success, this attack ignores resistance. If that misses willing to use a tides of chaos to reroll the attack)
Tides of chaos used, new attack roll for Travin 25!
The Carpathian Vampire dies in the onslaught from Shavaris and Eloise before its sickly pale body collapses to the floor and begins to break down, the black goo that makes up its blood flowing freely onto the floor.
It's Vigo, though, that looks most surprised when the Dawn Guard begins to rally. He would have never in all his life considered the pile of depressed garbage that comprised Travin Tiller to be a threat. He is rocked by the power of Travin's attack and knocked backwards as the glass windows beyond shatter and spray outward into the night. He has time to have a surprised look on his face before he is blown through the hole and into the night sky...
Seeing what has happened to its master, the hulking pet in the hallway reacts. There are green sparks that begin to flash around Travin's head...
Turn Summary
Vigo the Carpathian
Fails Con Save (NAT 1!) and gets blown out the window into open air!
Vigo's Pet
Action- Casts a Spell on Travin Tiller...
Updated Post Order
Ralik (DM)
Vigo the Carpathian
Johnathan
Dageron
DM
Shavaris
DM
Travin
DM
Adam
DM
It is Adam's turn!
DM of AURYN: The Measure of Devotion - Escape from New York
Travin grabs his head in pain, and then his shoulders slump, when he looks up again his eyes are half closed, the spark of any sentience behind them completely gone, drool spools from his mouth as he slowly turns to Shavaris and says "brrrullll ahaaaaabob. Seluffffrin tabibbly yeeeeeh!" and then begins trying to eat the handle of his chainsaw.
(Travin is under the effects of feeblemind, no idea for how long, maybe permanent?)
Adam moves east, saying “Johnathan!” as he runs, jumping over the table if necessary. He uses a point of ki to travel further during the round, hoping to reach Johnathan’s body from the south. When he does, he pulls out a potion of healing and forces it down his mouth, hoping to heal him and raise him up. “Not leaving a man behind….” Adam says as he does so.
((Adam will use action surge if needed to reach him, but uses a point of Ki for Step of the Wind and hopefully reaches him.))
A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
Adam doesn't need action surge as he vaults the table and grabs his friend, stuffing the healing potion into his mouth. It does, however, create a bad situation, where a bulk of the Dawn Guard is suddenly clustered in one corner.
Vigo breaks down into the dark mist again, floating with ease back into the building through the hole he was blown out of and rematerializing just inside. The winds of New York City howl around the hole, whipping the white hair of the seeming immortal.
A grin, malicious, malevelant, and mirthful tugs his mouth.
"I'm a little disappointed in Lord Vader." He says, maintaining his defiant, powerful stance. A stance that indicates he believes that he is in control of the situation. "He made the lot of you seem much more dangerous than you really are. No matter. Hyboria will soon be destroyed, and every dream, every hope humanity ever had will killed with it, and this world will be mine."
He gently makes a blowing action with his mouth, and a cloud of green vapor appears all around Dageron, Johnathan, Adam, and Ralik. Even the Carpathian Vampire is caught in it.
Vigo's pet floats down the hallway, pulling itself along with chains and tendrils of gore at a slow but steady pace. The chains swipe out, tearing down even more of the wall and leaving another pillar in bad shape, while the terrible smell and creeping miasma of the pet seeps into the room.
Vigo's hold over Ralik is finally broken when the warrior is hit by the damage from the cloud of death. He gasps, the break catching him off guard, inhaling a huge lungful of toxins. He begins to cough and weaken, not looking good as he looks around, wildeyed and terrified.
The Carpathian continues to watch, his disturbing grin growing wider.
"May as well finish what I started." He says, attacking again with his life sucking power. Her targets Ralik, with blood being pulled from his eyes and ears and mouth, even his scalp, to cross the room to Vigo, before returning his concentration to Johnathan. "To throw away the gift I have given you? To dare challenge me? To defy me and break my spell? To the grave with you."
The building shakes, and there is a rumbling reverberation that travels through its very foundation. There are noises before. Some the dull sounds of materials breaking, others the sharp tinkle of busted glass. Vigo's grin becomes a frown.
"A minor inconvenience."
Turn Summary
Vigo the Carpathian
Movement w/ Bonus Action: Moves back into the building in cloud form and reconstitutes
Action- Casts Cloud Kill @ Lvl 6: Targeting Adam, Dageron, Johnathan, and Ralik. All targets need to make a DC20 Con Save or take 25 damage, or 12 on a successful save. The area is heavily obscured so attacking out of the cloud is at Disadvantage.
