Tanis weighs Sarith's suggestion to continue, but it is already too late as Thunk and Jimjar are already investigating... each in their own fashion.
Instead, he stands near the entrance to the side passage and covers the others using his 90' darkvision and his hand crossbow drawn.
As he does, Tanis asks Sarith in a quiet voice (in Undercommon), "Neverlight Grove? I thought our goal was just to make it to Darklake first. After that we must decide our course or perhaps split up. I do not wish to go to this duergar city Buppido suggests, but there were other choices besides Neverlight Grove, I think? I know Stool wishes to return there, but why do you choose Neverlight Grove in particular, Sarith? A myconid haven does not strike me as a place a dark elf would usually wish to find refuge in."
“I hope so,” Arokas says to Derendil, still in elvish. “Tanis and Drogen also seem trustworthy to me. Thunk…is Thunk. I don’t think he’d be able to plot against us. Turvy wouldn’t kill her twin, and I don’t believe you would either. So that leaves Sarith and Bupiddo. And I don’t like the feel of either one.”
Tanis weighs Sarith's suggestion to continue, but it is already too late as Thunk and Jimjar are already investigating... each in their own fashion.
Instead, he stands near the entrance to the side passage and covers the others using his 90' darkvision and his hand crossbow drawn.
As he does, Tanis asks Sarith in a quiet voice (in Undercommon), "Neverlight Grove? I thought our goal was just to make it to Darklake first. After that we must decide our course or perhaps split up. I do not wish to go to this duergar city Buppido suggests, but there were other choices besides Neverlight Grove, I think? I know Stool wishes to return there, but why do you choose Neverlight Grove in particular, Sarith? A myconid haven does not strike me as a place a dark elf would usually wish to find refuge in."
Sarith keeps scratching the back of his head while thinking for an answer "yes, that's the last place any of my former allies would be looking for me."
Thunk approaches the skeleton and instantly notices a broken spear on the ground next to it. The corpse is wearing a scale mail, which seems to be in good condition given that you can't see any rust spots relying only on darkvision. Jimjar walks up to Thunk "nice armor you found there, we could clean it up and sell it for some nice coin once we find a city."
Before you can start taking the armor from the skeleton, you notice movement in the rocks around you. Monsters resembling huge worms with four barbed tentacles surrounding a snapping beak start to slither towards Thunk and Jimjar.
Arokas rushes to the entrance of the cave. Seeing the monsters, he pushes his left hand forward, the scales lighting up to create a Fire Bolt, and hurls it at the nearest creature.
OOC: Tanis is invisible to darkvision thanks to Umbral Sight, so if it is dark, as long as the tentacled worms do not have blindsight or tremorsense or such, then all of his attacks are at advantage and all attacks against him are at disadvantage.
He advances S-->S-->S-->S-->SW-->S-->S-->S, ending up just southeast of one of the worms (40' movement on first round due to Dread Ambusher). He launches three bolts from his drow hand crossbow at the worm that Arokas injured with a Fire Bolt, marking it as his Favored Foe. He than stands ready, drawing his shortsword in his free hand.
Action: Two hand crossbow attacks (second one due to Dread Ambusher on first round of combat). Both at advantage due to being invisible and no disadvantage from close range due to Crossbow Expert feat. Second one gets an extra 1d8 damage due to Dread Ambusher.
Attack 1 - To Hit: 26 Attack 1 - Damage: 9 + 4 from Favored Foe = 13 piercing
Attack 2 - To Hit: 23 Attack 2 - Damage: 5 + 5 from Dread Ambusher = 10 piercing
Thunk sees giant worm monsters and rages! Thunk rushes at the nearest worm thing and just recklessly attacks. (Adv on attacks, attacks on him have adv til his next turn.)
Shortsword Attack: Nat 29 for 26 to hit, 11 damage
Seeing the others move, Drogen moved to the cave entrance as well. Spotting the creatures, he takes aim at the worm-like creature furthest to the south, attempting to bath it in holy fire and and then summoning a spectral warhammer.
Tanis' first two shots hit the monster, making it coil in pain and causing the third shot to miss its mark.
Thunk's sword easily finds the monster in front of him, slicing off the tip of the nearest tentacle. Jimjar fumbles with a hand crossbow and manages to shoot at the same monster (to hit: 9), but misses by a wide berth. He retreats to the main tunnel shouting "it's a grick nest! They love hoarding shiny things!"
