Ethan's expression doesn't change even in the slightest during this commotion, but at least he's thankful that they have an ally of some sort for now. "Rest assured, we'll do our jobs first and rid the whole of Thay of its misery. If there's nothing else you or anyones else needs from each other, we better get moving, otherwise the lich would become unbeatable by the time we deactivate everything." He starts trekking slowly to the other side, stopping occasionally to see if the blinded beholder is doing okay. If it does need help he'll back track and assist him to the most of his ability.
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The Wildland Shifters Daisy Ethalena- Female Wood Elf Ranger (Monster Slayer) Ethan Wolftree - Male Simic Hybrid Warlock (The Hexblade) Mira Laurits - Female Harengon Sorcerer(Clockwork Soul) Raiden Kurosaki - Male Kitsune Wizard (Bladesinger) Rixian Nishinoya - Male Fire Genasi Paladin (Oath of Vengeance) Tenebris Amaro - Male Dark Elf Druid (Circle of Stars) Yurime Hanasaki- Female Kumiho Bard (College Of Creation)
Thalaxia floats into the now-open east cavern. Past the beholder, you see the walls are the same dark shade of blue as the pool of water that fills the center of the area. Ripples spread across the surface as if the water has been recently disturbed. Around the cavern, narrow alcoves hold enormous globes of blue liquid suspended in the air. Fifteen feet in diameter, they float 4ft above the ground. Thalaxia stops at one and starts speaking in an alien language that sounds roughly like a kazoo caught in a garbage disposal. They seem agitated.
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In the west side of the room is a black gate, and on the wall near it is a contact stone.
Thalaxia shoots three eye rays, striking various bubbles around the room. One beam dissipates slowly, remaining tethered to the bubble for the duration. Thalaxia struggles momentarily, and just as the thread of light vanishes, a large creature comes tumbling out of the bubble. The mass of tentacles writhing on the floor screeches a gurgling howl, lashing at the air.
Taxalia calls back, over their nonexisrent shoulder, "Someone needs a little attitude adjustment. I do wonder, though, if this creature is cursed in the same manner as I."
"Do you recognize it? Could it also be from the Far Realm?"
Trisk hangs back to see what the new creature does after being freed from the bubble. He will change his permanent illusion into a similar looking creature but one that is calm and at peace in hopes of showing the newcomer there is no reason to be frightened or alarmed.
Persuasion: 6
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"A rightful place awaits you in the Realms Above, in the Land of the Great Light. Come in peace, and live beneath the sun again, where trees and flowers grow."
— The message of Eilistraee to all decent drow.
"Run thy sword across my chains, Silver Lady, that I may join your dance.”
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The sprawl of tentacles immediately freaks out and snarls at the illusory abolish. "This one is of a kind known to me, but it has been here longer thsn yiu by uncountable ages. That thing you brought forth.. it will interfere with my means of escape. You are in league with them, are you not? They all come fkr Thaxalia. The red robes hide me away and yet they come.. to find me..
At this Thaxalia rushes toward Trisk and, from 100 feet away bombards the shadar ki with eye rays 8, 2, 3.
<Thaxalia is still trapped, unable to actually use the glyph keys. This aboleth isn't friendly, but he got caught in a charm ray; the beholder hopes the aboleth can use the glyph keys for him. Neither is pleased about the fake aboleth that just appeared. The real one knows it's a fake, because of their transtemporal hive mind and the beholder is just hyper paranoid. All the beholderspawn in the other room are its own creation, but it doesn't know this. And, while it does, actually, control what they do at this point, it's all subconscious, so they seem to be acting on their own. Thaxalia also really hates magic users, doesn't understand magic and knows the red wizards pulled him from the far realm (might know the term, might not). He doesn't know Trisk's aboleth is an illusion, but after the beholder just defeated one angry aboleth, the appearance of another is unwelcome at best.>
All PCs are 'up' this is an alien creature in a terrible situation. It was wary, then grateful, now acting out if fear, but it is hostile. That said, its eye rays won't do outright damage, so you might still want to try to calm it down. Or you can just attack it, or run away. It's your call.
