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Strength save: Dice rolls not yet available for this section.

The monstrous undead snake takes the full damage, but it remains stand... er... slithering as it faces off with the gigantic wolf.

Nickeline is up!

(OOC: Don't forget the DEX save(s) for Tamphalic's breath weapon.)

The skeletal snake's ray of frost glances harmlessly off of Nickeline's orange scale mail. She sends a burst of flame back in return.

OOC:

Action: Sacred Flame: Skeletal snake must succeed on a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw or take 6 radiant damage.

Seeing their dire wolf ally attack the skeletal snake, the orc brutes charge forward to help.  They call out their clan's battle cry and both make reckless attacks with their greataxes against the snake.

Orc Brute #1: reckless attack the skeletal snake, Greataxe: 22, Damage: 5 (slashing)

Orc Brute #2: reckless attack the skeletal snake, Greataxe: 18, Damage: 14 (slashing)

Korba worries that Hewelathan and the orcs will be attacked from behind by the other snake creature.  He says, "Hildegard, help me keep this thing away from the others."  He moves gracefully forward toward the metal snake construct, his moonblade held two-handed.  He calls on his patron to curse this thing for him.

Movement: Up to 30 ft. to close to melee with the snake construct around the chest
Action: Attack, Moonblade: 15, Damage: Unable to parse dice roll. (magical slashing)
Bonus Action: Place his Hexblade's Curse on the snake construct.
  The target is cursed for 1 minute. Until the curse ends, Korba has the following benefits:
    He gets a +2 bonus to damage rolls against the target.
    If the target dies while it is cursed, Korba regains +7 HP.
Free Action: Talking

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Action: Attack, Moonblade: 15, Damage: Unable to parse dice roll. (magical slashing)

(OOC: Oof.  Not a great attack, but here's the damage roll if it hit.)

Damage: 14 (magical slashing) 

Jodie weighs her targets and sees Korba may have a greater need for support.  Jodie sees the drow's moonblade against the metal snake and thinks the magic in her blade might penetrate.   She counts her four magic arrows and thinks hopefully three will be enough. Jodie shouts to the Orog "Join your brothers.  We'll handle the metal snake."

The bard advances towards the metal snake but does not yet engage in melee.  She is hopeful Korba's mail is tougher than the snake's fangs.  "I will aid in the magic of my arrow..."

Longbow: 9

 The Orog lets out a war cry as it joins the brutes. If the first blow takes down the undead snake, his aggressive talent should enable him to move and attack the metal snake.

Greataxe 1: 18, damage 15

Greataxe 2: 24, damage 16

Dex saves
Iron snake vs. Temphalic's breath weapon: 5

Skeleton snake vs. Temphalic's breath weapon: 8
Skeleton snake vs. Nickeline's sacred flame: 15

The snakes both take the full damage from Temphalic's breath weapon. And... that poor skeletal snake just got its skull crushed by the Orog's second strike. But the iron snake is up... Temphalic may notice that, even though his breath hit the snake solidly, it didn't seem to do  as much damage as he would have expected.

The iron snake's head darts towards Korba, and it tries to sink metal fangs into the half-Drow's throat!

Bite vs. Korba:
Attack: 24 Damage: 6

On a hit, Korba will need to make a DC 13 Con save.

Looks like a hit... time to find out what happens if Korba fails that Con save: 4

1–2: Confusion. On its next turn, the target must use its action to make one weapon attack against a random creature it can see within 30 feet of it, using whatever weapon it has in hand and moving beforehand if necessary to get in range. If it’s holding no weapon, it makes an unarmed strike. If no creature is visible within 30 feet, it takes the Dash action, moving toward the nearest creature.

3–4 Paralysis. The target is paralyzed until the end of its next turn.

5–6: Poison. The target takes 13 (3d8) poison damage.

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Looks like a hit....what happens if Korba fails that Con save....The target is paralyzed until the end of its next turn.

(OOC: Yes.  I took an 80/20 gamble and let Korba make himself a target for the metal snake this round.  I figured that he could use his last spell slot on shield if the attack roll was between 17 and 21.)

Korba CON saving throw: 20

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Looks like a hit....what happens if Korba fails that Con save....The target is paralyzed until the end of its next turn.

Korba CON saving throw: 20

Korba: round 1 (results)

With only one opponent to focus on, the metal snake bites through Korba's armor.  Perhaps the construct has sat too long in the dry crypt, and its poison reservoir has become somewhat stale.  Or perhaps Korba built up some resistance to the types of poisons used by the Drow during his years spent among them in the Underdark.  In any case, Korba gets a bloody wound from the metal snake, but he is not affected by its poison.

I'll go ahead and take Ruby's turn.

The kobold tries to take out the construct with her twin Arcane Burst beams.

Arcane Burst vs. Iron Snake:
Attack: 17 Damage: 9
Attack: 19 Damage: 5

One of Ruby's beams of arcane power hits the snake squarely in the face, but seems to do surprisingly superficial damage...

Skeleton Snake DEAD
--
Temphalic
Hewelathan
Nickeline
--
Orc Brute 1 - 1 damage
Orc Brute 2
--
Jodie
Korba
--
Orog
--
Metal Snake - 22 damage
--
Ruby
--
Hildegarde

Hildegarde is up, followed by Temphalic, Hewelathan, and Jodie!

With only one snake remaining Tamphalic feels he should be fine with going for his weaker spells, but as Lightning didn't do much he uses a fire bolt this time:

gamelog: 16 to hit and 4 damage.

Hildegard rides forward to attack the snake with her longsword, and then has Perdita disengage to ride out of melee range again. She does, however, keep herself between the snake the other members of the party who aren't in melee.

Longsword to hit: 19
Damage: 5 slashing

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Hildegarde is up, followed by Temphalic, Hewelathan, and Jodie!

(OOC: Don't forget that Nickeline falls in between Hewelathan and Jodie.)

Hewelathan: Round 2

The skeleton snake is quickly crushed, and Hewelathan turns to see Korba facing the metal snake and already injured.  With a vicious and loud snarl, he bounds the distance to his friend and tries bite the snake.  We'll see whether its metal hide is not strong enough to resist his magically empowered bite!

Movement: Move up to 50' to engage the metal snake in melee.  If possible, Xanrym will move around to the far side of the snake so that the orcs have more room to attack it. 
  (OOC: I wasn't sure whether the snake was Large or Medium.  Since Hewelathan-Wolf is Large, he doesn't want to get in the way of anyone else's attacks.)
Action: Melee Weapon Attack, Bite the Metal Snake: 31 (with advantage from pack tactics because Korba is adjacent to his opponent), Damage: Unable to parse dice roll. piercing
  If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a STR saving throw (DC 13) or be knocked prone.

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Hildegarde is up, followed by Temphalic, Hewelathan, and Jodie!

(OOC: Don't forget that Nickeline falls in between Hewelathan and Jodie.)

(Sorry, I meant Nickeline... brain is all brained out)

Nickeline casts a sacred flame spell on the metal snake. She hopes they can defeat it without damaging it too much, so she can see how it works.

OOC:

Action: Cast Sacred Flame on metal snake --> DC 13 Dex save to avoid 2 radiant damage

(Awaiting Str 13 save to see if snake is prone and melee attacks will have advantage)

Jodie sees the battle may be near complete, so she quickly draws her moon-touched rapier and goes in for the final blow.  "Now just hold still..."
magic rapier: (13, 7) damage: 9

The Orog quickly closes ground and brings his greataxe to bear on the metal snake.
greataxe 1: (17, 23) damage: 10
greataxe 2: (11, 24) damage: 8