Crimson Sands of Time

Piccolo casts healing word on Ethan 10, then she moves toward the phylacteries,and throws to magic daggers, hoping to damage what is holding it closed (hoping this is not an attack as she has sanctuary up): To hit: 32, to hit: 20, magical piercing damage: 9,    9

"Ha! Fool. The sepulcher's magic prevents the phylacteries from being damaged." Kazit Gul derides Picollo.

<Trisk succeeded on 2 of 3 necessary checks to disable the sepulcher. It's an action to try a check. You can just have another action,  though somewhere between a retcon and a do-over.>

The Tyrant, seeing Eira conjure the sea hag, projects despair unto her DC22 Cha Save or stunned (lair action) 

Eira's save 17 

Piccolo lets out a "disrespectful" sound on her instrument at the Lich, and considers what else can be done to open them.

Trisk will attempt another Arcana check: 17 

"We are not here to feed liches but to destroy phylacteries and thus weaken the foul undead leader of Thay! You must choose if you are one of his puppets dancing on a string to his every whim! Or if you oppose his tyrannical rule and are dangerous enough to strike at the heart of his power!"

"Which have you chosen?"

Once Trisk shouts at tbe skull, something happens on the floor above them, the same floor where the summoned hag was conjured (and waits in the dark pool).  The doors of the nearby shrine fly off, literally, becoming another pair of four-armed gargoyles.  From the shrine leaps a young elven woman, screaming, "Stay away from those phylacteries! In the name of the Zulkirate and the nation of Thay, I will destroy you!"

<Going to try and put this all on the map. But don't wait on me, players are up.

Active hostiles include the Tyrant shadow (i dont think tooltips will work for CoA monsters), the 2 four-armed gargoyles and the screaming elf lady.  There's also.a lich, but he hasn't attacked anyone yet.

Eira is stunned, but her summoned sea hag is still present,  nearby but unseen by the hostile elf lady.

Also, @Brian_Avery has two PCs in this scene and I'm going to invite another player to join this campaign so they can see what's going on here.  If you don't know what this is all about, that's perfect: neither does your PC.>

Gargoyle 1 attacks Randy. 18 for 5.  18 for 5.  9 for 5. 

Gargoyle 2 attacks Ethan.  8 for 5.  10 for 5.  6 for 5. 

Crit x Randy add 5

Valindra points at Trisk, who has just finished shouting at Kazit Gul and with an unnaturally dark echoing voice casts a spell: "rozpadnout se!"

Disintegrate DC20 or take 79 force damage, possibly being disintegrated.

Trisk will try to Counterspell the evil magic of Valindra.

(ooc:let me know if someone is going to counterspell my counterspell or if I should go ahead and roll to try and beat the DC of 16?)

<On the one hand I do think she might do that, but I actually like this as a mechanic. It's like saving with AD, but the DC escalates if the first one misses. That should be a core mechanic. Go for it. Counterspell away!>

Trisk's counterspell roll: 18 

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Trisk's counterspell roll: 18 

 (ooc: locking in the roll vs. D&D Beyond shenanigans.)

Trisk halts the screaming woman's spell with a counterspell.

"Wait. What are you doing?" She calls behind her hearing a spell being cast behind her. She turns and counterapell's it, allowing Trisk to avoid disintegration.

<Players are still up.>

Piccolo beings playing her flute, hypnotically and rhymically, as her sanctuary spells drops.

Hold Monster on the T-rex thing: Wis DC21: 

Bonus Action: Fey Step Eladrin(Autumn): In the blink of an eye, she momentarily disappears, then reappears near Ethans Apparition: She looks at him and the Valindra with her hazel eyes: and her instrument indicates: "We are friends" DC Wisdom save 19 or charmed.

So evil T-Rex thing is held DC 21 wis, Ethan copy and Valindra charmed DC wis19. (Let me know if I'm confused about any of the bad guys.)

She responds to the new woman, "Showing that she was rescued by the group, the the lich is present, then asks using musical teleapathy, questioning why stay back.....an image of the group destrying the Lich and evil here." The elven woman should instantly recognize that the the little girl is Eladrin but there  is  something wrong.

Tyrant Hold monster save dc21 16

Valindra's Charm save 16

<The Ethan copy is the trex thing. It shifted back after Ethan broke the link with a save and because Ethan's stats without his class abilities are kind of terrible. The Tyrant shape changes in addition to being a psychic linking thing. It's made of shadow and totally amorphous. I think the art is inspired by the venom symbiote and the concept is about an Empathic bond.  You're describing one creature as two.  I will put up the map. I've been busy, bit also procrastinating it. Valindra and the TRex are on different floors and the PCs are onnyet another floor. Gargoyles are adjacent to Ethan and Randy, demilich is floating dead center of the room.>

Valindra uses legendary resistance (1) to avoid being charmed. As a Lege dary acrion, she uses her Frightening Gaze (Costs 2 Actions).

Valindra fixes her gaze on Picollo. "Why yes, of course, the truest of friends, and of course friends don't need to keep up appearances. With a friend like you, I know I csn be my true self" she says with a warm smile, which rapidly melts into the withered face of undeath, her pale shriveled skin revealing her lichdom, her face plagued by rot. "Whats the matter, dear? You look like you've seen a ghost?"

Picollo must succeed on a DC 18 Wisdom saving throw against this magic or become frightened for 1 minute. The frightened target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a target's saving throw is successful or the effect ends for it, the target is immune to Valindra's gaze for the next 24 hours. 

Trisk, Ethan and Randy are up.

Piccolos wisdom save 17, her friend and ally becoming a Lich is a great surprise to her.  Seeing her features change terrifies her.  (Her flute screams a high pitched trill)

Having recovered from the recent curse, Ethan briefly gives a thumbs up to Piccolo and suddenly shifts his attention to one of the gargoyles especially when hears Randy crying out loud in pain. Ignoring the attack of the first demon, he aggressively twirls his bat as his patron infuses him with twice the power that he started of with when they first entered the place. "Box formation!" He yells out, moving in between Randy and the two gargoyles to form a 'square' position between the four, before he smacks the one that critted his brother hard.

Strike 1:  Dirty 20, 18 total

Strike 2: 29, 14 Total

Sentinel Reaction: 14, 21 Total

(All on Gargoyle 1; If either hit kills, Ethan will immediately turn on Gargoyle 2)