Malachi gets back to his feet after pushing the disabled minecart off of the tracks and quickly climbs into one of the other carts, looking down to familiarize himself with the controls based on watching Vilus on the trip down. As the door starts to fall forward into the hall, Malachi turns and reaches out with his mind once more, tired from the strain, and lashes out against the queen, trying to stun it. “Quick, get into the cart so we can get out of here.”
(Queen can only take a move, action, or bonus action next turn. Rolls in dice channel.)
The Queen, starting to get worn down, doesn't seem to have her mental defenses up in the moment she breaks the door down, and for a few seconds she seems to struggle against the forces battering against her mind. Before Malachi can fully appreciate his victory, however, he has a stomach-dropping realization. He can see the runes on the lever in the cart, but he doesn't feel much residual magic stored in them. The cart probably doesn't have enough magic in it to ascend the spiraling hall. The others may be similarly drained. It seems the cultists had planned this to be a one-way trip.
Vilus jumps in the cart and sits his ass down quickly in the drivers seat, he casts a glance back at the others, specifically the captives, yelling out "get in this thing now, were getting out of here!"
Then he begins muttering, focussing on the Gloazqueen and summoning something arcane. An eye splits open on his forehead slightly, similar to when andra died, the eye is reflected in purple magic on the Gloazqueen's head as Vilus readies himself to begin pouring forbidden knowledge and observations from this realm and others, directly into her head.
(Movement, into the cart,
Held action, for the end of Gloazqueen's turn Dissonant Whispers, dc14 wis save with bane, take 15 psychic dam and move away from Vilus as much as possible)
Glaring at the queen (I'm assuming Ashley can see it through the crack in the door before it falls?) She sends the bells to ring in with necrotic damage... WIS save of 15 or 16 damage on it.
She then crawls into the mine cart, sits down and puts all her focus on the heart.
Samir scrambles to the others, his lungs heaving as he clambers into the mine cart. He whips another burst of flame towards the terrifying figure of the Gloazen Queen, all the while mentally urging Vilus to get the cart moving.
Joren attacks the last of the gloazworm larvae from his echo's position with his Dunamis Blade first, wanting no further mishaps.
Dunamis Blade attack 1 from echo's position to hit gloazworm larva: 14 Dunamis Blade attack 1 damage on gloazworm larva: 16 magical slashing
He then moves his echo 30' back north back into melee with the gloazen queen.
Dunamis Blade attack 2 from echo's position to hit gloazen queen: 17 Dunamis Blade attack 2 damage on gloazen queen: 13 magical slashing
Joren, now 60' south of his echo, then turns and trots 30' further south towards the carts (ending 90' south of his echo), lifting and carrying the furthest back of the captives with him, depositing them into a cart and clambering in himself if he can. His echo winks out behind him.
"Leaving now, all of us, yes?" He glances back at the fearsome insectile queen.
The door slams to the ground in a cloud of dust. Scorched by flame and dripping more ichor from a fresh wound, the Queen struggles against the forces toying with her mind. She finds clarity just long enough to see everyone grouped together in the carts trying to escape. She rushes forward, closing the distance in but a few seconds, dropping 10 more Gloazworm larvae on the way. She raises a claw to strike, but freezes, battling off the Malachi's mental assault.
Malachi slams his hand down on the cart in frustration. “I’m trying” he calls out to Joren “I can’t figure out how to make this thing go.”As the queen moves forward, Malachi turns back to it and conjures a spectral hand that latches onto the creature. He looks over to Vilus and Samir for help. “We are running out of time guys, any ideas?”
Vulis jumps up and grabs the small glowing vial from his bag.
The carts aren't big enough for everyone, and so he goes to the first cart containing Ashley, Samir and the captives. He pours out half of the vial onto the runes on the control stick and hopes it works in powering the thing, patting Samir on the back he shouts out, "Get it moving! We're right behind you." As he jumps back into the second cart with Joren and Malachi he prepares to do the same with this cart, pulling his arcane goggles over his eyes, "I'm out of spells guys, but I can focus on this. I hope it works, oh please work damnit!"
