Roo becomes surrounded by his followers and they can't help but reach and out touch the rooster. They are all very frightened but also in awe as they attempt to charge into the High Hall with the doors now open.
Roo dodges and weaves to get through the mass and past Virro to get to the zombie that Reya had fell but rose up again. Taking his mace, he swings it high and knocks the head of the zombie clean off, it hits the stairs behind the zombie and rolls down it, landing within the score of bodies.
Virro is somewhat distracted by Roo rushing past. He points at the other Zombie and a radiant flame streaks down, but not as strong as he would like. He frowns at the insolence of the filthy thing.
Sacred flame4 points of radiant damage, DC 15 dex save to avoid.
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The group hears more scrambling and heaving clacking of what sounds like stone or metal against stone.
Anyone looking up sees Reed walk over the railing to the balcony above, and then walk right on to the ceiling, his feet firmly planted. As he does, he shifts the position of his quiver so all the arrows don’t fall out.
Reed waves down to the group.
”Oh, you have company too. Keep an eye on the staircases too. There’s another demon or devil or other ugly spinet thing with a whole bunch of big crabs. Like really, really big crabs. We could all stuff ourselves eating just one.” Reed says.
Unfortunately getting away from what was upstairs and climbing on to the ceiling keeps him from helping with the zombies this round.
"Ugly? Why.. I think that would be you, half pint." The barbed devil sneers as he makes it down the north spiral stairs and spots Reed hanging out above them all.
Luckily, the little girl that Virro found is decently hidden behind the stonework of the stair well, so the devil's focus is now on Archie instead.
The first two attacks, one with his tail and the other with his claw are close to getting to the fire genasi, but her armor deflects them. His third claw attack misses completely.
Then the group hears some skittering and scurrying within the stairwell, but nothing pops out.... yet.
The remaining zombie next to Corlith reaches out with his decaying fist and slugs it right into the tieflings shoulder, 6 bludgeoning damage.
Then there is a mad rush as the survivors run further into the room, avoiding the barbed devil as much as possible.
Suddenly, two giant crabs emerge from the base of both stairwells, the first moves around the devil and attacks Archie, and the second attacks the poor Roo worshiper.
Crab E attacks: 22, damage: 7- and Archie is grappled by it's pinchers. DC 11 to escape.
Archie pushes her arms out to the side easily opening the claw of the crab and letting it's grip slide off of her. Something clicks in her suit and a faint orange glow surrounds her as a defensive field springs to life ready to absorb more incoming damage for Archie.
Lulu flies up near Reed to be able to get both the barbed devil and the adjacent crab in her cone as she extends her trunk and the blast that emerges is deafening. Her trumpet of blasting covers the two with 19 thunder damage.
The devil makes the 14 DC CON save and receives the 8 thunder damage, but the crab next to him rumbles and shakes and is obliterated by the sound.
Corlith grunts in pain as the zombie catches him, but stands firm behind his shield. He thinks about reaching out and shocking the zombie, but really doesn't want to touch it, and so summons more radiant flames onto it. As the other one is no longer a threat, the zombie in front of him gets a double dose.
Assuming it doesn't survive, and hearing a lot of commotion behind him, he moves back inside.
"What the...well...here...is going on?".
Action: Sacred Flame against zombie 1, DC16 Dex Save or take 7+3=10 [radiant] damage Bonus Action:Sacred Flame against zombie 2 using bracers, DC16 Dex Save or take 4+4=8 [radiant] damage Movement: If zombie down he moves up to 30ft back inside to see what is going on
(OOC: If the first Sacred Flame kills the zombie, he will save the bonus action Sacred Flame to use on the devil inside)
Roo runs right in after the zombie has fallen and ends up below Reed. He looks up at his friend, a bit confused as to how he got up there, but keeps his focus on the devil in front of him.
Face to face, Roo realizes it is the same kind of devil that brought Fog'Horn low and a fury boils within him. Unfortunately, the fury makes his sight go wonky and both blasts from his beak go wide.
Virro turns from where the Zombies were drooling and sees the spined devil. He points his hand and a bright light streaks down, he tries to focus it on the devil. “Don’t worry Roo, we will burn him up for you..”
Action : Sacred Flame : DC 15 Dex save or take 9 points of radiant damage.
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(Virro, I moved you next to Archie so you could see the devil)
He grins at the death cleric as he easily sidesteps the sacred flame. "That all you got?" he taunts.
Four more crabs decend upon the group, two skittering down from each set of stairs, the sound echoing through the stairwell.
Crab A attacks a survivor and misses
Crab B attacks Archie, Damage: 7 with it's pinchers, taking hold of the fire genasi, she finds herself in the same predicament as before - DC 11 to get out.
