As the zombie explodes within the radius of Gewyn his pipe playing dies down, the middle of a breath catches him off guard and he takes the full brunt of the necrotic damage inhaled, blackened veins begin crawling up his neck as his body collapses silent.
With Gewyn no longer playing both of Lestheris' attacks head toward Serafina, Bloodying the Shadar-Kai warrior
As Elthana winds up to attack, Lestheris once again reacts and dissapears in place, but unlike last time she doesnt reappear anywhere.
Sam slams Jedar into the thorns and it does slow the man down but not enough to keep the man from getting away, he exits the thorns considerably bloodied and makes it out. Sam slices through both the shades and then moves on to the zombies clearing those out too with a single swing. Reaction, As Sam slams through all of the minions around him Jedar throws a hand out summoning the fallen skeletal remains of the allips which rise and float over to him, five in total but one immediately turns to dust and the dust is absorbed into jedar mending his wounds and reinforcing his undead lifeforce. (heals 6 hp)
With targetted enemies gone Vin hastily changes targets and his eldritch blasts head instead toward Jedar, (lestheris off field and Mycete full cover) the first blast misses but the second hits completely undoing the healing that jedar had just applied to himself
Neferox also freely availed of minions within her vicinity moves 20ft to where jedar is surroundeing himself with skeletons and begins tearing into them, taking two down with her first bite and , then moving her remaining 10ft around jedar to decimate the other two skeletons in his defence radius.
Serafina now haggard from the necrotic lances cannot see Lestheri any longer, she instead focusses on the wall above the portal and takes a running jump towards it, inverting her gravity in the air she lands above the thorns and pulls out he bow firing at the undead tiefling hiding out of sight of the rest of the group. (23 to hit, 8 piercing damage) Mycete unseen slupms forward into the thorns dead.
Griff focusses fire on Jedar as the last remaining visible enemy firing off two arrows at the half plated undead man. (11 + 12 to hit) griff misses both times growing frustrated at his continual failure, first Lestheris dissapearing upon his attack last round and now this. he uses his movement to fly down towards Jedar and stands beside Neferox ready to battle.
Upon the enemies turn Jedar moves toward Neferox and Griff swinging his warhammer at Neferox twice seeing her as the bigger threat, (13 + 9 to hit) both attacks land but Jedar looks confused and angry as his weakened state has taken the energy out of his swings and they bounce harmlessly off of Neferox's thick hide.
Lestheris reappears next to Elthana, and then another, they both simply put their fingers in their mouths and whistle loudly. At the whistle, the sound of the portal bubbling and releasing something else can be heard and a Large amorphous shape can be seen pushing through the thorns. Sam sees it first as it makes its way out, a collection of corpses each writhng and groaning as part of one large stitched tohether creature, dismembered limbs stick out of the main body at odd angles and each bears a weapon made of sharpened bone, as it slides forward like a slug The group sees Halorin and Mycete's corpses being absorbed into it, living threads sewing them into the main body of the undead mass.
The Horror seeing Sam as the first target in its viscinity launches two bone hooks out at him, (9 to hit, miss. 21 to hit, 9 piercing damage, Sam auto succeeds the grapple because he is currently a large creature)
"What the ugly hell?" Sam asks, a bit shocked, as the mish-mash of bodies and viscera lumbers through the wall of thorns and towards him. Sam sidesteps the first attack easily enough but as he sees two of the foes they've already defeated now actually a part of the writhing body parts that make up this horror, specifically a bit of Mycete's skull which seems to wink at him, Sam is distracted and the thing is able to strike him with some kind of bone hook... And it hurts, sure. But luckily his stone-ified skin is still doing it's job and Sam manages to avoid some of the damage.
"They been feeding you bad," Sam notes as he grips up on his maul and moves up in front of the thing so the thing is right between Sam and the Wall of Thorns. "You need more iron in your diet!" And Sam attacks. The... thing.
First Maul Attack: 19 to hit for 22 magical bludgeoning damage plus an extra 3 due to Giant's Might. Second Maul Attack: 22 to hit for 29 magical bludgeoning damage Third Maul Attack: 24 to hit for 23 magical bludgeoning damage plus uses his Crusher Feat to try to move the big, ugly, potpourri creature back into the Wall of Thorns to take even more damage... (Thing looks big but Crusher allows forced movement so long as it's not more than 1 size bigger and it don't look THAT big.)
If Sam happens to defeat this new comer he then moves into melee with Jedar as well... (I doubt he'd have any attacks left but if so... *shrug*)
The thorns tear into the creature as it is pushed back into the thorns and recoils from Sam's powerful attacks, but it seems otherwise unphased and continues it's groaning.
Vin sees Gewyn drop and concern and anger flare within him, but he then sees Muir close by and trusts the Loxodon will help their bard. He can't do much for his unconscious friend at this point anyway.
His attention then turns to the two identical enemies suddenly flanking Elthana, and he throws two bolts of eldritch energy, one at each of them.
Neferox snorts derisively at her adversary, just as her jaws snap out twice at him.
