There is the flutter of large wings, and a crow, dishevelled, looking like it has seen better days, flys down from a window in the broken tower and swoops at Grimbald. As it gets closer Grimbald detects an awful stench from the giant bird. It flies past Grimbald, attacking as it does so, slashing with its talons and cawing loudly.
Zombie Bert, who survived a lance, crossbow bolts, and a javelin, as well as a previous lightning bolt, finally succumbs to the power of lightning this time. His body collapses to the ground, smoking. He gives a sigh and lies still.
Danners is inspired by the party, and ashamed of his own fear, and so charges in, his youthful face twisted in a snarl of aggression. He runs up to the slightly smoking Zombie Bill and swings his club with nails through it at the zombie.
Zombie Bill staggers with the nails of Danners' club stuck in his face. Danners wrenches it away, expecting Zombie Bill to go down. It was a very good hit after all.
But Zombie Bill finds his feet and snarls, lurching towards the now-having-second-thoughts Danners who gulps and holds up his barrel-lid shield.
"Gotta admire your toughness Bill, I would have liked to fight alongside you when you were alive" Attack: 13 Damage: 13 Attack: 16 Damage: 9 Attack: 14 Damage: 7 (any rollover attacks to the crow)
The first crossbow bolt strikes the zombie in the head and drops Bill to the ground at Danners feet, who gives Grimbald a grateful look. Grimbald swings around and shoots at the banking giant crow while doing his reloading trick with the first hand crossbow. The bolt strikes, and Grimbald shoots again with the now reloaded crossbow and this also hits. The crow continues its banking to come back for another attack.
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Augustin and Fael ride to intercept the giant crow, Augustin launches himself off Fael's back and tackles the crow 20ft from the ground in mid air, grabbing hold with his gauntlets. The crow, like all birds, is lighter than its size would indicate, is pulled down by the weight of Augustin and his armour. The paladin twists the bird easily so that it is underneath him and they land with a crunch of bones.
Combined falling damage and crushing damage from Augustin landing on top - 16.
Augustin takes falling damage also, but is cushioned by the bird - 1.
Esa rolls her eyes hard. "That could have gone so wrong! You mad, wonderful, crazy boy!"
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RL as a bonus action will wild shape into the starry form Archer and make the range spell attack against the Ghost Attack: 9 Damage: 9
Starry Form
As a bonus action, you can expend a use of your Wild Shape feature to take on a starry form, rather than transforming into a beast.
This form sheds bright light in a 10-ft. radius and dim light for an additional 10 ft. The form lasts for 10 minutes. It ends early if you dismiss it (no action required), are incapacitated, die, or use this feature again.
Starry Form: Archer
(While in Starry Form, with the Archer constellation selected) When you activate this form, and as a bonus action on your subsequent turns while it lasts, you can make a ranged spell attack, hurling a luminous arrow that targets one creature within 60 ft. of you. On a hit, the attack deals 1d8+4 radiant damage.
Danners moves forward 30ft but stops when he sees what is happening to Vakiel. His former determination has been diluted by his survival urge.
The zombies pummel Vakiel.
Bert - Attack: 4 Damage: 4.
Bill - Attack: 6 Damage: 4.
There is the flutter of large wings, and a crow, dishevelled, looking like it has seen better days, flys down from a window in the broken tower and swoops at Grimbald. As it gets closer Grimbald detects an awful stench from the giant bird. It flies past Grimbald, attacking as it does so, slashing with its talons and cawing loudly.
Talong Attack: 25 Damage: 10
That should say Talon, not Talong.
Map at the top of the party's turn
RL will call lightning 2 squares north of Vakiel to hit both zombies. 11 damage, DC 15 dex save from each for half damage
Zombie saves:
Bill - 18.
Bert - 11.
Bert - Undead Fortitude - Con Save DC 16 = 8
Zombie Bert, who survived a lance, crossbow bolts, and a javelin, as well as a previous lightning bolt, finally succumbs to the power of lightning this time. His body collapses to the ground, smoking. He gives a sigh and lies still.
Danners is inspired by the party, and ashamed of his own fear, and so charges in, his youthful face twisted in a snarl of aggression. He runs up to the slightly smoking Zombie Bill and swings his club with nails through it at the zombie.
Attack: 18 Damage: 4
Zombie Bill has to make an undead fortitude save, DC 9 = 22.
Zombie Bill staggers with the nails of Danners' club stuck in his face. Danners wrenches it away, expecting Zombie Bill to go down. It was a very good hit after all.
But Zombie Bill finds his feet and snarls, lurching towards the now-having-second-thoughts Danners who gulps and holds up his barrel-lid shield.
Esa flies forward and fires another fire bolt at the ghost girl on Vakiel, hoping to dislodge it.
Fire bolt Attack: 8 Damage: 9
"Gotta admire your toughness Bill, I would have liked to fight alongside you when you were alive" Attack: 13 Damage: 13 Attack: 16 Damage: 9 Attack: 14 Damage: 7 (any rollover attacks to the crow)
The first crossbow bolt strikes the zombie in the head and drops Bill to the ground at Danners feet, who gives Grimbald a grateful look. Grimbald swings around and shoots at the banking giant crow while doing his reloading trick with the first hand crossbow. The bolt strikes, and Grimbald shoots again with the now reloaded crossbow and this also hits. The crow continues its banking to come back for another attack.
Augustin spots the bird flying in for another attack and both he and Fael move to intercept the bird, Augustin poised to leap off his steed's back.
Athletics To Jump: 29
Attack to grapple: 23 Damage: 4
Augustin and Fael ride to intercept the giant crow, Augustin launches himself off Fael's back and tackles the crow 20ft from the ground in mid air, grabbing hold with his gauntlets. The crow, like all birds, is lighter than its size would indicate, is pulled down by the weight of Augustin and his armour. The paladin twists the bird easily so that it is underneath him and they land with a crunch of bones.
Combined falling damage and crushing damage from Augustin landing on top - 16.
Augustin takes falling damage also, but is cushioned by the bird - 1.
Esa rolls her eyes hard. "That could have gone so wrong! You mad, wonderful, crazy boy!"
Danners just stares at Augustin in awe.
RL as a bonus action will wild shape into the starry form Archer and make the range spell attack against the Ghost Attack: 9 Damage: 9
As a bonus action, you can expend a use of your Wild Shape feature to take on a starry form, rather than transforming into a beast.
This form sheds bright light in a 10-ft. radius and dim light for an additional 10 ft. The form lasts for 10 minutes. It ends early if you dismiss it (no action required), are incapacitated, die, or use this feature again.
(While in Starry Form, with the Archer constellation selected) When you activate this form, and as a bonus action on your subsequent turns while it lasts, you can make a ranged spell attack, hurling a luminous arrow that targets one creature within 60 ft. of you. On a hit, the attack deals 1d8+4 radiant damage.
Vakiel will attempt to escape the ghosts grapple…
8
The ghost shrieks as it is torn from Vakiel's back and tries to hang on.
Opposed athletics roll - 10