Crab C gets a nat 1 as it attempts to pinch in half one of the twins
Crab D attempts to pincher Virro's little friend and Shorah is able to just avoid them.
Reed looks at the chaos below them, watching the survivors make for safety and the crabs trying to pick them apart. He looks over at the devil, but remembers that his arrows aren't very effective with those guys. The others and their magic can handle him. So Reed focuses on the crabs.
He spots one that looks like its about to take another snip at the survivors. He takes careful aim and lets an arrow fly. As soon as the arrow goes he looks to the air by his head then frowns.
"What do you mean you're all tired? What else do you have to do?" Reed says with a slight frustrated edge.
Reed runs across the ceiling to get a good view of the trio of crabs to the south and to put the other staircase between him and the devil thing.
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Action - Shortbow at Crab G: (11+8) = 18 to hit for (6+5+15 from Sneak Attack) = 26 piercing
Movement - 20' - 30' to get behind the top of the other staircase
Reed's arrow buries deep in the crab and destroys all it's innards as it obliterates it. (only had 8 hp left with the 26 damage)
With Archie firmly in the grasp of one of his pet crabs, the barbed devil reaches out with his tail and claws, attempting to harm the fire genasi, but all three attacks miss.
You hear some skittering about above crab G, but nothing is able to emerge, but at the other stairwell, crag E comes out next to the devil and attempts to pinch Lulu. She clearly is out of his reach as his pinchers go wide with their clasp.
Archie is caught up in the crabs claw and bleeding out.
Having taken another chunk of damage she doesn't look good, she wants this fight to end quickly and she wants these creatures away from the innocents, her gauntlets click and whirr causing sparks which then burst into lightning crackles which arc down her hands, she screams out a desperate war cry and slams both fists downward toward the ground whilst wriggling herself around to face the devil, a wave of thunderous force booms out shaking dust from the ceiling and catching the devil and the three crabs surrounding it in a deadly force.
(Cast thunderwave on the devil and crabs B, D & E, they make a dc 16 CON save or take 9 thunder damage and are moved 19ft north west, on a save take 4thunder damage and remain unmoved)
Standing up, some of the pressure from the shockwave seems to be reabsorbed into the suit, the pressure ceases the blood from pouring from her wounds and she readies herself to continue
The result from Archie's gauntlets send all but crab D flailing back, opening up the area just as she wanted it.
A final crab comes popping out of the north staircase and now that the blockage has been thundered aside, it happily scampers up to Archie. Pinching it's claw at her, Archie was getting used to these things and avoided getting grappled and pinched again.
Worried about the survivors, Lulu flies after crab E and attempts to jab it with her tusks. They pierce through the tough shell and end the crustacean's life.
"Giant crabs. Really? How do you find giant crabs down here?", Corlith asks of the devil in infernal. "Not that it matters, we'll be eating them for dinner soon enough", he adds as he drives a psychic spike into its brain, not once, but twice.
Action: Mind Sliver against devil, DC17 Int Save or take 6+2=8 [psychic] damage and reduce next saving throw by 1d4 Bonus Action: Mind Sliver against devil using bracers,DC17 Int Save or take 6+1=7 [psychic] damage and reduce next saving throw by 1d4
The barbed devil doesn't notice Corlith's first sliver, but the second one takes hold and he winces.
Worried about the twins, Reya runs around to southern crabs, attacking crab C. Her first hit strikes and she delivers 8 damage. The other attacks are deflected off the shell, but she's hoping she at least got it's attention away from the kids.
Roo sees Archie shove off his foe and he clucks out in frustration. He runs in that direction, attempting to take out crabs on his way. He pulls out his mace and casting his booming blade upon it, he brings it down hard ontop of the crab. Damage: 7 + 5, bringing the crab to within an inch of his life... additional 7 damage if it moves.
Virro spies the thorned devil laughing and he points his hand toward him, a skeletal fist flies out and strikes the devil, and now it is Virro’s turn to laugh. “I love it when the hand does that, it will beat the life out of you!”
Chill touch : 26 to hit, for 9points of necrotic damage…
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The devil shudders as the necrotic damage takes hold, creating a few blisters along his forearms.
The survivors disengage from the crabs if they are near them and continue to scurry into the room, trying to put as much distance between themselves and the creatures.
Crab B reaches for Roo and misses.
Crab A reaches out for Reya and misses.
Crab C also reaches for Reya and instead grabs hold of A's shell (nat 1)
Crab D runs around towards the flying elephant and also misses with his pinchers.
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Roo becomes surrounded by his followers and they can't help but reach and out touch the rooster. They are all very frightened but also in awe as they attempt to charge into the High Hall with the doors now open.
