Tests and Trials Game Thread

Lurn hears whispered voices from up the stairs. They are muffled and slightly echoed but are definitely speaking elven.

Jaq (25) (-4 hp) (Poisoned)
Joe (15)
Cladmir (11)
Kroshav (8) (Pending clarification)
Lurn (2)<----

((Depends on where others/light is, and what Sword tells him of what's ahead.))

((The others, except Lurn, are by Kroshav near the door to the room. The only light is coming from Lurn in the stairs and Kroshav is standing in darkness. The room is dark, the corridors are dark.

From your current position, Sword let's you know she can see anyone. You do know there are enemy/ies south of the stairs but you don't know where exactly,  definitely beyond 25' south of the stairs though.))

Lurn makes a run to join the others.  Once he's with them, he'll cast Bless on...  Himself, Jaq, and Joe, I suppose.  "Should've thought to do this before we started."

((I'm at least as lost here as I am in Killi's game with regard to what's where and where we are...))

Kroshav will move forward, into the room, having Sword give him a summary of what's there, keeping his shield up warily (dodge action).

Lurn moves quickly down the stairs but, like some many before him, is greeted by a pair of arrows.

Attack: 13 Damage: 6

Attack: 23 Damage: 5

((Give me a con save for each hit, please.))

((I have no idea where we are in Kilili's... I as meaning to get a map up but...life.

Here is one below, annotated. You are across the corridor from where you found Cladmir))

((Okay, that helps... there are drow up the stairs somewhere, is down the stairs back to the librarian naga? What's our goal here folks?))

Con save: 23

(Our goal is breaking out of their blockade, as far as I'm concerned.  We split off from the stairs here because it was the only cover to drag Jaq into, right?)

Kroshav moves into the room and finds it empty. Sword informs she doesn't see any drow.

Lurn shrugs off a wave of drowsiness easily and casts his spell of blessing.

Jaq (25) (-4 hp) (Poisoned, blessed)<----
Joe (15) (blessed)
Cladmir (11)
Kroshav (8)
Lurn (2) (-5 hp)(blessed)

((Drow are up stairs somewhere,  yes. And up on the next floor there are spiders.

The stairs on the east and west sides of the 5th floor (where you are) go to the Naga.))

"Thanks." Jaq comments to Kroshav when he gets awakened.  "But, Oh, I still feel really slow and awful, damn drow poison."

Jaq then (Not that slowly, actually) slides by Kroshav and dashes east "C'mon all, find a better spot."  He will dash so that he can move south into the next opening in the hall and be out of arrows way, hopefully 10 feet south into the area, so that he is out of the way of any of his band that hopefully follows.

He then tries to hide (Cunning action) 14

(Does Jaq get another saving throw to get rid of poison disadvantage?)

((So stairs down at North and South might go somewhere other than to the Naga?))

((@Row, nope. Jaq is poisoned for an hour now.

@Spider, the North/South stairs end on the 5th floor, there is no more down, but go all the way up to the first floor - which is where you entered.))

Jaq pops up and dashes past the rest of the party standing in the hallway and heads to an area he knows people would have to be a lot close to shoot him. He doesn't see anyone in the corridor as he runs and turns the corner to an, as far as he can tell, empty space.

Jaq (25) (-4 hp) (Poisoned, blessed)
Joe (15) (blessed)<----
Cladmir (11)
Kroshav (8)
Lurn (2) (-5 hp)(blessed)

((Ah, okay. Kroshav can clear Jaq's poison, but next action will probably be to follow Lurn's example and bless himself, Clad and Mikram.))

((@Dead, Joe is up!))

((So I was listening to a dnd podcast and they were talking about how they forgot NPCs were there sometimes and it struck me that I'd forgotten that Mikram was with Lurn. My bad but this is what he would have told Lurn at the end of last turn after he got shot. You can amend your action if you'd like @Row!))

Mikram explains to Lurn and Jaq (and Cladmir?),

"There were two drow down there, standing next to some doors. They were maybe 70' or 80' feet off. Had some bows, but aye guess ye'd figured that. Aye didn't see anything to the west and there's nothing here or to the east that aye can see."

He then grumbles about the group's generally poor eyesight.

((At least he can't get left behind while riding Lurn!))

(Nope, no need to amend the action.  We got out of bow range for the moment and we are heading at least a bit closer to the other stairs.  So if we end up not taking them out, but instead running, we are at least a bit closer to the naga's area.)

Joe will follow Jaq since it seems safe.

Joe hustles after Jaq but the nimble elf leaves her in his dust, especially since she needs to hold to the walls to keep oriented outside the light of Lurn's shield.

Jaq (25) (-4 hp) (Poisoned, blessed)
Joe (15) (blessed)
Cladmir (11)<----
Kroshav (8) <----
Lurn (2) (-5 hp)(blessed)

Kroshav will bless himself, Clad and Mik, kicking himself a bit for not thinking of it earlier. He'll follow Joe and Jaq.