The contents of the vial roil and churn in Vilus' hands. As it drips onto the runes, there is a tremendous noise, somewhere between a lion's roar and shearing metal. But there doesn't appear to be any actual damage. Instead, the runes take on a dull but steady glow, and everyone in the front cart feels an odd prickling on their skin, like there is some kind of charge in the air.
Then Vilus gets the second cart with the strange fluid. It spits and spatters as it lands on the controls. (Everyone in the second cart roll a dex save DC 12 to avoid having any of the liquid splash you)
Ashley is vaguely aware of the commotion her friends are making, notes they are working on getting the carts moving and believes they are very capable of this task. Not caring whether her focus on the heart is her own doing, or if the heart itself is drawing her in, she sits and tries to understand the Heart of Fire.
Sitting there in the minecart with bodies pressing all around her, Ashley's thoughts sink deeper and deeper into the stone. She tunes out all else. She can feel the fire pulsing beneath her finger tips. The Gloazen Queen crawls toward the carts, leaving her spawn in her wake, but Ashley does not care.
Slowly, Ashley becomes aware of other flames. Flames that have not yet come to pass. They are near her, in the room, all around. She calls to them.
They answer.
Those not sitting in the cart watch as all of the glassy black statues, including the unfinished one, burst into flame. The whole room lights up dazzlingly bright, and the air gets almost unbearably hot. The Gloazen queen shrieks and cowers while all of her larvae begin to writhe and shrivel. One by one they stop moving. Though the Queen still moves and once again advances, the edges of her exoskeleton nearest the statues all around her start to turn orange, then brown, then black, charring in the heat.
Samir blinks at Vilus for an instant, before realizing what he was doing. Of course! Brilliant! With the cart seemingly having absorbed the magic inherent in the liquid, Samir immediately goes into action, muttering under his breath in almost a check list of thoughts as he tries to get the cart moving. The wash of heat that pours away from the burning hall rushes over him, bringing an almost instant sheen of new sweat to the back of his neck, but he ignores it as best he can. After all, if he dies in a massive blast of fire, at least the giant gloazen queen can't eat him.
Joren hauls the captives into the cart with Samir and Ashley, then hops into the one with Vilus and Malachi (free action/movement). He glances at Ashley at the very moment she makes connection with the Heart of Fire and everything seems to explode. Turning back to face the Gloazen Queen, Joren gazes in awe as the statues become fiery avatars of themselves and the ancient and solemn chamber transforms into a roaring inferno, incinerating the encroaching larvae and engulfing their monstrous mother in a vast pyre of dazzling flame.
In that moment, Joren knows that he would follow Ashley anywhere. To the ends of the earth.
Summoning his echo (bonus action) directly in front of the Gloazen Queen, Joren steadies himself inside the cart and attacks the monstrous burning insect matriarch twice from his echo's position with the Dunamis Blade.
First attack to hit the Gloazen Queen: 24 First attack damage: 12 magical slashing
Second attack to hit the Gloazen Queen: 25 Second attack damage: 13 magical slashing
The echo remains directly in front of the Gloazen Queen. An obvious target for her attacks, having just cut into her. Joren remains in the cart, eyes wide.
The Queen screeches and chitters in pain, thrashing about in the middle of the room. Her long abdomen, still extending back into the previous chamber, whips from side to side, smashing into the walls of the doorway. Chunks of stone and dust start raining down from the ceiling. She takes one swipe with her claw at the echo, cutting straight through it. Then she slams a sickled limb into one of the flaming statues, shattering it into still flaming chunks as she starts backing away, slowly retreating toward her nest.
(The gloazen Queen is now 60 feet away from the carts, looking bloodied)
As droplets of the liquid splash onto Malachi's arm, he feels strange magic seeping through his skin. With a shudden jolt, like getting zapped by static, he feels a sudden surge of power, but in the next moment, something drafts past his vision. A strand of hair. Raising a hand to his head, a handful of hair comes loose in his fingers.
Malachi:
Any spent sorcery points regained
All his hair is falling out
Joren likewise feels a jolt of magic where droplets splash onto his cheek, but instead of a jolt, he is left with a subtle nausea.
Joren:
1d4 subtracted from ability checks for the next hour
For the next minute all words out of your mouth sound to others like a string of curses as in the vicious mockery spell, but without the damage.