Vigo's Pet
Movement: Moves 20 feet down the hall
Action: Tears down the walls to the hallway with its chains
Information: There appears to be the same creeping miasma for 30 feet around it, shimmering and distorting the air around it with a sickly hue, as when it was encountered in the library...
Ralik
Breaks Vigo's hold over him, but Crit Fails his Con Save against Cloudkill, then takes another hard hit from getting his life siphoned...
Updated Post Order
Ralik (DM)
Vigo the Carpathian
Johnathan
Dageron
DM
Shavaris
DM
Travin
DM
Adam
DM
It is Johnathan's turn, followed by Dageron!
DM of AURYN: The Measure of Devotion - Escape from New York
Johnathan eyes flicker for a moment as he sees a spell casting towards the group again. He tries to focus his energy in the spell but is unable to break it in his current condition. As the spell hits he falls unconscious again.
Reaction: Counterspell (7 on dc 16 charisma check, Counterspell failed)
Death save: 12, 1 success, 0 fails
Dageron realizes he can't stay in the cloud, and can't leave Johnathan behind either. He grabs the fallen mage and drags him fifteen feet south, out of the cloud and behind the large globe as he seeks cover.
Sallow skin begins to slough off the Carpathian Vampire trapped with the members of the Dawn Guard in the cloud of toxic gas. It powers on, devoid of its own will as it follows whatever compulsion it is that drives it. It reaches out, trying to grab Ralik, but misses him.
Vigo keeps up his concentration, the slow stream of blowing air leaving his lips to keep the cloud across the room in place...
Turn Summary
Dageron
Action to drag Johnathan out of Cloudkill, using his full movement (15 feet) to get to cover
Carpathian Vampire
Action- Attack: Targeting Ralik. 17 to hit (MISS)
Updated Post Order
Ralik (DM)
Vigo the Carpathian
Johnathan
Dageron
DM
Shavaris
DM
Travin
DM
Adam
DM
It is Shavaris's turn!
DM of AURYN: The Measure of Devotion - Escape from New York
Dageron grabs Johnathan (Action 1) and runs (Action 2: Dash + movement) into the hole Travin made to the lower level. As he jumps in he yells, "The Junkman said this was the way, and we cannot beat the flesh construct and its master combined in our current state. Someone grab Travin!"
With her free action, she slowly pushes the handle of the chainsaw out of Travin's mouth, but looks up towards the floor above. Hearing Dageron's yell she breathes a little easier, hoping the others heed his advice and join her and Travin in the floor below. They had a portrait to find right? Ooh.. but how were they going to find it now with Travin in this state?
Shaking her head clear, she focuses on her sister... Eloise springs to life, unaffected by the miasma emanating from vigo's pet. She turns to Vigo, her ethereal form solidifying for a moment as she draws the same blades Shavaris owns and sends them flying towards the vampire.
Attack: 18, Damage: 15
Attack: 18, Damage: 9
Using Action Surge...
Attack: 25, Damage: 12
Attack: 15, Damage: 15
And Unleashing Incantation..
Attack: 18, Damage: 14
While Eloise slashes away at the vampire, Shavaris takes this moment to rest a bit and uses her Second Wind to regain 11 hp.
Vigo sneers as the ghost of Eloise rushes for him, but steps away easily enough from her first two swings. The third one tags him though, and black ichor splatters the floor from a gash in his arm, before the follow misses him completely. Even in her fury, Eloise finds it hard to keep up with the ducking, dodging warrior-mage of eons past as he avoids most of what she has to throw at him, circling around her as he moves.
He's sniffing the air as she assails him, searching for something around him...but it becomes clear quickly that he's not searching for anything more than a memory.
"Your soul has the scent of my work on it..." He tells her, mocking her. "You're so close to vengeance...and still so very far away..."
There is rumbling thunder suddenly as Vigo reaches out, putting his hand on Eloise and blowing her into ethereal wisps, sending the tendrils of ghostly smoke out the busted window...
Turn Summary
Vigo the Carpathian
Movement: Moves 10 feet around Eloise
Action- Attack w/ Disruptive Thunder: Targeting Eloise. 31 to hit, 26 damage, moves her 45 feet... (But Echoes dissolve after 1 damage so...)
Updated Post Order
Ralik (DM)
Vigo the Carpathian
Johnathan
Dageron
DM
Shavaris
DM
Travin
DM
Adam
DM
It is Travin's turn!
