As they are summoned by Griff, Sam instinctively reaches into his bag of tricks and pulls out a ball of fur, tossing it into the middle of the room to give it room to grow and become what it becomes... ((8 - Brown Bear.)) Sam blinks twice as the bear begins to emerge, he was not expecting this! But there was no time... "With me," he calls out and heads up to the deck with the rest.
Emerging onto Spier's back Sam spies the closest beast and goes into attack mode - With each step Sam takes towards the beast he grows larger and larger until he is, in fact large. (Bonus Action: Giant's Might to embiggen) Sam moves directly SE to get precisely south of the beast. Once there the maul begins to swing!
First Maul Attack: Nat 1 Second Maul Attack: 29to hit for 21 Damage (two dies rerolled due to Great Weapon Fighting) Assuming this hits there is an additional 1 damage done due to Giant's Might. Assuming second attack there hits, Sam's Crusher Feat moves the creature 5' straight north (Sam moving up to keep the gap closed) so that the creature will now be flanked by Sam and #6...
Assuming the Brown Bear is allowed to be summoned before combat and is allowed to follow and act... The Brown Bear knows hasn't seem the light of day in who knows how long and it's never seen it from the back of a giant feathered flying who the hell knows what?!? But the Brown Bear instinctively knows Sam and it sees what Sam is fighting and it, of course, joins the fray... It rushes in and attacks from the side, no flanking available due to Sam's lack of foresight in moving the creature...
Brown Bear MultiAttack Bite: 25 to hit for 8piercing damage Claw Attack: 17 to hit for 12 slashing damage
Muir stays where he is keeping out of harms way and casts (Level 3) summon beast summoning a Great Wolf spirit who he commands to help crewmembers 6 and 8
Wolf attack 1: Nat 20 Dam 14
Wolf attack 2: Hit 23 Dam 9
Muir consults his starry map and begins shimmering with arrows all over his body. He lets loose a barrage of radiant arrows towards the beast his spirit wolf is attacking
Sam's second swing successfully shunts the manticore northward and damages it severely. The newly summoned bear and Muir's wolf, which looks oddly reminiscent of the guardian Garth but smaller, both attack and successfully bloody the manticore, which then takes full damage from Muir's glowing projectiles.
Vin, now mounted on his broom floats on over the manticore that sam is engaged with and sends two balls of eldritch energy streaming down toward it, Unfortunately both miss as Vin is caught in the wind a bit too much and instead turns his attention to the manticore Elthana and Gewyn are facing off against, cursing under his breath in an infernal tongue casting a hex upon it (disadvantage for dexterity based checks). Then Neferox goes charging in, darting north to face the hexed beast she bites at it once, missing as she tries to get purchase in the surge next to Elthana and Gewyn. She bites a second time finding her mark perfectly and tearing out a chunk of the beast (16 dam) who remains standing despite Nef's best efforts to knock it prone.
"Not being too high or far away from Bird!" Griff shouts over to Vin, before he too takes to the air, flapping only about 10ft off the back of Spier Umar, he draws his long bow and fires twice hitting his mark both times (20 dam), and bloodying the beast.
The members of Gale's crew seem to be holding their own, hitting their targets around half of the time and causing a not indiscriminate amount of damage, it appears that they know exactly what they are doing, trained for such eventualities. Notably an air genasi to the north (2) throws a jug toward the northern most manticore, covering it in some kind of dark slime.
The northern most manticore bites a chunk out of the air genasi in front of it in retaliation, and pounces with another two claw attacks one hitting and another missing its target, but leaving the Genasi wounded and bloodied.
The center most manticore turns on Neferox, Elthana and Gewyn. It bites Nef back successfully staggering her with its massive maw and dealing a chunk of damage back (12). Then it swipes out with its claws, once towards Elthana, (17 to hit, 5 slashing), and once out toward Gewyn (8 to hit) missing pathetically.
The last manticore, facing off against Sam, Muir, and a plethora of animals, decides to try grappling and throwing the bear off of the back of the bird, but as it clamps down the bear remains steadfast, pulling against the beast and wrestling itself free of the manticore's grasp. The manticore in frustration raises its tail straight up in the air and sends two spines directly toward Vin circling above, both hit threatening to knock Vin off and dealing a significant amount of damage (18 piercing).
As the Air genasi who threw the jug stands up, they shout over to Gale who makes a loud cawing sound. Griff's eyes go wide and he shouts out, "BE GRABBING ON!" and suddenly Spier Umar dives once more sending the slime covered manticore slipping and tumbling over the edge of the bird where it begins flapping its wings and attempting shake off the grease.
( I need everyone to give me a DEX SAVE to stay where you are, DC16 or be thrown 40 ft north west, if you are standing on squares covered in rope make the check with advantage, anyone airborne auto fails the save and is thrown twice as far )
As Spier Umar takes a dive, the entire crew duck and grab on securing their position.
