Round 3 party results

• Iskander misses, and mutters some curses.
• Reverie hits again with the crossbow (6 damage), and applies Shield of Faith to Isk.
• Trimyrai puts the burst shot into the Trolls right eye. (21 damage, maximum without a critical)
• Froskan hits the wand with the heel of his hand, and gets a decent glob of flame that hits the Troll (14 fire)
• Jack taunts the Troll. WIS save: 0 (4 damage, disadvantage on next attack) The Troll isn't crying. Really. It just has an arrow in its eye that stings a lot.

The troll took 45 damage this round, for a total of 68 damage in combat. It is still up, but near collapse.

Start of Round 4

The pounding on the main gate continues. The area in the center at eye height is splintering. The gate will be cracked open either next round or the round after.

The Troll took fire damage, so does not regenerate. (If the Troll is taken down to 0 hp this round, and someone still needs to go, they can go into the nearby guard station, grab a lit lantern, and break it on the troll to cover it with flaming oil.)

The Troll claws at Jack, and claws & bites at Isk.

• Claw at Jack (with disadv.): Attack: 16 Damage: 11
• Claw at Isk: Attack: 19 Damage: 13
• Bite at Isk: Attack: 13 Damage: 5

(OOC: I wish I could save those rolls for my characters.) The frenzied troll hits with all attacks. Jack takes 6 damage (29/35), and Isk takes 22 damage (9/31).

The map positions haven't changed. Party is up.

Jack grips his sword. “Are those ye buddies? Well, it’ll be nice that you had someone know ye before ye died.” And, as if on cue, he swings!

Attack: 17 Damage: 11

(8 was exactly what it had left.) Since Jack's taunt didn't stop the claw attack, obviously it needs to have its ears cleaned... Jack drives his long sword into the troll's left ear, and the point exits the troll's right ear. The Troll slumps to the ground, but its flesh is still bubbling with regeneration.

Trimyrai sees a lit lantern in the guard station, and throws it at the Troll. The lantern shatters, covering the troll with burning oil. Now it is truly dead.

(The party has 1 round to move to where you want to be, and/or to heal up. Isk is hurting. After that, the gate will be shattered.)

Isk reels under the attacks and begins bleeding heavily.  When the downed body bursts into flames from Trim's latern use, a thick, black sludge seeps onto the ground.  It flows towards Iskandar and is seemingly absorbed into his boots.  His wounds look a little better (+8hp heal from Hexblade's Curse).  He breaths in a sigh of relief, turns to face the gate, and beings collecting green eldritch energy in his left hand.

Action: Ready [Tooltip Not Found] trigger on a hostile creature breaking through the gate. Attack: 14 Damage: 8

Trimyrai: (to the party) "Can anyone patch up Isk? i don't have any healing potions or bandages."

Trimyrai will position himself to be ready to fire at whatever bursts through the front gates.

(If I still can..)

Jack can’t think of a good song, so he makes one up. “I see you’re hurt, isk. Let me take care of that.”

• One day, there was an angel named Isk...
• In his hand was a glaive, he didn’t fight with his fists...
• He holds power, of a magic weapon...
• Searching for something, don’t know what it is...

and, just like that, he pats Isk on the head and magic surges through his skull, healing him for 10.

”ye good now?”

(The map is still under the "DM Notes" on the Campaign Page. I'm guessing that Trim wants to be next to cover but further back, so by the SE corner of that northern tree? Does Isk want to be closer for melee, or back for Eldritch blasts? Similar question for Reverie, Jack, and Froskan.)

Jack will stay back, let them come to him. He will go 40ft backwards, close to where they were when the troll appeared.

(that sounds good, Trim would want some distance but also have a good line of sight to minimize any maneuvering he would have to do as soon as the fight resumed.) 

Froskan also moves back to gain distance from the gate before it breaks open, putting himself around the corner of the Admin building, but leaning around to watch the gate and see what comes through.

"I will patch up Isk," Reverie replies to Trimyrai as she walks towards Iskandar, casting Lay on Hands Pool on him as she rests her hand on his shoulder. "Be careful," she says, patting his shoulder once or twice before she pulls out her scimitar and a dagger for a melee.

Cast, Lay on Hands Pool - 20 hp to Iskandar

(Aww... but I healed him.)

(Now its a contest. Jack's Healing Hands, Isk's Healing Hands Feature, and Reverie's Lay on Hands. Who can heal better?)

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Reverie ... Lay on Hands Pool - 20 hp to Iskandar

(After Jack cast Cure Wounds at 2nd level and Isk used the Hexblade skill, Isk was down 4 hp from maximum, and Jack was 6 hp down.

Since Reverie was willing to use more, she spends 10 hp from the Lay on Hands Pool to heal up Isk and Jack.)

Isk smiles at his companions, "I'm feeling quite good now, thank you both."

He will move so that he is 40' from the gate (in addition to readying the Blast).

The northern gate door cracks and splinters into 2 pieces. Squeezing through the gap is an ogre. It is wearing ring armor, and carrying a tree trunk that it used to bash the door. This is an Ogre Battering Ram (BR).

Behind it, you can see another (regular) Ogre (Og). It has to wait for the Battering Ram to get through the gate gap before it can enter. It sees the party, and starts bellowing in Common to something currently out of sight. "Mama, come here! Red bat man say true. Bad tiny things (that) hurt you, here. Smash and eat them!"

Ogre brawl in the compound - Round 1

The BR is halfway through the broken door. The ogre behind it has 3/4 cover. The third opponent hasn't shown up yet. The party goes first, then the ogres.

Party is up, in any order. (Reverie: you have the option of two hand weapons already drawn, or she is still using the crossbow.)

“More half ogres? People must like these guys. Go ahead everyone, ladies first.”

(just wanted to have Jack respond, gonna what for everyone else to do something. Well, maybe not Isk, but almost everyone.)

Trimyrai: (to the party) "I think the civilities can wait until after the fight."

Trimyrai is going to fire at the ogre despite it having cover.

Movement: no movement this turn.

Action: Arcane Shot: Seeker Arrow (last arcane shot until a short rest) Attack: (range 150 (600) ) 25 (attack with longbow/piercing) 

Damage: (if it hits) 6 (piercing damage) (if it doesn't make a DC 10 Dex saving throw) 2 (force damage)

Bonus Action: no bonus action this turn.

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Action: Arcane Shot: Seeker Arrow (last arcane shot until a short rest) Attack: (range 150 (600) ) 23 (attack with longbow/piercing) 

 

(You do not make an attack roll when you use Seeker Arrow.

Knowing that you will hit will bias your choice, but I'll let you decide if you still want to use Seeker Arrow or not, or if you wanted to use Burst Arrow instead to get both ogres.)

(Actually, I’m just going to do this:)

After everyone makes their move/action/turn/you know what I mean:

Jack smiles, and chuckles a bit at the Battering Ram. “ye know, that’s not a good weapon, right? Let me show ye what is. Me voice!”

• Once upon a time, there was an Ogre named Bob
• Ye see, my buddy, there was someone getting robbed.
• An angel smiled down and said ‘Hello! How do you do!”
• It took some lightning, very frightening, and struck the ogres down with 2.
• Ye see, my little friend, boy let me tell ye what.
• If ye don’t run away, hurry today, Guess who that song’s gonna be about? 
• You don’t wanna know what I’ll have to do
• So get away, be scared, hooray, I’m coming after you!

The song takes root in that Ogre Ram’s mind, and surfaces through the action of fear. (DC14 wisdom or run and 8 damage)