Dungeon of the Mad Mage (#9 PbP)

*rolls eyes and balls a fist up*

Boys, they never understand what it means when you wink at them.

Shut Up! I was going with the plan like he said!

With the electricity flowing between Azrael's fingers, Evrik sees the others begin to make the tale tale signs of readying for a fight. As his anger continues to rise, he gets a slight grin and looks toward the Drow *****, Now you will know my wrath!

Evrik continues his prayers. Flashes of the dream fill his mind. The wicked mist encroaching upon the village; the Order of the Wood leading the charge of the village warriors trying to hold it back. His friends and family falling. And as the battle unwinds, he is there, with Siggarlum using prayer to help as best as they could. Young acolytes with little experience when the serrated blade appears and fells his friend with one mighty blow. Evrik falls to his knees crying out at the loss. The hooded priest, running toward the fallen, praying, raising the fallen to continue the fight and calling to Evrik, "The life you sought may yet be found!".  And then... The priests face, finally visible...  

The feelings surge within Evrik as he continues his prayer and his chanting grows from a quiet mumble to a deafening roar,  "I am life! I shall raise my army and you shall vanish from this earth!" He cuts his left palm with the dagger and drips a few drops of blood over the quaggoth corpse as he sprinkles the bone dust he gathered from the tombs. He continues to call to the gods, using both hands now as he motions for the beast to rise. The creature begins to stir, and growl, as the priest continues to pray and instill an odd semblance of life into the animal. The creature continues to rise and growl and the anger within Evrik lingers as he begins to look at the foul drow priestess with hate in his heart. And finally, the Quaggoth zombie stands, wretched and hungry, beside his master as Evrik turns to face the dark mother of spiders.  (Initiative when needed: 12)

MEANWHILE AT THE TEMPLE

The time for talk was over. You can tell on the look on the Drow warriors, it was about time. 

Priestess DEX SAVE: 14
Spider1 DEX SAVE: 22
Spider2 DEX SAVE: 19

The drow priestess gets hit, singing her beautiful skin - and Spider 2 writhes and dies. The drow warriors rush in and attack. Here are the initiatives:

Priestess T'rissa: 4
Female Warrior Ardulace: 17
Female Warrior Dhessril: 8
Male Warrior Izzatlab 20
Male Warrior Yriltorn 22
Spider1: 14
Evrik: 15

NOW you guys, whoever is inside, can roll for initiative. Evrik, you have successful raised a Quaggoth Zombie. (Uses Zombie statistics) You can roll it's initiative.

MEANWHILE BACK AT THE PRISON

The other two Drow, who loathe bugbears as much as the do any other outsiders, not to mention safe locked in their cell, heed to attention to your threat and open fire on you.

Bolt Attack: 8 Damage: 7
Bolt Attack: 10 Damage: 8

Gonna need a DC13 CON save, pwease. Failure = poisoned. If you fail by 5 or more, you share the same fate as Alessandra: Knocked oot as well.

Evrik commands the foul Quaggoth Zombie to attack the priestess and the creature moves awkwardly toward the room for it's attack as it growls and slashes about with its arms. (Initiative for QZ: 4)

Evrik moves forward with the creature staying a few steps behind.

I wasn't even trying to start a fight this time...

Initiative 12

Lythrl sighs and whispers a prayer to Rillifane as she casts faerie fire on the warriors closest to the group.

save DC 13 dex or be lit with purple fakey fire.

reaction  - disadvatage on an attack against Evrik or Tigerianne

Quote from Wysperra >>

Maybe I should have mentioned that in Drow society, males are lesser beings and are ruled by females. So any group with a female would be led by a female - arrogant and proud. Oh wells.

