The Guild - Game Thread

Ratman1 fires two shots at Gendan, landing both of them in the half-elf's chest. (I rolled advantage by mistake. But even without advantage, the shots still beat Gendan's AC)
Ratman4 seems to say something to Ratman1 in Ratspeak (The sound rats make) while first pointing at Runt, then at Gendan and then at Runt. Ratman1 nervously stutters and answer out and seems embarrassed.

Ratman2 begins to get up and attempt to strike down Runt but a forceful swing of the hammer sends a crushed mess that was once the creature's head, flying off and landing a few feet away from the now headless body. The body twitches a bit before collapsing on the ground.

Briggs' first shot flies wide and disappears into the darkness. The second crossbow bolt buries itself in the rat's shoulder.

Elsara, Val and Runt's Turn.

Also, now that two of the Ratmen are down, Elsara has a chance to get a better look at the ratmen (Read: Zulk forgot shit again). She has never heard of these creatures before, let alone seen one. There is a magical aura around the ratmen. It's very similar to the one she felt around the Yuan-Ti but this time, it's much stronger. The magical darkness she noticed around the intersection also wasn't cast from any of the known schools. The magic surrounding the magical darkness was also similar to the type of magic surrounding the Yuan-Ti.

DM: The nature of the magic is still unknown to you but I don't want to describe it as "The magic that was around the Yuan-Ti" for every time it comes up so I want to give it a made up name so that describing it becomes less annoying. Poke, since Elsara was the only PC to notice this aura (Briggs also noticed it since he had Detect Magic on him) I want you to give it a name.

(What granted Ratman 1 adv vs Gendan? Never mind, now I see the follow-up post)

(OOC: I f Val moves and Dash he will be at 55 ft from Runt.. is that right? ) 

(Yes.)

Val dashes forward, not having time to aim and fire his bow and calls forth his magic to close some of Run'ts wounds.

( Healing Word at 1st lvl to heal : 5 HP. I am saving the 2nd spell slot for another Thunderwave... ;) )

Val casts Healing Word. A azure, translucent mist floats at high speed to Runt. Her wounds begin to close and she feels a lot better.

Elsara and Runt's Turn.

(How does Faerz sound? Based on the FR Faerzress, the "radiation" within the underdark that can provide magical abilities, like the drow's innate magical abilities. Seemed apt as we've only seen it in underground tunnel areas.)

Elsara will use her blade again to attempt to draw some attention from Runt, attacking the ratman beside her and taking a sidestep (move up 1 space, shouldn't provoke as not leaving anyone's threat reach).

Scimitar vs. Ratman 6: 14 vs. AC. Hit: 6 slashing damage.

(Faerz sounds good. So the Yuan-Ti, the Ratmen and the magical darkness are all covered in Faerz magic.)

Elsara takes a side step and the Ratman6 tries to make a hasty jab at Elsara. However the attack was a very expected one as Elsara quickly twirls her blade, deflecting the attack and then opening a diagonal slash across the Ratman's chest in one fluid motion. (Elsara didn't trigger AoO. I just thought it would sound cooler if the attack was described this way)

 Runt's Turn

Runt will move to the closes Ratman and swing her hammer with a tad more caution.

Attack: 17 Damage: 13+6 thunder damage.

Runt, both Ratman5 and Ratman6 are within melee range. Choose any one of them.

Did either of them hit me yet?

I'm pretty sure both of them attacked you at some point.

Then let's smash 5

Runt's hammer vibrates with divine energy as she swings with the might of a war machine. The hammer sinks into the Ratman's flesh a bit. With a thunderous boom, it releases a shockwave that scatters bits and pieces of what was once the ratman's torso across the floor, the wall and the ceiling.

The horrible screeching gets very loud. A rat reinforcement is almost upon you!

Ratman6 is not sure if it wants to Attack Runt or Elsara. It decides to go for Runt remembering how Elsara blocked the late rat3's attack by raising a mystic shield. Plus, Runt, having just blown one of its rat brethren to bits, seems like the bigger threat. It attacks Runt with a bite and then with a thrust from the war pick.
Bite: 6 Dmg:5
War pick: 20 Dmg:2
CON Save: 7

Ratman4 screams at Raman1 in Ratspeak and fires two shots at Runt.
Shot1: 20 (Adv: 23) Dmg: 8
Shot2: 21 (Adv: 5) Dmg: 4

Runt dodges the war pick only to get bit on her hand by the ratman. Still resisting the deadly germs though. In fact, the ratman wasn't able to do as much damage all things considered. Too bad that's not the case with Rat4 as both crossbow bolts sink into Runt's chest.

Gendan's turn.

Why did they get advantage? I didnt reckless and I can see them.

(Runt, I think it’s Pack Tactics, so they get adv anytime they have one of their allies within 5 ft of the target.)

Gendan continues her charge along the “upper” wall (according to the ASCII map) and fires another Eldritch Blast at the Hexed ratman (1). Attack 9 for 8 force and 2 necrotic damage. If she hits, she pulls the rat man 10ft towards her (Grasp of Hadar). She takes a deep breath (Second Wind) and recovers 9 HP. 

(Still don’t think I’ve landed a hit this whole battle. DM: Can you post an updated map? I’m unsure how far Gendan has run, though it’s been a consistent 30 feet every round.)

(Yeah, all of them have pack tactics.)

Gendan's Eldritch Blast was dodge by the Rat1.

Ratman1 takes aim,determined to take Runt down and correct its original mistake. It fires two more crossbow bolts at Runt.
Bolt1: 6 (Adv:6) Dmg: 7
Bolt2: 7 (Adv:22) Dmg: 3

Briggs attempts to bring Rat1 down. He fires two shots from his crossbow down at him.
Bolt1: 22 Dmg: 3
Bolt2: 8 Dmg: 6

Runt knocks the first crossbow bolt out of the air with a swat but the second one hit her in the gut.

Briggs rains bolts down on the Ratman1 but both of the noble dragonborn warrior's shots miss.

Updated MAP:

= - - - = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = # = =              
    1         23G                                 =
= - ¬ - - - - R!E V - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - =
    4         56                                  =
= - - - = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

Scale is 10ft.
Empty space/floor(-)   Briggs' glowing rock(¬)   Wall(=)   Door(#) Healing spirit(!)
Red means it's a corpse and you can easily stand and move through that space.
Brown means unconscious/Rolling Death Saves

Val, Runt and Elsara's Turn