(going to start using the character sheet to roll as well!)
Echo makes a noise between a yelp and a 'woah!' as the orc she just hit slashes at her, but his movement is slowed enough that she manages to hop out of the way in time. And it's good that she jumped back too- most of the blood does not touch her as Khessa strikes him down. She looks up to see the third orc still standing and sends out a chilling force of energy at him.
The third orc falls to the floor with a dying gasp, but as soon as it drops, another orc appears on the stairs, yelling and raising his greatsword aggressively. The stairs are narrow so only one person at a time can pass. When the orc spots Tookrashk, his eyes go wide and he utters what sounds like an orcish curse. Then he launches one of his javelins at the manticore (6 to hit, miss!), but Tookrashk glares malevolently at the orc and bats the javelin out of the air with one of his paws.
Then, with a roar, the manticore whips his tail around and launches a spike at the orc, which strikes it squarely in the chest. The orc reels back, blood gushing from his mouth, but he remains standing and glares defiantly back at Tookrashk.
Khessa and Jasper may act next, followed by Echo and Katarina!
The great sword and axe of both Khessa and Katarina sinking into the orc Jasper just pierced with his spear is a little startling but relieved. Then the orc falling to the ground after a cold ghostly hand grabs it. Suddenly we hear orcs, Jasper runs to the stairs following Tookrashk but stays back. Raises his spear over his shoulder and throws it up the stairs at the Orc4.
...another orc appears on the stairs, yelling and raising his greatsword aggressively. The stairs are narrow so only one person at a time can pass. When the orc spots Tookrashk, his eyes go wide and he utters what sounds like an orcish curse. Then he launches one of his javelins at the manticore (6 to hit, miss!), but Tookrashk glares malevolently at the orc and bats the javelin out of the air with one of his paws.
Then, with a roar, the manticore whips his tail around and launches a spike at the orc, which strikes it squarely in the chest. The orc reels back, blood gushing from his mouth, but he remains standing and glares defiantly back at Tookrashk.
...
Maybe I'm reading the map wrong? How can Orc4 have seen (and targeted) Tookrashk from his position? Stairs are descending from above to the room where only Jasper now is (and nobody was, at the time the Orc acted) aren't them? Are the stairs descending to the main room instead? The way I was reading the map, I'd have expected Orc4 and Tookrashk unable to see each other... Anyway, asking just to be sure I'm not misunderstanding (or watching a wrong map); we can keep things as they went, as far as I am concerned.
(Oh and by the way, Jasper... Khessa wields a heavy blade, but it is a greatsword - only Katarina wields a greataxe)
Taking Khessa's turn now!
With fierce determination in her blue eyes, Khessa races up the stairs, both to face her new foe and to prevent any orc reinforcements from reaching her companions.
'You know what to do, right, brother?' the blonde arcane warrior communicates briefly with Anator - and as the bat flutters past the orc's eyes, distracting him, the long blade of Khessa's greatsword snaps swiftly to strike.
(OOC: Khessa moves, then Anator takes the help, giving Khessa advantage on her next attack vs Orc4 and she attacks him with her greatsword)
Echo feels the hair on her neck stand up as she hears more orcs coming from upstairs. She swallows and wipes away the sweat on her brows in a moment of respite. She hurriedly follows behind Khessa and Jasper, jumping behind the wall where the stairway opens out to. She peeks her head out from behind it and tries to scratch at the descending orc.
[spell]chill touch[spell] To hit: 12 + 1 (bless), Damage: 3
The orc is absolutely savaged by the assault and its body tumbles down the stairs! You can still hear orcish voices from above, but they aren't descending the stairs. They seem to understand it's more advantageous for them to remain upstairs where there is more room to maneuver.
Katarina, now too angry to think, decides to charge up the stairs and strikes at the nearest orc with hear axe (using Feline Agility if necessary to do so).
Attack (rolled in game log): 20, Damage: 15
She will also unleash the Blinding Radiant Death Laser (TM) with her Bonus Action, either at the orc she just attacked or (if her first attack already did him in) at whichever orc is in range (Con save DC 14)
Radiant damage (rolled in game log): 6
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Katarina, now too angry to think, decides to charge up the stairs ...