A firebolt from Arokas flies throught the cavern. The light from it reflects on the armor on the skeleton making a show of dancing lights that briefly illuminate the cave and reveal Tanis' position. The spell finishes off the twice pierced grick next to the ranger.
(dex save: 9) Radiant light called by Drogen bathes the grick by the end of the cave and a half visible warhammer knocks it right in its beak.
Derendil rushes in, finishing his movement just behind Thunk. Stool and Turvy rush to the back of the main tunnel, as far from danger as possible. Buppido follows them at a slower pace, as if the fight didn't concern him at all. Sarith stays in place confused for a minute, finally snapping out of it and taking a couple steps forward.
The two injured gricks converge on Thunk and try to grab him with their tentacles (to hits: 19, 18, damages: 7, 8). Having the half-orc in their grip they try to bite into him (to hits: 14, 21, damage: 8). A fourth grick drops from the ceiling next to Tanis, flailing wildly at the unseen enemy (to hit with disadvantage: 17, damage 10). It's tentacles manage to find him in the dark and it tries to bite based on feeling alone (to hit: 8) but being invisible has its advantages.
Eldeth runs into the cave and swings both of her shortswords at the closest enemy (to hits: 11, 14, damage: 7) hitting it once.
Initiative order: 20 Tanis 20 Thunk (23) 20 Jimjar 19 Arokas 17 Drogen 17 Derendil 17 Stool 17 Turvy 16 Sarith 11 Gricks (34) (18, in melee with Thunk and Eldeth) (8, in melee with Thunk) (undamaged, in melee with Tanis) 7 Eldeth 7 Buppido
OOC: Shuushar should not have been in the initiative rolls, too much copy pasting :P
Arokas snarls at the creatures, his eyes starting to glow blue. His left hand forms a crackling ball of energy, and he throws a Chaos Bolt at the grick attacking Tanis.
Tanis curses his recklessness silently, having charged into the room without looking around it first, including at the ceiling where the Grick that just attacked him came from. Stupid, stupid, stupid... charging into a tunnel without knowing where you were going is what got you into this to start with!
He takes an instant to look around (90' darkvision, 16 passive Perception) for any still hidden enemies.
Finding his crossbow arm still free despite the Grick's tentacle, he focuses and shoots the monstrosity twice, marking this new one as Favored Foe again.
Action: Hand crossbow attack on Grick in melee with him (no disadvantage due to Crossbow Expert feat, advantage due to being invisible). To Hit: 19 Damage: 5 + 2 from Favored Foe = 7 piercing
Bonus Action: Crossbow Expert bonus attack (similar to above) To Hit: 21 Damage: 6 piercing
Tanis is further taken aback as the strange bolt of... force... from Arokas simultaneously slams into the Grick.
Then, still becoming accustomed to his newfound ability to blend into the shadows and realizing that the Grick cannot see him to make an opportunity attack, Tanis backs out of the cavern, N-->N-->N-->NE-->N-->N. "We may be able to finish these off, but if there are more, we should retreat."
Thunk attacks with a growl and his short swords. The swords are more likely to do damage but Thunk’s breathe is bad too. Thunk swings at weakest monster first…
Short sword attack: 15 to hit, 7 damage
Bonus Action S Sword Attack: 8 to hit for 1 damage
Tanis does not see any other monsters in the side cave where they are fighting, but notices a few other skeletons in the south west end. His bolts dig deep into the grick's body at point blank range.
Thunk hits the grick next to him, leaving it at the brink of death but still ready to bite back. Jimjar reloads his hand crossbow and takes a few steps back into the cave to get a clear look at the monsters, shooting at the one Thunk just hit (to hit: 21, damage: 4). The bolt finds its target and takes the monster out of the fight.
The force bolt from Arokas finishes off the grick that dropped from the ceiling, leaving a single enemy left. Its erratic movements make Drogen's sacred flame and spiritual weapon miss it.
Derendil closes the distance to the last grick and swings his large claws at it (to hits: 15, 9, damage: 4). Outside the cave Sarith retreats next to Stool, you hear Turvy and Derendil talking in angry voices. The grick retaliates at the last one to harm it (to hit: 21, damage: 13), whipping Derendil with a tentacle and following up with a bite (to hit: 17, damage 8).
Eldeth goes around Thunk to swing at the last grick with her short swords (to hits: 20, 7, damage: 8), leaving the monster in a panicked state.
Arokas looks shocked at the bolt he threw. Huh, didn’t expect that to happen, he thinks. Eyeing the last Grick, Arokas conjures a Fire Bolt and hurls it at the final enemy.
