Dead in Thay Game Thread

I agree with Xavier.

(Corvin is happy to go north as well)

You move into the next cavern and you see that the trees in this forested cavern are scorched and gouged. The turf is burned and overturned, revealing the stone floor in places. You hear a soft rumbling. 

As you walk a little bit in you can see a huge blue worm like (with lots of legs) creature sleeping, about 20 feet away. The rumbling sound is coming from the creature. 

Eiren silently draws his rapier and prepares to strike quickly at the sleeping creature, signaling to the others to do the same. 

Ok everyone can make a surprise round (with advantage) and then roll initiatives anyone higher than 7 can make a second attack.

Please let me know which square you are in when you end your surprise/1st turn round. 

fire bolt launches from Xavier 

Attack: 28 Damage: 27

initiative 14

He will follow up with frostbite dc 16 con save or take 10 cold damage and have disadvantage on next attack.  He is going to stay in the same spot he started

Eiren stealthily leaps forward and stabs the sleeping beast with his magic rapier, twice for good measure. 

Rapier Attack: 12 Damage: 10 piercing 

(Rolling a third attack die from Elven Accuracy: 10)

Rapier Attack 2: 26 Damage: 12 piercing 

(Trying for a crit with Elven Accuracy: 19)

Initiative: 8

Qu’oth Initiative: 19

Qu’oth swoops in, staying aloft, while Eiren stabs again at the prone creature!

Rapier Attack: 20 Damage: 9 piercing 

 (Elven Accuracy: 13)

Rapier Attack: 20 Damage: 14 piercing 

  (Elven Accuracy once more: 8)

Eiren is in N14, and Qu’oth will stay about 20 feet above him.

(I am only going to recap the surprise round until everyone has posted. Also while it is technically prone because it is sleeping, I am unsure of the condition would grant advantage in this case. Since the creature is huge and I believe that you have advantage because the proned creature is lower than the attacker. What is everyone else's opinion on this?)

Xavier's firebolt smacks into the obvious beast. While Eiren attacks twice with his rapier, only the second strike hits. He must have had distracted by the side of the creature. 

Corvin, Baik and Velmine are up 

Corvin follows Eiren in (Move to N14) and swings his warhammer at the creature before him as hard as he can.

Attack: 13 Damage: 12

Initiative: 6

(I am of the opinion that prone is prone—it’s not so much that it’s “below” you, but rather that being on such a position, it has a disadvantage at defending from your attacks. This is a major tactic when fighting giants, for example: try to trip them so they fall, then hit them while they’re on the ground. There are also creatures that are immune to the prone condition, like those with an innate hovering ability)

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Corvin follows Eiren in (Move to N14)

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Eiren is in N14, and Qu’oth will stay about 20 feet above him.

 (Not to interrupt anyone, but I think you two better organize that... It's impressive that only the two of you moved, and yet, you managed to land on the same spot... Is that a statement to how in sync we are? Or about how in sync we aren't?)

Velmine walks past Xavier, and heads southeast, on a diagonal line, until she stops at N17. At that exact moment, while sliding, thanks to the momentum of her running in this direction, she draws her rapier, and plunges at the monster.

Attack: 20 Damage: 23 Piercing

After that, she calls to the bear, who comes rushing down and stops at M-N,15-16, unleashing his signature rampage of attacks.

Bite Attack: 18 Damage: 9 Piercing

Slash Attack: 18 Damage: 13 Slashing

Initiative: 19

Quote from Flyingmatthew >>

(I am only going to recap the surprise round until everyone has posted. Also while it is technically prone because it is sleeping, I am unsure of the condition would grant advantage in this case. Since the creature is huge and I believe that you have advantage because the proned creature is lower than the attacker. What is everyone else's opinion on this?)

 (My opinion is the same as Awaypturwpn, it doesn't really matter how big you are, if you're on the ground, it'll be harder to avoid attacks from up close, that's all there is to it. And by RAW, that's exactly what it says,

• An attack roll against the (prone) creature has advantage if the attacker is within 5 feet of the creature. Otherwise, the attack roll has disadvantage.

Very straightfoward in my opinion... It might be a difference in versions again?)

On a round of movement, Velmine steps 10 feet east (now P17), and gets ready, by also calling the bear to come closer to her. (N-O, 17-18) The bear attacks first, and Velmine herself soon after it.

Bite Attack: 22 Damage: 5 Piercing

Claws Attack: 23 Damage: 15 Slashing

Velmine's Rapier Attack: 21 Damage: Unable to parse dice roll. Piercing

(Test: 1. This is because I couldn't see my dice rolls, but rolling a new dice seems to give me results everytime, so that's what I tried. Now, to finish it off:)

Velmine, confident in her attack, leaves with her fancy footwork, going around the closest tree, to stop on T18.

(Ok I stand corrected Prone is Prone.)

Corvin please move to a different position as N14 is already taken. Looks like the whole N row is taken except for N13 and N12 both of which are in the trees. 

(Back)

Baik moves up to 10L and sends some Sacred Flames at the prone creature. Get him while he’s down!

(DC 16 Dex save or take 9 @Disadvantage due to Prone)

Baik roll initiative and if higher than 7 you can make another turn 

(Initiative is 17)

Baik stays where he is and casts the same spell again. 

(DC16 disadvantage dex save or take 13, unless it’s not prone anymore)

(End in O17)

Surprise round recap

Xavier's firebolt smacks into the obvious beast. And Xavier stays where he was when you first caught sight of the beast.

While Eiren changes a the legged worm and attacks twice with his rapier, only the second strike hits. He must have had distracted by the side of the creature. 

Corvin moves around  the beast to O17 and swings his Warhammer but he is distracted by the beasts size snd misses. 

Velmine moves to N17 and plunges her rapier deep into one of the creature's many legs, almost severing it off. She calls the bear over and it's bite and claws both do damage. 

Baik moves north until he can see the beast through the trees and casts Sacred Flame and hits the beast (I'm making it an automatic hit because I don't think a sleeping creature should have a Dex save. But being prone doesn't make a Dex save have disadvantage, if you cast a ranged spell attack that had an attack modifier that would be at disadvantage.)

Worm free action .

The blue many legged worm wakes up with a terrible roar. 

Recap of the first round so far.

Eiren's rapier strikes true with both of his deft attacks. 

Xavier casts a frostbite, Con save 18, and ice forms on the beast face and body. 

Velmine moves to P17 and again takes off a leg. The bear moves to where Velmine was (as Corvin is at O17 I adjustad the bears location a little) and again it's bite and swipe combination does the trick. 

 Baik again launches a Sacred Flame, Dex save 23, but the creature is able to dodge the flames.

(You guys did a whopping 161 points of damage before it gets to attack.)

The worm is feeling pretty hurt and standing up it lashes out at what it perceives as the two biggest threats. It makes a Bite Attack: 15 Damage: 25 at Eiren. After chewing on her for a second, the blue worm swallows him. Eiren is blinded and restrained, and he has has total cover against attacks and other effects outside the worm.

The worm then tries to constrict around the bear Attack: 25 Damage: 12 bludgeoning damage + 22 slashing damage. Almost killing the bear. The bear is grappled (escape DC 16) and restrained until this grapple ends.

 (If anyone read that Velmine was the one to get swallowed, I redid the math using just the attacks after the worm was awake, and using those numbers both Eiren and the bear did 23 points of damage to Velmine's 19.)

Corvin is up.