Looking at the traffic jam ahead of him, Vin decides to try and jump the queue. He takes out his broom and places it between his legs. Speaking the command word, he makes it hover, hoping that it will work as intended.
He then makes his way as far as possible with it in it's damaged state, heading north and a little east. When he reaches solid ground he will land.
Free Action: Mount broom Movement: 25ft North-East-ish Action: Dash 25ft North-East-ish ending at 11-11, where he lands. Special: Lightning Resistance Round 2/10
Muir watches Sam make a long jump and decides to follow suit but before he does he shifts into a draft horse. Draft Horse Muir runs his 10 feet and leaps through the air with a grace and elegance of a loxodon that turned into a draft horse.... (8,15) to (9,14) he then gallops to the end of that island and leaps to (10,10).
There is a tingle on Gewyn's skin, though whether from the static charge of the air, or the anticipation of a random lightning strike, he can't be sure. His vision narrows. Don't think, don't hesitate, don't slow down. Run. Jump. Fall. Get to the other side. He runs north along his current shard, shifts his focus on gravity, and then- wait, was lightning about to strike? Too late, he realizes the slip in his focus. His stomach lurches as he loses up.
Vin's broom does it's job as intended landing him in the place he wanted, though he can't help but wonder if it was fully fixed how easy this traversal would have been.
Elthana lands without issue, though she couldn't account for the druidic horse which only a second later lands next to her and shows no signs of stopping as Muir gallops past and leaps over to another shard.
Sam's strength carries him over enough that he should be able to make it, though half way through his arc it becomes apparent to him that he will not. In a semi panic he remembers the feeling back in the training room with Griff's kids, the lurch of his stomach as the ceiling became the ground, and as Sam remembers his stomach lurches again. He stretches his feet out in front of him and his gravity adjusts just enough for the rest of the arc to land him roughly where he intended. All is well.
Gewyn however makes his jump swimmingly until the concept of up is momentarily lost on him, his mind locks onto something that he had not designated as a target and he begins to spin, gaining speed in the air. Griff sees this and stretches his newly mended wings dashing off the edge of his own shard and battling the winds to catch Gewyn mid fall, the two come crashing into a shard further east of where Gewyn had intended, but luckily Griff's snap decision left them without any broken bones. "Are you being ok?" Griff asks worried (Griff uses dash action, no damage to either, fall broken from flight)
Serafina follows Elthana, and brushes past her a little to head to the forward tip of their shared shard.
The lightning continues it's barrage, One strike landing directly in front of Sam cutting off his path of travel.
Another strikes dangerously close to where Griff and Gewyn crash landed.
Neferox backs up as the tip of the large share she is observing from gets blasted, narrowly missing her.
Three surround Elthana with one of them arcing out and shocking through her body (DC 17 Dex save, for 24 lightning damage half as much on success)
The draft horse that Muir has transformed into also bears the brunt of a deadly shock as it strikes down exactly where he is standing, (DC 17 Dex save, for 24 lightning damage half as much on a save)
Gewyn, cradled in Griff's arms, presses the back of his hand to his forehead dramatically and says, "Griff, my Hero!"He hops up out of Griff's arms, and looks around to get his bearings. "Got distracted for a moment, but it won't happen again. Thanks for the save. Let's not linger though." And with that, Gewyn takes off again.
This time he aims for the shard north of him. Keeping his mind locked on task this time, he runs a few feet before his feet start to lift slightly from the ground. Crossing the gap, he touches down again, sliding for a few feet before continuing to run. He then hops over the small gap between him and the next shard, takes a few more steps, and hops again.
Falling 25 feet north, jumping north west, running 5 feet north, and jumping north west again to end at 8/17
Muir struck by the lightning is knocked to the ground changing back to Loxodon Muir....."Ouch" he says to no one in particular. He gets up and takes his running start then leaping to the next island (8,8). Pausing there and catching his breath.
Vin winces as he spots the draft horse to his left get struck by lightning and immediately shirnk back into the form of his Loxodon companion. Looking around, he sees lightning converging from behind as well.
