OOC: Going to give the recruit thread a couple days. Hang in there. The Ogre is going to chomp you soon.

*Good morning my fellow nerds! Do I just jump right in?*

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You come to a pair of bronze doors with what might be decoration of masked or hooded women.

When the door comes open, a rush of warm, fetid air greets you. The room is lit with a peaceful glow. On the wall opposite the door are hung several human skins. A whip with many strands hangs next to them.

To the right the room widens to make space for a statue that towers almost to the ceiling. The statue is an ogre-like figure, outfitted in flayed skins and decorated with skulls, with a gaping mouth wide enough to swallow a horse whole. It is seated atop a huge basin of red-hot coals, more than ten feet in diameter.

Around the statue is a pile of splintered bones, skulls with cracked pates, and broken weapons.

To the left the walls are highly polished. They loosely enclose a carved well that seems to be illuminated from within.  Directly above the well, in the twenty-five-foot-high ceiling, a five-foot-wide opening can be seen in the red light of the room.

 A repost of the current room.

Nibs climbed up into the hole above the glowing well where an ogre help him up and plans to eat him.

Roll Initiative new folks

OGRE initiative 10 

Rahla 29

Cuprum 25

Nibs 19

Vodin 19

Familiar 11

Ogre 10

Arya 9

Cuprum initiative: 25

Arya's Init: 9

Familiar's Init: 11

*Would it be possible for my familiar to use the help action to distract the ogre, giving it disadvantage on its next saving throw so that my spells could work better?*

Rahla Initiative: 29

"No" Nib says sternly. "I am friend, not food. Please put me down." 

Persuasion 23 (NAT 20; I though just for yucks I'd see if I could get him to be nice to the little (big) bunny rabbit; LOL) 

"Bunny no food? I hungry!"

"That is right. Here, is food." Nib hands him two rations.

"By the way, can you put me back down. That's what friends do."

Rahla Novistrix

Suddenly, the sound of footsteps can be heard, and a blue light approaches from the corridor. As everyone turns to look, the light intensifies, the crackling of flame now able to be perceived above the click clack of heeled boots. Into the chamber steps Rahla, a beautiful elven maiden garbed in a flowing mix of shining golden scale and bright white robes. She carries a shield in one hand, emblazoned with a crescent moon inside a sunburst. In the other, a blue flame floats in her palm, flickering and moving as if alive.

She stares at the current situation, perplexed. But upon seeing the Ogre, the flame in her hand grows as her eyes darken and crackle with power. "What's going on here?" She asks cautiously, preparing to blast the Ogre in case it tries to eat the bunny. She slides her feet into a defensive stance, raising her shield slightly as she looks from Nibs to Vodin to the Ogre

Notes

I'm gonna take the Ready to cast [Tooltip Not Found] if the Ogre tries to eat Nibs. In addition, if I can, I would like to make an Insight check to anticipate and read the Ogre's movement to possibly gain Advantage on the Spell Attack by reacting and striking quickly. Of course, you may not allow that, but its worth a try!

-Rahla's Insight check: 4

I'll go ahead and roll the [Tooltip Not Found] attack in case it goes off:

-Rahla's [Tooltip Not Found] Attack Vs. Ogre: Ranged Spell Attack; 14 to hit (if I get Advantage, then the second roll is a 11 total and we can us whichever is better). Hit: 8 Fire damage

A bat flies in from a previously unknown crevasse. It flaps around for a little bit, before perching inside the mouth of the statue. 

(Familiar's turn)

*if I use my action to see through my familiar's eyes, could I use that to have line of sight for casting misty step?*

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*Would it be possible for my familiar to use the help action to distract the ogre, giving it disadvantage on its next saving throw so that my spells could work better?*

 OOC: This is a no. Generally the Help action only gives advantage on attack rolls.

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*if I use my action to see through my familiar's eyes, could I use that to have line of sight for casting misty step?*

 OOC: I'll say ok to this.

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"That is right. Here, is food." Nib hands him two rations.

"By the way, can you put me back down. That's what friends do."

 The ogre's eye light up upon seeing the food and makes a grab for it.

In the process, it lets go of the bunny and drops Nib right into the glowing pool below.

Nib emerges completely covered in a liquid with similar viscosity to oil and is glowing brightly.

YAY win!

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The first door (slanted down) is more of an outline in stone. It does not open.

The second passage is decorated with bas-relief cat-like figures holding halberds about 40 feet long ending in bronze doors.

The third passage continues straight for about 50 feet then turns to the right.

The fourth hallway glows magenta, bathing the corridor with a ghastly hue. After about fifteen feet, the floor falls away to a pit that fills the hallway ahead. The pit is twenty-five feet deep and about 40 feet long. Eight large, spidery bushes with spiked stems, white leaves, and large yellow blossoms grow across its bottom.

Five feet beyond the nearest edge of the pit is a bronze bar, set level with the floor and embedded in the pit walls to either side. Farther out over the pit can be seen other similar bronze rungs, set at five-foot intervals. On the floor by the edge of the pit is a scattering of broken, rotting wooden planks. the hall continues another 20 feet and ends at a bronze door.

The fifth hall of Christmas slated to the right has five golden rings. The corridor 20 feet then turns to the left. There are 5 golden rings about a foot in diameter in the floor set about 4 feet apart.

 The glowing ogre pool room was the second hall with the cat figures. 

So three, four, or five?

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*if I use my action to see through my familiar's eyes, could I use that to have line of sight for casting misty step?*

 OOC: I'll say ok to this.

*time to make my big entrance :)*

The bat twitches, and flutters up to look around the room. A puff of fog, accompanied by a sort of 'whoosh', appears. The bat flies to the fog, dispersing it to reveal a young drow woman standing and looking around. She mutters a curse word in Elvish after surveying the room. "Another dead end. Still no path to the surface, and there's a bunch of whackadoos in the way." The bat flies to perch on her shoulder. "I don't suppose any of you know a way out?"

(Awe Comon Wysp; That was Super Doope. The Bunny Barbarian 'TALKED' his way out of a fight. Maybe I should take a level in Bard; LOL. Where's the applause? hehe)

Nib, standing up from the pool and trying to wipe the goop off his fur looks up and says to Vodin "Hey, I think we have company. Friendly company???"  

Jumping out of the pool and continuing to clean his fur, he introduces himself to the new visitors. "Hello There. My name is Nib, the Bard.. Barbarian. I don't think we will need to fight our 'friend' here. We may want to move along to another room though."

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(Awe Comon Wysp; That was Super Doope. The Bunny Barbarian 'TALKED' his way out of a fight. Maybe I should take a level in Bard; LOL. Where's the applause? hehe)

*applause*