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Can we see what's coming at us from the east?

(Not yet. I'm putting them into the initiative order at the same place as the gauth, so I'll need to know what those 3 had in mind first.)

Froskan moves closer to Trimyrai (stop 10 feet behind him) to let the light from his spell and lantern extend beyond his ally so they'll be able to see what is coming before it gets to them, then readies a Frostbite in case they are attacked.

DC15 Con or 7 damage and disadvantage (if triggered)

(Reverie has been offline for several days, and Jack might be busy. I'll wait one more day to give them a chance to reply.)

Jack spends his turn turning to the other side of the Gauth, in order to keep his backside faced away from whatever’s coming out. With a minor magical slap of his drum and a sheathing of the Boom-Erang, he casts Healing Word at Second Level (Healing Isk, who took 22 Fire Damage last round, for 10) as he comboes the spell into a rhythmic swing, the sound of Leroy headed at the Garth surprisingly giving off a strange tune. “Keep your backs turned away from whatever’s back there! Ye don’t want to get flanked!”

Leroy Smack Attack One: 13 Damage: 8
Leroy Smack Attack: 10 Damage: 4

(If I recall correctly, I believe this is a legal turn. Feel free to let me know if I did something wrong, and I apologize for the wait, I didn’t notice it was my turn somehow lol.)

(Oh dear I have been super busy lately, couldn't even able to be online. I am so sorry! I will keep it up! ;-;)

"My scimitar's magic has dispelled," Reverie frowns as she feels the anger from her scimitar, maybe she could ask Iskander's help for later. "Although I can still handle it yet," she mumbles as she holds her scimitars firmly, and walks towards to her friends (moves 10 feet towards them).

(Sorry about the hold up on my end.)

(I will make some changes to Jack's plans. The Gauth blew up after Trim's and Isk's attacks, which caused some explosion damage to Reverie. Since Jack is worried about the party being flanked, and Trim is by himself in the back, I will have Jack move 30' east to get next to Trim, and Ready a sword attack.)

Current party positions:

• Trim was standing the furthest east. Jack has moved next to him, ready to defend.
• Froskan is 10' west of them, with a Froskbite ready.
• Iskander is 30' west of Trim. Reverie is also 30' west of Trim, but she carefully stays out of melee range of Isk, while she is making sure the curse-temper is under control.

The human-animal-growling from the east is getting louder. But to your surprise, a pair of Flail Snails breaks through the stones near Trimyrai, and are in melee range.

• These things are ogre-sized, with the bright coloring you expect from elementals (and fey). They don't move fast, but bursting though the nearby rocks let them get that close.
• The shell of these creatures is prized for its anti-magic properties. They get advantage on saves, and spell attacks against them have disadvantage.
• Tough to tell what a massive snail is thinking, but they seem to be fleeing from whatever is making those growling noises.
• Last round, you heard a noise (like a modern fire alarm siren). When Flail Snails are close to death, they retreat into their shells and start wailing. The fact that the wail was cut off indicates that something was powerful enough to smash through the shell of some other snail and kill it.

Froskan's spell goes off. Snail #1 CON save (w/adv): 12

Jack attacks the same one with this elf-sword. Both attacks miss (10, 13), glancing off the hard shell.

The second snail is being blocked by the first. The first snail was headed for Trimyrai, but Jack cuts it off. The first snail strikes at Jack with its 5 flail tentacles:

• Attack: 14 Damage: 7
• Attack: 21 Damage: 9
• Attack: 17 Damage: 6
• Attack: 24 Damage: 7
• Attack: 12 Damage: 9

Froskan's spell deflects off the shell, almost bouncing back at Froskan! Jack is hit twice for 13 damage total.

Trim and Isk are up. (Trim is within melee range of a snail. If he moves west so he can fire arrows, there will be 1 attack of opportunity.)

(EDIT: I don't know why I am getting the "dice roll" errors. The snail had a 19 on its CON save, and there were only 2 attacks against Jack that had 16 or higher on the attack roll.)

Flail snails!

Isk charges to the aid of his companions and lashes out with his glaive at the snail that flailed Jack.

• Movement - 30' into melee range with one of the snails
• Bonus Action - transfer hex to the aforementioned snail, cursing its strength
• Action - Glaive attack!
  • First Attack: 21 Damage: 12 + 2 necrotic damage
  • Second Attack: 27 Damage: 10 + 2 necrotic damage

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Trim is up. (Trim is within melee range of a snail. If he moves west so he can fire arrows, there will be 1 attack of opportunity.)

 (OOC: I will move and take the attack of opportunity.)

Once Trimyrai has moved out of melee, he will fire two arrows at this snail like creature.

