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The ever-watching roots seem to observe Joren's echo curiously, and the unnatural way that it moves. The human shadow lunges forward at the echo again, slashing with its dagger as its head continues to get drawn closer to its neck.
The mole bear swings its heavy paw, but with control of her shield arm again, Marion deflects the blow, sending its full momentum crashing into a large stalactite that almost reaches the ground. It breaks off from the ceiling and lands on its point, which crumbles a bit. It then topples sideways onto the bear's shoulder, and the weight of stone presses the bear into the wall and floor. Effectively pinned, Marion watches as its smoky black body begins to come apart and try to reform itself a few feet over, free of the stalactite's weight. But Marion recognizes that this gives her an opening.
(The mole bear shadow doesn't get off its second attack, and is incapacitatedfor the next round)
Ashley manages to dodge out of the way of one of the bat shadows as it dives past her and crashes into the floor.
Joren's head is spinning. As the shadow slices down his echo, he re-summons it with a bonus action next to himself.
His skills as a Sentinel allow him to make an attack as a reaction on one of the bats who attacked Ashley just next to him. He attacks the prone one at advantage.
Attack: 24 Damage: 9
"I was beheading that shadow, I..." he is briefly overcome with nausea at the thought of it being Ashley, "I... but, it is still coming. the shadows are needing magic to kill, maybe? I will focus on the roots instead."
Joren and his echo try to slice through as many roots as possible, starting with the ones holding onto his companions, using his Unleash Incarnation for an extra attack from his echo's position.
Right as the bat swooping at Ashley is about to pull out of its collision course for the ground, Joren smashes it into the stone with his greatsword, one of its wings completely severed, but still flapping its other one.
The roots holding Ashley are then cleanly severed with another swing from Joren, freeing her. No more roots are in the immediate area reaching out for Ashley.
(Ashley no longer has to make dex saves while she stands there)
Joren cleaves through the roots holding Ashley with such ferocity that he is surprised at the continued momentum of his greatsword. There is a strange moment of clashing/keening sensation and sound as the follow-through of the blade makes contact with his echo's blade as it is coming around, diverting the latter blade into decapitating the echo itself, which dissolves instantly.
Joren jerks back as if rebounding from impact and tries to steady himself.
Malachi has a moment of satisfaction as the root he strikes severs and dies, but there are too many and the shadow creatures are attacking the group from both directions. Dodging a shadow bat without thinking, Malachi looks to see where he can tip the scales in their favor.
Malachi focuses on the shadow cultist and, with a low whisper, sends a jolt of psychic energy into the creature.
(Int Save 14 or 1 psychic damage and subtract 2 from next saving throw before end of Malachi's next turn)
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Int Save: 17
The cultist's shadow wavers and distorts as Malachi's spell washes over it, and several of the strands connecting to its head snap and dissolve into smoke, but its outline quickly resolves back into its original shape. Faster, at least, than its recovery from Joren's attack.
(It looks like it took half damage from the psychic damage)
Meanwhile, facing down the partially pinned mole bear, Marion drops her shield. She then draws her sword and with both hands raises it high, shouting a prayer that gets lost in the sound of battle. She brings the sword down, aiming for the thing's head.
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Her sword chops right through where the bears skull would be, and then it begins to glow with a brilliant blue light. At first, the glow can only be seen from where the blade is still exposed, but then one by one, beams of the blue light begin to shoot out from the shadow's head as the darkness is slowly burned away from inside.
Smite Damage: 8
It's mouth opens as if to roar, but the sound that comes out is like metal shavings on glass. the head, along with the rest of the body still pinned under the stalactite, finish dissolving and reforming a few feet away, now free of unexpected stone prison, but the head is half gone. Marred by a wispy crater marking where Marion's sword struck, only the lower jaw and the lower left side of its face remain.
And what's more, the wound isn't closing itself up.
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Wanting to make progress and noting that at no point has he been attacked yet, Vilus moves toward the shadow bear casting Toll the Dead into its form a ringing pierces the sound of battle around the bear.