Seeing the tabaxi friend running past her, headed towards the unknown (but an unknown which certainly includes orcs ready to fight), Khessa is momentarily taken aback: 'Hey, where is she going?'
"Katarina, wait!" she tries to call her "Let's go up togeth..."
But the blonde arcane warrior doesn't have time to finish the sentence when the other one is already upstairs! And immediately battle noises are heard. The tall adventurer tries to rush to support the savage warrior...
Katarina's assault absolutely devastates the orc standing at the top of the stairs. He is down in a fountain of blood, and the orc standing behind him stares in horror at his fallen comrade but not for long because a blast of magical energy sends him reeling. The orc manages to keep his feet and raises his greataxe threateningly, charging at Katarina and bringing the blade down toward the tabaxi! The blast of arcane energy took its toll on the orc, though, because he misses as Katarina dodges nimbly out of the way (12 to hit, miss!).
From somewhere else on the second floor, you can hear the sound of more feet. There are even more orcs in the house, and they are eager to join the fray! Meanwhile, at the bottom of the stairs, Tookrashk paces with frustration. The manticore is too big to fit up the stairs!
Khessa and Jasper may act next, followed by Echo and Katarina again!
Running up the stairs, Khessa sighs with relief to discover that the inhuman scream she just heard was emitted by the orc almost split in two by her friend tabaxi - and not by Katarina.
Noting the number of orcs still present on the upper floor, the blonde arcane warrior positions herself practically on top of the corpse, in order to block the passage for reinforcements: "Let's fight from here!" she advises "They can only come one at a time, while we can all attack together".
Unfortunately, the orc already in the room really is the wrong monster in the wrong place; the tall adventuress tries to provide according to the tried and tested strategy with her brother: 'Anator ... Do you mind distracting him?'
And as the bat lunges at the orc's face, Khessa, who was looking forward to it, lunges forward with her massive blade…
Jasper trailing behind Katarina and Khessa, he picks up his spear laying next to the fallen orc at the bottom of the stairs. Steps over the body and hurried up to the second floor. Another orc already laying dead on the floor at the top of the stairs, Jasper sees Khessa and Katarina attacking another orc. Jasper looks around quickly and sees a hallway with orcs bearing down on Katarina and Khessa. Jasper can’t quite squeeze past Khessa and Katarina so he steps back down the stairs about 10 feet and holds his action to cast Sacred Flame to attack the first orc he sees in the hallway.
Khessa returns her greatsword dipped in orc blood to guard position, at the same time trying not to lose sight of the orcs that are advancing from the corridor and to check, out of the corner of her eye, if the one she has just skewered in the room collapses to the ground or not...
(@DM: Is the orc in the room still standing? Or did the lunge kill him?)
(Anyway, Echo and Katarina, you both are up, feel free to act, before the next turn of the orcs - in any order)
Katarina snarls like an animal as she she swings her greataxe at the orc 7, completely disregarding her own safety as she does so (Katarina uses Reckless Attack to gain advantage on her attack).
Greateaxe: Attack 24 (with advantage and 1d4 from Bless), Damage: 17 (rolled in game log, +2 damage from Rage added manually)
Simultaneously, the feline unleashes the burning fury from her heart at the orc behind the one that she almost certainly just killed (Con Save DC 14).
"Katarina!" Echo gasps both in worry and alarm as she hears the sound of a heavy swinging weapon and sound of bodies falling. She grits a teeth and inhales, "I don't think they're coming down..!" Her fingers flex and she summons a shadowy dagger to her hand.
And she slips past Jasper, standing just behind Khessa, but since the tall woman pretty much has the entrance covered, Echo reaches to the wall- and climbs atop it as if it was just the horizontal floor. The space is narrow, so she stops once she's squatting on the ceiling. With one hand bracing her self against the ceiling, she tilts her head in an unsettling way and reaches out to the nearest standing orc, extending the cold grasps of her magic. "By the way! It's rude to barge into someone else's home uninvited!"
also she's using the dhampir trait to spider climb onto the ceiling so she's hopefully not blocked by khessa or jsaper)
(OOC: You can pass freely through the space occupied by a friend... the only thing you can't do is ending your movement in an already occupied space - anyway, so waaaaay cooler to see you spider-climb!)