Seeing Muir dust himself down and carry on, he grits his teeth, and decides that a straight line is as good as anything with the randomness of the lightning. He once again activates the broom and heads for the other side as fast as he can. As he reaches the next shard, he makes certain he has a sure footing.
Movement: 25ft North Action: Dash 25ft North ending at 6-12, where he lands. Special: Lightning Resistance Round 3/10
Sam is off and running when he sees Elthana get struck. "You ok??" he calls out. He tries to turn and run back towards her but there is a lightning strike too close to his path and he has no choice but to try to make his jumps as planned... Getting his running start Sam then long-jumps in a west-northwestly direction to drop right next to yet another lightning strike... But he doesn't stay there long, using his momentum to skip from this shard to the next in the same direction...
(10ft movement for running start, 20' jump takes up Sam's 30' movement. Dash action then to make a standing long jump, which is half max distance of running start but he doesn't even need that much... As in pic.)
Perhaps due to being distracted by Elthana's taking a lightning strike, Sam makes some poor decisions. First he decides to skirt past an area actively being bombarded by lightning... And misjudges his own footsteps and finds himself in the storm! Then leaping away he lands in another before skipping away to the safety of a new island... Thankfully as he may not take a third strike so well.
((I was thinking non-fully enveloped squared were safe... DM allowed me option to re-plot my course but I'm a "I said it, I'll live with the consequences" type so... ouch and ouch again!))
Happy she took her resistance potion from Vin, she shakes her head a bit then winces as she sees Sam get pummeled by the lightning. Shouting towards him so he can hopefully hear, "TAKE YOUR POTION!!"
She takes a deep breath, settling her ki and uses her step of the wind to MOVE.
Sam takes two bouts of shocking damage but appears to come out of the other side, bloodied but stubborn.
As Gewyn hops from one shard to another this time a lot more gracefully and effectively, and Griff dutifully follows, keeping an eye both on Gewyn and everyone else.
Elthana springs forward at tremendous speeds, followed by serafina who doesnt make it as far but skips some steps, falling sideways a long distance, looking like she is about to land hard she pushes something on her unsheathed sword and it halts in mid air, she dangles sideways for a moment before releasing whatever mechanism and landing, taking a moment to compose herself before continuing.
Vin and Muir press on, Muir still sizzling from his recent forced transformation, and Vin feeling something in his telepathic connection as Neferox backs up a little further still.
The lightning strikes around everyone, this time fortunately not striking anyone directly, though one does blast the shard Elthana is standing on, taking away any relief she might have felt at nearly making it to the other side. Another strik landing just forward of Gewyn and Griff, cutting off one of their viable paths.
As the renowned Half-Orc philosopher advises, Sam is just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake... shake it off, he'll shake it off! Growling in frustration, and some amount of pain, Sam huffs the smell of burnt flesh and hair out of his nostrils and decides to just get this done as quickly as possible and hauls ass north... ever north! Running and jumping off this island, Sam then continues (Dash action!) onward and huffs and puffs and makes another jump! Sure he lands closer to another strike zone than he'd prefer but he's almost to the promised land so what could go wrong?
Vin grins as he sees Elthana zip in front him at high speed, jumping from shard to shard in a blur of motion.
"Oh, it's a race is it!?", he calls out to her, and once again steers the broom into open skies towards the end of the lightning field. He skirts the lightning storm ahead of him and lands in what he hopes is a safe zone, before turning to see how the others are progressing.
Movement: 25ft North on broom Bonus Action: Dash 25ft flying to just off the grid - landing off the map at 0,13
"Oh its definitely a race!" Elthana calls back, enjoying the taunt during such a life and death situation. She turns back and sees Sam, Gewyn and Griff still pretty far away. She decides to stay in the field another turn in case they need any help.
"Okay Griff, let's go."Gewyn runs 10 feet (NE-> N) and falls 20 feet forward, landing on his feet and continuing his forward momentum to leap the gap the next shard.