Vin and Griff both being airborne stay in their positions as the massive bird essentially flies away from them, and from your position they sweep off left over the wings of the beast.
The greased manticore suffers the same fate not able to keep a grip on the bird falling completely off attempting to get it's bearings mid air.
Sam watches as both his bear and the manticore he faces, go tumbling off toward Elthana, Gewyn and the others, bit the bear and the tumbling manticore crash into the central manticore landing in a heap surrounded by half the party and a few members of the crew.
Elthana watches as they all bunch up near her and Gewyn, but is glad most of the party has stayed on the bird. She gets a bit worried about Vin as he floats further away.. "VIN!!" She yells out him and figures Griff will know how to get back to the bird, but keeps an eye out for him as well.
Continuing her attack on the one in front of her, she nails him with her first hit, 9 damage, and attempts to stun him again with a ki point.
The second two miss unless the stun works and she'll try again.
Sam almost feels like he made a mistake keeping his feet about him, the battle has moved on and left him behind. He's about to be all chagrined and crap when he realizes he can't even get back to the one he was fighting in time to take another swing when he realizes maybe the bigger battle is ahead... Spying the Chimera, Sam books it full bore towards that big mutha! (Movement and action dash to head 60' directly towards the Chimera...)
Brownie, on the other hand... Or is it Yogi? Boo Boo? The bear, on the other hand, attacks! With a yowl and a growl, the bear shifts around the manticore he is adjacent with until they are opposite of Gewyn and thus flanking the manticore.
Muir commands his wolf spirit creature to run and help the bear attack. The smaller version of Garth runs forward and takes a few chomps out of the manticore
Attack 1: Hit 24 Dam 8 Attack 2: Hit 24 Dam 1
Muir decides to hurl a ball of radiant damage at the manticore but badly misses (NAT1) due to his unsure footing. Trying to save face he commands the arrows shimmering all over his body to fire at the manticore (14 hit 9 Dam).
Having no problem keeping balance, Gewyn rises up to his full height again and steps in with a thrust of his sword at the manticore's shoulder before turning and shouting "HALT!" at the other one to his right.
Elthana's attack successfully hits but her lack of experience fighting these beasts means that her anatomical assessments are slightly off, it manages to shrug off her attempts to stun it once more. Sam's Brown Bear comes to its senses after its fall, crashing into the tumbling manticore and manages to use the beasts distracted state to rip its entire throat out. It slumps to the ground going limp and due to the constant movement of Spier Umar begins to roll off the massive bird's back. With one manticore down, Muir's attention turns to the next one, his wolf and starry arrows find their mark in the already bloodied beast. Gewyn standing proud and with the help of the flanking crew member skewers the tiger like breast of the remaining manticore and handily fells it too, the body also begins to roll back threatening to crush Elthana, Gewyn and crew member5, (Make a dex save DC12 or take 2 bludgeoning dam)
Vin sees his folly as he is cast out into the vast expanse of nothing and as he rights himself on his broom a massive updraft causes him, the grease covered manticore, and Griff to be rocketed 50ft upward above Spier Umar and off to the side, the boy immediately moves his hex to the manticore close to him and holding a wavering hand out fires a bevvy of scorching rays toward the beast. Each of the attacks hit and set the beast's fur ablaze, the hex causing additional necrotic blisters to form across its now exposed skin. Vin's other hand doesn't move from his broom, his knuckles white, and fear in his eyes. Neferox seeing no more enemies directly in front of her searches the skies for a moment hoping to catch a glimpse of her master, once she locates him all she can do is run to the edge of Spier Umar and stand atop the massive shoulder brace anchoring the crew and guest quarters on top and the cargo below, the hell hound stands helplessly and watches, howling at the sky.
Griff calls out to vin, but the noise is lost to the torrential winds, he flaps his wings to try getting closer and fires off two arrows at the manticore but only one hits with minimal damage as its path was buffeted. Griff stows his bow, useless in these conditions, and takes out his crystalline longsword.
With two manticores down the crew seem to be eager to finish off this battle, the hardened veterans keep up the fight turning their attention toward the chimera. Crew member 1 and the injured crew member 2 rush over to Neferox and begin methodically gathering some ropes to cast off over the edge to throw out to Griff and Vin. Gale and the black dragonborn continue damaging the chimera, not letting up, The dragon born unhinges its jaw and unleashes a torrent of acid over the goat head burning it badly. whilst Gale makes handy use of a lightning whip.
The chimera itself charges forward slightly seeing a larger threat approaching in the now large half orc, it spouts a gout of flame over toward Sam but doesn't reach him, though the feathers below in a 15ft cone set ablaze and cause a flaming terrain (difficult) it then headbutts and claws at the dragon borne, who takes significant damage but still stands strong, blood starting to gush from a large gash in his face.
A thud to the back of the group, can't be anything good, and as people turn to see what is going on, another Manticore lands and snarls looking toward Muir with hunger in its eyes.