Thunk, once he can, repeats his attacks until the thing is dead at his feet... ((Reckless, his attacks at adv, attacks against him also at advantage.))
Short Sword: 23 to hit for 7 damage
Bonus Action Offhand Attack: 20 to hit, 3 damage
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Tanis weighs Sarith's suggestion to continue, but it is already too late as Thunk and Jimjar are already investigating... each in their own fashion.
Instead, he stands near the entrance to the side passage and covers the others using his 90' darkvision and his hand crossbow drawn.
As he does, Tanis asks Sarith in a quiet voice (in Undercommon), "Neverlight Grove? I thought our goal was just to make it to Darklake first. After that we must decide our course or perhaps split up. I do not wish to go to this duergar city Buppido suggests, but there were other choices besides Neverlight Grove, I think? I know Stool wishes to return there, but why do you choose Neverlight Grove in particular, Sarith? A myconid haven does not strike me as a place a dark elf would usually wish to find refuge in."
Tanis(Ranger1): Shiverquill's Tempest City | Xarian(Fighter2): NioNSwiper's Tyranny of Dragons
Dyson/Eleo(TwilightCleric4): Vos' Beyond the Veil | Soren(ShepherdDruid5): Bartjeebus' Ravenloft | Ophelia(WildMagicSorcerer4): Ashen_Age's Risen from the Sands
Joren(EchoKnightFighter6): NotDrizzt's Simple Request | Sabetha(MercyMonk3): Bedlymn's Murder Court | Seri(NatureCleric3/DivineSoulSorcerer1): Bartjeebus' Greyhawk
“I hope so,” Arokas says to Derendil, still in elvish. “Tanis and Drogen also seem trustworthy to me. Thunk…is Thunk. I don’t think he’d be able to plot against us. Turvy wouldn’t kill her twin, and I don’t believe you would either. So that leaves Sarith and Bupiddo. And I don’t like the feel of either one.”
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Sarith keeps scratching the back of his head while thinking for an answer "yes, that's the last place any of my former allies would be looking for me."
Thunk approaches the skeleton and instantly notices a broken spear on the ground next to it. The corpse is wearing a scale mail, which seems to be in good condition given that you can't see any rust spots relying only on darkvision. Jimjar walks up to Thunk "nice armor you found there, we could clean it up and sell it for some nice coin once we find a city."
Before you can start taking the armor from the skeleton, you notice movement in the rocks around you. Monsters resembling huge worms with four barbed tentacles surrounding a snapping beak start to slither towards Thunk and Jimjar.
Monster's initiative: 7
Monster image in the spoiler block below.
OOC: I didn't see Kaemgen's post when I wrote mine. From now on I'll refresh before posting just in case.
((No worries, cross posts and crap happen. It's not like much contradicted one another or anything))
Thunk shrugs at the armor, not much interested. Upon seeing the monsters Thunk draws his two short swords and growls in readiness...
Initiative: 18+2 for 20
Arokas turns at the noise and sees the monster. Shocked, he feels back before preparing to fight it.
Initiative: 17+2=19
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[A]
Tanis had been covering Thunk and Jimjar with his drow hand crossbow while speaking to Sarith. He recoils at the wormlike monstrosity but is ready.
Tanis Initiative: 20
Tanis(Ranger1): Shiverquill's Tempest City | Xarian(Fighter2): NioNSwiper's Tyranny of Dragons
Dyson/Eleo(TwilightCleric4): Vos' Beyond the Veil | Soren(ShepherdDruid5): Bartjeebus' Ravenloft | Ophelia(WildMagicSorcerer4): Ashen_Age's Risen from the Sands
Joren(EchoKnightFighter6): NotDrizzt's Simple Request | Sabetha(MercyMonk3): Bedlymn's Murder Court | Seri(NatureCleric3/DivineSoulSorcerer1): Bartjeebus' Greyhawk
Initial map and initiative rolls for NPCs (not saying that the'll all fight, but it's easier for my head)
Buppido 22
Derendil 3
Eldeth 13
Jimjar 14
Sarith 7
Shuushar 8
Stool 3
Turvy 20
Everyone so far has rolled higher than the monsters, go for it!
Seeing the others readying their weapons, Drogen does the same.
initiative: 17
Arokas rushes to the entrance of the cave. Seeing the monsters, he pushes his left hand forward, the scales lighting up to create a Fire Bolt, and hurls it at the nearest creature.
