Mister_Whisker Presents: Chronicles of the Accursed

The mage gasps as the gigantic figure grabs her from behind... she tries to squirm away (Dex save: 19) and...

...against all odds, she somehow manages to slide free of the vice-like grip. She lets out a startled cry and casts dissonant whispers on the massive Goliath.

Thorgath, please make a WIsdom save. On a failure, you take 9 psychic damage, and you must use your reaction to move away from her (half-damage only on success)

Then, Dhamila is up!

Round 1

Dhamila recalls from the previous battle that the enemies that had given her fellow adventurers the most difficulty were the spellcasters. And the she-spellcaster who forced her to use the cursed ring certainly didn't win her sympathy...

Therefore, the Creepy Girl, whose invisibility persists even when she attacks, draws her Shortbow and, unseen, shoots an arrow at the mage through the window opening.

Immediately afterward, the Runaway Tiefling moves, still invisible, to a different window, from which she peers out at the situation. It's likely that, in the chaos of the battle, considering the extremely persistent nature of the invisibility the ring grants her, only the mage realized (perhaps) the direction from which the arrow came. Changing window, she feels fairly confident that her position won't be easily guessed.

[[ OOC: Action: Attack with Shortbow. Movement: To change window. ]]

Dhamila's Shortbow Attack: 24 Damage: 4 (piercing) + 5 (sneak attack) = 9

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Dhamila's Shortbow Attack: 25 Damage: 11 (piercing) + 7 (sneak attack) = 18

'Dodge this' she thinks, mocking.

The mage lets out a cry of absolute agony, as she is hit with an arrow right below the kidney. She's still alive and conscious... barely.

Going to go ahead and keep things oving. Rolled Thorgath's Wis save against the Dissonant Whispers spell: 17, pass. The spell does half-damage and nothing else.

Using his bonus action, Thorgath tried to grapple the mage again. Dex save: 10

While she managed to slip Thorgath's first grab... his second arm wrapped around her, squeezing the unfortunate mage in a bear-hug. At the same time, an arrow flew from seemingly nowhere and lodged in her kidney, leaving the mage bleeding and barely conscious. Her spell did some minor damage, but nothing more.

"Hey! They've got Myrta!" one of the bandits yells. "What do we do??"

"Let them finish her off," another says, cocking his crossbow.

"No!" the third says. "Look, big guy, we can work something out! Please, just put the girl down..."

The four bandits all have crossbows out, ready to fight, but hoping to save the mage. They're all ready their actions to shoot at Thorgath if the mage dies... but they aren't pulling the trigger yet if they still have hope of saving her.

Abishai and Brynja are up!

Wondering if diplomacy could still prevail, Abishai speaks up, "Now now, we can end this peacefully guys... and ma'am." He nods to the almost dead mage in Thorgath's iron grip. 'Huh... where'd that arrow come from.' he wonders for a split second before continuing. "Lay down your arms and leave this town, and Myrta might survive to caress another cheek."

[[OOC: Persuasion check: 10. Movement: Moves forward to get as many bandits into a 15' cone if they are not persuaded. Holding action: Breath weapon (fire) DC11 Dex save, 1 fire damage, half on a successful save. Lol I keep rolling 1's on damage. If my persuasion is my action, you can ignore my held action.]]

Seeing that the mage is accounted for, Brynja will stroll up the bandits with crossbows aimed at Thorgath. She says, "Shouldn't you guys be worried about yourselves?" as she swings at one of them with her war hammer.

Attack 7 (rolled in game log)

Well she waves her warhammer in their general direction to get their attention while not actually interrupting Abashai's effort at diplomacy.

The two brutes glance at each other... and make brief eye contact. The Dragonborn's words fell on deaf ears... they have other ways of saving their companion. Then... they pounce! Each one swings his mace twice, with advantage from Pack Tactics, at the goliath holding their friend hostage, hoping to bring him down, or at least force him to let go of her!