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Trisk's WIS: 8
WIS: 8
DEX: 17
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"A rightful place awaits you in the Realms Above, in the Land of the Great Light. Come in peace, and live beneath the sun again, where trees and flowers grow."
— The message of Eilistraee to all decent drow.
"Run thy sword across my chains, Silver Lady, that I may join your dance.”
"What's going on?!" Ethan yells out as he trips over the ooze before making to the other side of the cavern. This isn't right! He turns to Trisk who appears to be the one triggering him for some strange reason. Could it be that he casted the wrong image? Is there some bad blood between this creature and the one that the wizard conjured? He doesn't know, but liast thing he needs is for the alliance to turn south.
"Hey new guy! Are you conjuring something that's scaring this poor beholder?! Get rid of it if you are, please! The last thing we need to encounter an overly powered enemy that will stall us in seconds!" He then sees Trisk falling asleep and catches him before he can hit the base of the slime pool and sink (if he's still standing on it)
He turns back to the beholder. "Hear me out! From I'm sorry if he scared you when he was in fact trying to get the attunements up and running! If you need us we'll do the attunements and find a way to free you out of this hell hole! Only if you need it though!"
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The Wildland Shifters Daisy Ethalena- Female Wood Elf Ranger (Monster Slayer) Ethan Wolftree - Male Simic Hybrid Warlock (The Hexblade) Mira Laurits - Female Harengon Sorcerer(Clockwork Soul) Raiden Kurosaki - Male Kitsune Wizard (Bladesinger) Rixian Nishinoya - Male Fire Genasi Paladin (Oath of Vengeance) Tenebris Amaro - Male Dark Elf Druid (Circle of Stars) Yurime Hanasaki- Female Kumiho Bard (College Of Creation)
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Thalaxia focuses on the aboleth Trisk summoned and bites it ad hard as possible. 13 for 14 piercing damage.
(If I have it right, this permanent illusion is -"real'? This subclass is complicated re: RAW. Lol. Reading it, it says illusory reality has to be an inanimate object, so its permanent from Major image but not corporeal because an aboleth is not inanimate. The wording does make it an ad hoc possibility, so the boat would have been real, but the aboleth not. Technically, this also means the 'not Sam' wouldn't have been effected by the wye rays, but it seems more fun that it did.)
The beholder teeth pass right through the aberration's apparition. At this, the creature becomes transparent to Thaxalia.
"Gghhrrraauugghh!" Growls the beholder, "What is this? Your friendly gesture? What use is it to me that the surly sod over there thinks it has me outnumbered?" He speaks angrily to Picollo.
"I've been trapped here for I don't know how long. Tortured, maimed, denigrated. Each day they send more of those horrid little eyeballs to festooned the walls of my cavern, closing in every inch of space. If they find that I've been killing off the careless ones that venture about in small numbers, I assume they will kill me outright. But I csnt take it anymore. Even with the means of escape, it seems I am cursed to die in this prison of filth."
(ooc: You got the effects sorted right and I will try to be more clear in the future as I switch between features and stuff but essentially because I upcast Major Image it lasts until dispelled and I don't have to concentrate on it. Whenever I use my 6th level feature Malleable Illusions I can change the nature of that illusion (using the spell’s normal parameters for the illusion), and whenever I use my 14th level feature Illusory Reality I can choose one inanimate, nonmagical object that is part of the illusion and make that object real for 1 minute.)
(...but for now Trisk is taking a nap, lol.)
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"A rightful place awaits you in the Realms Above, in the Land of the Great Light. Come in peace, and live beneath the sun again, where trees and flowers grow."
— The message of Eilistraee to all decent drow.
"Run thy sword across my chains, Silver Lady, that I may join your dance.”
(ooc: sorry, I'm always forgetting the racial features of characters I play, does this help me in this situation?... Trance, it says: You don’t need to sleep, and magic can’t put you to sleep.)
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"A rightful place awaits you in the Realms Above, in the Land of the Great Light. Come in peace, and live beneath the sun again, where trees and flowers grow."