Roo dodges and weaves to get through the mass and past Virro to get to the zombie that Reya had fell but rose up again. Taking his mace, he swings it high and knocks the head of the zombie clean off, it hits the stairs behind the zombie and rolls down it, landing within the score of bodies.
Virro is somewhat distracted by Roo rushing past. He points at the other Zombie and a radiant flame streaks down, but not as strong as he would like. He frowns at the insolence of the filthy thing.
Sacred flame 4 points of radiant damage, DC 15 dex save to avoid.
A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
The group hears more scrambling and heaving clacking of what sounds like stone or metal against stone.
Anyone looking up sees Reed walk over the railing to the balcony above, and then walk right on to the ceiling, his feet firmly planted. As he does, he shifts the position of his quiver so all the arrows don’t fall out.
Reed waves down to the group.
”Oh, you have company too. Keep an eye on the staircases too. There’s another demon or devil or other ugly spinet thing with a whole bunch of big crabs. Like really, really big crabs. We could all stuff ourselves eating just one.” Reed says.
Unfortunately getting away from what was upstairs and climbing on to the ceiling keeps him from helping with the zombies this round.
"Ugly? Why.. I think that would be you, half pint." The barbed devil sneers as he makes it down the north spiral stairs and spots Reed hanging out above them all.
Luckily, the little girl that Virro found is decently hidden behind the stonework of the stair well, so the devil's focus is now on Archie instead.
The first two attacks, one with his tail and the other with his claw are close to getting to the fire genasi, but her armor deflects them. His third claw attack misses completely.
Then the group hears some skittering and scurrying within the stairwell, but nothing pops out.... yet.
The remaining zombie next to Corlith reaches out with his decaying fist and slugs it right into the tieflings shoulder, 6 bludgeoning damage.
Then there is a mad rush as the survivors run further into the room, avoiding the barbed devil as much as possible.
Suddenly, two giant crabs emerge from the base of both stairwells, the first moves around the devil and attacks Archie, and the second attacks the poor Roo worshiper.
Crab E attacks: 22, damage: 7 - and Archie is grappled by it's pinchers. DC 11 to escape.
Crab G attacks the commoner but misses (nat 1)
Archie pushes her arms out to the side easily opening the claw of the crab and letting it's grip slide off of her. Something clicks in her suit and a faint orange glow surrounds her as a defensive field springs to life ready to absorb more incoming damage for Archie.
Lulu flies up near Reed to be able to get both the barbed devil and the adjacent crab in her cone as she extends her trunk and the blast that emerges is deafening. Her trumpet of blasting covers the two with 19 thunder damage.
The devil makes the 14 DC CON save and receives the 8 thunder damage, but the crab next to him rumbles and shakes and is obliterated by the sound.
Corlith grunts in pain as the zombie catches him, but stands firm behind his shield. He thinks about reaching out and shocking the zombie, but really doesn't want to touch it, and so summons more radiant flames onto it. As the other one is no longer a threat, the zombie in front of him gets a double dose.
Assuming it doesn't survive, and hearing a lot of commotion behind him, he moves back inside.
"What the...well...here...is going on?".
Action: Sacred Flame against zombie 1, DC16 Dex Save or take 7+3=10 [radiant] damage
Bonus Action:Sacred Flame against zombie 2 using bracers, DC16 Dex Save or take 4+4=8 [radiant] damage
Movement: If zombie down he moves up to 30ft back inside to see what is going on
(OOC: If the first Sacred Flame kills the zombie, he will save the bonus action Sacred Flame to use on the devil inside)
Reya runs in after Corlith and almost stops short when she sees what is coming down the spiral stairs. Crabs?! What the hell.
Running at the one that was trying to attack the survivors, she just gets there and attacks with her swords.
Her first slash gets through its shell with 5 damage, but her other two attacks bounce off.
Roo runs right in after the zombie has fallen and ends up below Reed. He looks up at his friend, a bit confused as to how he got up there, but keeps his focus on the devil in front of him.
Face to face, Roo realizes it is the same kind of devil that brought Fog'Horn low and a fury boils within him. Unfortunately, the fury makes his sight go wonky and both blasts from his beak go wide.
Virro turns from where the Zombies were drooling and sees the spined devil. He points his hand and a bright light streaks down, he tries to focus it on the devil. “Don’t worry Roo, we will burn him up for you..”
Action : Sacred Flame : DC 15 Dex save or take 9 points of radiant damage.
A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
(Virro, I moved you next to Archie so you could see the devil)
He grins at the death cleric as he easily sidesteps the sacred flame. "That all you got?" he taunts.
Four more crabs decend upon the group, two skittering down from each set of stairs, the sound echoing through the stairwell.
Crab A attacks a survivor and misses
Crab B attacks Archie, Damage: 7 with it's pinchers, taking hold of the fire genasi, she finds herself in the same predicament as before - DC 11 to get out.