Attack 1: 11

Damage 1(if it hits): 13

Attack 2: 20

Damage 2(if it hits): 14

(Ah, crap. I totally didn’t notice I made a bad move. That’s my bad- I apologize. I’ll try to make sure that doesn’t happen again.)

(As a side note, Merry (belated) Christmas! 2 days late, but it’s better than none.)

AoO on Trim by the closest Flail Snail:

• Attack: 21 Damage: 6

Isk's first attack glances off the snails shell (14 is not high enough), but his second attack slashes off 1 of the flails. After Trim moves away, his 2 arrows pierce different "flails", damaging them beyond use. (The snail that attacks Jack has taken 33 damage total, and only 2 of its original 5 "flails" are still working.)

Top of the round...

Jack is next to a Flail Snail. Both of them took damage that round. A 2nd snail is close by. Both snails are moving west, trying to get away from something making growling noises from the east.

Iskander is 5' west of Jack. (Has a longer reach with his glaive.) Froskan is 10' west of Jack. Trimyrai and Reverie are 30' west of Jack.

Froskan, Reverie, and Jack are up.

(Happy New Year, everyone!)

Reverie frowns as she witnesses her friends getting attack from a Flail Snail. She moves towards a second Flail Snail (in melee range) and swings her scimitars. But then, she wonders what creatures would make these Flail Snails running off also.

Attack, Berserker Scimitar - 8 Damage - 6
2nd Attack, Berserker Scimitar - 12 Damage - 10
Bonus Action, cast - Shield of Faith on Jack

Froskan frowns as his spell bounces off of the snails shell. He decides to try one more Frostbite, then figure out a different tactic if it bounces off again.

Frostbite: DC15 con save or 7 damage and disadvantage.

Jack chops twice more at the hard shell of the magic-resistant Crustacean. “How many creatures live in this cave? There’s so many of them, and more coming from the East too! Keep your guard!” Should the Flail Snail die or something, Jack would move towards Reverie in an attempt to bunch together and double their strength.

Attack: 20 Damage: 5
Attack: 19 Damage: 6

(OOC: For some reason, I was getting the "potentially modified rolls" banner, before I did any editing.

I have deleted the contents of this post. Using the rolls from the next post.)

(OOC: The rolls for the last post keep changing. I'm going to re-roll all of them, since it is frustrating me.)

Snail Con save

• 14

snail vs. Jack

• Attack: 10 Damage: 8

snail vs. Reverie

• Attack: 20 Damage: 4
• Attack: 14 Damage: 6
• Attack: 12 Damage: 8
• Attack: 21 Damage: 7

Results:

The snail fails its saving throw! Froskan is able to aim at the snail's body without hitting the anti-magic shell, frosting it for 8 damage.

That snail starts to withdraw into its shell, and make a loud, high-pitched wail of distress. Before it can take cover in its shell, Jack hits twice for 11 damage. The snail collapses and moves no more. (Snail #1 is dead.)

Reverie hits the other snail twice, for 11 damage, chopping off a "flail". (It now has 4.) That snail swings 4 times at Reverie, hitting her twice for 11 damage.

From the east, the angry growling noise is getting louder. The snail wail (before it died) helps guide it in your direction. (ie. get ready for next round).

Iskander and Trimyrai are up. (Then back to the top of initiative order.) Snail #2 is lightly wounded. Reverie should roll a WIS save vs. DC 15 (fail = berserker curse).

Reverie's WIS save - 12

(Edit: *Gasps* How close Jack is to Reverie at the moment?)

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Reverie's WIS save - 12

(Edit: *Gasps* How close Jack is to Reverie at the moment?)

(The snail is closest to you right now, so Jack is safe this round... As long as Reverie conveniently stays close to the monsters, she can target them first.

If you can think of ways to express Reverie's cursed rage, have fun.)

(Just wanted to ask, how much room is in this cave? I feel like I probably missed it somewhere, but I just want to check.)

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(Just wanted to ask, how much room is in this cave? I feel like I probably missed it somewhere, but I just want to check.)

(Actually, I realize I didn't mention. I was trying to do theater of the mind, since this area hasn't been mined smooth, and the passages would be twisting around...

Let's say that this East-West passage is 20' wide (in the north-south direction), but there are also smaller side-passages, stalagmites, and columns of stones all around you, if you can think of a clever use for the terrain. The flail snails came out of one of the side-passages, so you weren't able to see it until it was right on top of you.)

If Isk can get within 10' of the snail that Rev is engaged with he'll do so and strike out with his glaive!

• Bonus Action - transfer hex to the other snail, cursing this strength
• Action - Attack!
  • First Attack: 20 Damage: 7 + 5 necrotic damage
  • Second Attack: 24 Damage: 15 + 5 necrotic damage