Dungeon Of The Dead Mage - Game Thread

Dang, A crit on ruin. That's an extra 10 slashing and 11 poison.

Dex save: 19 (+2 from Fizban's Platinum Shield)

Ruin fortunately has resistance to poison damage.

Also, using 2 dice from Bastion of Law on the critical hit to make it a little bit less brutal, reducing the damage by 11 points (for a total of 18 instead of 29).

Con saves for concentration: 31 and 15

[Dex Save w/Advantage: 21]

[(Holy shit, he dodged it all)]

Next up is Amari, then Kass, then Ruin

Amari, GO!

Amari breathes a soft sigh of relief as she is able to evade the spear of the Divine Master. She takes a step back and calls out the words to an evocation she has relied upon hundreds of times...

• Guiding Bolt (at 7th-level) directed at the Divine Master: 23 to hit, for 42 radiant damage

(Huzzah! Additional10d6 radiant damage from Amari's critical hit above: 36)

Kass decides that now is the time to get up close and personal with the 'Divine' Master.  He's seen enough so-called gods and their proxies to know that this mook isn't the real McCoy.  He draws his vorpal scimitar and rapier, and goes in for the big fat kill.  

Attack: 23 Damage: 9
Attack: 33 Damage: 12

Bonus Action - off-hand attack with a dual wield rapier: Attack: 13 Damage: 8

The Celestial will also attack twice, with a Defender's mace.  
Attack: 25 Damage: 12  and targeting Amelia for 3 hp gain
Attack: 13 Damage: 15  and targeting Wripers for 1 hp gain

Kass will then use his Mobile Flourish ability for the Vorpal hit that landed (I'm assuming just the 32 to hit) and will deal an additional 2 damage and push the Divine Master 5 feet plus whatever just got rolled away from Kass.  He'll then use his extra ten feet of movement to back up and ready another spell for next turn.

With a furious onslaught, Amari and Kass, as well as his angel companion, slay the Divine Master. 

Radiant energy blasts and bursts, filling the room with bright light momentarily. Stunned by the guiding bolt, it is punctured twice by the wicked blades of the bard, who, with practised skill, almost as if he was performing, dances away from the bloodied fallen angel. With a final command, his Angelic Defender swoops in, and with a sickening crunch flattens the Divine Master's skull. They slump to the ground, their flesh seared from the power of steel and radiance.

The Divine Master is Dead!

Ruin, go! The Arcane Master is the only current target, as the Primal Master is still banished.

Ruin is going to do what he does best: hit things.

He rushes up to the Arcane Master and swings his greateaxe twice... and on his first attack, he uses an Eldritch Smite to do a bunch of extra Force damage Since the Arcane Master is presumably smaller than Huge size... Ruin will go ahead and knock him prone with the Eldritch Smite. Also, he'll use his bonus action to place Hexblade's Curse on the Arcane Master and do an extra 6 damage on each attack.

Greateaxe
Attack 1 - 32; Damage - 23 (magical slashing) + 12 (Force) = 35 total

Attack 2 - 29; Damage - 21 (magical slashing)

(Note: from Silvery Barbs, Ruin had advantage on his next ability check, attack roll, or saving throw, which is why I rolled three attacks in the game log).

Ruin's mighty strikes slam into the Arcane Master, knocking him prone.

Arcane Master's Turn!

The arcane master struggles to their feet, having taken two vicious blows. Summoning the power of the stars, they begin to glow with the power of the weave. Ruin must make a DC 22 Strength Save or take 38 Radiant damage and be pulled towards the Arcane Master. With desperate force, they swing their blade in two heavy, overhead strikes

Sword attack #1 VS. Ruin: 31 to hit, 28 Slashing plus 18 Radiant damage.

Sword attack #2 VS. Ruin: 18 to hit, 32 Slashing plus 21 Radiant damage.

Wripers, then Evelyn.

STR save: 29 (Nat 20!)

Ruin expends his remaining 3 Bastion of Law dice, reducing the damage from the sword attack that hit him by 11 (from 46 to 35).

Con save for Fizban's: 24.

As he's starting to get worn down, Ruin decides to take every available opportunity to harm his foe... with his reaction he casts hellish rebuke at 4th level, dealing 35 fire damage to the Arcane Master on a failed DC 19 Dex save (half damage on success).

Dex Save: 32

Wripers, then Evelyn

Wripers, GO!

The Kobold, little bundle of pure destructive capability that he is, circles around the Arcane Master while the big metal man has him busy. Wripers has an idea, which on it's own merit is a terrifying concept. Using all his might, he pulls one of his opponent's arms down, then pins it to their side in a bear hug.

[Grapple Athletics check: Nat 20 (+13)]

With little effort, the equally little guy then lifts the load of malevolent meat and steel over his head and backward, smashing him head-first into the earth!

[2nd Athletics check: 24 (11{+13})]

[If successful, deals 23 damage and knocks the AM prone]

That definitely worked!

Wripers grabs the "AM" and throws them to ground with such force that their metallic skull makes a sickening clang against the marble. Ruin could tell that hurt. A lot. The "AM" is now prone!

Evelyn, take a stab at it!

Evelyn, seeing the Arcane master weakened and hurt, decides to try her little bone melting trick again.

She rushes over and tries to take hold of one of the master’s arms or limbs, or even just touching skin with her hand of Vecna, which is twitching as magical energy swirls around it, ready to go in for the kill.

to hit: 19

on a hit, the Master makes a DC 18 con save or drops to zero hitpoints as their bones melt away and turn to jelly.

Ooh, a crit!

Con Save: 12

Well. Dang

The bones and insides of the AM melt away and turn to jelly. 

The Arcane Master is now dead! There are no current enemies on the battlefield, which means Amari can drop concentration and return the Primal Master if she wishes or she can wait out the full duration, at which point it will return.

The room stills, as the Arcane Master finishes convulsing, and not a sound is heard.

Amari, do you wish to drop concentration on banishment?

Ruin regains 10 hit points from the Arcane Master's death. He's still not in great shape.

Kass will take a moment to cast Mass Cure Wounds at seventh level, meaning if everyone's gathered around, they'll get 25 hp back.  

Kass pulls out a small pack of something from his coat pocket, and pulls out a small cylinder made of paper and sticks one end in his mouth.  With a flick of his wrist, he lights the end, and a blue steel colored smoke swirls around the group.  It smells of healing herbs and forest glens, and you feel reinvigorated as the smoke swirls around you.  Holding it between two fingers in an almost absent-minded fashion, he says "Yeah, that was one tough customer, but make no bones about it - he's never dealt with the likes of us, before.  There's still one mook left, though - let's get ready, folks."