Tests and Trials Game Thread

Jaq is ready to move on, but doesn't have much to add about a plan.  He shrugs and says.  "We got to get rid of all the drow.  They know we are coming.  Let's keep them guessing and not use same tactics, totally."    He thinks for a bit and suggests, "Maybe have the golem burn the webs on the stairs we always used so far, and we go up the other stairs, for a start?"

"Yup! Sounds good!"

(Joe and a golem already burned the other set of webs)

(OK...Hmmm.   Jaq is thinking have the golem's maybe burn the webs at the stair we always use, then we use the other stairs?  just to keep from being predictable.)

((At this point I'm happy to let you switch sides you go up, if you'd like?))

((I'd just randomly rolled for which side to go up, since it was said that we'd explored both fully, and that they were equidistant from the tunnel we're needing to check. If we've been going up one more than the other, that makes sense to decoy that side and go up the other.))

((Aight, up the unused by you side! I will see if I can get a longer post out today but I'm starting my trip home this afternoon and won't likely have much time until Thursday. Plane to LA then to Stockholm and then another plane ride home. Woo))

(ooh...nice long flights.   Hope you have great and safe flights.   Hope you have had fun on your vacation, too.)

((And home again!))

The party wait for Joe to come back from lighting the other side and quickly burn up the new, to them, set of stairs. With the Librarian's help the other webs are burned slightly ahead of Joe's and the party find themselves looking up into the floor above and the darkness beyond the light provided.

Lurn, with his keen ears, hears distant shouts echoing down and everyone hears far nearer shout responding, in Elven,

"...light over here as well! Keep position?"

The more distant shout is to hard to make out but there is no response this time.

((I have you all around the bend in the stairs. You know there are drow up there, and that some are nearby and some are further away. Just charging up?))

((I'm in favour of charging up there.  If we're slow they'll see out light and they'll have time to group up, best if we off a few of them first.))

((You okay with late changes to Kroshav 's prepped spells since we just woke and I have used any yet?))

((@Spider, yep no problem.))

When we are ready to head up, Kroshav will slap a hand on Jaq and on himself, bolstering them against drow bolts. When they get immediately ready to head up or right before combat, he'll further boost himself, Jaq and Cladmir.

Jaq gives a quick smile when he gets the magical blessings, and then nods, as if he is ready to go!

Just seconds before they run up, Jaq once again tries out the illusion trick and this time creates a statue that looks like Joe on the top of the stairway, he just barely peeks around the corner so that he can cast it.  Then he whispers, "let's go."

Seeing Kroshav's actions as a reminder, Lurn similarly casts Bless on himself, Joe, and Mikram.

((Okay,  go ahead and roll me an initiative someone.  I'm going to keep all the PCs together for speed on here so you can all act together.  I'll roll to see if the npcs act before or after you.))

Kroshav and Lurn both place their hands on their companions, a brief glow showing the blessings and buffs conferred.

Jaq moves to the lead and creates a decoy which is instantly pierced by arrows from the south and north.

17 flat d20 for init

We have torches we can have lit? How would throwing a torch work? Just trying to light up their area? Let Jaq make decoy , then hurl a torch part way?

((You can definitely throw some torches if you'd like. I would take a ranged attack for distance on the torches with the 20/60 range. A 60ft throw will go more than a 20ft throw but depending on the roll won't go as far/land where you want it to.))

Drow: 4

The party find themselves more prepared to move than the Drow and can act first.

((For ease, as soon as Lurn heads up Mikram would let you know there are two drow to the north and one to the south, he sees none to the east.))

Initiative:

Kroshav (Blessed, Prot. poison)
Lurn/Mikram (Blessed)
Joe (Blessed)
Cladmir (Blessed)
Jaq (Blessed, Prot. poison)
Drow

Torch toss: 18 (left off proficiency for improvised throwing)

8 disadvantage for range

((Want to chuck it maybe 40 ft?))