Temple of Ishassara

Okay, you forgot to roll strength drain on me btw. Gregor currently has 33 life left. 

Attack Role on Shadow 1 (Reckless Swing): 16 (Oh I also used my great weapon to take 5 hit off and add 10 damadge) 

Damadge: 19 (That’s nonmagical Slashing Damadge. If only there was a magical 2 handed weapon at the end of the temple ;)

Edit: Also, if I happen to slay the shadow, I get a bonus attack this turn

If only y’all explore the temple thoroughly... ;)

Didn’t forget, the shadow just, for some reason felt strong enough.... But not so much any more, as you manage to find purchase on it, slicing right through its middle. It shrieks and disperses into thin air.

You gain a bonus action attack.

Gregor will swivel around and strike at shadow 5 recklessly (also doing the -5 hit, +10 damadge thing)

12

If that hits: 18

I think S5 is still alive and kickin?  If so, Chubby attacks with a Menacing Attack maneuver!

Attack: 9 Damage: 10 magical damage, with an additional 4 damage due to the expended superiority dice (so 14 damage in total to S5).

S5 (or whichever shadow I ended up attacking) now must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, it is frightened of Chubby until the end of my next turn.

Chubby then uses a bonus action to invoke his fighter's Second Wind, healing himself 5 hit points.

S2 is Crispy's current target - being careful not to hit Nia, as she's not used to teaming up with her, unfortunately, Crispy expertly swings twice at S2

Sneak Attack: Attack: 19 Damage: 12
Offhand: Attack: 20 Damage: 3

Slicing through the shadow, she ends her strokes and flips her blade around so her fingers are out while still holding her sword, the tip of her finger touching Nia's nose lightly.

"BOOP!" She says. "Got your snoot!"

Roll for boop.

And with that, boys and girls, the shadows in the room stand still, as they are all natural, non living shadows.

 Current location: area 8

Nia thought for a moment. "You know? I think I might be able to set up a torch on my staff and light it. That should work till I can learn a Light cantrip." She said, and then when Crispy booped her nose Nia wrinkled her nose and sneezed softly.

"Allergic to sexiness, I see...!"

Ready for a proceeding, booping Nia's snoot: 15

BOOP!

I’m about to go to bed, I can’t remember if you described the room, but Gregor’s gonna try to perceive anything interesting. 

Perception: 10

 Nia cuts the oiled rag end off a torch and has it rotate slowly around her staff.

What would you all like to do, rest up or keep pushing on? How are we faring?

Asside from the deep scratch marks and dried blood around the outside on the brick walls, you notice an open doorway ahead with more stairs leading down. Other than that, just the stamped out fire place and a few bloodied rags in the corner.

Time for a short rest here?

Probably a good idea right? Y’all can take a short rest- remember to use your hit dice to replenish HP and just lemme know when you’re ready to go.

Crispy, unhurt, walks over to Chubby to make sure he is ok. It looks like this time she did some teamwork with Nia this time around, too, so she casually, without letting on she cared too much, makes sure Nia is ok as well. After that she cleans her swords, readjusts her armor, fixes her hair, and takes a moment to scout the room. 

Nia practices tying the oiled rag into elaborate knots until she had a design she was happy with it, she then did the same with the other nine and set the first one floating above her staff. She lit it with Prestidigitation and waved it around with satisfaction. She hurried to show off her light to Liam and Crispy, grinning "I did it! I figured it out!"

Crispy also notices the bloodied rags in the corner with her pp.

I think I'd like to reward everyone with an inspiration point! For playing your characters so true. Character development on point!

With the immanent danger of the living shadows now passed, Liam leans his back against the wall and drops to the floor to rest for a bit, satisfied that everyone is safe for the moment.

"That's a novel idea," he says with a faint smile to Nia when she shows him her floating torch-knot.  He then looks over the rest the group and grudgingly admits, "well done, everybody.  That could have certainly gone a lot worse."

His piece said, he then pulls out his spell/notebooks and starts to leisurely thumb through them to refresh his memory as he rest.

Liam is using his Arcane Recovery class feature to recover a number of spell slot levels equal to half his wizard level or less, so in this case he's recovering one of his Lv2 slots.

He'll also expend a hit die to recover some hit points: 7

HP before rest: 33

Rest Roll: 10

(That’s full HP baby)

Gregor will sit against the wall, and think about what he would say to a member of a ancient civilization if he found one. Would they even speak any languages that his friends could speak? That seemed to be a big problem in his head. Maybe there was a magical work around, they have animal heads, maybe speak with animals could work. 

He voiced his thoughts to the group

Roll for Chubby's healing snores: 5

Oh good lord...okay, let's spend a second hit dice for more tender lovin' snoring, err, healing: 10

"Great job, gorgeous!"

Crispy takes a look at what Nia had made, clearly seeing how happy she was with her cleverness. It took Crispy back to a time when she was about her age, where she learned a few things - backed into an alley and getting beat up just because she was a girl, because she was different, because her mother had less than pure values. That was one of the first times she had to fight for her life, to learn to survive. That was the day she broke plenty bones in her body, but the boys beating her up had also suffered greatly. They had run away, but left her for dead.

It was also the day a commander of the special forces noticed a beaten, filthy, dying girl in an alley and took her in.

That's when he life changed forever, and the real training began at the academy. Her anger and resentment as the years progress fuelled the sharpening of her mind, and made her stronger - physically, and mentally. But it would be a while before she mastered her feelings.

She smiled at Nia, gave her a genuine compliment, looking at her with fondness, but Crispy’s smile faded as Nia walked away..the bad backalley memory lingered a bit too long and it was a moment before she could bury it deep down again. Your experiences and memories shape a person. Shape a personality. Forge a precision weapon. It was difficult to let new feelings in.

But she would try.