With a step forward, Ralik is on the bugbear releasing two swipes of his longswords across it's head from Ralik's left to right. He makes sure not to use the cutting edge of his swords, instead he smacks the beast with the flats. He then moves to position himself on the far side of the goblins, trying to let some of the things regain vision if they are out of range of his globe of Darkness. Ralik was doing his best to heard them into the room that he had come from. No doubt his companions would make easy work of any that decided to run that way. The creatures would be distressed and disorganized without the bugbear's orders. He will try to do this and also make sure to try to position himself within melee of a goblin, waiting for it to move and create an opportunity for Ralik to take advantage of, if it decided blindly to flee.
Rolls & Resources
Rolls: Action: Attack on Bugbear | Longsword | 25 to hit, doing 13 Non-lethal damage Bonus Action: Two Weapon Fighter Attack on Bugbear | Longsword | 23 to hit doing 10 Non-lethal damage
Aoe is still incognito, passing as a cart in the corner. feeling like currently there isn’t much he needs to do to help besides be the bard, he uses his action to cast the cantrip message to send bardic inspiration to Ralik
“here’s some extra butter and jam for that toast you’re spreading in there ol’ boy”
Bardic inspiration:
choose one creature other than yourself within 60 feet of you who can hear you. That creature gains one Bardic Inspiration die, a d6.
Once within the next 10 minutes, the creature can roll the die and add the number rolled to one ability check, attack roll, or saving throw it makes. The creature can wait until after it rolls the d20 before deciding to use the Bardic Inspiration die, but must decide before the DM says whether the roll succeeds or fails. Once the Bardic Inspiration die is rolled, it is lost. A creature can have only one Bardic Inspiration die at a time.
FYI shavaris, kerwyn and ralik all have a d6 they can use on one ability check, attack roll, or saving throw in the next 9-10 minutes.
The blob of darkness moves to the left as Ralik shifts his position deeper into the room. Suddenly the goblins are standing over the fallen form of the Bugbear, who was knocked out and flat on the ground. There is a goblin laying dead nearby.
One of the Goblins, a little bigger and saltier looking than the rest, sees Shavaris in the hallway and shouts something that sounds uncouth. The javelin hits at an angle and doesn't do any real damage, but is sure hurts! Another goblin draws a hand crossbow and fires, and the bolt zings past Shavaris.
Kerwyn hears a grunt from Shavaris as the javelin hits her. He moves northeast to where the goblins are visible and he pulls out and throws his throwing glaive at one, you hear a fine, high pitched whirring sound as the glaive slashes toward the goblin and the returns to his hand. He thinks I can’t sit idly by, let me help! The glaive whirs out sixty feet then returns to him.
Attack to goblin : Attack: 15 Damage: 11
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Unh! the javelin hits Shavaris and she looks to see where the devil it came from. She sets her eyes on the larger of the goblin and runs to attack him. She holds both rapiers up with points facing outwards and jabs them at the chest of her creature of choice.
Johnathan makes quick work of the goblin in the other cave. He turns around to join in with the other fight. He will move to the yellow circle and is confused by what he sees. He watches as a sphere of darkness is in the room with goblins all looking at a bugbear on the ground. Looks like I’m missing quite a party. He looks over to Shavaris and sees a javelin sticking out of her, but as he is about to help remove it he sees her dashing towards a large goblin and starts ripping it to shreds. Johnathan will summon the shadow flames around his arm and channel an arcane beam towards one of the other goblins. While he is doing so he will shout out to Shavaris, Where is Ralik, I thought he was with you. And what is a sphere of darkness doing here. After the attack he will call echo to follow him so that he is on the cave ceiling above him.