Khessa is stunned to see how her mysterious friend has yet another ace up her sleeve! How does she manage to move like that?!
"Echo... But how..." the blonde arcane warrior gapes for a moment "It's amazing!"
'It's official…' the tall adventuress can't help but think 'The Thornhills were damn right – this girl is a star'.
(Unless Tookrashk has something to do, Orcs are up!)
(going to start using the character sheet to roll as well!)
Echo makes a noise between a yelp and a 'woah!' as the orc she just hit slashes at her, but his movement is slowed enough that she manages to hop out of the way in time. And it's good that she jumped back too- most of the blood does not touch her as Khessa strikes him down. She looks up to see the third orc still standing and sends out a chilling force of energy at him.
Attack: 24, Damage: 4
The third orc falls to the floor with a dying gasp, but as soon as it drops, another orc appears on the stairs, yelling and raising his greatsword aggressively. The stairs are narrow so only one person at a time can pass. When the orc spots Tookrashk, his eyes go wide and he utters what sounds like an orcish curse. Then he launches one of his javelins at the manticore (6 to hit, miss!), but Tookrashk glares malevolently at the orc and bats the javelin out of the air with one of his paws.
Then, with a roar, the manticore whips his tail around and launches a spike at the orc, which strikes it squarely in the chest. The orc reels back, blood gushing from his mouth, but he remains standing and glares defiantly back at Tookrashk.
Khessa and Jasper may act next, followed by Echo and Katarina!
Initiative:
Echo: 21
Katarina: 18
Orcs: 13
Khessa: 13
Tookrashk: 12
Jasper: 6
Battlemap!
Extended Signature
Characters: Bryony Alderleaf (Phandelver and Below) ♦ Vesta Trevelyan (Vecna: Eve of Ruin) ♦ Ada Kendrick (Curse of Strahd) ♦ Gareth Blackwood (Dragon of Icespire Peak) ♦ Karys Velthune (Out of the Abyss) ♦ Surina Xarith (Simple, Heroic Adventure)
DM: Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus
The great sword and axe of both Khessa and Katarina sinking into the orc Jasper just pierced with his spear is a little startling but relieved. Then the orc falling to the ground after a cold ghostly hand grabs it. Suddenly we hear orcs, Jasper runs to the stairs following Tookrashk but stays back. Raises his spear over his shoulder and throws it up the stairs at the Orc4.
(Rolling in campaign log)
Thrown Spear Attack 13 Damage 2
Jasper Mooncrest🌙 ~ Wood Elf Cleric Twilight Domain ~ Nyx’s Dragon of Icespires Peak: PBP
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Jasper of the Wandering Wood ~ Wood Elf Cleric Twilight Domain ~ Tomb of the Delian Order One Shot(13): PBP complete
Maybe I'm reading the map wrong? How can Orc4 have seen (and targeted) Tookrashk from his position? Stairs are descending from above to the room where only Jasper now is (and nobody was, at the time the Orc acted) aren't them? Are the stairs descending to the main room instead? The way I was reading the map, I'd have expected Orc4 and Tookrashk unable to see each other... Anyway, asking just to be sure I'm not misunderstanding (or watching a wrong map); we can keep things as they went, as far as I am concerned.
(Oh and by the way, Jasper... Khessa wields a heavy blade, but it is a greatsword - only Katarina wields a greataxe)
Taking Khessa's turn now!
With fierce determination in her blue eyes, Khessa races up the stairs, both to face her new foe and to prevent any orc reinforcements from reaching her companions.
'You know what to do, right, brother?' the blonde arcane warrior communicates briefly with Anator - and as the bat flutters past the orc's eyes, distracting him, the long blade of Khessa's greatsword snaps swiftly to strike.
