The jabberwoxk pursues for a while, but as you near the castle, it sets it's sights on the badger minstrels, still.playong for the guests in the garden. Picollo can freely enter the castle.
If she enters by the carriage house, I guess Sam and Warsuke have finished their duel (it's still Sam's turn, iirc)
Trisk arrives at the cauldron well ahead of the others.
<If I don't hear otherwise, Elidon and Steongheart will see Warduke and fight him, on their way to the cauldron>
Trisk will take a look around the cauldron (perception: 14) and inside to see anything of interest.
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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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Two figures are frozen, statue-like, off to one side of the cauldron: an imperious, middle-aged woman with long white hair and white robes, and a younger woman clad in armor and wearing a white cape. The older woman is reaching desperately toward the cauldron, while the armored woman at her side is grasping a fine-looking quarterstaff.
<i guess yoi coukd try attuning to it or legend lore spell or something.>
Steongheart and Elidon enter the castle, stopping as they approach the tower filled with slime, as they notice Warduke, who Strongheart recognizes and challenges. "Stand down, evildoer!"
The dread helmed warrior growls in reply, telling the bastion of goodness, "I will not be ordered about by the likes of you. Youve i terfered with the League long enough!"
The two clash, locking swords as the flames that enrobe Warduke's blade lap at their skin, singeing the hairs of Strongheart's impeccably trimmed beard, rhe swear beadin on his brow. Steele, the knight's blade, notices an opening and shifts in Strongheart's hands, luring Warduke into a forced misstep. As Warduke moves to attack, Strongheart shifts away feom his attacker, teipping him.a d casting him.into the put of slime. The dark-helmed warrior tries to gran the ledge as he plummets toward the slime.
Warduke's fingers grasp at the ledge, but one by one, he feels them slip from the stone surface and the red glowing eyes stare into the distant roof if the tower, beyond the cages and the picies, as his arms flail hoping to catch anything, but finding nothing but the inviting acrid stench of the slime as it envelops his foem, pulling him beneath the surface.
As hr watches the slime, it bubbles above the sunken suit of armor, but from its fetid depths rises a hand, clawing its way out of the pit. Through the vicous ooze a lesser demon, a manes, like the one in the cage above manages to surface.
... the demon makes his way to the edge of the pit and finds purxhase. He begons to pull himself out if the ooze, scaling the wall, his eyes set on Sam and Strongheart.
<wanna do anything about that, Sam?>
...
<For the others> Triska and Picollo are at tbe cauldron... its the thing that froze everyone on time. You could tey attuning ro it. I dont usually care about attunement, but for legendary, it makes sense, so you can learn what it does. Or you couks try asking someone. But just aboit everyone is frozen.
"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.”
Piccolo will begin playing a beautiful melody on her tiny woodwind instrument.
Small ethereal cherub's materialize in the air, each playing a lyre, flitting and floating about. . They then attack the demon, leaving all others in the area unharmed. (Spirit Guardians (4th level): Wisdom DC 21): 19 radiant damage.
When you cast this spell, you can designate any number of creatures you can see to be unaffected by it. An affected creature's speed is halved in the area, and when the creature enters the area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 3d8 radiant damage (if you are good or neutral) or 3d8 necrotic damage (if you are evil). On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage.)
... the demon makes his way to the edge of the pit and finds purxhase. He begons to pull himself out if the ooze, scaling the wall, his eyes set on Sam and Strongheart.
<wanna do anything about that, Sam?>
...
<For the others> Triska and Picollo are at tbe cauldron... its the thing that froze everyone on time. You could tey attuning ro it. I dont usually care about attunement, but for legendary, it makes sense, so you can learn what it does. Or you couks try asking someone. But just aboit everyone is frozen.
( sorry irl just caught up with me)
sam looks at it “do you mind” as he attack with his glavie
Any Humanoid creature that attunes to the cauldron must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be aged to the point of decrepitude. In this state, the creature's speed is halved, the range of its vision and hearing is reduced to 30 feet, and it has disadvantage on all ability checks, attack rolls, and saving throws. The creature will reach the end of its natural life span in 12 days.
Unless youbwant to mess with any of the other cages, I'll assume Sam and Picollo, along with Elidon and Strongheart, follow Trisk to the cauldron. As you areive, you see the wizard attwmpting ro attune to the legendary object.
Upon spying the armored cleric at Zybilna's side, Strongheart declares, "Mercion, you're safe now. We have to find a way to free her."
Elidon, whos just done this to Strongheart, approa hes the younger woman clad in armor and wearing a white cape, quarterstaff in hand, and says, "Please, allow me." then touches his horn to the cleric and says her name, "Mercion"
Trisk got a total of 23 for his CON save (rolled a 5, plus 8 CON save, and rolled a 10 for inspiration).