Malachi moves back in the cart, turning the controls over to Vilus and trying to avoid being splashed by whatever strange liquid he is pouring on the handle. He flinches back as some of it splashes on him. He shakes his hand furiously, trying to fling the liquid off as a charge seems to fill the air. “Ugh, what is this stuff, Vilus?”
The liquid is quickly forgotten as the statues in the hall suddenly burst into flame, searing heat filling the cavern. He looks on in awe until the gloazen creature shatters one of the nearby statues and with it the spectacle holding Malachi's attention. Spurred into action, he turns back toward the creature sending a jolt of energy into the creature’s mind and then urges Vilus forward. "Go, go!"
Viius concentrates on getting the cart moving hoping that Samir can get the one in front moving too so that there isn't a hold up. Glancing back over his shoulder he throws two warbling balls of energy at the monstrous queen. (15 to hit, 5 force dam, 20 to hit 2 force dam)
As his eldritch blasts are firing Vilus watches as the drops flying of from his hastily splashed vial of arcanum hits Joren and Malachi, "are you two alright? Tell me if you're feeling any different, last time I saw this touch someone's skin it melted them into a puddle. Granted it was a lot more. Can you fight?"
Throwing the lever, Vilus feels the cart lurch beneath him. It starts moving forward, and bumps into the other one with a metallic clang, starting to push it down the tracks away from the Queen
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Malachi gets back to his feet after pushing the disabled minecart off of the tracks and quickly climbs into one of the other carts, looking down to familiarize himself with the controls based on watching Vilus on the trip down. As the door starts to fall forward into the hall, Malachi turns and reaches out with his mind once more, tired from the strain, and lashes out against the queen, trying to stun it. “Quick, get into the cart so we can get out of here.”
(Queen can only take a move, action, or bonus action next turn. Rolls in dice channel.)
The Queen, starting to get worn down, doesn't seem to have her mental defenses up in the moment she breaks the door down, and for a few seconds she seems to struggle against the forces battering against her mind. Before Malachi can fully appreciate his victory, however, he has a stomach-dropping realization. He can see the runes on the lever in the cart, but he doesn't feel much residual magic stored in them. The cart probably doesn't have enough magic in it to ascend the spiraling hall. The others may be similarly drained. It seems the cultists had planned this to be a one-way trip.
Vilus jumps in the cart and sits his ass down quickly in the drivers seat, he casts a glance back at the others, specifically the captives, yelling out "get in this thing now, were getting out of here!"
Then he begins muttering, focussing on the Gloazqueen and summoning something arcane. An eye splits open on his forehead slightly, similar to when andra died, the eye is reflected in purple magic on the Gloazqueen's head as Vilus readies himself to begin pouring forbidden knowledge and observations from this realm and others, directly into her head.
(Movement, into the cart,
Held action, for the end of Gloazqueen's turn Dissonant Whispers, dc14 wis save with bane, take 15 psychic dam and move away from Vilus as much as possible)
Glaring at the queen (I'm assuming Ashley can see it through the crack in the door before it falls?) She sends the bells to ring in with necrotic damage... WIS save of 15 or 16 damage on it.
She then crawls into the mine cart, sits down and puts all her focus on the heart.
The remaining gloazworm larvae leaps at Joren's echo, but misses it's mark.
Samir scrambles to the others, his lungs heaving as he clambers into the mine cart. He whips another burst of flame towards the terrifying figure of the Gloazen Queen, all the while mentally urging Vilus to get the cart moving.
Firebolt, 17 to hit, 12 damage
Joren attacks the last of the gloazworm larvae from his echo's position with his Dunamis Blade first, wanting no further mishaps.
Dunamis Blade attack 1 from echo's position to hit gloazworm larva: 14
Dunamis Blade attack 1 damage on gloazworm larva: 16 magical slashing
He then moves his echo 30' back north back into melee with the gloazen queen.
Dunamis Blade attack 2 from echo's position to hit gloazen queen: 17
Dunamis Blade attack 2 damage on gloazen queen: 13 magical slashing
Joren, now 60' south of his echo, then turns and trots 30' further south towards the carts (ending 90' south of his echo), lifting and carrying the furthest back of the captives with him, depositing them into a cart and clambering in himself if he can. His echo winks out behind him.