Up in the air the greased manticore dives at vin who hurt it so bad and grabs at him clutching the boy close to its chest with its front claws, having Vin successfully grappled it begins kicking with its back legs like a cat with a bird, it's claws out and attempting to shred whatever is under its clutches (9 dam)
Sam continues moving towards the Chimera, heading north a bit before angling northwest to avoid the flaming feathers. He realizes he cannot reach the creature and do anything effective quite yet but he has to do something... Out of frustration rather than thinking it will be a real help, Sam grabs a handaxe and chucks it at the Chimera. Then another.
First Handaxe: 23 to hit for 13 damage Assuming this hits, Sam uses his Fire Rune feature to summon fiery shackles upon the Chimera causing 4 fire damage and it must make a DC 14 Str Save or be restrained for 1 minute. (Save again at end of each turn, more damage each turn shackles remain...)
Second Handaxe: Nat 1...
The first thrown axe seems to likely hit and connect solidly but the second... Well, Sam blames the smoking feathers which are making his eyes water...
Brownie the Bear
The Brown Bear roars in triumph as it tears the throat from one manticore and then has a "wha... what??" moment when another one lands. Cutting their celebration short, Brownie drops to all four and charges straight for it! (I believe it's 40' movement can get it into melee this turn...) Attacking as if it was on cocaine... or as if it even knew what cocaine was... The Brown Bear is hungry for more!
Gewyn pulls his blade out of the beast, seeing that he had managed to slip between collar bone and ribs to strike something vital. He hasn't a moment to dwell on the life blood trickling down the blade towards his hand before he notices the new threat. Without hesitation, he throws himself into a backward roll to get out of the way while keeping his centre of gravity low. The chimera's body slides past as he rises back to his feet in a clean motion.
Elthana spins on her heal as soon as she registers that the other two manticores had been defeated and runs straight for the other one. Deciding against attempting to stun this one as well, she just tries her best to hit him.
Assuming all three punches and kicks hit, she delivers 30 points of magical bludgeoning damage, but looks around for Vin and Griff again, worrying about them as they haven't gotten any closer.
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Muir commands his wolf to help the bear keep the manticore at bay that landed a little too close to Muir for his liking. The wolf strikes out at the new manticore
Attack 1: Attack: 27 Damage: 10
Attack 2: Attack: 21 Damage: 11
Muir hurls a little ball of fire at the Manticore and lets loose a barrage of twinkoing arrows
Sam's first axe hits its mark and the flaming shackles spark around the Chimera's throat but are shattered a moment later as the beast shrugs off the arcane effects. Brownie the bear wastes no time in getting to its own mark and attacking, though in its excitement misses the second swing. as everyone else surrounds the newly arrived Manticore not a single person (or wolf) misses their mark, beating, biting, and slashing at it, Muir's fire bolt and twinkling arrows cascade across it's face dizzying it enough under this barrage for it to be wholly unable to resist Gewyn's command and it freezes to the spot not daring to move as it begins bleeding profusely.
Vin trapped in the claws of the airborne manticore attempts to struggle free, and succeeds! slapping the manticore as he wrestles himself away, Vin sends an inflict wounds rocketing through the manticore's body, buffered by his hold on the hex spell, Vin also expends a use of his hunter's coat to add additional damage to his spell (25 total dam) he leaves the beast bloodied as it stuggles to stay aloft. Neferox barks from below apparently encouraging her master, but her legs still shake from the nerves and from seeing how bloody Vin now is.
Griff joins Vin in the fight, plunging his sword toward the beast's back and stabbing out twice both plunges rending at the beasts flesh, on his second attack Griff places a hand on the blade embedded within the Manticore and sends a shocking grasp up the blade electrifying the beast to compound upon its injuries.
Gale and his crew seems to begin lagging in the fight, Crew 3,4,6,8 & 9 immediately begin stamping out the flames burning into Spier Umar's feathers. 5, 7 & Gale himself all attack the beasts in front of them but don't dole out as much damage as they would have liked.
The chimera strikes back, focussing on the large half orc in front of it as its biggest threat it strikes out with each head in succession, the goat head attempts a gore with its horns (19 to hit, 16 bludgeoning), the lion head makes a bite (nat 1) and the dragon head not having regained its fire breath just yet swipes out with a claw (17 to hit, 12 slashing)
The Manticore above strikes out with a claw at Griff, slashing across the Aarakocra's wings and sending him spiralling away from Vin. It then focusses up on vin and misses the boy with a claw but hits with it's bite tearing a chunk of flesh from the boys leg, blood spurts out and showers upward as it gets caught in the updraft buffeting the fighting pair.
Sam is rocked a bit by the Goat Head, they are better at combat than hockey this season, it seems... (Disregard, local Sabres hockey reference I do not expect you to get.) He is able to duck and dodge the other attacks though before beginning his own onslaught... Shifting around the Chimera counter-clockwise, Sam winds up with his mace and picks his spots before swinging and attempting to inflict maximum carnage upon it!