Thug 1 vs. Thorgath:
Attack: 10 Damage: 5
Attack: 10 Damage: 8

Thug 2 vs. Thorgath:
Attack: 17 Damage: 3
Attack: 21 Damage: 5

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The two brutes glance at each other... and make brief eye contact. The Dragonborn's words fell on deaf ears... they have other ways of saving their companion. Then... they pounce! Each one swings his mace twice, with advantage from Pack Tactics, at the goliath holding their friend hostage, hoping to bring him down, or at least force him to let go of her!

Thug 1 vs. Thorgath:
Attack: 22 Damage: 5
Attack: 19 Damage: 8

Thug 2 vs. Thorgath:
Attack: 24 Damage: 8
Attack: 21 Damage: 5

Resistance for Thug 1's 1st attack: 1

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The two brutes glance at each other... and make brief eye contact. The Dragonborn's words fell on deaf ears... they have other ways of saving their companion. Then... they pounce! Each one swings his mace twice, with advantage from Pack Tactics, at the goliath holding their friend hostage, hoping to bring him down, or at least force him to let go of her!

Thug 1 vs. Thorgath:
Attack: 22 Damage: 5
Attack: 19 Damage: 8

Thug 2 vs. Thorgath:
Attack: 24 Damage: 8
Attack: 21 Damage: 5

Resistance for Thug 1's 1st attack: 3

Seeing that his counterpart has already brought Thorgath down, the second thug smacks Thorgath a third time for good measure, then turns his mace on Brynja with his second attack (still with Pack Tactics, as one of the bandits is adjacent to her).

The mage with her turn falls dives under a table and takes the Dodge action, ready to do whatever it takes to remain alive.

"Please... don't hurt me!" she cries, her hands over her head as she cowers behind the table, eyes squeezed shut.

Dhamila is up!

Round 2

Dhamila sighs at the brutal effectiveness of Myrta's two companions, but takes comfort in the fact that Myrta herself seems to have been brought to her senses.

'My 'though boys' have never had any problems with physical threats,' the Creepy Girl thinks 'but since Myrta apparently had enough and isn't causing any problems, while her two friends seem dangerous, I think I'll lend a hand in eliminating them. After all, we have to act quickly if we want to prevent poor Thorgath from bleeding to death...'

Therefore, an arrow shoots from the window, hurtling toward the bad guy who had approached the dwarf. The Runaway Tiefling immediately changes window/position once more, not wanting to give such tenacious enemies the slightest chance of tracking her down.

[[ OOC: Action: Attack with Shortbow. Movement: To change window. ]]

Dhamila's Shortbow Attack: 24 Damage: Unable to parse dice roll. (piercing) + Unable to parse dice roll. (sneak attack) = 0

Thanks to her armor, Brynja only takes 2 damage from the attack on her.

An arrow strikes one of the thugs, knocking the wind out of him. It sticks out of his leg, bleeding profusely (the brute is bloodied)

The bandits are up now! Two of them attack Brynja with their scimitars

Scimitar vs. Brynja
Attack: 21 Damage: 4
Attack: 12 Damage: 4

The third lets out a cry of frustration as he sees Brynja diving for cover and points his crossbow at the Dragonborn who tried to talk them into surrender.

Crossbow vs. Abishai
Attack: 5 Damage: 3

The fourth bandit, seeing arrows flying from the window, tries to shoot blindly at whatever is over there (that being Dhamila). He attacks at disadvantage because he can't see her, and the tiefling has half-cover

Crossbow vs. Dhamila
Attack: 14 Damage: Unable to parse dice roll.

Abishai and Brynja are up again! Thorgath is down, potentially with two failed death saves depending on whether or not he activated Stone's Endurance to avoid being downed before third hit

Being surrounded while needing to move, Brynja activates her armors full invulnerability then strolls towards Thorgath, ignoring all the opputunity attacks she triggers. There she, bends down to put her hand on Thorgath, and restores a HP.

Magic action: activate full invulnerability 
Move Action: move to Thorgath
Bonus action: Lay on hands for 1 HP.

Only giving one HP, because I expect even if she gave him more, the next hit would bring him down again. This way she can keep waking him up for a while 😊 Have to keep our big damage dealer going...