There was a moment of worry when Shavaris let out a her grunt, but it subsided when she tore another goblin apart, even more so when Aoe's words reached Ralik's ears. A slight smirk sneaks on to his face and his next attacks came relaxed and natural. It felt near effortless when Ralik lifted off, spinning and landing by his next target. On lift off he attacks the goblin he was standing by, and on landing he attacks his new target. Ralik knew he could keep this dance of death in darkness up for a long time. Each time he did it was as a tribute to his Goddess. His beloved Eilistraee. He began to sing a joyful native chant, reminiscent of the one he had done during the ritual of the first night. The magical globe of darkness follows him, bobbing with his sword's movements as he flows in his dance of death.
Rolls & Resources
Rolls: Action: Attack on 1st goblin | Longsword | 22 to hit, doing 5 magical slashing damage Bonus Action: Two Weapon Fighter Attack on 2nd goblin | Longsword | 18 + 5* to hit doing 7 magical slashing damage (*Bardic inspiration)
The glaive screams into the mess of goblins and jams into the chest of one of them, dropping it dead on the floor. The other's begin to panic, but the situation is escalating too quickly for them now. As Shavaris tries to stab the big one, it instead grabs one of its nearby kinsmen and shoves it between himself and Shavaris, and her rapier puts an end to it, even as her offhand attack slices its side. It shrieks.
This does nothing to help it when Johnathan attacks it as well.
The goblins are in a panic now as blood is spilled and many of them are hurt or killed.
Blocked by darkness and advancing enemies, two do their best to fight back. Ralik's move enshrouds some of them in inky black again.
The goblin closest to Ralik, scared and desperate, lashes out with its scimitar and grazes his leg. The other goblin next to him screams and runs from the darkness, past Shavaris and right into the hall leading toward the gate (yellow circle).
Two more of the goblins, the only two that Ralik didn't enshroud in darkness, find themselves next to Shavaris. Both attack with their scimitars, one cutting her arm, and the other swinging wide and missing.
Then, from the hallway, a hidden goblin fire a crossbow bolt into Johnathan's back.
Kerwyn feels the arrows sink into his back, he turns to look in the direction down the hallway to the southwest. He runs forward to where he is within range, then shouts out in a loud voice, “Fus Ro Dah!” and a booming noise erupts in the cavern, trying to target as many goblins as he can. The goblins must make a DC 11 con save or take 6 thunder damage and be pushed back 10 ft, half on a made save. He readies to attack whatever remains, moving to the alcove to the west and trying to gain some cover there.
The hall explodes with violence as boxes and crates are toppled and three goblins are flipped down the hall away from where they had been hidden. One gets hit by a crate, breaking its neck and killing it instantly.
Shavaris, still focused on the foes in front of her even with the commotion behind her, she again looks to attack the larger of the goblins. She skirts around the one he threw in front of her and attacks him.
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As Aoe tries to message Johnathan he senses that the spell fails. He gets the feeling that some magical barrier is stopping the spell from reaching Johnathan’s mind. Johnathan sees the three goblins that were hidden down the hall. He looks at the arrow in him and Johnathan feels his blood start to boil. He takes a deep breath and gives the goblins a cold dead stare. He chuckles at them very menacingly, Your gonna pay for that. He searches his pockets to find the family wand. It was a gift when he decided to leave to join the war and it’s the only thing he has left from his old life. He pulls out this very well crafted wand that has a detailed pattern that almost looks elven in design. He points the wand and shouts magicae telum and 5 orbs of bright white energy materialises and seeks one goblin each, with two of them hitting the goblins down the corridor where they were hidden. 2 of the orbs goes towards the goblin that is running towards Johnathan.(wand 4/7 charges)
Aoe, from his position in the front of the cave where he is disguised as a cart, sees a goblin come running by from the corridor on the left. It's running as fast as it can go heading toward the entrance of the cave system.
The other two goblins, still trapped in the dark with Ralik, desperately try to do whatever they can to escape. One fires a bow in the direction of Shavaris but misses. The other, instructed to do so by its compatriot, tries the same thing, firing blind at the noises in what is darkness to the two of them. This one misses as well, but Shavaris is aware of the arrows flying past her.