As everyone moves, Vin successfully makes it off the battle field.
Griff gives Gewyn a nod and flies after him, stopping one shard behind as the lightning changes.
Sam makes the best use of his available movement dodging around the storm and getting close to the exit.
Muir makes a solid jump just as lightning strikes down directly upon where he was just standing.
Serafina makes it to where Elthana is standing and gives the monk a concerned look, but stays where she is, shouting over the blustering winds "you should get out of danger if you can, waiting around for your friends also puts you at risk, surely you wouldn't want to be the one who ends up needing saving, especially when you could have taken th-" her concerned lecture is cut off as she, not heeding her own advice, is struck. Lightning flashes down her body and lights up her sword with a crackling energy. Her muscles tense up, though she is able to twist herself to avoid the majority of the shock, and the resistance potion she took also curbs the remaining damage to something more tolerable. It is still enough, however, to cease her words and grit her teeth, she begins to sizzle and give off a waft of smoke, ever so slightly.
Sam runs 15' north and then, using dash action, jumps 20' diagonally northeast to get out of the shard field... He allows his momentum to carry him further away from the lighting (moving whever off the map seems safe...). "Well, that was quite a shocking experience," he notes to nobody in particular.
Vin moves across towards Sam, his broom still in his hand as he watches to make sure the others are all going to make it without further incident.
"It certainly doesn't pay to remain static", he replies to Sam. "You ok?", he adds, noticing the Half-Orc's hair and clothes are looking a tad more disheveled than usual.
As they speak, Neferox appears by his side, and immediately nuzzles against him.
"Me? Fine! Fine... fine..." Sam says, looking down and seeing scorch marks he frowns and tries to brush them off, which doesn't work at all... "I'll be fine..."
Elthana starts nodding at Serafina as she gives her advice, happy that these are words of concern, but winces as the elf is hit. "Are you alright?" and after confirming that she is indeed ok with all her ways of resistance, Elthana takes the woman's advice and flees the lightning field, hoping her friends are close behind.
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Looking at the traffic jam ahead of him, Vin decides to try and jump the queue. He takes out his broom and places it between his legs. Speaking the command word, he makes it hover, hoping that it will work as intended.
He then makes his way as far as possible with it in it's damaged state, heading north and a little east. When he reaches solid ground he will land.
Free Action: Mount broom
Movement: 25ft North-East-ish
Action: Dash 25ft North-East-ish ending at 11-11, where he lands.
Special: Lightning Resistance Round 2/10
Muir watches Sam make a long jump and decides to follow suit but before he does he shifts into a draft horse. Draft Horse Muir runs his 10 feet and leaps through the air with a grace and elegance of a loxodon that turned into a draft horse.... (8,15) to (9,14) he then gallops to the end of that island and leaps to (10,10).
There is a tingle on Gewyn's skin, though whether from the static charge of the air, or the anticipation of a random lightning strike, he can't be sure. His vision narrows. Don't think, don't hesitate, don't slow down. Run. Jump. Fall. Get to the other side. He runs north along his current shard, shifts his focus on gravity, and then- wait, was lightning about to strike? Too late, he realizes the slip in his focus. His stomach lurches as he loses up.
Wisdom Save 8 trying to get from 15/15 to 12/16
Vin's broom does it's job as intended landing him in the place he wanted, though he can't help but wonder if it was fully fixed how easy this traversal would have been.
Elthana lands without issue, though she couldn't account for the druidic horse which only a second later lands next to her and shows no signs of stopping as Muir gallops past and leaps over to another shard.
Sam's strength carries him over enough that he should be able to make it, though half way through his arc it becomes apparent to him that he will not. In a semi panic he remembers the feeling back in the training room with Griff's kids, the lurch of his stomach as the ceiling became the ground, and as Sam remembers his stomach lurches again. He stretches his feet out in front of him and his gravity adjusts just enough for the rest of the arc to land him roughly where he intended. All is well.