Attack: Natural 20! Damage: 1+10=11 fire damage
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[A]
OOC: Tanis is invisible to darkvision thanks to Umbral Sight, so if it is dark, as long as the tentacled worms do not have blindsight or tremorsense or such, then all of his attacks are at advantage and all attacks against him are at disadvantage.
He advances S-->S-->S-->S-->SW-->S-->S-->S, ending up just southeast of one of the worms (40' movement on first round due to Dread Ambusher). He launches three bolts from his drow hand crossbow at the worm that Arokas injured with a Fire Bolt, marking it as his Favored Foe. He than stands ready, drawing his shortsword in his free hand.
Action: Two hand crossbow attacks (second one due to Dread Ambusher on first round of combat). Both at advantage due to being invisible and no disadvantage from close range due to Crossbow Expert feat. Second one gets an extra 1d8 damage due to Dread Ambusher.
Attack 1 - To Hit: 26
Attack 1 - Damage: 9 + 4 from Favored Foe = 13 piercing
Attack 2 - To Hit: 23
Attack 2 - Damage: 5 + 5 from Dread Ambusher = 10 piercing
Bonus Action: Crossbow Expert bonus attack (same as above)
Attack 3 - To Hit: 12
Attack 3 - Damage: 6 piercing
Free Action: Tanis draws his shortsword in his free hand to be ready to make an attack of opportunity.
Tanis(Ranger1): Shiverquill's Tempest City | Xarian(Fighter2): NioNSwiper's Tyranny of Dragons
Dyson/Eleo(TwilightCleric4): Vos' Beyond the Veil | Soren(ShepherdDruid5): Bartjeebus' Ravenloft | Ophelia(WildMagicSorcerer4): Ashen_Age's Risen from the Sands
Joren(EchoKnightFighter6): NotDrizzt's Simple Request | Sabetha(MercyMonk3): Bedlymn's Murder Court | Seri(NatureCleric3/DivineSoulSorcerer1): Bartjeebus' Greyhawk
Thunk sees giant worm monsters and rages! Thunk rushes at the nearest worm thing and just recklessly attacks. (Adv on attacks, attacks on him have adv til his next turn.)
Shortsword Attack: Nat 29 for 26 to hit, 11 damage
Seeing the others move, Drogen moved to the cave entrance as well. Spotting the creatures, he takes aim at the worm-like creature furthest to the south, attempting to bath it in holy fire and and then summoning a spectral warhammer.
sacred flame: dex save dc 13 or 4 damage
spiritual weapon to hit: 18 damage: 4
Tanis' first two shots hit the monster, making it coil in pain and causing the third shot to miss its mark.
Thunk's sword easily finds the monster in front of him, slicing off the tip of the nearest tentacle. Jimjar fumbles with a hand crossbow and manages to shoot at the same monster (to hit: 9), but misses by a wide berth. He retreats to the main tunnel shouting "it's a grick nest! They love hoarding shiny things!"
A firebolt from Arokas flies throught the cavern. The light from it reflects on the armor on the skeleton making a show of dancing lights that briefly illuminate the cave and reveal Tanis' position. The spell finishes off the twice pierced grick next to the ranger.
(dex save: 9) Radiant light called by Drogen bathes the grick by the end of the cave and a half visible warhammer knocks it right in its beak.
Derendil rushes in, finishing his movement just behind Thunk. Stool and Turvy rush to the back of the main tunnel, as far from danger as possible. Buppido follows them at a slower pace, as if the fight didn't concern him at all. Sarith stays in place confused for a minute, finally snapping out of it and taking a couple steps forward.
The two injured gricks converge on Thunk and try to grab him with their tentacles (to hits: 19, 18, damages: 7, 8). Having the half-orc in their grip they try to bite into him (to hits: 14, 21, damage: 8). A fourth grick drops from the ceiling next to Tanis, flailing wildly at the unseen enemy (to hit with disadvantage: 17, damage 10). It's tentacles manage to find him in the dark and it tries to bite based on feeling alone (to hit: 8) but being invisible has its advantages.
Eldeth runs into the cave and swings both of her shortswords at the closest enemy (to hits: 11, 14, damage: 7) hitting it once.
Initiative order:
20 Tanis
20 Thunk (23)
20 Jimjar
19 Arokas
17 Drogen
17 Derendil
17 Stool
17 Turvy
16 Sarith
11 Gricks
(34)(18, in melee with Thunk and Eldeth) (8, in melee with Thunk) (undamaged, in melee with Tanis)7 Eldeth
7 Buppido
OOC: Shuushar should not have been in the initiative rolls, too much copy pasting :P
Arokas snarls at the creatures, his eyes starting to glow blue. His left hand forms a crackling ball of energy, and he throws a Chaos Bolt at the grick attacking Tanis.