Vin
Action: Cast Eldritch Blast, one at each Lestheris Blast 1 - Attack: 13+8=21, 7+5=12 [force] Blast 2 - Attack: 20+8=28 (crit), 5+5+5=15 [force] Special: Concentration Shield Of Faith - 7/100
Neferox
Action: Multi-attack bite on Jedar Bite 1 -Attack: 4+4=8 Bite 2 - Attack: 6+4=10 Special: Shield of Faith - AC +2
Both of vin's attacks hit though the first blast simply dissipates the shadow form of Lestheris to the south west of Elthana, the second bolt hits the actual half elf standing to the northeast.
Neferox in return for Jedar's failing strikes also fails to bite through his half plate, leaving her with a metallic taste on her tongue nd more than enough frustration.
Elthana's eyes go wide as the atrocity makes it's way through the wall of thorns and prays that Lumithor will be back soon.. this was getting out of hand. And Gewyn... oh man she hopes Muir can help him.
But seeing herself flanked, she realizes she could be in a bit of a spot herself. That is until Vin makes one disappear! She grins up at the boy and gives him a nod before she turns her ire on the real Lestheris.
Attack: 23, Damage: 9
Attack: 23, Damage: 9
Attack: 15(miss?), Damage: 12
She again tries to use a stun against the undead woman, CON save of 15 or be stunned till the end of Elthana's next turn.
As Elthana winds up once more Lethseris disappears again (ethereal shadow step reaction now exhausted) and she instead appears near vin upon the shrine.
As Lethseris reappears near Vin, Muir tires of her games, hurling a ball of green light at her (Hit 21, Dam 14). He focuses his attention next on Sam and Gewyn. He heals Sam for 8HPs using Healing Word. Sam feels a refreshing breeze blow over him but no golden shower of healing from the chalice. This time the chalice appears over Gewyn, showering him with nature's revitalizing heal (6HPs). Muir hides behind Lumithor's head pulling his hood up (24 stealth).
Lestheris now standing atop the shrine eyes on Vin is blindsided by Muir's guiding bolt, taking the damage in full.
Gewyn rises to his feet dazed but quickly shakes it off, he moves further into the bones of Lumithor for cover and begins playing his pipes once more. Hoping to distract the Horror that has just arrived, an illusion of crystals begins to rise from the floor in a 20ft square forming into the face of lumithour seen before. The face of lumithour roars out in anger drawing everyone's attention and drowning out the sound of the lightning strikes above momentarily. (Hostiles DC 16 investigation check to discern illusion is fake)
At the appearance of Lumithor, Serafina is relieved and brings up her bow with a little more hope this time, firing off two shots which sail over the Illusory dragon head and directly toward Lestheris, (11 & 13 to hit) unfortunately both arrows bounce harmlessly off the sides of the shrine and Serafina instead focusses her attention on the Horror below her.
Griff for his part moves around Jedar and into flanking with Neferox, He strikes once with his sword (18 to hit, 3 slashing) Jedar still doesn't fall, so with his free hand outstretched Griff calls forth his eldritch training and delivers the man a shocking grasp which ripples over Jedars halfplate and compounds the lightning within, (15 to hit, 4 lightning) Jedar coughs up blood as he screams but still will not fall.
Jedar now bleeding out profusely sees the giant head of lumithor and is filled with terror, he tries moving away back toward the portal. back toward the Horror for protection, but mistakenly provoking an attack of opportunity from both Neferox and griff, Neferox bites out, (24 crit to hit, 15 piercing) simultaneously Griff stabs forward as the undead leaves his melee, (28 crit hit, 5 slashing) and working together, the Hellhound and Aarakocra bring down their foe.
Lestheris is also duped by the head of lumithor but simply ducks under the rise of the battlements atop the shrine, focussing instead on the boy in front of her. Lestheris' hands move infront of her drawing shadows around her which she thrusts forward at vin, (13 to hit, miss. 25 to hit, 4 necrotic and Vin cannot regain hp until Lestheris' next turn)
The horror is not duped by the illusion, its many undead eyes dismissing it and focussing instead on the bloodied half orc in its face, it pulls itself out of the thorns once more, living string sewing back together the tears in its flesh but not stopping the seeping blood from running out of its wounds. It swings two bone cleavers down toward Sam. (26 crit hit, 9 slashing. 19 to hit, 5 slashing) it then shreiks with all of its many mouths a chorus of angry agonising wails that vibrate through Sam and Neferox chilling their blood and making them lose hope, (DC13 wis save or become frightened of The Horror for 10 rounds, save ends at end of turn)
Sam breathes a bit easier at receiving even more healing from Muir and flashes him a bit thumbs up! But chaos continues all around and there is little time for niceties. Gewyn rises and hides, smart move, but then Lumithor is back! Sam is about to take a step back and allow the returned dead-dragon-god thing to handle the mess but... Shit. It's not really the dead-dragon-god! Still... Nice move. Arrows fly, swords flash, and Jedar finally falls... If undead goodness will stop coming out of the portal for a while it may mean that the group can actually get the better of this.
Shit! The horrorshow of bodies is a bit quicker than Sam expected and shambles out of the thorn and attacks again! And actually hits once.. maybe twice. And then the screams.... Multiple soul wrenching calls of agony and hatred all coming from the one source... (Wis save 21) It wrenches at Sam but with a shake of his head he realizes it's really no worse than the Death Metal the kids today like.