(OOC: Khessa moves, then Anator takes the help, giving Khessa advantage on her next attack vs Orc4 and she attacks him with her greatsword)
Khessa's Greatsword Attack (with Bless): 25 Damage: 7 (Slashing)
Echo feels the hair on her neck stand up as she hears more orcs coming from upstairs. She swallows and wipes away the sweat on her brows in a moment of respite. She hurriedly follows behind Khessa and Jasper, jumping behind the wall where the stairway opens out to. She peeks her head out from behind it and tries to scratch at the descending orc.
[spell]chill touch[spell] To hit: 12 + 1 (bless), Damage: 3
((Oh no, you're right, and I was reading the map wrong! I had the exit of the stairs completely turned around in my mind so it was backwards, haha.))
Extended Signature
Characters: Bryony Alderleaf (Phandelver and Below) ♦ Vesta Trevelyan (Vecna: Eve of Ruin) ♦ Ada Kendrick (Curse of Strahd) ♦ Gareth Blackwood (Dragon of Icespire Peak) ♦ Karys Velthune (Out of the Abyss) ♦ Surina Xarith (Simple, Heroic Adventure)
DM: Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus
Well, no problem, all clear now. How is Orc4 faring?
The orc is absolutely savaged by the assault and its body tumbles down the stairs! You can still hear orcish voices from above, but they aren't descending the stairs. They seem to understand it's more advantageous for them to remain upstairs where there is more room to maneuver.
Katarina may act next!
Initiative:
Echo: 21
Katarina: 18
Orcs: 13
Khessa: 13
Tookrashk: 12
Jasper: 6
Battlemap!
Extended Signature
Characters: Bryony Alderleaf (Phandelver and Below) ♦ Vesta Trevelyan (Vecna: Eve of Ruin) ♦ Ada Kendrick (Curse of Strahd) ♦ Gareth Blackwood (Dragon of Icespire Peak) ♦ Karys Velthune (Out of the Abyss) ♦ Surina Xarith (Simple, Heroic Adventure)
DM: Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus
Katarina, now too angry to think, decides to charge up the stairs and strikes at the nearest orc with hear axe (using Feline Agility if necessary to do so).
Attack (rolled in game log): 20, Damage: 15
She will also unleash the Blinding Radiant Death Laser (TM) with her Bonus Action, either at the orc she just attacked or (if her first attack already did him in) at whichever orc is in range (Con save DC 14)
Radiant damage (rolled in game log): 6
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Seeing the tabaxi friend running past her, headed towards the unknown (but an unknown which certainly includes orcs ready to fight), Khessa is momentarily taken aback: 'Hey, where is she going?'
"Katarina, wait!" she tries to call her "Let's go up togeth..."
But the blonde arcane warrior doesn't have time to finish the sentence when the other one is already upstairs! And immediately battle noises are heard. The tall adventurer tries to rush to support the savage warrior...
(OOC: But before Khessa's turn, Orcs are up!)
Katarina's assault absolutely devastates the orc standing at the top of the stairs. He is down in a fountain of blood, and the orc standing behind him stares in horror at his fallen comrade but not for long because a blast of magical energy sends him reeling. The orc manages to keep his feet and raises his greataxe threateningly, charging at Katarina and bringing the blade down toward the tabaxi! The blast of arcane energy took its toll on the orc, though, because he misses as Katarina dodges nimbly out of the way (12 to hit, miss!).
From somewhere else on the second floor, you can hear the sound of more feet. There are even more orcs in the house, and they are eager to join the fray! Meanwhile, at the bottom of the stairs, Tookrashk paces with frustration. The manticore is too big to fit up the stairs!
Khessa and Jasper may act next, followed by Echo and Katarina again!
Initiative:
Echo: 21
Katarina: 18
Orcs: 13
Khessa: 13
Tookrashk: 12
Jasper: 6
Battlemap!
Extended Signature
Characters: Bryony Alderleaf (Phandelver and Below) ♦ Vesta Trevelyan (Vecna: Eve of Ruin) ♦ Ada Kendrick (Curse of Strahd) ♦ Gareth Blackwood (Dragon of Icespire Peak) ♦ Karys Velthune (Out of the Abyss) ♦ Surina Xarith (Simple, Heroic Adventure)
DM: Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus
Running up the stairs, Khessa sighs with relief to discover that the inhuman scream she just heard was emitted by the orc almost split in two by her friend tabaxi - and not by Katarina.
