Gnome's OOTA Story Thread [CLOSED]

(Don't forget your +d4 from Blessed on attacks rolls and saves if you need it, friends!)

"I'm alright, love," Lulu calls back to Katryl, even as her flesh begins to grey and harden like stone. Chest constricting, her laughter is taut as she adds with morbid humor, "If this ends poorly, put me somewhere nice in the garden, eh? I'd make an excellent scarecrow statue!"

Then Lulu focuses once more on the horrible beholder. If she's to go out, she'll do so with a bang. A flash of radiant light streaks from her hand at Karazikar. Before it even hits its mark, the firbolg disappears in the air.


((Round 2
Action: Casts Guiding Bolt up the butt/ref at 3rd level. To hit (adv. from Faerie Fire): 15+7+3 (Bless) 25 | Damage: 25 radiant
Bonus Action: Hidden Step racial feat to turn invisible. As a bonus action, turn invisible until the start of your next turn, you attack, deal damage, or force a saving throw once per short rest.
Movement: Restrained
Special: Concentration on Bless

End of Turn: Oh, boy, here we go! Final DEX Save against Petrification: 13 + 2 + 4 (bless) 19 PHEW))

Katryl hears Lulu's words, at first feeling better, then worried.  And then... she vanished!  Her mind panics as she doesn't quite comprehend what has happened. "Lunaria! Don't joke about such things!" she shouts, the wisps of her hair and her eyes gradually starting to glow more and more brightly.  

The noble drow was sure that he was dead, feeling the last of life leaving his frail body, but then the firbolg had intervened, somehow saved him, he did not know how. He was still severely injured though, barely standing as it was. A part of him screamed he should leave this insane hopeless battle to fight another day during better circumstances but he could only save himself and many of the others if not all would fall to the merciless onslaught of the mad beholder. Instead Traydark grits his teeth and blasts away once more hoping to help to bring the moronic aberration down before all was lost.

Eldritch Blast: 18 + Bless: 1 Force: 9
Eldritch Blast: 14 + Bless: 4 Force: 10

(DC15 Dex saves for Horkas: 6 and Guardian: 10)

DEX Saves for the Infantry:

Thora Nabal: 19

Sylrien Havennor: 16

Olaf Renghyi: 6

Elias Drako: 11

Tamryn Tharke: 15

"Lulu, NO!!!" Horkas yells as his big friend turns to stone - and then disappears!! He prepares himself to jump into the chasm to save her if she falls, but then...

The artificer and construct are held in place by tentacles writing from the very cave walls! Horkas just nods and brings his crossbow around, taking aim at the enemy mage who managed to avoid falling to his doom. "Dodge this..." he says as he pulls the trigger, then rapidly reloads and shoots again! 
(Action: Crossbow blessed attack on mage: 23 Damage: 8
Action surge: 2nd crossbow blessed attack on mage: 13 Damage: Unable to parse dice roll.
Shield Guardian action: Athletics to break free: 24 + regeneration (+10 hp)

Lulu zaps the beholder before disappearing, making him light up even more: 25 radiant damage (119/180)

Traydark blasts the aberration: 19 damage (100/180)

Horkas angrily fires at the floating menace and hits hard: 19 damage (81/180)

Karazikar turns his eye to the people on the bridge and suppresses magic there (20 ft wide) and since he can't see the people hiding in the cave tunnel that's it.

Khessa up

Khessa tries to run until she is outside the cone of antimagic, having an easy way of noticing it: as soon as she leaves the cone, Dawn's light, suppressed while the magic is denied, immediately reappears...

[[ OOC: @DM: Khessa has 30 'of movement - up to you whether or not she can reach a position where she can use magic. ]]

A) If Khessa manages to reach a position where she can use magic:

Relieved, the tall adventuress unleashes her magical powers against the floating monster, eager to send it as soon as possible to reach its fire-loving servant. She, mindful of Traydark's expression when he was hit by the terrible necrotic ray, and of the image of the gentle firbolg on the verge of being petrified, does not spare herself and, with ferocious determination shining deep in her blue eyes, unleashes a real storm of darts of force raining down on aberration from all sides.

B) If Khessa fails to reach a position where she can use magic:

Frustrated, the tall adventurer retrieves a vial of acid from her backpack and tries to throw it at the floating monster.

A) If Khessa manages to reach a position where she can use magic:

Khessa uses Action Surge and both of her 2nd level spell slots to up-cast 2 Magic Missile, for a total of 8 energy darts: 22 (force)

B) If Khessa fails to reach a position where she can use magic:

Khessa's vial of acid attack: 9 Damage: 6 (acid)

Khessa easily moves outside the width of the cone at 30 ft and unleashes the magical missiles at the beholder. (59/180)

The infantrymen, in the meantime, continue to focus on the terrible beholder, reloading their crossbows and aiming them for a new salvo...

Thora Nabal (34 - 58) - Heavy Crossbow Attack: 11 Damage: 3 (piercing)

Sylrien Havennor (46 - 58) - Heavy Crossbow Attack: 17 Damage: 8 (piercing)

Olaf Renghyi (34 - 58) - Heavy Crossbow Attack: 17 Damage: 2 (piercing)

Elias Drako (46 - 58) - Heavy Crossbow Attack: 22 Damage: 5 (piercing)

Tamryn Tharke (34 - 58) - Heavy Crossbow Attack: 12 Damage: 8 (piercing)

AC is 18, so Slyrien and Tamryn hit the beholder with their crossbows for another 13 piercing damage. (46/180)

Katryl up

With the anti-magic cone moving, Katryl will stay put (Steady Aim) and raise her bow again to fire an arrow at the beholder. 
(Shortbow Attack: 20, Damage: 9 piercing + 13 sneak attack, form Insightful Fighting) 

Katryl continues the piercing assault on the beholder: 22 damage (24/180)

Lair action: An eye appears on the walls but because the antimagic cone is up the eye beam is ineffective.

The human wizard is gone.

Lulu

Traydark

Horkas

Relieved but also confused over the beholder seeming to hold back on it's deadly attacks, the noble drow quickly moves out of the anti-magic cone and swiftly curses the strange aberration before sending two more purple crackling beams towards it.

Eldritch Blast: 12 + Bless: 4 Force: 7
Eldritch Blast: 20 + Bless: 2 Force: 5

(Sorry, forgot about the necrotic damage, rolling for the second blast that hit: 3 )

Traydark blasts the beholder, the eye shuts as it dies, starting to slowly float down into the abyss below.

(combat over)

Khessa, who was already gritting her teeth in anticipation of a series of ferocious glares directed at her by Mr Ball King, sighs with relief when she instead sees Traydark join her outside the antimagic cone and finish off the terrible opponent with a well-aimed blast - before said opponent can destroy her.

"Good job!" the blonde arcane warrior pats him on the shoulder "When Mr Ball King hit you with that ray from his eye... you looked so anguished and agonizing..." her blue eyes shine with genuine concern at the memory "I was... I was afraid of losing you".

"But I'm happy I was wrong!" the tall adventuress smiles, now following with her gaze the terrible adversary who floats towards the bottom of the deep chasm "He is going to join his servant, it seems... United in death as they have been in life. We will have to go down too, if we want to recover his central eye" but the prospect doesn't seem to worry her that much... she remembers that he knows a spell with which he can make people fly.