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"I understand," Sam says sympathetically. "All your friends are dying. Don't worry, you'll be joining them soon..." And the maul swings.
First Maul Attack: 22 to hit for for 18 magical bludgeoning damage plus 2 extra from Giant's Might (lame-o damage rolls...) Second Maul Attack: 21 to hit for 19 magical bludgeoning damage plus Crusher Feat again pushes them back five feet into the Wall of Thorns, Sam stepping up into the gap half tempted to try to keep pushing the thing further in...
Seeing Sam get attacked by the disgusting blob, Elthana could no longer stand by. The face of Lumithor gives her a fleeting sense of hope, but then turns to the matter at hand. Finding her way between Sam and Nef, she attacks.
Gewyn lowers the pipes from his lips, allowing himself a chance to breath, though the tunes he was playing lingers, sustaining the illusion for a time. He draws in great rasping breaths and watches the others fight from his position of cover. He almost died, once again, and he can feel his magic is almost tapped out. It hasn't been long that he's been able to shift between certain realities, but already being stuck in just one plane of existence in times likes these feels claustrophobic. But he can't despair yet. That was the old Gewyn.
He pokes his head around and calls up to Lestheris. "Hey, you know it's too bad. Under different circumstances I'm sure you would have liked to take me out for a drink. But I don't think it could work. See... I'm drop dead gorgeous, and you're just dead!" He laces hurt into his words. An easy enough task that he could do it asleep, no matter his exhaustion.
Action: vicious mockery 4 Damage and disadvantage on next attack. DC 16 wis save
"Ouch!", Vin exclaims as the woman appears by him and seems to infect him with shadows. He had been momentarily distracted by the return of Lumithor, or not, spotting Gewyn back up and hearing his pipes. He realises quickly that he isn't actually hurt though, and the sight of Gewyn gives him an idea.
"Gewyn, teleporting is amazing!", he shouts as a smile crosses his face. He then look at the woman who attacked him and the smile disappears as he shakes his head at her. His hand raises and two bolts of eldritch energy streak towards her slightly glowing form.
"You heard the man, you're dead", he says to the woman as he feeds some necrotic energy back to her with each bolt.
Neferox, meanwhile, is feeling rather pleased with herself having taken a huge chunk out of her foe. She ignores the head of Lumithor and sets her gaze on the giant monstrosity. She lopes across, looking to do similar to that. She snaps out twice with her large jaws.
Vin
Bonus Action: Cast Misty Step from his ring, moving across the top of the shrine Action: Cast Eldritch Blast, at Lestheris Blast 1 (with advantage due to Muir's Guiding Bolt)- Attack: (10, 18)+8=26, 5+5=10 [force] + 5 [necrotic] from Hunter's Coat. Blast 2 - Attack: 11+8=19, 7+5=12 [force] + 6 [necrotic] from Hunter's Coat. Special: Concentration Shield Of Faith - 9/100
Neferox Movement: Across to the big monstrosity Action: Multi-attack bite on monstrosity Bite 1 - Attack: 10 +4=14, Damage: 5+4+3=12 [piercing] - if hit it must succeed on a DC 13 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone. Bite 2 - Attack: 7 +4=11, Damage: 6+4+3=13 [piercing] - if hit it must succeed on a DC 13 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone. Special: Shield of Faith - AC +2
Sam's maul strikes hit the mass of bodies with a squelch but the beast just keeps coming. It slides back into the thorns and bleeds even more as it gets scratched up.
Elthana's strikes vary in their success but her second hit apparently catches a weak spot which she exploits perfectly relying on her monastic training, The Horror is stunned.
Gewyn keeps his illusion going strong, and laces his insults with pshychicly damaging vibrations, But Lestheris simply shrugs them off as she readies for her next attack. (save 18)
Even whilst she is half hidden by the crystal battlements atop the shrine Vin's Eldritch blasts both find their way to striking at Lestheris, who grunts out in frustration in return as she spits blood and begins to look haggard and bloodied.
Neferox moves up to the Horror still stunned in the thorns and bites out, careful not to catch Elthana in her way. (rerolled her bite attacks for advantage against stunned enemy 18 to hit, Damage remains 12. 24 crit to hit 14 piercing dam) both attacks sink in tearing away fleshand the force against a stunned enemy such as this means that the Horror has no way of stopping Nef from pushing it prone.
Muir's arrow flies true and hits his target bang on despite her cover. Then he hides successfully from her once again.
Griff Keeps his distance flying over toward the illusory head of lumithor and perching on one of the earthmoulded pillars. He fires off two arrows at The Horror (17 to hit, 8 piercing. 16 to hit, 7 piercing) both arrows find their mark and the beast cannot do anything but gurgle and flail.
Serafina seeing an opening as half the Horror is still out of the thorns, leaps out from the wall and falls onto the prone and exposed half of the mass of flesh she lands with her sword pointing down but in her haste the sword slides harmlessly between two of the random limbs sticking out of the Horror causing no damage, (13 to hit, miss) she pulls back now standing atop the Horror and tries once more (25 to hit, 6 dam) as the sword slides in Serafina activates it's special ability locking it in place, entirely immovable in space.