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It is Ralik's turn, followed by Aoe
There are only 4 Goblins left. One in the front cavern with Aoe, two in magical darkness with Ralik, and one in the hallway proned by Kerwyn.
Ralik repeats his maneuver, lifting and spinning from one goblin to the other. Striking the goblin near him on lift off, and striking the other on landing. With those two goblins felled, he sheathes his Darkness-enchanted blade and covers it with part of his garb, causing the darkness to subside until he uncovers it. He moves as far as he can towards his companions with intent to engage the next enemy.
Rolls & Resources
Rolls: Action: Attack on 1st goblin | Longsword | 29 to hit, doing 7 magical slashing damage Bonus Action: Two Weapon Fighter Attack on 2nd goblin | Longsword | 22 to hit doing 9magical slashing damage
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Aoe hears feet scurrying past him. When the sound gets a few ft past him, he pops his head out to have a look. Noticing a lone goblin maddashing toward the larger disturbances, Aoe hurls a firebolt at the back of his head, ducking back down before he can look (he would see the direction it came from but not yet discern the cart was an illusion)
Kerwyn notes one last Goblin left in the fray. Feeling the stinging from the arrow in his back, his anger gets the best of him as he pulls out, flings his thrown glaive at him. It whirs and slices through the air at him and it returns to his hand.
Attack: 17 Damage: 10
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Shavaris takes a look around them as her heartbeat settles down. That was a bit more of a fight than she had anticipated, but her group still looked good. Speaking of group, where was Aoe? She didn't see him anywhere. She looks at the unconscious bugbear and then back at Ralik, "He's all yours, Ralik."
Then walking around the carnage of goblins, she starts to continue down the passage to the right, keeping her eyes open.
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Johnathan looks around still concerned that there may be more threats in the area. He sees Shavaris going to the right. Echo, go with Shavaris. If there is danger come find one of us. Echo flies down and lands on Shavaris’s shoulder. He remains very quite as she begins to go to the right. Johnathan decides to keep his senses on him for the time being. He didn’t want to be blind in this cave. Besides, his vision in the dark was quite exceptional. Better than the bats range at least. He decides to move quietly towards the left where the main battle took place. He gives a quick glance at the bugbear and sees it still breathing, for now. He will continue to move up to the tents, making sure none are hiding in them. Afterwards he will continue to the right to the last bit of the cave that they didn’t see. Stealth: 9.
Perecption for survivors: 19
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With a step forward, Ralik is on the bugbear releasing two swipes of his longswords across it's head from Ralik's left to right. He makes sure not to use the cutting edge of his swords, instead he smacks the beast with the flats. He then moves to position himself on the far side of the goblins, trying to let some of the things regain vision if they are out of range of his globe of Darkness. Ralik was doing his best to heard them into the room that he had come from. No doubt his companions would make easy work of any that decided to run that way. The creatures would be distressed and disorganized without the bugbear's orders. He will try to do this and also make sure to try to position himself within melee of a goblin, waiting for it to move and create an opportunity for Ralik to take advantage of, if it decided blindly to flee.
Rolls & Resources
Rolls:
Action: Attack on Bugbear | Longsword | 25 to hit, doing 13 Non-lethal damage
Bonus Action: Two Weapon Fighter Attack on Bugbear | Longsword | 23 to hit doing 10 Non-lethal damage
Resources:
Spell Slots: 1/2
Winged Boots - 2/240 minutes
Darkness - 2 /100 turns - 1/10 minutes
Drow enthusiast
Lover of lore and magic.
-The White Crow-
Aoe is still incognito, passing as a cart in the corner. feeling like currently there isn’t much he needs to do to help besides be the bard, he uses his action to cast the cantrip message to send bardic inspiration to Ralik
“here’s some extra butter and jam for that toast you’re spreading in there ol’ boy”
Bardic inspiration:
choose one creature other than yourself within 60 feet of you who can hear you. That creature gains one Bardic Inspiration die, a d6.
