Crimson Sands of Time

Lying on the floor, grappled by the mimic rug, Dra8n finds himself face to face with Skabatha, lying motionless on the floor before him. Bloodied and broken, her ceramic skin shattered, she isnt breathing.  Sudenly she twitxjes unnaturally.  Her skin starts the fall.away as it cracks and her face falls feom.her head as an oversized beetle, as large as a chihuahua emerges from her rotten flesh and whispers to her killer: “Endelyn fears eclipses, not just real ones but symbolic ones as well. If you want to kill her, best do it during an eclipse, or her body will re-form.”

With theat, the beetle splays its shiny black elytra (forewings) like a spring loaded flower, and beating it's hind wings, with mechanical speedit flies off into the garden and the woods beyond.

<I guess this is still combat since the mimics and all, but I'm reasonably sure you can take care of them. The only question is how many rounds it will take.>

You also notice a ring of three iron keys has fallen from the hags corpse. They lay on the floor beside her. You are still being attacked by mimics, though.

Uriel:

Uriel is shocked by the hag’s death, as he was attacking nonlethally.  Utterly confused, he looks around for a moment trying to figure out who killed her, then disengages and moves over to protect the kids.

(Ooc yep I rolled spirit guardian damage.   (10 radiant damage, save DC 21

They're not in it, I was just checking my sanity. I see ot now. Lol. Bit I th8nk you mean 30ft diameter?

Anyhow, what do you do? Just a reminder that you didn't see the kids hiding behind the goblin candy stall and in fact still don't see them, when yoi cast SG, hence they are effected by it if they're in the area of effect.

(Yes 30ft diameter, spirit guardians only effects ones that are designated by caster, definitely not the non hostile kids. )

spirit guardians

no, you designate who is not effected and you have to see them, not the cowering kiddies hiding out  of sight, sorry.

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As this grizzly scene unfolds, a lone cloud in the midday sky seems to scowl from above with the visage of a sad old woman.

Strength 18 

If piccolo discovers the kids, she will heal them and designate them. ( not sure how she couldn’t see them with her passive perception and true sight)

Bonus action, dash

The kids are hiding behind the candy stand. You hear them. They're really there. They're bot hurt yet but they're about to he brutally murdered by three riny assailants. If you get within 15ft with SG uo, they'll take the damage you rolled, also potentially deadly.

Becoming aware of the children, piccolo changes her tune. Bright colorful lights fill the area and start twinkling in hypnotic fashion (hypnotic pattern, dc21 wisdom save or charmed targeting the murderous gnomes and anything else in the area that she can get. 

Wis saves x HyPa

R1 10

R2 7

R3 12

As the bright swirling lights of varied colors appear in the feywild, brighter than you've ever seen casting thjs spwll bwfire, in the hyoer-realism the Feywild bears, the little red suited men stop in dead in their iron boots. 

What do you do?

Trisk will cast Major Image and make the illusion of a wheelbarrow then use his Illusory Reality feature to make it real for 1 minute. He then pushes it over to the kids and says, "All aboard! Let's go for a ride and get away from those crazy gnomes!" He will then usher and put the children into the wheel barrow and push them up to whatever remains of my 30 foot movement.

(ooc: PS: I had to use a 4th level spell slot because I was all out of 3rd. Just spell slot bookkeeping but that's part of being a spellcaster.)

(? Using fast hands and her high dex, could Piccolo tie up and then disarm each of the three gnomes one by one without triggering breaking the spell...she is trying not to kill them but would like to leave them to the store owners to deal with.....if this is not an option, she will cut their throats one at a time (I know there is not a rule for this, but would like to kill them in one blow, or stab through he heart, but prefer non violent action....Once they are all tied up and disarmed, she will tie them all together to a stronger structure, such as a tree or post.)

As long as you don't shake them, you coukd tie them up. As picollo dies so and Trisk grabs the drow boy and the human girl ro cart away. Feim within the hollow log that is the hag's house. The sound of combat comes to a crescendo then quickly fades to silence. On the far side of the house in the gardens to the west, the scarecrows have stopped screaming.

<if they want to,> Sam, Drain and Uriel emerge from the windows from which toys and candy are sold, as the sound of shuffling iron boots falling heavily on the grass approach from the north. Three more red-capped small creatures hop about, sickles in hand and murder in their eyes.

[Where are you leaving the ones you tied up?]