The Horror spends its turn Stunned, Prone, and Restrained.
Lestheris, takes in her surroundings and sees through Gewyn's illusion (16 investingation) she also sees that she is essentially alone, she stand from her hiding place livid at her groups defeat and launches two necrotic shadow lances out, one at Vin, (8 to hit) and the second out at Gewyn (11 to hit) as both lances shatter against Lumithor's bones leaving nothing but a dark mark, Lestheris sees how the tides are turning and looks up, Inverting her gravity completely she begins falling directly up until she is out of sight completely.
-The Horror is Stunned! -The Horror is Prone! -The Horror is Restrained! Everyone is up! but first...
As the group take in the escape of Lestheris and continue hacking away at The Horror, the crashes of lightning striking the outer walls of the orb you are all inside of, becomes deafening, one bolt comes arcing down the funnel and strikes the middle of the battlefield making Gewyns illusion warble. the next thing that comes falling down is Lestheris' limp body scorched from lightning damage, it then splatters against the floor as the group notice the crystals surrounding the room begin to rise. Several large shards fly towards the stunned horror and slash deep wounds into it, others form a familiar dragon head which rises above the heads of the group in melee as it begins blowing a gale of freezing air toward the undead monstrosity. The horror freezes, the continual barrage of crystal shards chipping away at its form, frost accumulates and blood stops flowing as the mass of bodies becomes as solid as rock. one final crystal shard strikes at the center of the Horror and the entire creature shatters to the floor, thousands of pieces of frozen undead and one sword now plunged into nothing hangs silently in the air, still unnmoving. "I was as quick as I could be, how did you all hold up? any injuries?" the Crystal Face of Lumithor asks.
Gewyn, Vin and Muir closest to the actual bones of Lumithor see a small mote of light float harmlessly down from above and hide within the skull once more.
Sam grunts and slumps a bit as Lumithor returns. He'd barely allowed himself notice the lightning and defeat of the one who fled but once the horror that was in the Wall of Thorns was destroyed Sam finally allowed himself to relax and take a look around.
"Oh, you left?" Sam answers with a bit of a snarl. "Hadn't noticed..."
Sam then allows the head of his maul to fall and clunk against the floor, rests his hands atop the butt end of the handle, then rests his head upon his hands. He takes a moment or two to just gather himself back together...
"Sorry about the mess," he replies with an absent wave of his hand at everything (allowing the two stone pillars he had create to fade back into the ground as if they never existed). "You get what you needed on your excursion?"
While listening to whatever is said Sam goes around the cave and drags the bodies into two piles along the side wall. One pile is just the shambling combination of bodies that was the horror, the other pile is everyone else. Two piles so the horror doesn't get any ideas and become more horrible... A third pile would be made more in the center of the room, it would consist of weapons and anything dangerous or interesting found upon the bodies from a quick search before they are piled up. When the 'clean up' is done Sam will eventually ask if they should just be thrown back through the portal, taken out and burned or... ?
Muir stands up from behind the bones and looks at the carnage. “Ah Lumithor welcome back. We fought an onslaught of undead with several of their leaders perhaps? They are there, there, there and behind my wall….May I drop our defenses so that we may search the dead and dispose of them how you see fit….is what Sam means of course?”
Gewyn slumps down with his back against a rib and gives a tired thumbs up before rubbing his neck where the blackened veins stand out against his pale red skin
Sam finds it easy to differentiate between the frozen horror bits and the odds and ends of the other undead. For all of the dust he wishes that they maybe had a broom, but he's sure that Lumithor's ice breath could blow it all away if needed. On the corpses of the Grave Order he finds plate and half plate, but his tradesman eye with blacksmithing tells him that this ancient plate might hold out a little longer, but it's prime is long past, it's most effective use would be melting the stuff down and making something new.
Of the usable things he finds;
Jedar's Warhammer, Halorin's mace and shield, Lestheris' spell book with a motif of a dead snake choked on its own tail across the cover, and a skull looking pendant which is in the wreckage of what was once the Horror possibly belonging to any one of the beings that the horror had consumed in its time.
"Unfortunately I did find something out..." Lumithour begins, but as Sam finishes his piles the crystal head nods over toward the portal, "best that none of it remains in this realm, nectyran's reach can be a tricky thing." Lumithour gives a nod of appreciation and agrees with Muir's suggestion that he lower the thorn wall.
As the zombie explodes within the radius of Gewyn his pipe playing dies down, the middle of a breath catches him off guard and he takes the full brunt of the necrotic damage inhaled, blackened veins begin crawling up his neck as his body collapses silent.
With Gewyn no longer playing both of Lestheris' attacks head toward Serafina, Bloodying the Shadar-Kai warrior
As Elthana winds up to attack, Lestheris once again reacts and dissapears in place, but unlike last time she doesnt reappear anywhere.
Sam slams Jedar into the thorns and it does slow the man down but not enough to keep the man from getting away, he exits the thorns considerably bloodied and makes it out.
Sam slices through both the shades and then moves on to the zombies clearing those out too with a single swing.
