Party vs. the Entire Hallway Monster's friend
Round 4
Declaration Phase

Map:

Sitrep: With a desperate last minute flurry, you managed to slash, freeze, shove, and pummel the cube into death. Hildi is still unconscious. There's a bonfire burning merrily in the hallway. And the gray ooze is coming at you!

Drusk - AC 18 - 10/10 hp
Hildigrim - AC 14 - 0/9 hp (1 Death save failed)
Jorin - AC 17 - 11/12 hp
Pascal - AC 14 - 4/10 hp
Vanja - AC 12 - 10/10 hp

Entire Hallway Monster: dead, in small puddles all about
Oily black ooze: seems fine!

Monsters declare! The ooze is coming down the hall towards you.

Next: Everyone please declare. Remember to add a random d20, that has been useful.

• Declare Delay or as many of Action, Move, Bonus Action and/or Reaction as you want
• Roll initiative
• Roll for your declared actions (to hit, damage, etc.) if any
• Roll a random d20 for my use
• Concurrent Initiative explainer: https://www.dndbeyond.com/campaigns/277586

OoC- I think Jorin could do everything I'm about to type in 6 seconds, but feel free to trim if necessary...

Jorin, seeing the halfling slide out of the dissipating goo swears and reaches out to grab Hildi.  With the halfling hoisted on his shoulder, he ducks back into the west hall to retrieve his axe.

• Initiative: 22
• Random d20:  12
• Athletics: 24
• Movement ends in the square with his glowing axe

Pascal will back up another 15 feet and continue to release another blue beam of energy toward the ooze!

Ray: Attack: 18 Damage: 7 cold, speed reduced by 10

d20: 10

Initiative: 11

“Jorin, we are leaving. Stop dragging Hildi’s body deeper in.”

(OOC: I think the party is L2 after a long rest. And I recommend that Hildigrim “Hold” his declaration.)

Drusk is forced to run after Jorin, to stabilize Hildigrim as his Action. Any remaining movement (30’ total) will be south/southeast as far as possible.

Medicine check for Hildi: 11

Init: 4, random roll: 14

(edit: A 1 and a 2? The bad rolls keep rolling... Maybe Vanja should also try a Medicine roll?)

"Aye Drusk, but I can't leave my axe behind. It's brother would get lonely."  Jorin says with a smile.

(OOC: I would have preferred Drusk dragging Hidigrim 15' south, leaving Jorin free to run for his axe, but it was impossible for Drusk to beat a 22 init.)

OoC - Ah, ya...I thought about waiting a bit to post to see if someone else was going to pick him up, but I felt like Jorin would have made that his first priority.  Alas, the woes of pbp

OOC > That’s what Delay is for... just sayin’. Though IRL, we’d declare in reverse order of intelligence, so... hold on... so Drusk would have declared second, which means without Delaying, this would have gone down just like it is. Jorin declaring first, and Drusk basing his action on Jorin’s plans.

But if Jorin had Delayed, he could have seen what Drusk had planned, and then acted afterwards. Of course, also after the ooze, but. “Drusk and Jorin lock eyes, and Drusk lunges for Hildigrim. After waiting a beat, Jorin races for his axe, hoping to get it and get back down the hall.”

ohhhh, right, delay... Sorry!

OOC > No, no, no worries. Just helping us all feel our way around the concurrent initiative thing.

(OOC: One of the things that I learned from Critical Role is that the adventures can be more interesting when things don't go ideally. I'm grumbling... but still fun.)

Death save #2: 10

OoC - huzzah Hildi!

Vanja will, in fact, try a medicine roll to stabilize Hildigrim.

Initiative: 16
Random d20: 8
Medicine: 11

And the monster rollz:

Party vs. the Entire Hallway Monster's Friend
Round 4
Resolution Phase

Starting Map:

Resolution: 

As the ooze slides forward, tendrils reaching out, Jorin stows his axe and leaps ahead, grabbing up Hilidgrim's body. He scrambles back into the western room, picking up his second axe. Drusk rushes in, intent on checking Hildi for wounds, and he and Jorin lay the halfling down, but Drusk despairs at his friend's blistered body. Vanja races up, and with a kind shove, pushes Drusk out of the way, applying a bandage she rips from her dress (11), stabilizing his wounds.

Meanwhile, the ooze continues to approach, and Pascal looses another freezing blast, hitting it squarely (17) and covering it with punishing ice (5 dmg, speed 0').

Hilidgrim does not move, but seems more settled.

Next: Round 5! I'll post a declaration phase in a second.

Notes: Nicely done, crew. Everyone used up most of their movement getting to and helping Hildi. To adequately stabilize him you had to put him down on the ground, so there you are.

Pascal will continue to pepper this thing with Rays to cover the others backing out alongside him.

Ray of Frost: Attack: 19 Damage: 1 cold, 10’ reduce  

Initiative: 16

d20: 9

Oops posted a bit early, ignore it if needed

Party vs. the Entire Hallway Monster's Friend
Round 5
Declaration Phase

Map:

Sitrep: All of you but Pascal have rushed to Hildigrim's aid in the western hallway, but Pascal managed to freeze the ooze in place as it approached.

Drusk - AC 18 - 10/10 hp
Hildigrim - AC 14 - 0/9 hp - stabilized
Jorin - AC 17 - 11/12 hp
Pascal - AC 14 - 4/10 hp
Vanja - AC 12 - 10/10 hp

Entire Hallway Monster: dead, in small puddles all about
Oily black ooze: frozen in place!

Monsters declare! The ooze is stuck.

Next: Everyone please declare. Remember to add a random d20, that has been useful.

• Declare Delay or as many of Action, Move, Bonus Action and/or Reaction as you want
• Roll initiative
• Roll for your declared actions (to hit, damage, etc.) if any
• Roll a random d20 for my use
• Concurrent Initiative explainer: https://www.dndbeyond.com/campaigns/277586

Jorin sees a bit of a life return to Hildi and scoops him up once more, "I think its about time we go.  I'll carry our friend." 

With Hildi on his back, he hurries out of the passages, back towards the blood room.  As he rounds the corner and sees the frozen ooze, he looks as Pascal and gives him a nod of approval.

• Initiative: 13
• Action: Put Hildigrim over his shoulder:  Athletics: 24
• Move: 30' down the hall back into the blood room
• Edit: forgot the random d20: .16

Drusk will Delay.

(I'm going to declare it now anyways, but I want the others to get out of the way first.) After Jorin and Vanja have moved, Drusk will move 15' east to get to the corridor, then Dash to move 45' south.

(Edit: Random d20 17 )

I guess I'll just roll a random d20: 20