"Leaving now, all of us, yes?" He glances back at the fearsome insectile queen.
Tanis(Ranger1): Shiverquill's Tempest City | Xarian(Fighter2): NioNSwiper's Tyranny of Dragons
Dyson/Eleo(TwilightCleric4): Vos' Beyond the Veil | Soren(ShepherdDruid5): Bartjeebus' Ravenloft | Ophelia(WildMagicSorcerer4): Ashen_Age's Risen from the Sands
Joren(EchoKnightFighter6): NotDrizzt's Simple Request | Sabetha(MercyMonk3): Bedlymn's Murder Court | Seri(NatureCleric3/DivineSoulSorcerer1): Bartjeebus' Greyhawk
The door slams to the ground in a cloud of dust. Scorched by flame and dripping more ichor from a fresh wound, the Queen struggles against the forces toying with her mind. She finds clarity just long enough to see everyone grouped together in the carts trying to escape. She rushes forward, closing the distance in but a few seconds, dropping 10 more Gloazworm larvae on the way. She raises a claw to strike, but freezes, battling off the Malachi's mental assault.
Malachi slams his hand down on the cart in frustration. “I’m trying” he calls out to Joren “I can’t figure out how to make this thing go.” As the queen moves forward, Malachi turns back to it and conjures a spectral hand that latches onto the creature. He looks over to Vilus and Samir for help. “We are running out of time guys, any ideas?”
Vulis jumps up and grabs the small glowing vial from his bag.
The carts aren't big enough for everyone, and so he goes to the first cart containing Ashley, Samir and the captives. He pours out half of the vial onto the runes on the control stick and hopes it works in powering the thing, patting Samir on the back he shouts out, "Get it moving! We're right behind you." As he jumps back into the second cart with Joren and Malachi he prepares to do the same with this cart, pulling his arcane goggles over his eyes, "I'm out of spells guys, but I can focus on this. I hope it works, oh please work damnit!"
The contents of the vial roil and churn in Vilus' hands. As it drips onto the runes, there is a tremendous noise, somewhere between a lion's roar and shearing metal. But there doesn't appear to be any actual damage. Instead, the runes take on a dull but steady glow, and everyone in the front cart feels an odd prickling on their skin, like there is some kind of charge in the air.
Then Vilus gets the second cart with the strange fluid. It spits and spatters as it lands on the controls. (Everyone in the second cart roll a dex save DC 12 to avoid having any of the liquid splash you)
Ashley is vaguely aware of the commotion her friends are making, notes they are working on getting the carts moving and believes they are very capable of this task. Not caring whether her focus on the heart is her own doing, or if the heart itself is drawing her in, she sits and tries to understand the Heart of Fire.
CHA check: 20!!!
Sitting there in the minecart with bodies pressing all around her, Ashley's thoughts sink deeper and deeper into the stone. She tunes out all else. She can feel the fire pulsing beneath her finger tips. The Gloazen Queen crawls toward the carts, leaving her spawn in her wake, but Ashley does not care.
Slowly, Ashley becomes aware of other flames. Flames that have not yet come to pass. They are near her, in the room, all around. She calls to them.
They answer.
Those not sitting in the cart watch as all of the glassy black statues, including the unfinished one, burst into flame. The whole room lights up dazzlingly bright, and the air gets almost unbearably hot. The Gloazen queen shrieks and cowers while all of her larvae begin to writhe and shrivel. One by one they stop moving. Though the Queen still moves and once again advances, the edges of her exoskeleton nearest the statues all around her start to turn orange, then brown, then black, charring in the heat.
Samir blinks at Vilus for an instant, before realizing what he was doing. Of course! Brilliant! With the cart seemingly having absorbed the magic inherent in the liquid, Samir immediately goes into action, muttering under his breath in almost a check list of thoughts as he tries to get the cart moving. The wash of heat that pours away from the burning hall rushes over him, bringing an almost instant sheen of new sweat to the back of his neck, but he ignores it as best he can. After all, if he dies in a massive blast of fire, at least the giant gloazen queen can't eat him.