Reaction, As Sam slams through all of the minions around him Jedar throws a hand out summoning the fallen skeletal remains of the allips which rise and float over to him, five in total but one immediately turns to dust and the dust is absorbed into jedar mending his wounds and reinforcing his undead lifeforce. (heals 6 hp)
With targetted enemies gone Vin hastily changes targets and his eldritch blasts head instead toward Jedar, (lestheris off field and Mycete full cover) the first blast misses but the second hits completely undoing the healing that jedar had just applied to himself
Neferox also freely availed of minions within her vicinity moves 20ft to where jedar is surroundeing himself with skeletons and begins tearing into them, taking two down with her first bite and , then moving her remaining 10ft around jedar to decimate the other two skeletons in his defence radius.
Serafina now haggard from the necrotic lances cannot see Lestheri any longer, she instead focusses on the wall above the portal and takes a running jump towards it, inverting her gravity in the air she lands above the thorns and pulls out he bow firing at the undead tiefling hiding out of sight of the rest of the group. (23 to hit, 8 piercing damage) Mycete unseen slupms forward into the thorns dead.
Griff focusses fire on Jedar as the last remaining visible enemy firing off two arrows at the half plated undead man. (11 + 12 to hit) griff misses both times growing frustrated at his continual failure, first Lestheris dissapearing upon his attack last round and now this. he uses his movement to fly down towards Jedar and stands beside Neferox ready to battle.
Upon the enemies turn Jedar moves toward Neferox and Griff swinging his warhammer at Neferox twice seeing her as the bigger threat, (13 + 9 to hit) both attacks land but Jedar looks confused and angry as his weakened state has taken the energy out of his swings and they bounce harmlessly off of Neferox's thick hide.
Lestheris reappears next to Elthana, and then another, they both simply put their fingers in their mouths and whistle loudly. At the whistle, the sound of the portal bubbling and releasing something else can be heard and a Large amorphous shape can be seen pushing through the thorns. Sam sees it first as it makes its way out, a collection of corpses each writhng and groaning as part of one large stitched tohether creature, dismembered limbs stick out of the main body at odd angles and each bears a weapon made of sharpened bone, as it slides forward like a slug The group sees Halorin and Mycete's corpses being absorbed into it, living threads sewing them into the main body of the undead mass.
The Horror seeing Sam as the first target in its viscinity launches two bone hooks out at him, (9 to hit, miss. 21 to hit, 9 piercing damage, Sam auto succeeds the grapple because he is currently a large creature)
Round 14
-Muir's wall of thorns 4/100 rounds (C).
-Sam's Stoneskin 10/600
-Sam's haste 10/10 rounds FINAL ROUND
-Sam's giants might 2/10 rounds
-Sam is no longer frightened
-Serafina is no longer frightened
-Mycete is dead!
-GEWYN IS UNCONSCIOUS!
Everyone is up!
"What the ugly hell?" Sam asks, a bit shocked, as the mish-mash of bodies and viscera lumbers through the wall of thorns and towards him. Sam sidesteps the first attack easily enough but as he sees two of the foes they've already defeated now actually a part of the writhing body parts that make up this horror, specifically a bit of Mycete's skull which seems to wink at him, Sam is distracted and the thing is able to strike him with some kind of bone hook... And it hurts, sure. But luckily his stone-ified skin is still doing it's job and Sam manages to avoid some of the damage.
"They been feeding you bad," Sam notes as he grips up on his maul and moves up in front of the thing so the thing is right between Sam and the Wall of Thorns. "You need more iron in your diet!" And Sam attacks. The... thing.
First Maul Attack: 19 to hit for 22 magical bludgeoning damage plus an extra 3 due to Giant's Might.
Second Maul Attack: 22 to hit for 29 magical bludgeoning damage
Third Maul Attack: 24 to hit for 23 magical bludgeoning damage plus uses his Crusher Feat to try to move the big, ugly, potpourri creature back into the Wall of Thorns to take even more damage... (Thing looks big but Crusher allows forced movement so long as it's not more than 1 size bigger and it don't look THAT big.)
If Sam happens to defeat this new comer he then moves into melee with Jedar as well... (I doubt he'd have any attacks left but if so... *shrug*)
The thorns tear into the creature as it is pushed back into the thorns and recoils from Sam's powerful attacks, but it seems otherwise unphased and continues it's groaning.
Vin sees Gewyn drop and concern and anger flare within him, but he then sees Muir close by and trusts the Loxodon will help their bard. He can't do much for his unconscious friend at this point anyway.
His attention then turns to the two identical enemies suddenly flanking Elthana, and he throws two bolts of eldritch energy, one at each of them.
Neferox snorts derisively at her adversary, just as her jaws snap out twice at him.
Vin
Action: Cast Eldritch Blast, one at each Lestheris
Blast 1 - Attack: 13+8=21, 7+5=12 [force]
Blast 2 - Attack: 20+8=28 (crit), 5+5+5=15 [force]
Special: Concentration Shield Of Faith - 7/100
Neferox
Action: Multi-attack bite on Jedar
Bite 1 -Attack: 4+4=8
Bite 2 - Attack: 6+4=10
Special: Shield of Faith - AC +2
Both of vin's attacks hit though the first blast simply dissipates the shadow form of Lestheris to the south west of Elthana, the second bolt hits the actual half elf standing to the northeast.