Noting the number of orcs still present on the upper floor, the blonde arcane warrior positions herself practically on top of the corpse, in order to block the passage for reinforcements: "Let's fight from here!" she advises "They can only come one at a time, while we can all attack together".
Unfortunately, the orc already in the room really is the wrong monster in the wrong place; the tall adventuress tries to provide according to the tried and tested strategy with her brother: 'Anator ... Do you mind distracting him?'
And as the bat lunges at the orc's face, Khessa, who was looking forward to it, lunges forward with her massive blade…
Khessa's Greatsword Attack (with Bless): 24 Damage: Unable to parse dice roll. (Slashing)
Jasper trailing behind Katarina and Khessa, he picks up his spear laying next to the fallen orc at the bottom of the stairs. Steps over the body and hurried up to the second floor. Another orc already laying dead on the floor at the top of the stairs, Jasper sees Khessa and Katarina attacking another orc. Jasper looks around quickly and sees a hallway with orcs bearing down on Katarina and Khessa. Jasper can’t quite squeeze past Khessa and Katarina so he steps back down the stairs about 10 feet and holds his action to cast Sacred Flame to attack the first orc he sees in the hallway.
Radiant Damage: 3 (DC14 DEX Saving Throw)
(Echo and Katarina’s Turn)
Jasper Mooncrest🌙 ~ Wood Elf Cleric Twilight Domain ~ Nyx’s Dragon of Icespires Peak: PBP
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Jasper of the Wandering Wood ~ Wood Elf Cleric Twilight Domain ~ Tomb of the Delian Order One Shot(13): PBP complete
Khessa returns her greatsword dipped in orc blood to guard position, at the same time trying not to lose sight of the orcs that are advancing from the corridor and to check, out of the corner of her eye, if the one she has just skewered in the room collapses to the ground or not...
(@DM: Is the orc in the room still standing? Or did the lunge kill him?)
(Anyway, Echo and Katarina, you both are up, feel free to act, before the next turn of the orcs - in any order)
Katarina snarls like an animal as she she swings her greataxe at the orc 7, completely disregarding her own safety as she does so (Katarina uses Reckless Attack to gain advantage on her attack).
Greateaxe: Attack 24 (with advantage and 1d4 from Bless), Damage: 17 (rolled in game log, +2 damage from Rage added manually)
Simultaneously, the feline unleashes the burning fury from her heart at the orc behind the one that she almost certainly just killed (Con Save DC 14).
Radiant Damage: 5
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"Katarina!" Echo gasps both in worry and alarm as she hears the sound of a heavy swinging weapon and sound of bodies falling. She grits a teeth and inhales, "I don't think they're coming down..!" Her fingers flex and she summons a shadowy dagger to her hand.
And she slips past Jasper, standing just behind Khessa, but since the tall woman pretty much has the entrance covered, Echo reaches to the wall- and climbs atop it as if it was just the horizontal floor. The space is narrow, so she stops once she's squatting on the ceiling. With one hand bracing her self against the ceiling, she tilts her head in an unsettling way and reaches out to the nearest standing orc, extending the cold grasps of her magic. "By the way! It's rude to barge into someone else's home uninvited!"
action: chill touch - Attack: 18, Damage: 3
bonus action: shadow blade
(not sure if there are standing orcs where echo can see, if not, she'll hold an action to cast chill touch when they appear!
also she's using the dhampir trait to spider climb onto the ceiling so she's hopefully not blocked by khessa or jsaper)
(OOC: You can pass freely through the space occupied by a friend... the only thing you can't do is ending your movement in an already occupied space - anyway, so waaaaay cooler to see you spider-climb!)
Khessa is stunned to see how her mysterious friend has yet another ace up her sleeve! How does she manage to move like that?!
"Echo... But how..." the blonde arcane warrior gapes for a moment "It's amazing!"
'It's official…' the tall adventuress can't help but think 'The Thornhills were damn right – this girl is a star'.
(Unless Tookrashk has something to do, Orcs are up!)