First Maul Attack: 22to hit for 17damage (rerolled a 2 due to Great Weapon Fighting) Second Maul Attack: 18to hit for 17damage (again rerolled a 2) If either of these attacks hit Sam uses his Crusher feat to move the Chimera five feet due south. Not sure if it's own fire will do anything to it but if nothing else perhaps it being atop it will help put it out.
Sam then uses his Action Surge to continue pounding upon the Chimera...
Third Maul Attack: 29 to hit for 18damage (again rerolled a 2) Fourth Maul Attacl: 30(Nat 20!) for 29 to hit... Plus 5 damage from racial feature Savage Attack which allows an additional damage die roll on a critical (rerolled a 2 to a 5...) plus the Crusher feat means crits that deal bludgeoning damage mean attack rolls against that creature are made with advantage until the start of my next turn. If either of these attacks hit Sam uses his Crusher feat to move the Chimera five feet north-west in order to move it away from any of the others... And also just 'cause he finds it funny to knock the big ole bastard around! (Crusher allows 5' forced moved per turn (action surge gives Sam a second turn) so long as it's just one size bigger...)
After all that Sam finds himself a bit breathless and uses his Bonus Action to take a Second Wind, regaining a mere 7 hit points... (Moving around it during turn, Sam is as close to on the north side of the chimera at the end as possible. He's looking to allow one of the ship minion guys to have flanking if they want it on their turn...)
Brown Bear....
The Brown Bear isn't looking to get fancy... It growls and snarls and shifts around the manticore to the south to gain flanking with Elthana and then multi-attacks!
Bite Attack: 22 or 15 to hit for 12piercing damage Claw Attack: 19or 8 to hit for for 7 slashing damage
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Muir's mini Garth continues to assault the manticore with the his "pack", who are packing a punch.....(let that linger)......Garth attempts at his own swipes at the manticore
Attack1: 28 Damage: 11
Attack2: 27 Damage: 9
Muir not to be outdone but typically is by his own creature hurls more fire and sends a barrage of twinkling arrows as well
Gewyn turns to look over his shoulder at the sound of Vin and Sam both taking hits. He shouts to Elthana and Muir, "Looks like you've got this one handled!" and then ducks and spins away from the manticore. Running toward the center of the feathery battlefield, Gewyn pulls out his pipes and starts playing a song of juxtaposed tranquility and alacrity, willing his magic in the direction of his friends all about.
Action: Disengage
Bonus Action: Mantle of inspiration (8 temp HP for Sam, Vin, Gewyn, Elthana, and Muir, and movement as a reaction without taking Attacks of Opportunity)
Gewyn seems to have made the right choice as he steps away from the manticore, it stands stunned by the bevvy of attacks from everyone else and wobbles, then it's head slams into the back of Spier and it's legs lose their grip, it's limp lifeless form begins rolling off the back of the bird.
The chimera"s feet begin burning and it roars out with three separate mouths as it is pushed south, it is rocked by Sam's attacks and is broken and bleeding in several places, more than bloodied. It levels it's maw directly at Sam. Unleashing a gout of flame upon him (dc 15 dex save, on a fail take 32 fire dam, half on success.) The lion head lunges and makes a bite toward sam, (25 to hit, 13 piercing) and the goat head takes control of the paws of the creature and swipes out but the blisters forming on the pads of the burning creature cause it to hesitate and miss (14 to hit).
In the sky vin changes up his tactics, touching his forehead he casts a spell and surrounds himself with a protective arcane shimmer, then he pulls out a dagger and dives at the harried manticores still threatening him in the air ( dagger attack misses but used Favoured by the gods feature to raise attack roll and succeed, 15 to hit, 7 piercing)
Griff follows the rope up, his damaged wing effecting his ability to fly but he pushes through, tying the rope to his leg as a safety measure he makes it half way up toward vin and the manticore, sword out and ready.
The crew are keeping on top of surrounding the chimera now, each attacking but only a few hitting their mark, trying to distract the beast and pull it's attention away from Sam but ultimately failing. (28 dam out of a possible 70) the chimera wobbles close to death but hangs on by a thread, roaring out with rage as it struggles to remain conscious.
The airborne manticore grapples at Vin once more, and succeeds, obscuring the boy from view again, it bites and claws at its prey, ribbons of blood once more showering upward from vin, caught by the wind. Neferox barks out again and shakes her head as something new happens...
As they are summoned by Griff, Sam instinctively reaches into his bag of tricks and pulls out a ball of fur, tossing it into the middle of the room to give it room to grow and become what it becomes... ((8 - Brown Bear.)) Sam blinks twice as the bear begins to emerge, he was not expecting this! But there was no time... "With me," he calls out and heads up to the deck with the rest.
Emerging onto Spier's back Sam spies the closest beast and goes into attack mode - With each step Sam takes towards the beast he grows larger and larger until he is, in fact large. (Bonus Action: Giant's Might to embiggen) Sam moves directly SE to get precisely south of the beast. Once there the maul begins to swing!
