Crimson Sands of Time

"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!" 

Thalaxia focuses on the aboleth Trisk summoned and bites it ad hard as possible. 13 for 14 piercing damage.

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 11  piercing damage.

(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.)

(Oh wait yeah you're right; Elves can't be put to sleep)

"Hey! No point wasting time! Just go! Nothing we can do about it for now!" Randy calls out as he makes his way to the otherside of the cavern. "Besides, we can always come back here to rescue him when we're done. If you guys are ready, Imma start heading for the next black gate that's within our reach." He'll take a moment to pause so that Ethan and Trisk can go over to the other side, before he marches off.

Piccolo shakes her head, plays a bit more sad but hopeful music

(image of the party killing a Lich and then…an image of the beholder able to leave, as with many others. An image of the many trapped inhabitants leaving and the dungeon crumbling.)

she smiles and waves goodbye

(if still awake)

Trisk will change the illusion to a barrel, make it real for a minute, and roll it in front of him to find any sinkholes and then head off after Randy and his brother Ethan toward the other end of the room.

"Wait for me! I'm coming, I just have to be careful of all this slime! I don't want to fall in again!"

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(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.)

 Good question. Actually, kind of. The eye rays aren't spells but they are magical, so, in fact, Trisk does not fall asleep.

However, the other failed save was against the charm ray, to which Trisk would then have advantage. So, roll one more Wis save (for AD) to resist being charmed. (DC14)

(If Trisk seems to struggle, Piccolo can help with some bardic inspiration.)

<Just have Picollo take point, she's got a crazy high passive perception and I'm not keen on people falling into holes over and over again - being pushed, maybe, but falling: meh>

To the south a room shines brightly with a hauntingly beautiful radiance.

@Randy: There is a black gate in this room.

Piccolo plays a tune, hoping someone will activate the black gate.  She looks around for any more traps or secret doors (perception: 23)

she also checks on Trisk, her liberator to make sure he is ok and briefly holds his hand, more to comfort him than her. 

Trisk's WIS: 15 

For the briefest of moments Trisk locks eyes with one of the beholder's eyestalks and feels compelled to count it amongst his closest friends but then a little hand grasps his and he looks down to see his newest, truest friend Piccolo and he shakes off the effect. He quickly hurries along with her to catch up to his other friends.

"Thank you my friend! It was not my intention to alarm or upset Thalaxia. Truly, more caution is necessary on my part."

Ethan scoffs but continues into the next room. He scratches his head as he eyes the black gate. If I'm right, Randy would want us to either split up and take either side of the lake or we go down one path at once and hope for the best. I figured there has to be something hidden inside this body of water; Surely there's no way this room could have nothing.

Trisk takes a quick glance around when he gets to the large chamber trying to take it all in at once and see if there's anything else besides the large body of water dominating the center of the room.

Trisk's Perception: 18 

"What do you think could be in the water? There has to be something, am I right?"

There are those huge 15ft spheres of water floating in the air, one if which an aboleth was pulled from.

Piccolo plays her instrument

(Musical telepathy trying to communicate with anything in the water)

Image of a peaceful and tranquil ocean, the fish and life co-existing as a gentle breeze and sun warm the clear clean waters.