— The message of Eilistraee to all decent drow.
"Run thy sword across my chains, Silver Lady, that I may join your dance.”
— A basic prayer.
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Ethan's expression doesn't change even in the slightest during this commotion, but at least he's thankful that they have an ally of some sort for now. "Rest assured, we'll do our jobs first and rid the whole of Thay of its misery. If there's nothing else you or anyones else needs from each other, we better get moving, otherwise the lich would become unbeatable by the time we deactivate everything." He starts trekking slowly to the other side, stopping occasionally to see if the blinded beholder is doing okay. If it does need help he'll back track and assist him to the most of his ability.
The Wildland Shifters
Daisy Ethalena - Female Wood Elf Ranger (Monster Slayer)
Ethan Wolftree - Male Simic Hybrid Warlock (The Hexblade)
Mira Laurits - Female Harengon Sorcerer (Clockwork Soul)
Raiden Kurosaki - Male Kitsune Wizard (Bladesinger)
Rixian Nishinoya - Male Fire Genasi Paladin (Oath of Vengeance)
Tenebris Amaro - Male Dark Elf Druid (Circle of Stars)
Yurime Hanasaki - Female Kumiho Bard (College Of Creation)
Thalaxia floats into the now-open east cavern. Past the beholder, you see the walls are the same dark shade of blue as the pool of water that fills the center of the area. Ripples spread across the surface as if the water has been recently disturbed. Around the cavern, narrow alcoves hold enormous globes of blue liquid suspended in the air. Fifteen feet in diameter, they float 4ft above the ground. Thalaxia stops at one and starts speaking in an alien language that sounds roughly like a kazoo caught in a garbage disposal. They seem agitated.
9
In the west side of the room is a black gate, and on the wall near it is a contact stone.
14
The beholder freezes for a moment, then shakes itself vigorously from side to side as it's eye stalks flail wildly. 1, 5, 8.
19, 22, 18
Thalaxia shoots three eye rays, striking various bubbles around the room. One beam dissipates slowly, remaining tethered to the bubble for the duration. Thalaxia struggles momentarily, and just as the thread of light vanishes, a large creature comes tumbling out of the bubble. The mass of tentacles writhing on the floor screeches a gurgling howl, lashing at the air.
Taxalia calls back, over their nonexisrent shoulder, "Someone needs a little attitude adjustment. I do wonder, though, if this creature is cursed in the same manner as I."
"Do you recognize it? Could it also be from the Far Realm?"
Trisk hangs back to see what the new creature does after being freed from the bubble. He will change his permanent illusion into a similar looking creature but one that is calm and at peace in hopes of showing the newcomer there is no reason to be frightened or alarmed.
Persuasion: 6
The sprawl of tentacles immediately freaks out and snarls at the illusory abolish. "This one is of a kind known to me, but it has been here longer thsn yiu by uncountable ages. That thing you brought forth.. it will interfere with my means of escape. You are in league with them, are you not? They all come fkr Thaxalia. The red robes hide me away and yet they come.. to find me..
At this Thaxalia rushes toward Trisk and, from 100 feet away bombards the shadar ki with eye rays 8, 2, 3.
@brianavery:
3 DC14 saves: 2 Wis and 1 Dex
<What's going on?>
<Thaxalia is still trapped, unable to actually use the glyph keys. This aboleth isn't friendly, but he got caught in a charm ray; the beholder hopes the aboleth can use the glyph keys for him. Neither is pleased about the fake aboleth that just appeared. The real one knows it's a fake, because of their transtemporal hive mind and the beholder is just hyper paranoid. All the beholderspawn in the other room are its own creation, but it doesn't know this. And, while it does, actually, control what they do at this point, it's all subconscious, so they seem to be acting on their own. Thaxalia also really hates magic users, doesn't understand magic and knows the red wizards pulled him from the far realm (might know the term, might not). He doesn't know Trisk's aboleth is an illusion, but after the beholder just defeated one angry aboleth, the appearance of another is unwelcome at best.>
All PCs are 'up' this is an alien creature in a terrible situation. It was wary, then grateful, now acting out if fear, but it is hostile. That said, its eye rays won't do outright damage, so you might still want to try to calm it down. Or you can just attack it, or run away. It's your call.