 Yes, I'm aware, but I try not to plant my meta-knowledge into my characters :P or by that, I mean,i don't assume that everything I know in real life is also known by all my characters without rolling for it atleast, unless my character has some background knowledge like.. a 'drow scholar' or somesuch

Initiative:  15

Lythril20, Yriltorn21FAERIEFIRE, T'rissa17, Ardulace16, Evrik15, Azrael15, QZ12, Spider8, Izzatlab6, Dhessril5

Yriltorn21 DEX save: 9
Ardulace16 DEX save: 20

Lythril casts her spell, Yriltorn saw it first got caught in it while pushing Ardulace out of the way with a grunt, instinctively.

Lythril20, Yriltorn21FAERIEFIRE, T'rissa17, Ardulace16, Evrik15, Azrael15, QZ12, Spider8, Izzatlab6, Dhessril5

Yriltorn raises his crossbow and fires at Lythril:
Crossbow Attack: 22 Damage: 8
THUNK! Lyth, if that's a hit, please make a DC 13 CON ST or be poisoned for 1 hour. (disadvantage on ability and attack rolls) If your saving throw fails by 5 or more, you pass out as well as get poisoned.

Lythril20, Yriltorn21FAERIEFIRE, T'rissa17, Ardulace16, Evrik15, Azrael15, QZ12, Spider8, Izzatlab6, Dhessril5

T'rissa casts Insect Plague on Lythril and Azrael. (I'm assuming that you guys are next to each other) I'll need DC14 CON saves for both of you, if you fail, you take 21 half if you save.

Lythril20, Yriltorn21FAERIEFIRE, T'rissa17, Ardulace16, Evrik15, Azrael15, QZ12, Spider8, Izzatlab6, Dhessril5

Ardulace fires a crossbow bolt at Ra'iik:
Crossbow Attack: 16 Damage: 3
Ra'iik, if that's a hit, please make a DC 13 CON ST or be poisoned for 1 hour. (disadvantage on ability and attack rolls) If your saving throw fails by 5 or more, you pass out as well as get poisoned.

Lythril20, Yriltorn21FAERIEFIRE, T'rissa17, Ardulace16, Evrik15, Azrael15, QZ12, Spider8, Izzatlab6, Dhessril5

You guys are up!

(Guess Biggs is dining on drow then. Stupid elfs.)

(Just to be clear, the bars are too close together for Biggs to reach in, right? And how much space is inside the cell? Because I might just port in...)

(Time to twin Giant Ape on you and someone else Rai? Yeah?)

Some sleight hand motion from Mr. Biggs summons an arcane wall of Shielding to intercept the bolts. All without breaking his gait out of sight. He leaves uttering in undercommon more words of promise. "Eh bien, j'ai essayé. En général, je n'aime pas que mes repas se tortillent. Mais pour vous deux, je peux me débrouiller." If a good slap to the bottom doesn't wake her up, Biggs manuevers her so that he's got her by the shoulders and starts shaking her almost violently. "Come on, my dear. Now's not the time to rest." And if THAT doesn't do it, well.. guess it might by time to go check on the others...

But if worked, he sets her down as soon as she stirs, and leaves her to get her bearings again out of the line of any more shots before....

Wis Save(DC 15): 14. 

A thought occurs to him. He goes over to keep his promise. First with Knock to suppress any magic barring the closest cell and unlock it. Loudly. Then, he opens it and steps in just enough for his large frame to block the exit. "Bonjour déjeuner." 

Translation: 

MEANWHILE BACK IN THE PRISON

The bars are too close together. What is that wall of force spell, and is it a reaction? Alessandra does not wake up, and if you are indeed able to enter the cell, the drow do not put up a fight and let you kill them. They are too weak to put up an actual fight.

(Safe to assume, Biggs won't be entering the picture for at least a few turns? I'll throw in his initiative for now anyways.)

Mr. Biggs is not quick with the first one. Nor kind, for that matter. But after all is said and done, rather than eat them on the spot, he leaves the broken remains inside to deal with later. Except for an arm. That one he chews on idly as he, wedge, and with Aless thrown back on his shoulder make their way back to the others.