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As Joren cleaves the roots away from Ashley's body, she looks up and sees the torment written across his face. She reaches up and gently touches his cheek, "Joren, what's wrong? Are you ok? We got this, I know we do." Steeling herself after the onslaught of bat attacks, she focuses on one in the air and casts frostbite, letting her fingers go a tinge blue as she does. Hoping this will slow down the attack a bit.
CON save of 12 or 5 cold damage plus disadvantage on next attack
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Wis Save: 13
Con Save: 12
What remains of the bear's head vibrates like a bell, and wisps of darkness begin to come loose, floating up to the ceiling and the dispersing. (1 necrotic damage) But it takes another slow forward step toward Marion, still determined.
One of the bats still flying begins to slow down. It continues to flap its wings, and stays airborne, but it's as if it is moving through molasses. Its outline becomes sharper. Less fluid. And frost creeps up its wings. (2 frost damage and disadvantage)
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The flame goes up from Samir's disc, but the bear quickly leaps through, landing once again before Marion, ready to strike.
Attack: 19 Damage: 4
Attack: 19 Damage: 8
The partially frozen bat begins to lose altitude, and attempts to bite Samir on its way down
Attack: 20 Damage: 2
Heal: 3
Meanwhile, the 1-winged bat on the ground lunges at Ashley's leg, fangs bared, as tendrils of darkness connect to its severed wing and start trying to pull it back.
Attack: 6 Damage: 3
Ashley doesn't take this damage because Joren kills the bat with his reaction
Heal: 6
The final bat once again swoops at Malachi, and as he tries to dodge it, he sees the cultist now running toward him with its blade in hand. Part of its neck has reformed and connected with its head, which is now hanging limply between its shoulders.
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Blocking first one swipe and then another from the bear, Marion sidesteps as a root lunges at her. Turning the step into a spin, she swings her sword at the bear, hoping to put an end to it.
Attack: 24 Damage: 5
(just in case the rolls change again, when they finally showed up for me they were 24 and 11)
The bear rears up again, but Marion's sword slices through its belly. The beast topples forward, directly at Marion. She braces, but it passes right through her and strikes the ground, dispersing entirely into a puff of heavy, shadowy smoke.
The ever-watching roots seem to observe Joren's echo curiously, and the unnatural way that it moves. The human shadow lunges forward at the echo again, slashing with its dagger as its head continues to get drawn closer to its neck.
Attack: 20 Damage: 4
Heal: 3
The bear and the bats continue their onslaught.
Marion takes two swipes from the bear
Attack: 13 Damage: 8
Attack: 16 Damage: 2
Asley takes two more attacks from the bats
Attack: 6 Damage: 4
Attack: 10 Damage: 8
Malachi takes one more attack from his bat
Attack: 17 Damage: 9
(Let's get some fumble rolls going on here)
Bear 37
Bat 1
The mole bear swings its heavy paw, but with control of her shield arm again, Marion deflects the blow, sending its full momentum crashing into a large stalactite that almost reaches the ground. It breaks off from the ceiling and lands on its point, which crumbles a bit. It then topples sideways onto the bear's shoulder, and the weight of stone presses the bear into the wall and floor. Effectively pinned, Marion watches as its smoky black body begins to come apart and try to reform itself a few feet over, free of the stalactite's weight. But Marion recognizes that this gives her an opening.
(The mole bear shadow doesn't get off its second attack, and is incapacitated for the next round)
Ashley manages to dodge out of the way of one of the bat shadows as it dives past her and crashes into the floor.
(prone)
Joren DEX save: 17
Barn(Paladin1): Damian_May's Ereworn Under the Shadow | Lyra(Warlock2/Bard4): VitusW's Silverwood Forest | Nivi(Rogue5): Erik_Soong's Netherdeep
Joren(Fighter6): NotDrizzt's Simple Request | Quyen(Adept1, ba5ic): ConstancePhokas' Nentir Vale (Discord) | Seri(Druid1): Hunter_Orien's Saltmarsh
Xarian(Fighter3): Luna_Dust's Marks on the Map | Ophelia(Sorcerer2): BillM's Icewind Dale | Shin(Wizard1): Culuril's Strixhaven
Joren's head is spinning. As the shadow slices down his echo, he re-summons it with a bonus action next to himself.