Trisk's WIS: 8
WIS: 8
DEX: 17
The tiny Piccolo plays a very calm almost sleepy melody on her instrument, hoping to calm the creature (Full action: Persuasion: 22)
With musical telepathy, she conveys that they are friends, not foes.
Trisk instantly falls unconscious as he feels the full effect of Thaxalia's sleep ray.
"What's going on?!" Ethan yells out as he trips over the ooze before making to the other side of the cavern. This isn't right! He turns to Trisk who appears to be the one triggering him for some strange reason. Could it be that he casted the wrong image? Is there some bad blood between this creature and the one that the wizard conjured? He doesn't know, but liast thing he needs is for the alliance to turn south.
"Hey new guy! Are you conjuring something that's scaring this poor beholder?! Get rid of it if you are, please! The last thing we need to encounter an overly powered enemy that will stall us in seconds!" He then sees Trisk falling asleep and catches him before he can hit the base of the slime pool and sink (if he's still standing on it)
He turns back to the beholder. "Hear me out! From I'm sorry if he scared you when he was in fact trying to get the attunements up and running! If you need us we'll do the attunements and find a way to free you out of this hell hole! Only if you need it though!"
The Wildland Shifters
Daisy Ethalena - Female Wood Elf Ranger (Monster Slayer)
Ethan Wolftree - Male Simic Hybrid Warlock (The Hexblade)
Mira Laurits - Female Harengon Sorcerer (Clockwork Soul)
Raiden Kurosaki - Male Kitsune Wizard (Bladesinger)
Rixian Nishinoya - Male Fire Genasi Paladin (Oath of Vengeance)
Tenebris Amaro - Male Dark Elf Druid (Circle of Stars)
Yurime Hanasaki - Female Kumiho Bard (College Of Creation)
Thalaxia focuses on the aboleth Trisk summoned and bites it ad hard as possible. 13 for 14 piercing damage.
(If I have it right, this permanent illusion is -"real'? This subclass is complicated re: RAW. Lol. Reading it, it says illusory reality has to be an inanimate object, so its permanent from Major image but not corporeal because an aboleth is not inanimate. The wording does make it an ad hoc possibility, so the boat would have been real, but the aboleth not. Technically, this also means the 'not Sam' wouldn't have been effected by the wye rays, but it seems more fun that it did.)
The beholder teeth pass right through the aberration's apparition. At this, the creature becomes transparent to Thaxalia.
"Gghhrrraauugghh!" Growls the beholder, "What is this? Your friendly gesture? What use is it to me that the surly sod over there thinks it has me outnumbered?" He speaks angrily to Picollo.
"I've been trapped here for I don't know how long. Tortured, maimed, denigrated. Each day they send more of those horrid little eyeballs to festooned the walls of my cavern, closing in every inch of space. If they find that I've been killing off the careless ones that venture about in small numbers, I assume they will kill me outright. But I csnt take it anymore. Even with the means of escape, it seems I am cursed to die in this prison of filth."
Lol. Crit x Illusion add 10 piercing damage.
This might be like a puzzle or something. Or a combat. Or just a thing you leave alone, since it literally can't follow you.
(ooc: You got the effects sorted right and I will try to be more clear in the future as I switch between features and stuff but essentially because I upcast Major Image it lasts until dispelled and I don't have to concentrate on it. Whenever I use my 6th level feature Malleable Illusions I can change the nature of that illusion (using the spell’s normal parameters for the illusion), and whenever I use my 14th level feature Illusory Reality I can choose one inanimate, nonmagical object that is part of the illusion and make that object real for 1 minute.)
(...but for now Trisk is taking a nap, lol.)
(ooc: sorry, I'm always forgetting the racial features of characters I play, does this help me in this situation?... Trance, it says: You don’t need to sleep, and magic can’t put you to sleep.)