Once within the next 10 minutes, the creature can roll the die and add the number rolled to one ability check, attack roll, or saving throw it makes. The creature can wait until after it rolls the d20 before deciding to use the Bardic Inspiration die, but must decide before the DM says whether the roll succeeds or fails. Once the Bardic Inspiration die is rolled, it is lost. A creature can have only one Bardic Inspiration die at a time.
FYI shavaris, kerwyn and ralik all have a d6 they can use on one ability check, attack roll, or saving throw in the next 9-10 minutes.
(eot)
The blob of darkness moves to the left as Ralik shifts his position deeper into the room. Suddenly the goblins are standing over the fallen form of the Bugbear, who was knocked out and flat on the ground. There is a goblin laying dead nearby.
One of the Goblins, a little bigger and saltier looking than the rest, sees Shavaris in the hallway and shouts something that sounds uncouth. The javelin hits at an angle and doesn't do any real damage, but is sure hurts! Another goblin draws a hand crossbow and fires, and the bolt zings past Shavaris.
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Shavaris takes 4 damage
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Kerwyn hears a grunt from Shavaris as the javelin hits her. He moves northeast to where the goblins are visible and he pulls out and throws his throwing glaive at one, you hear a fine, high pitched whirring sound as the glaive slashes toward the goblin and the returns to his hand. He thinks I can’t sit idly by, let me help! The glaive whirs out sixty feet then returns to him.
Attack to goblin : Attack: 15 Damage: 11
A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
Unh! the javelin hits Shavaris and she looks to see where the devil it came from. She sets her eyes on the larger of the goblin and runs to attack him. She holds both rapiers up with points facing outwards and jabs them at the chest of her creature of choice.
Attack: 19 Damage: 8
Attack: 25 Damage: 12
Johnathan makes quick work of the goblin in the other cave. He turns around to join in with the other fight. He will move to the yellow circle and is confused by what he sees. He watches as a sphere of darkness is in the room with goblins all looking at a bugbear on the ground. Looks like I’m missing quite a party. He looks over to Shavaris and sees a javelin sticking out of her, but as he is about to help remove it he sees her dashing towards a large goblin and starts ripping it to shreds. Johnathan will summon the shadow flames around his arm and channel an arcane beam towards one of the other goblins. While he is doing so he will shout out to Shavaris, Where is Ralik, I thought he was with you. And what is a sphere of darkness doing here. After the attack he will call echo to follow him so that he is on the cave ceiling above him.
To hit: 24. Damage! 8
There was a moment of worry when Shavaris let out a her grunt, but it subsided when she tore another goblin apart, even more so when Aoe's words reached Ralik's ears. A slight smirk sneaks on to his face and his next attacks came relaxed and natural. It felt near effortless when Ralik lifted off, spinning and landing by his next target. On lift off he attacks the goblin he was standing by, and on landing he attacks his new target. Ralik knew he could keep this dance of death in darkness up for a long time. Each time he did it was as a tribute to his Goddess. His beloved Eilistraee. He began to sing a joyful native chant, reminiscent of the one he had done during the ritual of the first night. The magical globe of darkness follows him, bobbing with his sword's movements as he flows in his dance of death.
Rolls & Resources
Rolls:
Action: Attack on 1st goblin | Longsword | 22 to hit, doing 5 magical slashing damage
Bonus Action: Two Weapon Fighter Attack on 2nd goblin | Longsword | 18 + 5* to hit doing 7 magical slashing damage
(*Bardic inspiration)
Resources:
Spell Slots: 1/2
Winged Boots - 3/400 turns - 2/240 minutes
Darkness - 3 /100 turns - 1/10 minutes
Drow enthusiast
Lover of lore and magic.
