Mister_Whisker Presents: Chronicles of the Accursed

I just realized Lar should have had disadvantage on his first attack. So... let's roll it again: 14

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I just realized Lar should have had disadvantage on his first attack. So... let's roll it again: 16

 Okay, looks like it hits anyway.

Brynja and Balthathar are up!

Balthathar ducks low, avoiding the first blow. The second strike lands true—the mace slams into him and sends the elf crashing to the floor.

An arrow whistles past and buries itself in the bandit’s stomach. The thug collapses.

“...Thanks,” Balthathar mutters.

Then three more outlaws burst into the hall.

“Oh, come on! Give me a break!”

He scrambles to his feet and moves—15 feet west, 10 feet north, then 10 feet east—circling the table to stop 10 feet from Lar before striking.

“How about one more cup of wine, my lord?”

Robin darts in to help, tipping a drink over Lar’s head to distract him.

Attack: 12 Damage: 16

OOC: And Balthathar ducks behind the chair, taking cover and healing himself.

Healing Word: 10

Lar roars in pain... One more solid hit will probably finish him off (either dead or unconscious, depending on preference of whoever swings on him)

Brynja takes a swing at Lar with her nice pretty war hammer.

Attack 16 for 9 bludgeoning damage

Then, regardless of if Lar goes down or not, Brynja charges to keep the newcomers occupied and to keep them from swarming Abishai. She stops right in front of the mage with her gleaming and jeweled armor, and says, "You have one chance to surrender and leave this fight. Lar is going down, it's up to you if you want to go down with him."

The number of bodies on the floor, and that none of us are down might give them some idea what they are getting into...

Lar's thick ringmail armor absorbs just enough damage to keep the bandit lord from going down. JUST enough (seriously, it's a miracle this guy isn't dead yet).

But he still has enough life in him to make an attack of opportunity as Brynja turns her back on him to confront the mage...

Rapier vs. Brynja
Attack: 27 Damage: 11

Edit: Lar crits on a 19-20. He just rolled a 19, so he does a bonus 7 Piercing damage.

Whether it hits or misses, Brynja gets a good look at the incoming brutes for the first time... and... the mage is a human girl. She looks about 14. One of the thugs also looks like like a well-built teenager rather than a grown man.

But Brynja doesn't have much time to contemplate that as it is the gnomish mage's turn. The gnome still behind her lets out a cackle... as a bonus action, he unleashes lightning through the tether he created to Brynja with his witch bolt! Brynja takes 12 Lightning damage... which triggers her armor's curse, dealing an additional 8 Necrotic damage.

With his action, he hurls an ice knife at Abishai...

Ice Knife vs. Abishai
Attack: 25 Damage: 4 piercing

The The knife then EXPLODES, either against armor or flesh, and Abishai and Thorgath must make a DC 14 Dex save or take 10 Cold damage.

“Oh, welcome!”

The invisible little girl turns toward the newcomers.

“I still have cheese and pickles. Glad they won’t go to waste!”

Ready Action: Same. Help Action to Balthathar.

(Thorgath uses Absorb elements to absorb the cold.)

And it looks like, in spite of her armor's resistance, Brynja takes 29 damage and goes down! The last thing she sees as slips into blackness is two scared teenagers and a brutish tiefling thug.

The mage girl is up, and she lets out a squeak. She just watched Brynja get absolutely blasted... but Lar is a bloody, near-dead mess... she glances at the boy... and then she shrinks back. She takes the [Tooltip Not Found] action.

The two thugs are up now, though.

The boy takes a shot at Thorgath with a crossbow.
Attack: 14 Damage: 4

The older man takes, an orc, fires a shot with his heavy crossbow at Abishai
Attack: 12 Damage: 6

And both of them miss... they likely realize that things are not very good for their side right now, especially with the less-than-enthusiastic support of one of the two mages. Dhamila and Abishai are up!

Abishai's natural proclivity for the arcane reduces the impact of the initial blast by 2 cold damage. Unable to reflect the spell back on the attacker due to the area of effect, the Red Dragonborn attempts to jump out of the way of the secondary blast, but fails miserably as the icy shards rake the tinker's body. He hisses in pain at the multiple impacts.

[[OOC: Using Spellfire Initiate to reduce initial spell damage by 2. Using ring of spell turning to gain advantage on ice knife saving throw. Rolled 6/1, both failed. 3/15hp]]

As the tinker wonders at his bad fortune and multiple bleeding wounds, a bolt flies past his head from behind. Chancing a glance, he sees the two thugs with crossbows leveled in his direction, 'Oh no... this is turning from bad to worse.' He thinks as he steps up next to the giant Goliath. Abishai opens his mouth and a gout of flame erupts from him in a 15' cone, hoping to catch both Lars and the gnome magus in the blast. He then throws another wad of paper at the magus to cause the fire to burn with a magical intensity. 

[[OOC: Action: Fire breath DC 11 Dex save on Lars and his gnome magus for 6 fire damage, half damage on a successful save. Bonus Action: sacred flame DC 13 Dex save on the gnome magus for 3 radiant damage on a failure.]]

Round 3

Dhamila worries about poor Brynja, so generous, so brave... and now dead or dying. But she realizes that the best way to save her—if she can still be saved—is to end the battle quickly.

1) If Lar is already dead, burned by Abishai's fire,
'Without their boss, the others will become demoralized and won't persist in risking their lives for nothing,' the Creepy Girl thinks. 'Just one last encouragement to escape—and live, if need be...'

And then, out of nowhere, an arrow shoots toward the halfling magus's chest!

2) If Lar is still alive,
'It's Lar's turn to die...' the Creepy Girl thinks. 'Without their boss, the others will become demoralized and won't persist in risking their lives for nothing.'

And then, out of nowhere, an arrow shoots toward the bandit leader's chest!

Either way

After the shot, as is her usual practice, the Runaway Tiefling changes position – just in case her psychology is flawed and the scoundrels find reasons to stay and fight to the death.

Dhamila's Shortbow Attack: 13 Damage: 9 (piercing) + 3 (sneak attack) = 12

Lar lets out one final cry of rage as the flames singe him (not bothering to roll a Dex save... he was at 2 HP)

The Bandit Magus, on the other hand: 5

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Lar lets out one final cry of rage as the flames singe him (not bothering to roll a Dex save... he was at 2 HP)

The Bandit Magus, on the other hand: 5

 And another Dex save: 18

The gnome bandit throws up a shield to intercept Dhamila's attack, stopping the arrow mid-flight.

"Fools, kill them!" the gnome screams at the three newcomers. "For the treasures beneath the manor!"

Thorgath is up!

Furious that the tiny mage with the silly beard wouldn't just give up, the massive heavily tattooed and severely wounded goliath lets deep sigh before throwing himeslg at him.

Grab mage by beard and leg, dc 19 str/dex save to avoid grapple.
Then throw tiny bearded mage at the other mage: 25 Bludgeoning (to both mages?): 13 (non-lethal, sap)

Dex save: 3