DM of AURYN: The Measure of Devotion - Escape from New York
Travin let's the chainsaw drop away from his mouth and looks to Shavaris', she's an ally, a friend, that much he can comprehend. Same with Dageron as he jumps down to join them.
With loud noises and fighting going on over head Travin yells a little, a primal scream that instinct would dictate is meant to scare away predators, because right now he certainly feels like prey. He runs to a corner, by the stairs, but not knowing how the door works properly he merely huddles in the corner, shrinking into his pile and whimpering in gibberish.
Unphased by the thundering roar from Vigo, the pet turns its attention toward the corner. It seems like it's operating on the same wavelength as Vigo. Probably something telepathic. Its many grotesque eyes shift from Adam, to Ralik...and stop. The Warlock, already badly hurt, secures its ire, and it opens its mouth, vomiting a stream of acid straight at him. Ralik goes down in a smoking heap as the acid saturates him and his clothing...
Turn Summary
Vigo's Pet
Action- Squirt Bile: Targeting Ralik. DC20 Dex Save (Ralik rolled 18) or take 38 damage...
Updated Post Order
Ralik (DM)
Vigo the Carpathian
Johnathan
Dageron
DM
Shavaris
DM
Travin
DM
Adam
DM
It is Adam's turn!
DM of AURYN: The Measure of Devotion - Escape from New York
Adam moves southwest out of the toxic cloud, then starts to move westward to get closer to Vigo. He uses a point of Ki to travel 60 feet with his movement instead of 30. He pulls out his throwing glaive and heaves it at Vigo, the bound weapon returning to his hand for a second throw. He ends his movement behind the desk where Vigo was originally sitting. He ducks down behind it to give himself some cover from the ugly acid spitting thing in the hall.
Thrown glaive 1 : 11
Thrown glaive 2 : 28 to hit, for 8 points of slashing damage.
A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
Vigo gloats and waxes poetic as he watches the Dawn Guard flee, though most of his attention is on Ralik's smoking body.
"Strahd is a fool." He says, ignoring Adam as he fled the cloud of destructive gas. "The book he stole, trying to use it against me, and instead pulling this fool out of unlife and into an entirely new world..."
His hand raised, and a cloud of acid fell over Ralik, adding to the destruction of his limp form.
"Had I known I could use it to lure the greatest threat to my aspirations into a trap, I would have let him steal it sooner."
His gloating is cut short as the glaive whizzes through the air. Adam's trusty weapon cuts a gash along one of Vigo's shoulders, eliciting a snarl. His rusty red leather armor is left stained as black blood drains down over it. It's not the Carpathian that acts next, though, as he reaches up to staunch the loss of necrotic blood. It's the pet, which pulls itself further down the hall with its chains before tearing more of the wall out and reaching through to grab Ralik's dissolving body. The Warlock dies again with only part of his band there to witness his demise as he's pulled into the hallway and stuffed into the creatures mouth, bones crunching as he is devoured.
Vigo takes a moment to utter an incantation, and blue spectral energy begins to swirl around him. It appears to be made of souls. One of them looks suspiciously like Ralik as Adam looks on at the cone of ghosts around the Carpathian.
"If you think this is bad, wait until you see what I have planned for your world." He grins to Adam as he steps toward the fireplace in the back of the room. "I am the power behind the Gmork. The Nothing. The resurrection of Lord Vader and the corruption that is Ganon! They are nothing but pawns to me, and here you are, trying to hack off the hand that holds their leash! Well, I will make sure that if you survive this ordeal, you'll go back to Hyboria with a story to tell. The story of how you met your match in the Cruel...the Torturer...the Sorrow..."
He doesn't linger any longer. He dissipates into fog...and disappears into the fireplace...and the Cloudkill disappears when he goes...
Turn Summary
Vigo the Carpathian
Movement: Moves 10 feet toward fireplace, then turns into fog and disappears into the fireplace
Action- Attack w/ Biting Acid: Targeting Ralik. Rolled 22 to hit. Another failed Death Save (2 of 3)
Action- Spectral Shell: Magical armor cast on himself.
Vigo's Pet
Movement: 20 feet down the hall toward the Elevator / Ralik
Action: Destroys the wall, chain attack against Ralik. 20 to hit, another failed Death Save (3 of 3). Ralik is killed.
Updated Post Order
DM
Johnathan
Dageron
DM
Shavaris
DM
Travin
DM
Adam
It is Johnathan's turn, followed by Dageron!
DM of AURYN: The Measure of Devotion - Escape from New York
Johnathan continues to lay unconscious as the battle rages on.
2 success, 1 fail