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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.”
Mercion, quickly understanding the situation, thanks the group for saving her and explains the events that led to the ensuing predicament: "When the League of Malevolence arrived at the palace, the Hourglass Coven ensured that Kelek's rivals from Valor's Call were close behind. The two factions clashed inside the palace. While Zybilna was distracted, the hags used the Cauldron to freeze everyone but themselves in temporal stasis. Determined to bring the league's members to justice for crimes committed on many worlds, Valor's Call met with Zybilna and tried to forge an alliance with the archfey. When the hags of the Hourglass Coven used the Cauldron to freeze Zybilna in time, several members of Valor's Call were frozen in time as well: Strongheart, myself, and the wizard, Ringlerun. I dont know the whereabouts of our companions, Elkhorn and Molliver."
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Touching his hand to the cauldron made of iron and embossed on the outside with images of bats, toads, cats, lizards, and snakes—eight of each animal - Trisk comes to understand some truths about the legendary item:
You can use an action to scream into the empty cauldron, which magically summons a swarm of bats that flies out of the cauldron and acts immediately after you in the initiative order. The swarm obeys your commands and disappears after 1 minute if it hasn't been destroyed by then. Once used, this property of the cauldron can't be used again until the next dawn.
• If at least 1 gallon of blood is poured into the cauldron and stirred for 1 minute, it turns into a cloud of harmless black smoke that erupts from the cauldron and dissipates quickly. At the same time, all Humanoid creatures within a certain radius of the cauldron fall unconscious for 1 hour, except those that are attuned to the cauldron or immune to being charmed. The radius of the effect is 100 feet per gallon of blood used. An unconscious creature awakens if it takes damage or if someone uses an action to shake or slap it. Once used, this property of the cauldron can't be used again until the next dawn.
• Tying a dead frog or toad to the end of an ordinary branch and dipping it in the water-filled cauldron transforms the branch into a wand of polymorph with 3 charges. This wand can't recharge and crumbles to ashes when its final charge is expended. Once used, this property of the cauldron can't be used again for 8 days.
The jabberwoxk pursues for a while, but as you near the castle, it sets it's sights on the badger minstrels, still.playong for the guests in the garden. Picollo can freely enter the castle.
If she enters by the carriage house, I guess Sam and Warsuke have finished their duel (it's still Sam's turn, iirc)
Trisk arrives at the cauldron well ahead of the others.
<If I don't hear otherwise, Elidon and Steongheart will see Warduke and fight him, on their way to the cauldron>
Piccolo, seeing that the Jabberwock has lost interest in her, will try to find Trisk. She will move at 160ft/ rd.
Trisk will take a look around the cauldron (perception: 14) and inside to see anything of interest.
Two figures are frozen, statue-like, off to one side of the cauldron: an imperious, middle-aged woman with long white hair and white robes, and a younger woman clad in armor and wearing a white cape. The older woman is reaching desperately toward the cauldron, while the armored woman at her side is grasping a fine-looking quarterstaff.
<i guess yoi coukd try attuning to it or legend lore spell or something.>
Steongheart and Elidon enter the castle, stopping as they approach the tower filled with slime, as they notice Warduke, who Strongheart recognizes and challenges. "Stand down, evildoer!"
The dread helmed warrior growls in reply, telling the bastion of goodness, "I will not be ordered about by the likes of you. Youve i terfered with the League long enough!"
The two clash, locking swords as the flames that enrobe Warduke's blade lap at their skin, singeing the hairs of Strongheart's impeccably trimmed beard, rhe swear beadin on his brow. Steele, the knight's blade, notices an opening and shifts in Strongheart's hands, luring Warduke into a forced misstep. As Warduke moves to attack, Strongheart shifts away feom his attacker, teipping him.a d casting him.into the put of slime. The dark-helmed warrior tries to gran the ledge as he plummets toward the slime.
Str save DC15 8
<Sam's also there and its his turn>
Warduke's fingers grasp at the ledge, but one by one, he feels them slip from the stone surface and the red glowing eyes stare into the distant roof if the tower, beyond the cages and the picies, as his arms flail hoping to catch anything, but finding nothing but the inviting acrid stench of the slime as it envelops his foem, pulling him beneath the surface.
Strongheart turns to Sam, "Do you stand with us, on the side of good?" he asks.
“I stand with my friends and I wasn’t with him” looking where the warduke once stood
As hr watches the slime, it bubbles above the sunken suit of armor, but from its fetid depths rises a hand, clawing its way out of the pit. Through the vicous ooze a lesser demon, a manes, like the one in the cage above manages to surface.
