No Rest for the Dead in Avlor

OoC: Aw Nuts, Sorry Esker and all.  First wizard :(

That being said, if you were taking an hour I imagine you might as well have taken 70 minutes and cast it as a ritual, so you can keep the spell slot.

Squiggles loses communication with it after 100 feet so he is unaware of the aboleth attacking it.

Fluffy will 'Ink' and dash away.

• Ink Cloud (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). A 5-foot-radius cloud of ink extends all around the octopus if it is underwater. The area is heavily obscured for 1 minute, although a significant current can disperse the ink. After releasing the ink, the octopus can use the Dash action as a bonus action.

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Squiggles loses communication with it after 100 feet so he is unaware of the aboleth attacking it.

 Oh, good point. I guess you don't know any of that stuff about how far it is then either.

Thick ink blocking the aboleth's line of sight to the octopus, it pauses for a moment to try to locate its prey by sound (Perception: 20)

With its keen senses, it picks up Fluffy's location on the other side of the ink cloud and dashes into it and out the other side. It manages to close the gap by 20 ft, leaving it 10 ft away from the fleeing familiar, who is now about 30 ft from where the passage starts to narrow and bend to horizontal.

Fluffy will keep hauling ass with Dash until it gets caught or gets within 100 feet

Fluffy makes it about 30 ft into the horizontal part of the passage with the aboleth pursuing. Where the passage narrows, the aboleth has to squeeze, and finds that it can no longer keep pace with the small octopus. It curses to itself and gives up the chase, turning around to head back to its lair, as Fluffy makes it back to within communication range of Squiggles, and eventually back to the surface where the party waits. The scouting expedition took a total of about 4 minutes with Fluffy's swim speed, allowing you to deduce the distance.

Squiggles will dismiss fluffy to his Dimension, and relate the information Fluffy gathered to the group

    The genasi scratches his head and his nose wrinkles as he is apparently doing some calculations. "I believe that I can just manage to make that swim on one breath."

Flynt shrugs. "I am not the best swimmer but I can give it a try." 

Squiggles perks his head up: "So, let's assume the aboleth is still in the water. Water conducts electricity. Does anyone have a lightning spell?"

OOC: I think he can still SEE what Fluffy's doing, he just can't tell Fluffy what to do - so he can transform Fluffy, tell him to go explore, or go explore and retreat if attacked, or go explore and come back after X time, or after N condition, etc.

Jarl takes a moment to remember what lightning is, then shakes his head. "I keep forgetting about light-en-ing. I could summon a water elemental, though. Or a fire elemental, but I doubt one could evaporate all the water."

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OOC: I think he can still SEE what Fluffy's doing, he just can't tell Fluffy what to do - so he can transform Fluffy, tell him to go explore, or go explore and retreat if attacked, or go explore and come back after X time, or after N condition, etc.

 The wording in the spell does strike me as a bit ambiguous, but the horse's mouth says the 100' applies to seeing through the familiar as well. Squiggles could have dismissed him from an arbitrary distance, but wouldn't have known he was in danger in order to decide to do so.

       "So I don't think we can all safely make it through the passage... even if Jarl here changes into something to drag the rest of you along. So, where does that leave us? The other passageway that the fish man mentioned outside of town? The portal? Do we think that portal leads to its lair though?"

“Maybe if I speak to Bahamut. He can provide us the greatest chance of success...”

Celric sits to the side and casts divination as a ritual and asks which way out will yield best results for our party?

DM: Would we be able to 'attack' the water with Kuo-Toa scepter and trigger the lightning proc?

Sure, you could trigger it on an attack on the water. Make an arcana check to see how well you could predict what would happen if you did that.

Celric, I'm not quite sure how to handle that question, since, of course "it depends". But I also don't want you to waste the spell. Can you pose a more specific question?

(Ooc: “Which passage is safest?” Maybe? Im doing it as a ritual so it won’t cost me a slot)

Arcana 11

Edit: Jaysssus

As long as Celric is doing a ritual spell, Jarl is going to ritually cast Commune with Nature as well. Keeping in mind the 300’ underground limit, he’ll start by asking for the location of any blocked outlets or natural drains for the water-filled tunnel below.