Crab C gets a nat 1 as it attempts to pinch in half one of the twins
Crab D attempts to pincher Virro's little friend and Shorah is able to just avoid them.
Reed looks at the chaos below them, watching the survivors make for safety and the crabs trying to pick them apart. He looks over at the devil, but remembers that his arrows aren't very effective with those guys. The others and their magic can handle him. So Reed focuses on the crabs.
He spots one that looks like its about to take another snip at the survivors. He takes careful aim and lets an arrow fly. As soon as the arrow goes he looks to the air by his head then frowns.
"What do you mean you're all tired? What else do you have to do?" Reed says with a slight frustrated edge.
Reed runs across the ceiling to get a good view of the trio of crabs to the south and to put the other staircase between him and the devil thing.
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Action - Shortbow at Crab G: (11+8) = 18 to hit for (6+5+15 from Sneak Attack) = 26 piercing
Movement - 20' - 30' to get behind the top of the other staircase
Bonus Action - Cunning Action - Hide Stealth - (2+11) = 13
Reed's arrow buries deep in the crab and destroys all it's innards as it obliterates it. (only had 8 hp left with the 26 damage)
With Archie firmly in the grasp of one of his pet crabs, the barbed devil reaches out with his tail and claws, attempting to harm the fire genasi, but all three attacks miss.
You hear some skittering about above crab G, but nothing is able to emerge, but at the other stairwell, crag E comes out next to the devil and attempts to pinch Lulu. She clearly is out of his reach as his pinchers go wide with their clasp.
Archie is caught up in the crabs claw and bleeding out.
Having taken another chunk of damage she doesn't look good, she wants this fight to end quickly and she wants these creatures away from the innocents, her gauntlets click and whirr causing sparks which then burst into lightning crackles which arc down her hands, she screams out a desperate war cry and slams both fists downward toward the ground whilst wriggling herself around to face the devil, a wave of thunderous force booms out shaking dust from the ceiling and catching the devil and the three crabs surrounding it in a deadly force.
(Cast thunderwave on the devil and crabs B, D & E, they make a dc 16 CON save or take 9 thunder damage and are moved 19ft north west, on a save take 4thunder damage and remain unmoved)
Standing up, some of the pressure from the shockwave seems to be reabsorbed into the suit, the pressure ceases the blood from pouring from her wounds and she readies herself to continue
(Bonus action second wind healed 11hp)
The result from Archie's gauntlets send all but crab D flailing back, opening up the area just as she wanted it.
A final crab comes popping out of the north staircase and now that the blockage has been thundered aside, it happily scampers up to Archie. Pinching it's claw at her, Archie was getting used to these things and avoided getting grappled and pinched again.
Worried about the survivors, Lulu flies after crab E and attempts to jab it with her tusks. They pierce through the tough shell and end the crustacean's life.
"Giant crabs. Really? How do you find giant crabs down here?", Corlith asks of the devil in infernal. "Not that it matters, we'll be eating them for dinner soon enough", he adds as he drives a psychic spike into its brain, not once, but twice.
Action: Mind Sliver against devil, DC17 Int Save or take 6+2=8 [psychic] damage and reduce next saving throw by 1d4
Bonus Action: Mind Sliver against devil using bracers,DC17 Int Save or take 6+1=7 [psychic] damage and reduce next saving throw by 1d4
The barbed devil doesn't notice Corlith's first sliver, but the second one takes hold and he winces.
Worried about the twins, Reya runs around to southern crabs, attacking crab C. Her first hit strikes and she delivers 8 damage. The other attacks are deflected off the shell, but she's hoping she at least got it's attention away from the kids.
Roo sees Archie shove off his foe and he clucks out in frustration. He runs in that direction, attempting to take out crabs on his way. He pulls out his mace and casting his booming blade upon it, he brings it down hard ontop of the crab. Damage: 7 + 5, bringing the crab to within an inch of his life... additional 7 damage if it moves.
Virro spies the thorned devil laughing and he points his hand toward him, a skeletal fist flies out and strikes the devil, and now it is Virro’s turn to laugh. “I love it when the hand does that, it will beat the life out of you!”
Chill touch : 26 to hit, for 9 points of necrotic damage…
A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
The devil shudders as the necrotic damage takes hold, creating a few blisters along his forearms.
The survivors disengage from the crabs if they are near them and continue to scurry into the room, trying to put as much distance between themselves and the creatures.
Crab B reaches for Roo and misses.
Crab A reaches out for Reya and misses.
Crab C also reaches for Reya and instead grabs hold of A's shell (nat 1)
Crab D runs around towards the flying elephant and also misses with his pinchers.