-The White Crow-
The glaive screams into the mess of goblins and jams into the chest of one of them, dropping it dead on the floor. The other's begin to panic, but the situation is escalating too quickly for them now. As Shavaris tries to stab the big one, it instead grabs one of its nearby kinsmen and shoves it between himself and Shavaris, and her rapier puts an end to it, even as her offhand attack slices its side. It shrieks.
This does nothing to help it when Johnathan attacks it as well.
The goblins are in a panic now as blood is spilled and many of them are hurt or killed.
Blocked by darkness and advancing enemies, two do their best to fight back. Ralik's move enshrouds some of them in inky black again.
The goblin closest to Ralik, scared and desperate, lashes out with its scimitar and grazes his leg. The other goblin next to him screams and runs from the darkness, past Shavaris and right into the hall leading toward the gate (yellow circle).
Two more of the goblins, the only two that Ralik didn't enshroud in darkness, find themselves next to Shavaris. Both attack with their scimitars, one cutting her arm, and the other swinging wide and missing.
Then, from the hallway, a hidden goblin fire a crossbow bolt into Johnathan's back.
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Ralik takes 3 damage
Shavaris takes 4 damage
Johnathan takes 4 damage
Updated post order-
Shavaris
Johnathan
Goblin
Goblin
Goblin
Goblin
Goblin
Ralik
Aoe
Goblin
Goblin
Goblin
Kerwyn
Goblin
It is Aoe's turn, followed by me, then Kerwyn.
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Aoe pops his head out and seems no enemies. So these buggers are pretty descent fighters! He thought to himself.
Aoe wondered if anyone had needed to utalize his bardically inspiring encouragement yet…
seeing no need to expose himself to attack, Aoe popped his head back down and simply used his action to message Johnathan to check in:
“how you going good sir? Ralik and shavaris seem to be quite capable at the killing things and scurry the vermin game.”
(eot)
The air comes alive with flying missiles as more hidden goblins begin taking shots at Johnathan, Shavaris, and Kerwyn from the hall.
An arrow sticks in Kerwyn's back, then another right after that.
The big goblin, sneering at Shavaris with bloody teeth, attacks twice with its scimitar, but is too shaky with blood loss and misses.
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Kerwyn takes 9 damage
It is Kerwyn's turn, followed by a Goblin.
Current post order-
Shavaris
Johnathan
Goblin
Goblin
Goblin
Goblin
Goblin
Ralik
Aoe
Goblin
Goblin
Goblin
Kerwyn
Goblin
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Kerwyn feels the arrows sink into his back, he turns to look in the direction down the hallway to the southwest. He runs forward to where he is within range, then shouts out in a loud voice, “Fus Ro Dah!” and a booming noise erupts in the cavern, trying to target as many goblins as he can. The goblins must make a DC 11 con save or take 6 thunder damage and be pushed back 10 ft, half on a made save. He readies to attack whatever remains, moving to the alcove to the west and trying to gain some cover there.
A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
The hall explodes with violence as boxes and crates are toppled and three goblins are flipped down the hall away from where they had been hidden. One gets hit by a crate, breaking its neck and killing it instantly.
The other 3 Goblins are now Prone.
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Shavaris, still focused on the foes in front of her even with the commotion behind her, she again looks to attack the larger of the goblins. She skirts around the one he threw in front of her and attacks him.