First Maul Attack: Nat 1
Second Maul Attack: 29 to hit for 21 Damage (two dies rerolled due to Great Weapon Fighting) Assuming this hits there is an additional 1 damage done due to Giant's Might.
Assuming second attack there hits, Sam's Crusher Feat moves the creature 5' straight north (Sam moving up to keep the gap closed) so that the creature will now be flanked by Sam and #6...
Assuming the Brown Bear is allowed to be summoned before combat and is allowed to follow and act... The Brown Bear knows hasn't seem the light of day in who knows how long and it's never seen it from the back of a giant feathered flying who the hell knows what?!? But the Brown Bear instinctively knows Sam and it sees what Sam is fighting and it, of course, joins the fray... It rushes in and attacks from the side, no flanking available due to Sam's lack of foresight in moving the creature...
Brown Bear MultiAttack
Bite: 25 to hit for 8 piercing damage
Claw Attack: 17 to hit for 12 slashing damage
Muir stays where he is keeping out of harms way and casts (Level 3) summon beast summoning a Great Wolf spirit who he commands to help crewmembers 6 and 8
Wolf attack 1: Nat 20 Dam 14
Wolf attack 2: Hit 23 Dam 9
Muir consults his starry map and begins shimmering with arrows all over his body. He lets loose a barrage of radiant arrows towards the beast his spirit wolf is attacking
Hit 14 Dam7
Sam's second swing successfully shunts the manticore northward and damages it severely. The newly summoned bear and Muir's wolf, which looks oddly reminiscent of the guardian Garth but smaller, both attack and successfully bloody the manticore, which then takes full damage from Muir's glowing projectiles.
Vin, now mounted on his broom floats on over the manticore that sam is engaged with and sends two balls of eldritch energy streaming down toward it, Unfortunately both miss as Vin is caught in the wind a bit too much and instead turns his attention to the manticore Elthana and Gewyn are facing off against, cursing under his breath in an infernal tongue casting a hex upon it (disadvantage for dexterity based checks). Then Neferox goes charging in, darting north to face the hexed beast she bites at it once, missing as she tries to get purchase in the surge next to Elthana and Gewyn. She bites a second time finding her mark perfectly and tearing out a chunk of the beast (16 dam) who remains standing despite Nef's best efforts to knock it prone.
"Not being too high or far away from Bird!" Griff shouts over to Vin, before he too takes to the air, flapping only about 10ft off the back of Spier Umar, he draws his long bow and fires twice hitting his mark both times (20 dam), and bloodying the beast.
The members of Gale's crew seem to be holding their own, hitting their targets around half of the time and causing a not indiscriminate amount of damage, it appears that they know exactly what they are doing, trained for such eventualities. Notably an air genasi to the north (2) throws a jug toward the northern most manticore, covering it in some kind of dark slime.
The northern most manticore bites a chunk out of the air genasi in front of it in retaliation, and pounces with another two claw attacks one hitting and another missing its target, but leaving the Genasi wounded and bloodied.
The center most manticore turns on Neferox, Elthana and Gewyn. It bites Nef back successfully staggering her with its massive maw and dealing a chunk of damage back (12). Then it swipes out with its claws, once towards Elthana, (17 to hit, 5 slashing), and once out toward Gewyn (8 to hit) missing pathetically.
The last manticore, facing off against Sam, Muir, and a plethora of animals, decides to try grappling and throwing the bear off of the back of the bird, but as it clamps down the bear remains steadfast, pulling against the beast and wrestling itself free of the manticore's grasp. The manticore in frustration raises its tail straight up in the air and sends two spines directly toward Vin circling above, both hit threatening to knock Vin off and dealing a significant amount of damage (18 piercing).
As the Air genasi who threw the jug stands up, they shout over to Gale who makes a loud cawing sound. Griff's eyes go wide and he shouts out, "BE GRABBING ON!" and suddenly Spier Umar dives once more sending the slime covered manticore slipping and tumbling over the edge of the bird where it begins flapping its wings and attempting shake off the grease.
( I need everyone to give me a DEX SAVE to stay where you are, DC16 or be thrown 40 ft north west, if you are standing on squares covered in rope make the check with advantage, anyone airborne auto fails the save and is thrown twice as far )
As Spier Umar takes a dive, the entire crew duck and grab on securing their position.
Vin and Griff both being airborne stay in their positions as the massive bird essentially flies away from them, and from your position they sweep off left over the wings of the beast.
The greased manticore suffers the same fate not able to keep a grip on the bird falling completely off attempting to get it's bearings mid air.
Sam watches as both his bear and the manticore he faces, go tumbling off toward Elthana, Gewyn and the others, bit the bear and the tumbling manticore crash into the central manticore landing in a heap surrounded by half the party and a few members of the crew.
Everyone is up!