Neferox in return for Jedar's failing strikes also fails to bite through his half plate, leaving her with a metallic taste on her tongue nd more than enough frustration.
Elthana's eyes go wide as the atrocity makes it's way through the wall of thorns and prays that Lumithor will be back soon.. this was getting out of hand. And Gewyn... oh man she hopes Muir can help him.
But seeing herself flanked, she realizes she could be in a bit of a spot herself. That is until Vin makes one disappear! She grins up at the boy and gives him a nod before she turns her ire on the real Lestheris.
Attack: 23, Damage: 9
Attack: 23, Damage: 9
Attack: 15 (miss?), Damage: 12
She again tries to use a stun against the undead woman, CON save of 15 or be stunned till the end of Elthana's next turn.
As Elthana winds up once more Lethseris disappears again (ethereal shadow step reaction now exhausted) and she instead appears near vin upon the shrine.
As Lethseris reappears near Vin, Muir tires of her games, hurling a ball of green light at her (Hit 21, Dam 14). He focuses his attention next on Sam and Gewyn. He heals Sam for 8HPs using Healing Word. Sam feels a refreshing breeze blow over him but no golden shower of healing from the chalice. This time the chalice appears over Gewyn, showering him with nature's revitalizing heal (6HPs). Muir hides behind Lumithor's head pulling his hood up (24 stealth).
Lestheris now standing atop the shrine eyes on Vin is blindsided by Muir's guiding bolt, taking the damage in full.
Gewyn rises to his feet dazed but quickly shakes it off, he moves further into the bones of Lumithor for cover and begins playing his pipes once more. Hoping to distract the Horror that has just arrived, an illusion of crystals begins to rise from the floor in a 20ft square forming into the face of lumithour seen before. The face of lumithour roars out in anger drawing everyone's attention and drowning out the sound of the lightning strikes above momentarily. (Hostiles DC 16 investigation check to discern illusion is fake)
At the appearance of Lumithor, Serafina is relieved and brings up her bow with a little more hope this time, firing off two shots which sail over the Illusory dragon head and directly toward Lestheris, (11 & 13 to hit) unfortunately both arrows bounce harmlessly off the sides of the shrine and Serafina instead focusses her attention on the Horror below her.
Griff for his part moves around Jedar and into flanking with Neferox, He strikes once with his sword (18 to hit, 3 slashing) Jedar still doesn't fall, so with his free hand outstretched Griff calls forth his eldritch training and delivers the man a shocking grasp which ripples over Jedars halfplate and compounds the lightning within, (15 to hit, 4 lightning) Jedar coughs up blood as he screams but still will not fall.
Jedar now bleeding out profusely sees the giant head of lumithor and is filled with terror, he tries moving away back toward the portal. back toward the Horror for protection, but mistakenly provoking an attack of opportunity from both Neferox and griff, Neferox bites out, (24 crit to hit, 15 piercing) simultaneously Griff stabs forward as the undead leaves his melee, (28 crit hit, 5 slashing) and working together, the Hellhound and Aarakocra bring down their foe.
Lestheris is also duped by the head of lumithor but simply ducks under the rise of the battlements atop the shrine, focussing instead on the boy in front of her. Lestheris' hands move infront of her drawing shadows around her which she thrusts forward at vin, (13 to hit, miss. 25 to hit, 4 necrotic and Vin cannot regain hp until Lestheris' next turn)
The horror is not duped by the illusion, its many undead eyes dismissing it and focussing instead on the bloodied half orc in its face, it pulls itself out of the thorns once more, living string sewing back together the tears in its flesh but not stopping the seeping blood from running out of its wounds. It swings two bone cleavers down toward Sam. (26 crit hit, 9 slashing. 19 to hit, 5 slashing) it then shreiks with all of its many mouths a chorus of angry agonising wails that vibrate through Sam and Neferox chilling their blood and making them lose hope, (DC13 wis save or become frightened of The Horror for 10 rounds, save ends at end of turn)
Round 15
-Muir's wall of thorns 5/100 rounds (C).
-Sam's Stoneskin 11/600
-Sam's giants might 3/10 rounds
-Jedar is dead!
Everyone is up!
Sam breathes a bit easier at receiving even more healing from Muir and flashes him a bit thumbs up! But chaos continues all around and there is little time for niceties. Gewyn rises and hides, smart move, but then Lumithor is back! Sam is about to take a step back and allow the returned dead-dragon-god thing to handle the mess but... Shit. It's not really the dead-dragon-god! Still... Nice move. Arrows fly, swords flash, and Jedar finally falls... If undead goodness will stop coming out of the portal for a while it may mean that the group can actually get the better of this.
Shit! The horrorshow of bodies is a bit quicker than Sam expected and shambles out of the thorn and attacks again! And actually hits once.. maybe twice. And then the screams.... Multiple soul wrenching calls of agony and hatred all coming from the one source... (Wis save 21) It wrenches at Sam but with a shake of his head he realizes it's really no worse than the Death Metal the kids today like.