... the demon makes his way to the edge of the pit and finds purxhase. He begons to pull himself out if the ooze, scaling the wall, his eyes set on Sam and Strongheart.
<wanna do anything about that, Sam?>
...
<For the others> Triska and Picollo are at tbe cauldron... its the thing that froze everyone on time. You could tey attuning ro it. I dont usually care about attunement, but for legendary, it makes sense, so you can learn what it does. Or you couks try asking someone. But just aboit everyone is frozen.
Trisk will try to attune to the cauldron.
Piccolo will begin playing a beautiful melody on her tiny woodwind instrument.
Small ethereal cherub's materialize in the air, each playing a lyre, flitting and floating about. . They then attack the demon, leaving all others in the area unharmed.
(Spirit Guardians (4th level): Wisdom DC 21): 19 radiant damage.
When you cast this spell, you can designate any number of creatures you can see to be unaffected by it. An affected creature's speed is halved in the area, and when the creature enters the area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 3d8 radiant damage (if you are good or neutral) or 3d8 necrotic damage (if you are evil). On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage.)
Bonus action: Hide: 28 stealth.
( sorry irl just caught up with me)
sam looks at it “do you mind” as he attack with his glavie
19 to hit 12 slashing + 5 force
28 to hit 5 slashing + 13 force
stalker flurry 15
Roll a Con save
Any Humanoid creature that attunes to the cauldron must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be aged to the point of decrepitude. In this state, the creature's speed is halved, the range of its vision and hearing is reduced to 30 feet, and it has disadvantage on all ability checks, attack rolls, and saving throws. The creature will reach the end of its natural life span in 12 days.
The spirit guardians make short work of the demon that was once warduke. They likewise destroy the cages manes in the cage 10ft above the sludge pit.
Unless youbwant to mess with any of the other cages, I'll assume Sam and Picollo, along with Elidon and Strongheart, follow Trisk to the cauldron. As you areive, you see the wizard attwmpting ro attune to the legendary object.
Upon spying the armored cleric at Zybilna's side, Strongheart declares, "Mercion, you're safe now. We have to find a way to free her."
Elidon, whos just done this to Strongheart, approa hes the younger woman clad in armor and wearing a white cape, quarterstaff in hand, and says, "Please, allow me." then touches his horn to the cleric and says her name, "Mercion"
Instantly, the woman is released feom stasis.
Piccolo plays a few quick notes as she sees Trisk attempt the difficult task, giving him some notes of encouragement.
(Bonus action on Trisk: Bardic Inspiration: Add 1d10 to your con save.)
Trisk got a total of 23 for his CON save (rolled a 5, plus 8 CON save, and rolled a 10 for inspiration).
Hmmm.
Mercion, quickly understanding the situation, thanks the group for saving her and explains the events that led to the ensuing predicament: "When the League of Malevolence arrived at the palace, the Hourglass Coven ensured that Kelek's rivals from Valor's Call were close behind. The two factions clashed inside the palace. While Zybilna was distracted, the hags used the Cauldron to freeze everyone but themselves in temporal stasis. Determined to bring the league's members to justice for crimes committed on many worlds, Valor's Call met with Zybilna and tried to forge an alliance with the archfey. When the hags of the Hourglass Coven used the Cauldron to freeze Zybilna in time, several members of Valor's Call were frozen in time as well: Strongheart, myself, and the wizard, Ringlerun. I dont know the whereabouts of our companions, Elkhorn and Molliver."
Touching his hand to the cauldron made of iron and embossed on the outside with images of bats, toads, cats, lizards, and snakes—eight of each animal - Trisk comes to understand some truths about the legendary item:
You can use an action to scream into the empty cauldron, which magically summons a swarm of bats that flies out of the cauldron and acts immediately after you in the initiative order. The swarm obeys your commands and disappears after 1 minute if it hasn't been destroyed by then. Once used, this property of the cauldron can't be used again until the next dawn.
• If at least 1 gallon of blood is poured into the cauldron and stirred for 1 minute, it turns into a cloud of harmless black smoke that erupts from the cauldron and dissipates quickly. At the same time, all Humanoid creatures within a certain radius of the cauldron fall unconscious for 1 hour, except those that are attuned to the cauldron or immune to being charmed. The radius of the effect is 100 feet per gallon of blood used. An unconscious creature awakens if it takes damage or if someone uses an action to shake or slap it. Once used, this property of the cauldron can't be used again until the next dawn.
• Tying a dead frog or toad to the end of an ordinary branch and dipping it in the water-filled cauldron transforms the branch into a wand of polymorph with 3 charges. This wand can't recharge and crumbles to ashes when its final charge is expended. Once used, this property of the cauldron can't be used again for 8 days.
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