Gewyn however makes his jump swimmingly until the concept of up is momentarily lost on him, his mind locks onto something that he had not designated as a target and he begins to spin, gaining speed in the air. Griff sees this and stretches his newly mended wings dashing off the edge of his own shard and battling the winds to catch Gewyn mid fall, the two come crashing into a shard further east of where Gewyn had intended, but luckily Griff's snap decision left them without any broken bones. "Are you being ok?" Griff asks worried (Griff uses dash action, no damage to either, fall broken from flight)
Serafina follows Elthana, and brushes past her a little to head to the forward tip of their shared shard.
The lightning continues it's barrage, One strike landing directly in front of Sam cutting off his path of travel.
Another strikes dangerously close to where Griff and Gewyn crash landed.
Neferox backs up as the tip of the large share she is observing from gets blasted, narrowly missing her.
Three surround Elthana with one of them arcing out and shocking through her body (DC 17 Dex save, for 24 lightning damage half as much on success)
The draft horse that Muir has transformed into also bears the brunt of a deadly shock as it strikes down exactly where he is standing, (DC 17 Dex save, for 24 lightning damage half as much on a save)
Gewyn, cradled in Griff's arms, presses the back of his hand to his forehead dramatically and says, "Griff, my Hero!" He hops up out of Griff's arms, and looks around to get his bearings. "Got distracted for a moment, but it won't happen again. Thanks for the save. Let's not linger though." And with that, Gewyn takes off again.
This time he aims for the shard north of him. Keeping his mind locked on task this time, he runs a few feet before his feet start to lift slightly from the ground. Crossing the gap, he touches down again, sliding for a few feet before continuing to run. He then hops over the small gap between him and the next shard, takes a few more steps, and hops again.
Falling 25 feet north, jumping north west, running 5 feet north, and jumping north west again to end at 8/17
Muir struck by the lightning is knocked to the ground changing back to Loxodon Muir....."Ouch" he says to no one in particular. He gets up and takes his running start then leaping to the next island (8,8). Pausing there and catching his breath.
Vin winces as he spots the draft horse to his left get struck by lightning and immediately shirnk back into the form of his Loxodon companion. Looking around, he sees lightning converging from behind as well.
Seeing Muir dust himself down and carry on, he grits his teeth, and decides that a straight line is as good as anything with the randomness of the lightning. He once again activates the broom and heads for the other side as fast as he can. As he reaches the next shard, he makes certain he has a sure footing.
Movement: 25ft North
Action: Dash 25ft North ending at 6-12, where he lands.
Special: Lightning Resistance Round 3/10
Sam is off and running when he sees Elthana get struck. "You ok??" he calls out. He tries to turn and run back towards her but there is a lightning strike too close to his path and he has no choice but to try to make his jumps as planned... Getting his running start Sam then long-jumps in a west-northwestly direction to drop right next to yet another lightning strike... But he doesn't stay there long, using his momentum to skip from this shard to the next in the same direction...
(10ft movement for running start, 20' jump takes up Sam's 30' movement. Dash action then to make a standing long jump, which is half max distance of running start but he doesn't even need that much... As in pic.)
Perhaps due to being distracted by Elthana's taking a lightning strike, Sam makes some poor decisions. First he decides to skirt past an area actively being bombarded by lightning... And misjudges his own footsteps and finds himself in the storm! Then leaping away he lands in another before skipping away to the safety of a new island... Thankfully as he may not take a third strike so well.
((I was thinking non-fully enveloped squared were safe... DM allowed me option to re-plot my course but I'm a "I said it, I'll live with the consequences" type so... ouch and ouch again!))
Happy she took her resistance potion from Vin, she shakes her head a bit then winces as she sees Sam get pummeled by the lightning. Shouting towards him so he can hopefully hear, "TAKE YOUR POTION!!"
She takes a deep breath, settling her ki and uses her step of the wind to MOVE.
Sam takes two bouts of shocking damage but appears to come out of the other side, bloodied but stubborn.
As Gewyn hops from one shard to another this time a lot more gracefully and effectively, and Griff dutifully follows, keeping an eye both on Gewyn and everyone else.