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"I understand," Sam says sympathetically. "All your friends are dying. Don't worry, you'll be joining them soon..." And the maul swings.
First Maul Attack: 22 to hit for for 18 magical bludgeoning damage plus 2 extra from Giant's Might (lame-o damage rolls...)
Second Maul Attack: 21 to hit for 19 magical bludgeoning damage plus Crusher Feat again pushes them back five feet into the Wall of Thorns, Sam stepping up into the gap half tempted to try to keep pushing the thing further in...
Seeing Sam get attacked by the disgusting blob, Elthana could no longer stand by. The face of Lumithor gives her a fleeting sense of hope, but then turns to the matter at hand. Finding her way between Sam and Nef, she attacks.
Her first one, pretty weak.
Attack: 13, Damage: 7
Then she feels warmed up, even if disgusted.
Attack: 25, Damage: 9
And attempts to stun it...CON save 15 or stunned.
And again...
Attack: 23, Damage: 11
Gewyn lowers the pipes from his lips, allowing himself a chance to breath, though the tunes he was playing lingers, sustaining the illusion for a time. He draws in great rasping breaths and watches the others fight from his position of cover. He almost died, once again, and he can feel his magic is almost tapped out. It hasn't been long that he's been able to shift between certain realities, but already being stuck in just one plane of existence in times likes these feels claustrophobic. But he can't despair yet. That was the old Gewyn.
He pokes his head around and calls up to Lestheris. "Hey, you know it's too bad. Under different circumstances I'm sure you would have liked to take me out for a drink. But I don't think it could work. See... I'm drop dead gorgeous, and you're just dead!" He laces hurt into his words. An easy enough task that he could do it asleep, no matter his exhaustion.
Action: vicious mockery 4 Damage and disadvantage on next attack. DC 16 wis save
Moves back behind cover
"Ouch!", Vin exclaims as the woman appears by him and seems to infect him with shadows. He had been momentarily distracted by the return of Lumithor, or not, spotting Gewyn back up and hearing his pipes. He realises quickly that he isn't actually hurt though, and the sight of Gewyn gives him an idea.
He suddenly disappears in a silvery mist, reappearing on the other side of the shrine.
"Gewyn, teleporting is amazing!", he shouts as a smile crosses his face. He then look at the woman who attacked him and the smile disappears as he shakes his head at her. His hand raises and two bolts of eldritch energy streak towards her slightly glowing form.
"You heard the man, you're dead", he says to the woman as he feeds some necrotic energy back to her with each bolt.
Neferox, meanwhile, is feeling rather pleased with herself having taken a huge chunk out of her foe. She ignores the head of Lumithor and sets her gaze on the giant monstrosity. She lopes across, looking to do similar to that. She snaps out twice with her large jaws.
Vin
Bonus Action: Cast Misty Step from his ring, moving across the top of the shrine
Action: Cast Eldritch Blast, at Lestheris
Blast 1 (with advantage due to Muir's Guiding Bolt)- Attack: (
10, 18)+8=26, 5+5=10 [force] + 5 [necrotic] from Hunter's Coat.Blast 2 - Attack: 11+8=19, 7+5=12 [force] + 6 [necrotic] from Hunter's Coat.
Special: Concentration Shield Of Faith - 9/100
Neferox
Movement: Across to the big monstrosity
Action: Multi-attack bite on monstrosity
Bite 1 - Attack: 10 +4=14, Damage: 5+4+3=12 [piercing] - if hit it must succeed on a DC 13 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.
Bite 2 - Attack: 7 +4=11, Damage: 6+4+3=13 [piercing] - if hit it must succeed on a DC 13 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.
Special: Shield of Faith - AC +2
Muir takes out his bow for the first time since being on this adventure, takes aim at the undead witch and lets an arrow fly (21 Hit, 10 Dam).
He hides back down behind Lumithor's head (13).
Sam's maul strikes hit the mass of bodies with a squelch but the beast just keeps coming. It slides back into the thorns and bleeds even more as it gets scratched up.
Elthana's strikes vary in their success but her second hit apparently catches a weak spot which she exploits perfectly relying on her monastic training, The Horror is stunned.
Gewyn keeps his illusion going strong, and laces his insults with pshychicly damaging vibrations, But Lestheris simply shrugs them off as she readies for her next attack. (save 18)
Even whilst she is half hidden by the crystal battlements atop the shrine Vin's Eldritch blasts both find their way to striking at Lestheris, who grunts out in frustration in return as she spits blood and begins to look haggard and bloodied.
Neferox moves up to the Horror still stunned in the thorns and bites out, careful not to catch Elthana in her way. (rerolled her bite attacks for advantage against stunned enemy 18 to hit, Damage remains 12. 24 crit to hit 14 piercing dam) both attacks sink in tearing away fleshand the force against a stunned enemy such as this means that the Horror has no way of stopping Nef from pushing it prone.
Muir's arrow flies true and hits his target bang on despite her cover. Then he hides successfully from her once again.