His skills as a Sentinel allow him to make an attack as a reaction on one of the bats who attacked Ashley just next to him. He attacks the prone one at advantage.
Attack: 24 Damage: 9
"I was beheading that shadow, I..." he is briefly overcome with nausea at the thought of it being Ashley, "I... but, it is still coming. the shadows are needing magic to kill, maybe? I will focus on the roots instead."
Joren and his echo try to slice through as many roots as possible, starting with the ones holding onto his companions, using his Unleash Incarnation for an extra attack from his echo's position.
Joren - Attack: 23 Damage: 16
Echo - Attack: 7 Damage: 9
Barn(Paladin1): Damian_May's Ereworn Under the Shadow | Lyra(Warlock2/Bard4): VitusW's Silverwood Forest | Nivi(Rogue5): Erik_Soong's Netherdeep
Joren(Fighter6): NotDrizzt's Simple Request | Quyen(Adept1, ba5ic): ConstancePhokas' Nentir Vale (Discord) | Seri(Druid1): Hunter_Orien's Saltmarsh
Xarian(Fighter3): Luna_Dust's Marks on the Map | Ophelia(Sorcerer2): BillM's Icewind Dale | Shin(Wizard1): Culuril's Strixhaven
Right as the bat swooping at Ashley is about to pull out of its collision course for the ground, Joren smashes it into the stone with his greatsword, one of its wings completely severed, but still flapping its other one.
The roots holding Ashley are then cleanly severed with another swing from Joren, freeing her. No more roots are in the immediate area reaching out for Ashley.
(Ashley no longer has to make dex saves while she stands there)
Joren cleaves through the roots holding Ashley with such ferocity that he is surprised at the continued momentum of his greatsword. There is a strange moment of clashing/keening sensation and sound as the follow-through of the blade makes contact with his echo's blade as it is coming around, diverting the latter blade into decapitating the echo itself, which dissolves instantly.
Joren jerks back as if rebounding from impact and tries to steady himself.
Barn(Paladin1): Damian_May's Ereworn Under the Shadow | Lyra(Warlock2/Bard4): VitusW's Silverwood Forest | Nivi(Rogue5): Erik_Soong's Netherdeep
Joren(Fighter6): NotDrizzt's Simple Request | Quyen(Adept1, ba5ic): ConstancePhokas' Nentir Vale (Discord) | Seri(Druid1): Hunter_Orien's Saltmarsh
Xarian(Fighter3): Luna_Dust's Marks on the Map | Ophelia(Sorcerer2): BillM's Icewind Dale | Shin(Wizard1): Culuril's Strixhaven
Malachi Dex Save: 18.
Malachi has a moment of satisfaction as the root he strikes severs and dies, but there are too many and the shadow creatures are attacking the group from both directions. Dodging a shadow bat without thinking, Malachi looks to see where he can tip the scales in their favor.
Malachi focuses on the shadow cultist and, with a low whisper, sends a jolt of psychic energy into the creature.
(Int Save 14 or 1 psychic damage and subtract 2 from next saving throw before end of Malachi's next turn)
Int Save: 17
The cultist's shadow wavers and distorts as Malachi's spell washes over it, and several of the strands connecting to its head snap and dissolve into smoke, but its outline quickly resolves back into its original shape. Faster, at least, than its recovery from Joren's attack.
(It looks like it took half damage from the psychic damage)
Meanwhile, facing down the partially pinned mole bear, Marion drops her shield. She then draws her sword and with both hands raises it high, shouting a prayer that gets lost in the sound of battle. She brings the sword down, aiming for the thing's head.