Elthana watches as they all bunch up near her and Gewyn, but is glad most of the party has stayed on the bird. She gets a bit worried about Vin as he floats further away.. "VIN!!" She yells out him and figures Griff will know how to get back to the bird, but keeps an eye out for him as well.
Continuing her attack on the one in front of her, she nails him with her first hit, 9 damage, and attempts to stun him again with a ki point.
The second two miss unless the stun works and she'll try again.
Sam almost feels like he made a mistake keeping his feet about him, the battle has moved on and left him behind. He's about to be all chagrined and crap when he realizes he can't even get back to the one he was fighting in time to take another swing when he realizes maybe the bigger battle is ahead... Spying the Chimera, Sam books it full bore towards that big mutha! (Movement and action dash to head 60' directly towards the Chimera...)
Brownie, on the other hand... Or is it Yogi? Boo Boo? The bear, on the other hand, attacks! With a yowl and a growl, the bear shifts around the manticore he is adjacent with until they are opposite of Gewyn and thus flanking the manticore.
Bite Attack: 21 to hit for 7 piercing damage
Claw Attack: 19 to hit for 15 slashing damage
Muir commands his wolf spirit creature to run and help the bear attack. The smaller version of Garth runs forward and takes a few chomps out of the manticore
Attack 1: Hit 24 Dam 8
Attack 2: Hit 24 Dam 1
Muir decides to hurl a ball of radiant damage at the manticore but badly misses (NAT1) due to his unsure footing. Trying to save face he commands the arrows shimmering all over his body to fire at the manticore (14 hit 9 Dam).
Having no problem keeping balance, Gewyn rises up to his full height again and steps in with a thrust of his sword at the manticore's shoulder before turning and shouting "HALT!" at the other one to his right.
Action 27 CRIT: Damage 10 magical piercing
Bonus action: Command (DC 16)
Elthana's attack successfully hits but her lack of experience fighting these beasts means that her anatomical assessments are slightly off, it manages to shrug off her attempts to stun it once more. Sam's Brown Bear comes to its senses after its fall, crashing into the tumbling manticore and manages to use the beasts distracted state to rip its entire throat out. It slumps to the ground going limp and due to the constant movement of Spier Umar begins to roll off the massive bird's back.
With one manticore down, Muir's attention turns to the next one, his wolf and starry arrows find their mark in the already bloodied beast. Gewyn standing proud and with the help of the flanking crew member skewers the tiger like breast of the remaining manticore and handily fells it too, the body also begins to roll back threatening to crush Elthana, Gewyn and crew member5, (Make a dex save DC12 or take 2 bludgeoning dam)
Vin sees his folly as he is cast out into the vast expanse of nothing and as he rights himself on his broom a massive updraft causes him, the grease covered manticore, and Griff to be rocketed 50ft upward above Spier Umar and off to the side, the boy immediately moves his hex to the manticore close to him and holding a wavering hand out fires a bevvy of scorching rays toward the beast. Each of the attacks hit and set the beast's fur ablaze, the hex causing additional necrotic blisters to form across its now exposed skin. Vin's other hand doesn't move from his broom, his knuckles white, and fear in his eyes. Neferox seeing no more enemies directly in front of her searches the skies for a moment hoping to catch a glimpse of her master, once she locates him all she can do is run to the edge of Spier Umar and stand atop the massive shoulder brace anchoring the crew and guest quarters on top and the cargo below, the hell hound stands helplessly and watches, howling at the sky.
Griff calls out to vin, but the noise is lost to the torrential winds, he flaps his wings to try getting closer and fires off two arrows at the manticore but only one hits with minimal damage as its path was buffeted. Griff stows his bow, useless in these conditions, and takes out his crystalline longsword.
With two manticores down the crew seem to be eager to finish off this battle, the hardened veterans keep up the fight turning their attention toward the chimera. Crew member 1 and the injured crew member 2 rush over to Neferox and begin methodically gathering some ropes to cast off over the edge to throw out to Griff and Vin.
Gale and the black dragonborn continue damaging the chimera, not letting up, The dragon born unhinges its jaw and unleashes a torrent of acid over the goat head burning it badly. whilst Gale makes handy use of a lightning whip.
The chimera itself charges forward slightly seeing a larger threat approaching in the now large half orc, it spouts a gout of flame over toward Sam but doesn't reach him, though the feathers below in a 15ft cone set ablaze and cause a flaming terrain (difficult) it then headbutts and claws at the dragon borne, who takes significant damage but still stands strong, blood starting to gush from a large gash in his face.
A thud to the back of the group, can't be anything good, and as people turn to see what is going on, another Manticore lands and snarls looking toward Muir with hunger in its eyes.
Up in the air the greased manticore dives at vin who hurt it so bad and grabs at him clutching the boy close to its chest with its front claws, having Vin successfully grappled it begins kicking with its back legs like a cat with a bird, it's claws out and attempting to shred whatever is under its clutches (9 dam)
SAM
Sam continues moving towards the Chimera, heading north a bit before angling northwest to avoid the flaming feathers. He realizes he cannot reach the creature and do anything effective quite yet but he has to do something... Out of frustration rather than thinking it will be a real help, Sam grabs a handaxe and chucks it at the Chimera. Then another.