Joren hauls the captives into the cart with Samir and Ashley, then hops into the one with Vilus and Malachi (free action/movement). He glances at Ashley at the very moment she makes connection with the Heart of Fire and everything seems to explode. Turning back to face the Gloazen Queen, Joren gazes in awe as the statues become fiery avatars of themselves and the ancient and solemn chamber transforms into a roaring inferno, incinerating the encroaching larvae and engulfing their monstrous mother in a vast pyre of dazzling flame.
In that moment, Joren knows that he would follow Ashley anywhere. To the ends of the earth.
Summoning his echo (bonus action) directly in front of the Gloazen Queen, Joren steadies himself inside the cart and attacks the monstrous burning insect matriarch twice from his echo's position with the Dunamis Blade.
First attack to hit the Gloazen Queen: 24
First attack damage: 12 magical slashing
Second attack to hit the Gloazen Queen: 25
Second attack damage: 13 magical slashing
The echo remains directly in front of the Gloazen Queen. An obvious target for her attacks, having just cut into her. Joren remains in the cart, eyes wide.
Tanis(Ranger1): Shiverquill's Tempest City | Xarian(Fighter2): NioNSwiper's Tyranny of Dragons
Dyson/Eleo(TwilightCleric4): Vos' Beyond the Veil | Soren(ShepherdDruid5): Bartjeebus' Ravenloft | Ophelia(WildMagicSorcerer4): Ashen_Age's Risen from the Sands
Joren(EchoKnightFighter6): NotDrizzt's Simple Request | Sabetha(MercyMonk3): Bedlymn's Murder Court | Seri(NatureCleric3/DivineSoulSorcerer1): Bartjeebus' Greyhawk
The Queen screeches and chitters in pain, thrashing about in the middle of the room. Her long abdomen, still extending back into the previous chamber, whips from side to side, smashing into the walls of the doorway. Chunks of stone and dust start raining down from the ceiling. She takes one swipe with her claw at the echo, cutting straight through it. Then she slams a sickled limb into one of the flaming statues, shattering it into still flaming chunks as she starts backing away, slowly retreating toward her nest.
(The gloazen Queen is now 60 feet away from the carts, looking bloodied)
As droplets of the liquid splash onto Malachi's arm, he feels strange magic seeping through his skin. With a shudden jolt, like getting zapped by static, he feels a sudden surge of power, but in the next moment, something drafts past his vision. A strand of hair. Raising a hand to his head, a handful of hair comes loose in his fingers.
Malachi:
Any spent sorcery points regained
All his hair is falling out
Joren likewise feels a jolt of magic where droplets splash onto his cheek, but instead of a jolt, he is left with a subtle nausea.
Joren:
1d4 subtracted from ability checks for the next hour
For the next minute all words out of your mouth sound to others like a string of curses as in the vicious mockery spell, but without the damage.
Malachi moves back in the cart, turning the controls over to Vilus and trying to avoid being splashed by whatever strange liquid he is pouring on the handle. He flinches back as some of it splashes on him. He shakes his hand furiously, trying to fling the liquid off as a charge seems to fill the air. “Ugh, what is this stuff, Vilus?”
The liquid is quickly forgotten as the statues in the hall suddenly burst into flame, searing heat filling the cavern. He looks on in awe until the gloazen creature shatters one of the nearby statues and with it the spectacle holding Malachi's attention. Spurred into action, he turns back toward the creature sending a jolt of energy into the creature’s mind and then urges Vilus forward. "Go, go!"
Viius concentrates on getting the cart moving hoping that Samir can get the one in front moving too so that there isn't a hold up. Glancing back over his shoulder he throws two warbling balls of energy at the monstrous queen. (15 to hit, 5 force dam, 20 to hit 2 force dam)
As his eldritch blasts are firing Vilus watches as the drops flying of from his hastily splashed vial of arcanum hits Joren and Malachi, "are you two alright? Tell me if you're feeling any different, last time I saw this touch someone's skin it melted them into a puddle. Granted it was a lot more. Can you fight?"
Throwing the lever, Vilus feels the cart lurch beneath him. It starts moving forward, and bumps into the other one with a metallic clang, starting to push it down the tracks away from the Queen