Griff Keeps his distance flying over toward the illusory head of lumithor and perching on one of the earthmoulded pillars. He fires off two arrows at The Horror (17 to hit, 8 piercing. 16 to hit, 7 piercing) both arrows find their mark and the beast cannot do anything but gurgle and flail.
Serafina seeing an opening as half the Horror is still out of the thorns, leaps out from the wall and falls onto the prone and exposed half of the mass of flesh she lands with her sword pointing down but in her haste the sword slides harmlessly between two of the random limbs sticking out of the Horror causing no damage, (13 to hit, miss) she pulls back now standing atop the Horror and tries once more (25 to hit, 6 dam) as the sword slides in Serafina activates it's special ability locking it in place, entirely immovable in space.
The Horror spends its turn Stunned, Prone, and Restrained.
Lestheris, takes in her surroundings and sees through Gewyn's illusion (16 investingation) she also sees that she is essentially alone, she stand from her hiding place livid at her groups defeat and launches two necrotic shadow lances out, one at Vin, (8 to hit) and the second out at Gewyn (11 to hit) as both lances shatter against Lumithor's bones leaving nothing but a dark mark, Lestheris sees how the tides are turning and looks up, Inverting her gravity completely she begins falling directly up until she is out of sight completely.
Round 16
-Muir's wall of thorns 6/100 rounds (C).
-Sam's Stoneskin 12/600
-Sam's giants might 4/10 rounds
-The Horror is Stunned!
-The Horror is Prone!
-The Horror is Restrained!
Everyone is up! but first...
As the group take in the escape of Lestheris and continue hacking away at The Horror, the crashes of lightning striking the outer walls of the orb you are all inside of, becomes deafening, one bolt comes arcing down the funnel and strikes the middle of the battlefield making Gewyns illusion warble. the next thing that comes falling down is Lestheris' limp body scorched from lightning damage, it then splatters against the floor as the group notice the crystals surrounding the room begin to rise.
Several large shards fly towards the stunned horror and slash deep wounds into it, others form a familiar dragon head which rises above the heads of the group in melee as it begins blowing a gale of freezing air toward the undead monstrosity. The horror freezes, the continual barrage of crystal shards chipping away at its form, frost accumulates and blood stops flowing as the mass of bodies becomes as solid as rock. one final crystal shard strikes at the center of the Horror and the entire creature shatters to the floor, thousands of pieces of frozen undead and one sword now plunged into nothing hangs silently in the air, still unnmoving. "I was as quick as I could be, how did you all hold up? any injuries?" the Crystal Face of Lumithor asks.
Gewyn, Vin and Muir closest to the actual bones of Lumithor see a small mote of light float harmlessly down from above and hide within the skull once more.
Everyone is out of combat!
Sam grunts and slumps a bit as Lumithor returns. He'd barely allowed himself notice the lightning and defeat of the one who fled but once the horror that was in the Wall of Thorns was destroyed Sam finally allowed himself to relax and take a look around.
"Oh, you left?" Sam answers with a bit of a snarl. "Hadn't noticed..."
Sam then allows the head of his maul to fall and clunk against the floor, rests his hands atop the butt end of the handle, then rests his head upon his hands. He takes a moment or two to just gather himself back together...
"Sorry about the mess," he replies with an absent wave of his hand at everything (allowing the two stone pillars he had create to fade back into the ground as if they never existed). "You get what you needed on your excursion?"
While listening to whatever is said Sam goes around the cave and drags the bodies into two piles along the side wall. One pile is just the shambling combination of bodies that was the horror, the other pile is everyone else. Two piles so the horror doesn't get any ideas and become more horrible... A third pile would be made more in the center of the room, it would consist of weapons and anything dangerous or interesting found upon the bodies from a quick search before they are piled up. When the 'clean up' is done Sam will eventually ask if they should just be thrown back through the portal, taken out and burned or... ?
Muir stands up from behind the bones and looks at the carnage. “Ah Lumithor welcome back. We fought an onslaught of undead with several of their leaders perhaps? They are there, there, there and behind my wall….May I drop our defenses so that we may search the dead and dispose of them how you see fit….is what Sam means of course?”
Gewyn slumps down with his back against a rib and gives a tired thumbs up before rubbing his neck where the blackened veins stand out against his pale red skin
Sam finds it easy to differentiate between the frozen horror bits and the odds and ends of the other undead. For all of the dust he wishes that they maybe had a broom, but he's sure that Lumithor's ice breath could blow it all away if needed. On the corpses of the Grave Order he finds plate and half plate, but his tradesman eye with blacksmithing tells him that this ancient plate might hold out a little longer, but it's prime is long past, it's most effective use would be melting the stuff down and making something new.
Of the usable things he finds;
Jedar's Warhammer, Halorin's mace and shield, Lestheris' spell book with a motif of a dead snake choked on its own tail across the cover, and a skull looking pendant which is in the wreckage of what was once the Horror possibly belonging to any one of the beings that the horror had consumed in its time.
"Unfortunately I did find something out..." Lumithour begins, but as Sam finishes his piles the crystal head nods over toward the portal, "best that none of it remains in this realm, nectyran's reach can be a tricky thing." Lumithour gives a nod of appreciation and agrees with Muir's suggestion that he lower the thorn wall.