First Handaxe: 23 to hit for 13 damage
Assuming this hits, Sam uses his Fire Rune feature to summon fiery shackles upon the Chimera causing 4 fire damage and it must make a DC 14 Str Save or be restrained for 1 minute. (Save again at end of each turn, more damage each turn shackles remain...)
Second Handaxe: Nat 1...
The first thrown axe seems to likely hit and connect solidly but the second... Well, Sam blames the smoking feathers which are making his eyes water...
Brownie the Bear
The Brown Bear roars in triumph as it tears the throat from one manticore and then has a "wha... what??" moment when another one lands. Cutting their celebration short, Brownie drops to all four and charges straight for it! (I believe it's 40' movement can get it into melee this turn...) Attacking as if it was on cocaine... or as if it even knew what cocaine was... The Brown Bear is hungry for more!
Bite Attack: 22 to hit for 9 piercing damage
Claw Attack: 13 to hit for 10 slashing damage
Gewyn pulls his blade out of the beast, seeing that he had managed to slip between collar bone and ribs to strike something vital. He hasn't a moment to dwell on the life blood trickling down the blade towards his hand before he notices the new threat. Without hesitation, he throws himself into a backward roll to get out of the way while keeping his centre of gravity low. The chimera's body slides past as he rises back to his feet in a clean motion.
Elthana spins on her heal as soon as she registers that the other two manticores had been defeated and runs straight for the other one. Deciding against attempting to stun this one as well, she just tries her best to hit him.
Assuming all three punches and kicks hit, she delivers 30 points of magical bludgeoning damage, but looks around for Vin and Griff again, worrying about them as they haven't gotten any closer.
Muir commands his wolf to help the bear keep the manticore at bay that landed a little too close to Muir for his liking. The wolf strikes out at the new manticore
Attack 1: Attack: 27 Damage: 10
Attack 2: Attack: 21 Damage: 11
Muir hurls a little ball of fire at the Manticore and lets loose a barrage of twinkoing arrows
Prodcue Flam: Attack: 17 Damage: 4
Twinkling Arrow: Attack: 20 Damage: 5
Gewyn shouts at the manticore, "Freeze!" Before running in and making a leaping slash at the beast's neck.
Attack: 24 Damage: 9 magical piercing
Bonus Action: Command (DC 16)
Sam's first axe hits its mark and the flaming shackles spark around the Chimera's throat but are shattered a moment later as the beast shrugs off the arcane effects. Brownie the bear wastes no time in getting to its own mark and attacking, though in its excitement misses the second swing. as everyone else surrounds the newly arrived Manticore not a single person (or wolf) misses their mark, beating, biting, and slashing at it, Muir's fire bolt and twinkling arrows cascade across it's face dizzying it enough under this barrage for it to be wholly unable to resist Gewyn's command and it freezes to the spot not daring to move as it begins bleeding profusely.
Vin trapped in the claws of the airborne manticore attempts to struggle free, and succeeds! slapping the manticore as he wrestles himself away, Vin sends an inflict wounds rocketing through the manticore's body, buffered by his hold on the hex spell, Vin also expends a use of his hunter's coat to add additional damage to his spell (25 total dam) he leaves the beast bloodied as it stuggles to stay aloft. Neferox barks from below apparently encouraging her master, but her legs still shake from the nerves and from seeing how bloody Vin now is.
Griff joins Vin in the fight, plunging his sword toward the beast's back and stabbing out twice both plunges rending at the beasts flesh, on his second attack Griff places a hand on the blade embedded within the Manticore and sends a shocking grasp up the blade electrifying the beast to compound upon its injuries.
Gale and his crew seems to begin lagging in the fight, Crew 3,4,6,8 & 9 immediately begin stamping out the flames burning into Spier Umar's feathers. 5, 7 & Gale himself all attack the beasts in front of them but don't dole out as much damage as they would have liked.
The chimera strikes back, focussing on the large half orc in front of it as its biggest threat it strikes out with each head in succession, the goat head attempts a gore with its horns (19 to hit, 16 bludgeoning), the lion head makes a bite (nat 1) and the dragon head not having regained its fire breath just yet swipes out with a claw (17 to hit, 12 slashing)
The Manticore above strikes out with a claw at Griff, slashing across the Aarakocra's wings and sending him spiralling away from Vin. It then focusses up on vin and misses the boy with a claw but hits with it's bite tearing a chunk of flesh from the boys leg, blood spurts out and showers upward as it gets caught in the updraft buffeting the fighting pair.