Initiative: 13.

Initiative: 10

Danitriel locked eyes with the priestess and began to whisper into her mind.

Your House will never prosper. You will never know what it's like to have a loving family. The Spider Queen's chaos brings death, not strength. You will die alone and unmourned. Just give up.

 Azrael smiled as her skin was charred, he did enjoy it, but he was still sore that this victory could have been so much sweeter... but his thoughts were interrupted by a sudden swarming around him... 19  causing him to roar, scaring off some of the bugs nearest himself.

He would turn around, watching as Evrik approached, seeing Lythril nearby.. just as a plan formed in his mind.

He smiled at them both. 

Pointing a finger at each, he focused his will..... the world turned grey around them all for a moment, as a beam of polymorphic energy, altered by his metamagic hit both Dwarves, Transforming them both into Triceratops (You can DC 14 Wis Save if you wish to NOT be transformed, otherwise let it happen.)

Triceratops

Huge beast, unaligned

Armor Class 13 (Natural Armor)

Hit Points 95 (10d12 + 30)

Speed 50 ft.

STR

22 (+6)

DEX

9 (-1)

CON

17 (+3)

INT

2 (-4)

WIS

11 (+0)

CHA

5 (-3)

Senses Passive Perception 10

Languages --

Challenge 5 (1,800 XP)

Trampling Charge. If the triceratops moves at least 20 feet straight toward a creature and then hits it with a gore attack on the same turn, that target must succeed on a DC 13 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone. If the target is prone, the triceratops can make one stomp attack against it as a bonus action.

Actions

Gore. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 24 (4d8 + 6) piercing damage.

Stomp. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one prone creature. Hit: 22 (3d10 + 6) bludgeoning damage.

First things first

Poison save vs stupid ***** dart 16

Con save vs insect *****es 18

"Ouch, that hurrraaaaAAAAAHHHHH!"

Where once a pretty buxom dwarf lady stood, now stomps an angry triceratops, trumpeting it's warcry and brandishing an impressive pair of...horns!

Concentration *****es! 19

Concentrate harder!10

Even though she was hit, Lythril is able to keep the purple flames burning.

With Alessandra knocked out (and a moment of questioning the beasts methods on how to wake her up), He slithered along the walls and watched as the bugbear feasted on the fools who had attacked them with a smile, fully indulging himself at the gory sight. Oh how He missed this! The blood, the severing of limbs! How pathetic those Drow looked having so quickly accepting their fate... The shadow lurked in the room for a bit longer before stalking behind the pair again, slightly hoping they would return even if for just a moment longer for a souvenir for her to grab.

Evrik sends in his new pet, Cuez, to attack the Priestess. It moves slowly toward her intent on slamming its elbow down into her chin. (Cuez Attack: 4 Damage: 2)

As the zombie makes its way toward her, Evrik can wait no longer. "Curse you dark wench! I'll have you here no more! You have failed in your pathetic attempt at science and will today meet your end!" Evrik yells out as he rushes in to lay his hands upon the priestess. But as he approaches, the lights go out momentarily and his mind wanders to another plane as the world spins around him. His feelings burst out as he trumpets. The animal within rages and he runs, all four feet thundering upon the floor shaking those around him. His run toward the priestess is unimpeded as he lowers his head to try to gouge her with his horns but he rumbles so loudly the priestess had the opportunity to leap out of his way. (Evrik as Trixie: Attack: 20 Damage: 28) 

OOC: Skip below, including roll... I was posting from an old page and did not read Az's post. So... I'm doing the dino thing above!

As the zombie makes its way toward her, Evrik can wait no longer. "Curse you dark wench! I'll have you here no more! You have failed in your pathetic attempt at science and will today meet your end!" Evrik yells out as he rushes in and lays his hand upon the priestess to inflict wounds of life draining force upon her. (Evrik Attack: 13 Damage: 29) <<--ignore this roll!