Attack: 8 Damage: 13
Her sword chops right through where the bears skull would be, and then it begins to glow with a brilliant blue light. At first, the glow can only be seen from where the blade is still exposed, but then one by one, beams of the blue light begin to shoot out from the shadow's head as the darkness is slowly burned away from inside.
Smite Damage: 8
It's mouth opens as if to roar, but the sound that comes out is like metal shavings on glass. the head, along with the rest of the body still pinned under the stalactite, finish dissolving and reforming a few feet away, now free of unexpected stone prison, but the head is half gone. Marred by a wispy crater marking where Marion's sword struck, only the lower jaw and the lower left side of its face remain.
And what's more, the wound isn't closing itself up.
Wanting to make progress and noting that at no point has he been attacked yet, Vilus moves toward the shadow bear casting Toll the Dead into its form a ringing pierces the sound of battle around the bear.
WIS save 13 or bear takes 4 necrotic damage
As Joren cleaves the roots away from Ashley's body, she looks up and sees the torment written across his face. She reaches up and gently touches his cheek, "Joren, what's wrong? Are you ok? We got this, I know we do." Steeling herself after the onslaught of bat attacks, she focuses on one in the air and casts frostbite, letting her fingers go a tinge blue as she does. Hoping this will slow down the attack a bit.
CON save of 12 or 5 cold damage plus disadvantage on next attack
Wis Save: 13
Con Save: 12
What remains of the bear's head vibrates like a bell, and wisps of darkness begin to come loose, floating up to the ceiling and the dispersing. (1 necrotic damage) But it takes another slow forward step toward Marion, still determined.
One of the bats still flying begins to slow down. It continues to flap its wings, and stays airborne, but it's as if it is moving through molasses. Its outline becomes sharper. Less fluid. And frost creeps up its wings. (2 frost damage and disadvantage)
Samir flicks his wrist, casting a disc towards the bear, hoping to finish it off.
Conjure Bonfire DC 14 Dex or 8 fire damage.
Dex Save: 18
The flame goes up from Samir's disc, but the bear quickly leaps through, landing once again before Marion, ready to strike.
Attack: 19 Damage: 4
Attack: 19 Damage: 8
The partially frozen bat begins to lose altitude, and attempts to bite Samir on its way down
Attack: 20 Damage: 2
Heal: 3
Meanwhile, the 1-winged bat on the ground lunges at Ashley's leg, fangs bared, as tendrils of darkness connect to its severed wing and start trying to pull it back.
Attack: 6 Damage: 3
Ashley doesn't take this damage because Joren kills the bat with his reaction
Heal: 6
The final bat once again swoops at Malachi, and as he tries to dodge it, he sees the cultist now running toward him with its blade in hand. Part of its neck has reformed and connected with its head, which is now hanging limply between its shoulders.
Bat Attack: 13 Damage: 6
Cultist Attack: 20 Damage: 5
Heal: 5
Marion Dex Save: 20
Blocking first one swipe and then another from the bear, Marion sidesteps as a root lunges at her. Turning the step into a spin, she swings her sword at the bear, hoping to put an end to it.
Attack: 24 Damage: 5
(just in case the rolls change again, when they finally showed up for me they were 24 and 11)
The bear rears up again, but Marion's sword slices through its belly. The beast topples forward, directly at Marion. She braces, but it passes right through her and strikes the ground, dispersing entirely into a puff of heavy, shadowy smoke.
Joren DEX Save: 3
Barn(Paladin1): Damian_May's Ereworn Under the Shadow | Lyra(Warlock2/Bard4): VitusW's Silverwood Forest | Nivi(Rogue5): Erik_Soong's Netherdeep
Joren(Fighter6): NotDrizzt's Simple Request | Quyen(Adept1, ba5ic): ConstancePhokas' Nentir Vale (Discord) | Seri(Druid1): Hunter_Orien's Saltmarsh
Xarian(Fighter3): Luna_Dust's Marks on the Map | Ophelia(Sorcerer2): BillM's Icewind Dale | Shin(Wizard1): Culuril's Strixhaven