SAM
Sam is rocked a bit by the Goat Head, they are better at combat than hockey this season, it seems... (Disregard, local Sabres hockey reference I do not expect you to get.) He is able to duck and dodge the other attacks though before beginning his own onslaught... Shifting around the Chimera counter-clockwise, Sam winds up with his mace and picks his spots before swinging and attempting to inflict maximum carnage upon it!
First Maul Attack: 22 to hit for 17 damage (rerolled a 2 due to Great Weapon Fighting)
Second Maul Attack: 18 to hit for 17 damage (again rerolled a 2)
If either of these attacks hit Sam uses his Crusher feat to move the Chimera five feet due south. Not sure if it's own fire will do anything to it but if nothing else perhaps it being atop it will help put it out.
Sam then uses his Action Surge to continue pounding upon the Chimera...
Third Maul Attack: 29 to hit for 18 damage (again rerolled a 2)
Fourth Maul Attacl: 30 (Nat 20!) for 29 to hit... Plus 5 damage from racial feature Savage Attack which allows an additional damage die roll on a critical (rerolled a 2 to a 5...) plus the Crusher feat means crits that deal bludgeoning damage mean attack rolls against that creature are made with advantage until the start of my next turn.
If either of these attacks hit Sam uses his Crusher feat to move the Chimera five feet north-west in order to move it away from any of the others... And also just 'cause he finds it funny to knock the big ole bastard around! (Crusher allows 5' forced moved per turn (action surge gives Sam a second turn) so long as it's just one size bigger...)
After all that Sam finds himself a bit breathless and uses his Bonus Action to take a Second Wind, regaining a mere 7 hit points... (Moving around it during turn, Sam is as close to on the north side of the chimera at the end as possible. He's looking to allow one of the ship minion guys to have flanking if they want it on their turn...)
Brown Bear....
The Brown Bear isn't looking to get fancy... It growls and snarls and shifts around the manticore to the south to gain flanking with Elthana and then multi-attacks!
Bite Attack: 22 or
15to hit for 12 piercing damageClaw Attack: 19 or
8to hit for for 7 slashing damageElthana continues her barrage of flying fists and feet, aiming them at the manticore that is in front of her.
Attack: 12, Dam: 10
Attack: 22, dam: 9
Attack: 20, dam: 7
She looks around to see how everyone else is faring, hoping no one has dropped yet.
Muir's mini Garth continues to assault the manticore with the his "pack", who are packing a punch.....(let that linger)......Garth attempts at his own swipes at the manticore
Attack1: 28 Damage: 11
Attack2: 27 Damage: 9
Muir not to be outdone but typically is by his own creature hurls more fire and sends a barrage of twinkling arrows as well
Fire Attack: 18 Damage: 3
Twinkle Attack: 14 Damage: 5
Gewyn turns to look over his shoulder at the sound of Vin and Sam both taking hits. He shouts to Elthana and Muir, "Looks like you've got this one handled!" and then ducks and spins away from the manticore. Running toward the center of the feathery battlefield, Gewyn pulls out his pipes and starts playing a song of juxtaposed tranquility and alacrity, willing his magic in the direction of his friends all about.
Action: Disengage
Bonus Action: Mantle of inspiration (8 temp HP for Sam, Vin, Gewyn, Elthana, and Muir, and movement as a reaction without taking Attacks of Opportunity)
Gewyn seems to have made the right choice as he steps away from the manticore, it stands stunned by the bevvy of attacks from everyone else and wobbles, then it's head slams into the back of Spier and it's legs lose their grip, it's limp lifeless form begins rolling off the back of the bird.
The chimera"s feet begin burning and it roars out with three separate mouths as it is pushed south, it is rocked by Sam's attacks and is broken and bleeding in several places, more than bloodied. It levels it's maw directly at Sam. Unleashing a gout of flame upon him (dc 15 dex save, on a fail take 32 fire dam, half on success.) The lion head lunges and makes a bite toward sam, (25 to hit, 13 piercing) and the goat head takes control of the paws of the creature and swipes out but the blisters forming on the pads of the burning creature cause it to hesitate and miss (14 to hit).
In the sky vin changes up his tactics, touching his forehead he casts a spell and surrounds himself with a protective arcane shimmer, then he pulls out a dagger and dives at the harried manticores still threatening him in the air ( dagger attack misses but used Favoured by the gods feature to raise attack roll and succeed, 15 to hit, 7 piercing)
Griff follows the rope up, his damaged wing effecting his ability to fly but he pushes through, tying the rope to his leg as a safety measure he makes it half way up toward vin and the manticore, sword out and ready.
The crew are keeping on top of surrounding the chimera now, each attacking but only a few hitting their mark, trying to distract the beast and pull it's attention away from Sam but ultimately failing. (28 dam out of a possible 70) the chimera wobbles close to death but hangs on by a thread, roaring out with rage as it struggles to remain conscious.
The airborne manticore grapples at Vin once more, and succeeds, obscuring the boy from view again, it bites and claws at its prey, ribbons of blood once more showering upward from vin, caught by the wind. Neferox barks out again and shakes her head as something new happens...