Attack: 9+5=14, Damage: 7+4+3=14 force damage
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[A]
Tanis curses his recklessness silently, having charged into the room without looking around it first, including at the ceiling where the Grick that just attacked him came from. Stupid, stupid, stupid... charging into a tunnel without knowing where you were going is what got you into this to start with!
(Free Action: sheathe his shortsword).
He takes an instant to look around (90' darkvision, 16 passive Perception) for any still hidden enemies.
Finding his crossbow arm still free despite the Grick's tentacle, he focuses and shoots the monstrosity twice, marking this new one as Favored Foe again.
Action: Hand crossbow attack on Grick in melee with him (no disadvantage due to Crossbow Expert feat, advantage due to being invisible).
To Hit: 19
Damage: 5 + 2 from Favored Foe = 7 piercing
Bonus Action: Crossbow Expert bonus attack (similar to above)
To Hit: 21
Damage: 6 piercing
Tanis is further taken aback as the strange bolt of... force... from Arokas simultaneously slams into the Grick.
Then, still becoming accustomed to his newfound ability to blend into the shadows and realizing that the Grick cannot see him to make an opportunity attack, Tanis backs out of the cavern, N-->N-->N-->NE-->N-->N. "We may be able to finish these off, but if there are more, we should retreat."
Tanis(Ranger1): Shiverquill's Tempest City | Xarian(Fighter2): NioNSwiper's Tyranny of Dragons
Dyson/Eleo(TwilightCleric4): Vos' Beyond the Veil | Soren(ShepherdDruid5): Bartjeebus' Ravenloft | Ophelia(WildMagicSorcerer4): Ashen_Age's Risen from the Sands
Joren(EchoKnightFighter6): NotDrizzt's Simple Request | Sabetha(MercyMonk3): Bedlymn's Murder Court | Seri(NatureCleric3/DivineSoulSorcerer1): Bartjeebus' Greyhawk
Thunk attacks with a growl and his short swords. The swords are more likely to do damage but Thunk’s breathe is bad too. Thunk swings at weakest monster first…
Short sword attack: 15 to hit, 7 damage
Bonus Action S Sword Attack: 8 to hit for 1 damage
Drogen moves 20’ south into the cave and attacks the same creature as last time:
sacred flame: 8
spiritual weapon to hit: 7 damage: 5
Tanis does not see any other monsters in the side cave where they are fighting, but notices a few other skeletons in the south west end. His bolts dig deep into the grick's body at point blank range.
Thunk hits the grick next to him, leaving it at the brink of death but still ready to bite back. Jimjar reloads his hand crossbow and takes a few steps back into the cave to get a clear look at the monsters, shooting at the one Thunk just hit (to hit: 21, damage: 4). The bolt finds its target and takes the monster out of the fight.
The force bolt from Arokas finishes off the grick that dropped from the ceiling, leaving a single enemy left. Its erratic movements make Drogen's sacred flame and spiritual weapon miss it.
Derendil closes the distance to the last grick and swings his large claws at it (to hits: 15, 9, damage: 4). Outside the cave Sarith retreats next to Stool, you hear Turvy and Derendil talking in angry voices. The grick retaliates at the last one to harm it (to hit: 21, damage: 13), whipping Derendil with a tentacle and following up with a bite (to hit: 17, damage 8).
Eldeth goes around Thunk to swing at the last grick with her short swords (to hits: 20, 7, damage: 8), leaving the monster in a panicked state.
Initiative order:
20 Tanis
20 Thunk (23)
20 Jimjar
19 Arokas
17 Drogen
17 Derendil (21)
17 Stool
17 Turvy
16 Sarith
11 Gricks
(34)(29)(20, in melee with Thunk, Derendil, and Eldeth)(27)7 Eldeth
7 Buppido
Arokas looks shocked at the bolt he threw. Huh, didn’t expect that to happen, he thinks. Eyeing the last Grick, Arokas conjures a Fire Bolt and hurls it at the final enemy.
Attack: 9+5=14 Damage: 2
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[A]
Thunk, once he can, repeats his attacks until the thing is dead at his feet... ((Reckless, his attacks at adv, attacks against him also at advantage.))
Short Sword: 23 to hit for 7 damage
Bonus Action Offhand Attack: 20 to hit, 3 damage