Elthana springs forward at tremendous speeds, followed by serafina who doesnt make it as far but skips some steps, falling sideways a long distance, looking like she is about to land hard she pushes something on her unsheathed sword and it halts in mid air, she dangles sideways for a moment before releasing whatever mechanism and landing, taking a moment to compose herself before continuing.
Vin and Muir press on, Muir still sizzling from his recent forced transformation, and Vin feeling something in his telepathic connection as Neferox backs up a little further still.
The lightning strikes around everyone, this time fortunately not striking anyone directly, though one does blast the shard Elthana is standing on, taking away any relief she might have felt at nearly making it to the other side. Another strik landing just forward of Gewyn and Griff, cutting off one of their viable paths.
As the renowned Half-Orc philosopher advises, Sam is just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake... shake it off, he'll shake it off! Growling in frustration, and some amount of pain, Sam huffs the smell of burnt flesh and hair out of his nostrils and decides to just get this done as quickly as possible and hauls ass north... ever north! Running and jumping off this island, Sam then continues (Dash action!) onward and huffs and puffs and makes another jump! Sure he lands closer to another strike zone than he'd prefer but he's almost to the promised land so what could go wrong?
Vin grins as he sees Elthana zip in front him at high speed, jumping from shard to shard in a blur of motion.
"Oh, it's a race is it!?", he calls out to her, and once again steers the broom into open skies towards the end of the lightning field. He skirts the lightning storm ahead of him and lands in what he hopes is a safe zone, before turning to see how the others are progressing.
Movement: 25ft North on broom
Bonus Action: Dash 25ft flying to just off the grid - landing off the map at 0,13
"Oh its definitely a race!" Elthana calls back, enjoying the taunt during such a life and death situation. She turns back and sees Sam, Gewyn and Griff still pretty far away. She decides to stay in the field another turn in case they need any help.
"Okay Griff, let's go." Gewyn runs 10 feet (NE-> N) and falls 20 feet forward, landing on his feet and continuing his forward momentum to leap the gap the next shard.
As everyone moves, Vin successfully makes it off the battle field.
Griff gives Gewyn a nod and flies after him, stopping one shard behind as the lightning changes.
Sam makes the best use of his available movement dodging around the storm and getting close to the exit.
Muir makes a solid jump just as lightning strikes down directly upon where he was just standing.
Serafina makes it to where Elthana is standing and gives the monk a concerned look, but stays where she is, shouting over the blustering winds "you should get out of danger if you can, waiting around for your friends also puts you at risk, surely you wouldn't want to be the one who ends up needing saving, especially when you could have taken th-" her concerned lecture is cut off as she, not heeding her own advice, is struck. Lightning flashes down her body and lights up her sword with a crackling energy. Her muscles tense up, though she is able to twist herself to avoid the majority of the shock, and the resistance potion she took also curbs the remaining damage to something more tolerable. It is still enough, however, to cease her words and grit her teeth, she begins to sizzle and give off a waft of smoke, ever so slightly.
Sam runs 15' north and then, using dash action, jumps 20' diagonally northeast to get out of the shard field... He allows his momentum to carry him further away from the lighting (moving whever off the map seems safe...). "Well, that was quite a shocking experience," he notes to nobody in particular.
Vin moves across towards Sam, his broom still in his hand as he watches to make sure the others are all going to make it without further incident.
"It certainly doesn't pay to remain static", he replies to Sam. "You ok?", he adds, noticing the Half-Orc's hair and clothes are looking a tad more disheveled than usual.
As they speak, Neferox appears by his side, and immediately nuzzles against him.
"Me? Fine! Fine... fine..." Sam says, looking down and seeing scorch marks he frowns and tries to brush them off, which doesn't work at all... "I'll be fine..."
Elthana starts nodding at Serafina as she gives her advice, happy that these are words of concern, but winces as the elf is hit. "Are you alright?" and after confirming that she is indeed ok with all her ways of resistance, Elthana takes the woman's advice and flees the lightning field, hoping her friends are close behind.