Attack: 23 Damage: 7
Attack: 20 Damage: 7
As Aoe tries to message Johnathan he senses that the spell fails. He gets the feeling that some magical barrier is stopping the spell from reaching Johnathan’s mind. Johnathan sees the three goblins that were hidden down the hall. He looks at the arrow in him and Johnathan feels his blood start to boil. He takes a deep breath and gives the goblins a cold dead stare. He chuckles at them very menacingly, Your gonna pay for that. He searches his pockets to find the family wand. It was a gift when he decided to leave to join the war and it’s the only thing he has left from his old life. He pulls out this very well crafted wand that has a detailed pattern that almost looks elven in design. He points the wand and shouts magicae telum and 5 orbs of bright white energy materialises and seeks one goblin each, with two of them hitting the goblins down the corridor where they were hidden. 2 of the orbs goes towards the goblin that is running towards Johnathan.(wand 4/7 charges)
Goblin in corridor #1: 5
Goblin in corridor #2: 5
Goblin running towards me: 7
Goblin in cave: 3
Aoe, from his position in the front of the cave where he is disguised as a cart, sees a goblin come running by from the corridor on the left. It's running as fast as it can go heading toward the entrance of the cave system.
The other two goblins, still trapped in the dark with Ralik, desperately try to do whatever they can to escape. One fires a bow in the direction of Shavaris but misses. The other, instructed to do so by its compatriot, tries the same thing, firing blind at the noises in what is darkness to the two of them. This one misses as well, but Shavaris is aware of the arrows flying past her.
***********
It is Ralik's turn, followed by Aoe
There are only 4 Goblins left. One in the front cavern with Aoe, two in magical darkness with Ralik, and one in the hallway proned by Kerwyn.
Updated post order-
Shavaris
Johnathan
Goblin
Goblin
Goblin
Ralik
Aoe
Kerwyn
Goblin
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Ralik repeats his maneuver, lifting and spinning from one goblin to the other. Striking the goblin near him on lift off, and striking the other on landing. With those two goblins felled, he sheathes his Darkness-enchanted blade and covers it with part of his garb, causing the darkness to subside until he uncovers it. He moves as far as he can towards his companions with intent to engage the next enemy.
Rolls & Resources
Rolls:
Action: Attack on 1st goblin | Longsword | 29 to hit, doing 7 magical slashing damage
Bonus Action: Two Weapon Fighter Attack on 2nd goblin | Longsword | 22 to hit doing 9 magical slashing damage
Resources:
Spell Slots: 1/2
Winged Boots - 4/400 turns - 2/240 minutes
Darkness - 4/100 turns - 1/10 minutes
Drow enthusiast
Lover of lore and magic.
-The White Crow-
Aoe hears feet scurrying past him. When the sound gets a few ft past him, he pops his head out to have a look. Noticing a lone goblin maddashing toward the larger disturbances, Aoe hurls a firebolt at the back of his head, ducking back down before he can look (he would see the direction it came from but not yet discern the cart was an illusion)
Attack: 20 Damage: 8
Kerwyn notes one last Goblin left in the fray. Feeling the stinging from the arrow in his back, his anger gets the best of him as he pulls out, flings his thrown glaive at him. It whirs and slices through the air at him and it returns to his hand.
Attack: 17 Damage: 10
A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
Shavaris takes a look around them as her heartbeat settles down. That was a bit more of a fight than she had anticipated, but her group still looked good. Speaking of group, where was Aoe? She didn't see him anywhere. She looks at the unconscious bugbear and then back at Ralik, "He's all yours, Ralik."
Then walking around the carnage of goblins, she starts to continue down the passage to the right, keeping her eyes open.
Stealth 23
Perception 9 + bardic inspiration 3
Johnathan looks around still concerned that there may be more threats in the area. He sees Shavaris going to the right. Echo, go with Shavaris. If there is danger come find one of us. Echo flies down and lands on Shavaris’s shoulder. He remains very quite as she begins to go to the right. Johnathan decides to keep his senses on him for the time being. He didn’t want to be blind in this cave. Besides, his vision in the dark was quite exceptional. Better than the bats range at least. He decides to move quietly towards the left where the main battle took place. He gives a quick glance at the bugbear and sees it still breathing, for now. He will continue to move up to the tents, making sure none are hiding in them. Afterwards he will continue to the right to the last bit of the cave that they didn’t see.
Stealth: 9.
Perecption for survivors: 19