Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
Frozen Sick
D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Basic Rules (2014)
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Jan's eldritch blast tears into the first Zoblin, ripping a large hole in its chest. The creature collapses to the ground and goes still, but barely a moment later it rising up again, looking more and more like a corpse but still coming.
Avaria digs her claws into the smooth surface of the pole and swiftly climbs up and over Marrin, and gets her first view of the three angry hissing snakes on the platform above.
Ula takes several steps forward until she's right before , looks to the skies for a moment then clutches her wave amulet and speaks almost too quietly to be heard. A burning bright radiant light erupts from her body and races out towards the Zoblins.
The first, one, only recently recovered from Jan's strike smolders a moment then bursts into flames, sinking to its knees, not rising at all.
The one in the middle, the one that had escaped the brunt of Ethel's attack, isn't so lucky this time. The radiance engulfs the creature, smoke rises from its body but it's still very much animated.
The final one steps out of the way at the last second and is missed completely.
Seeing Ula exposed, Hammerdasher rushes forward to stand beside her, brandishing his mace wildly. Too wildly as he nearly smacks Ula in the head.
The action is frenzied and chaotic and spells are flying, and the crowd is loving it.
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Marrin's up. Then the snakes.
To Ava,
"Glad to have some company up here!"
Marrin, seeing that the ground crew as got the zoblins taken care of, scootchs back up if she can and says to the nearest snake,
"You call that venom? I have had stronger coffee!"
And scootch back down under Ava's protection.
DC 14 wisdom save vicious mockery 2
((If she can't make it past Ava she'll redirect her nasty words to zoblin with "Oh, you look much better dead!"))
17
Marrin looks to climb up the pole further, but unless she reaches to the platform and tries to pull herself up that way, she finds her way blocked by Avaria (Athletics check needed if you want to climb over Avaria).
The two remaining zomblins are still in Marrin's eye line and she turns her attention to them, but while one looks up when Marrin shouts, there's no perceptible reaction to the insult.
S1 Attack: 24 Damage: 5
S2 Attack: 15 Damage: 7
S3 Attack: 22 Damage: 3
Z2 Attack: 2 Damage: 5
Z3 Attack: 3 Damage: 7
Avaria sees the three snakes all snap out at her with lightning quick bites. She's able to push one to the side but that lets the other two both sink their fangs into her arm (1HP damage from Snake 1 and 1HP damage from Snake 3).
While the bites don't hurt Avaria that much, she can tell there's more to the snakes than sharp fangs. She feels the toxin Marrin mentioned flowing into her blood. (5HP poison damage from Snake 1 and 3HP poison damage from Snake 3 - DC 10 Con save to take half damage - roll for both bites).
Back down on the ground, the two zombies both attempt to grab hold of Ula and Hammerdasher and slam them to the ground. But as skin flakes off the zombie goblins' hands, neither can get a grip and Ula and Hammerdasher escape unharmed.
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Con Saves from Avaria and then the party's up.
snake 1 CON save 21
snake 2 CON save 19
Avaria is just able to shake off some of the effects of the poison from the first bite and almost does so again for the second but still feels additional pain in her bloodstream.
(ouch....)
As the venom enters her blood stream, she starts feeling a bit woozy, and grabs hold of the pole to stop the world from spinning. Once she has control of herself again, she snarls at the snakes and stabs with the trident at the one that got her the worst.
Attack: 21 Damage: 11
Avaria spears the snake straight through. It wiggles on the end of her trident for a moment before going limp.
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Ethel, Marrin, Jan, Ula are up.
Avaria could step off the pole onto the platform if she likes as part of her movement without provoking any attacks from the remaining snakes.
She does, and tries to keep as far from the remaining snakes as possible.
Grateful to have Ula and Hammerdasher at her side, Ethel takes stock of the situation. These zombies are much more powerful than she expected and they shrugged off the worst of her spell. Worse, she has exhausted her magics, what with playing sleepy games with those Hobgoblins.
All she has left to her is her cantrips, but even that may be in vain - she is unaware whether a spell like chill touch will effect the undead.
But there is only one way to find out for sure.
She raises a tensed hand to her mouth, flexes it into a claw, and whispers the magic words. A ghostly hand appears beside zombie recently irradiated by Ula and tries to grasp it.
Attack: 19 Necrotic Damage: 8
PC - Ethel - Human - Lvl 4 Necromancer - Undying Dragons * Serge Marshblade - Human - Lvl 5 Eldritch Knight - Hoard of the Dragon Queen
DM - (Homebrew) Heroes of Bardstown * Red Dead Annihilation: ToA * Where the Cold Winds Blow : DoIP * Covetous, Dragonish Thoughts: HotDQ * Red Wine, Black Rose: CoS * Greyhawk: Tides of War
Marrin will call up to Ava,
"You good up there?"
Before targeting a zombie with,
"So, you're fun sized zombies?"
VM: 1 (DC 14 Wis save)
Jan darts to the goblin on Hammerdasher, pulling a knife free in her casting hand as she slashes at its limbs, looking to sever rotting musculature.
Attack: 20 Damage: 5
Attack: 22 Damage: 2
Plus 2 bludgeoning on the first hit.
DM: Forged in Chaos, Spiders of the Abyss, The Sundered Way, Champions of the Citadel
Active Characters:
Breldo, Halfling Ranger | Kathryn, Wood Elf Rogue/Ranger | Kroshav, Dragonborn Paladin | T'laren Farsiel, Wood Elf Fighter | Trill, Kenku Bard | Val "Janellae", Mark of Shadow Elf Warlock
Z2 Wis: 6
Z3 Con: 16
Ethel's ghostly hand does find purchase on the zombie in front of Ula. The goblin zombie's flesh darkens even further under the hand and bits of muscle and sinew fall to the ground. The creature still stands though.
The same zombie looks up at Marrin's verbal barb but again has no reaction to it.
The zombie in front of Hammerdasher doesn't make any effort to avoid Jan and her blades. One slash only hits exposed bone and deflects off, but the other carves a strip through the center of the creature. For a moment it looks like it might keep coming but then it falls to the ground.
Con Save: 10
HD: Attack: 14 Damage: 3
Ula again claps her amulet tightly and bright burning light radiates out from her towards the remaining zombie. But this time, it stumbles clear at the last possible second and avoids damage.
Hammerdasher swings his mace hard again, and while he has more control over it than his last attempt, he still misses the small zombie.
Anyone looking up into the crowd notices that Godrick is watching the zombies more than anything else going on. A look maybe of detached observation.
The last zombie continues its stumbles and reaches out at Hammerdasher and tries to slam him to the ground.
While up on the second platform the remaining two snakes lash out at Avaria again.
Z Slam: Attack: 14 Damage: 4
S1 Attack: 24 Damage: 2
S2 Attack: 25 Damage: 13
The zombie is able to catch hold of Hammerdasher and pounds down with its fists onto the dwarf. Hammerdasher winces under the blow but still stands, and holds his shield and mace steady.
The lighting quick strikes of the snakes are too much for Avaria to avoid. Both are able to bite her again (1HP and 2 HP damage from the two bites).
((Two Con Saves for Avaria DC 10 - Bite 1 2HP Poison; Bite 2 6HP Poison; half on successful saves).
The crowd cheers on the fight, the zombies dropping fairly quickly brings back their confidence in what's happening. Gasps of awe at how fast the snakes are echo around the arena as well.
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Party's up.
S1 CON save 18
S2 CON save 6