Where you are now is single file. Let's say there's 15 ft of passage that's 10' wide before what I've drawn, where it goes to 15' wide. So single file for 60 ft. from Jarl, "double file" for 15', then "triple file" for the remainder of the passage.
Just waiting on Celric, then I'll resolve the next batch and take the kuo-toa's turn.
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Fluffy goes into an evasive flying pattern, darting around his position ( dodge).
Celric charges forward, shield held in front of him, shouting, "I am coming for you evildoer! With Bahamut's fury and might I will strike you down!" ( dodge)
Jarl waves his hands and mutters something, causing the ground around the drider and aboleth to erupt in a fountain of stone (erupting earth: DC 16 DEX save, 27 or 13 bludgeoning).
Drider DEX save: 7
Aboleth DEX save (-2): 9
The drider is too fixated on the invaders to dodge the stone, and a large chunk of rock smacks it squarely in the spider thorax (27 damage).
Another piece of rock strikes the aboleth, which shimmers for a moment, then vanishes.
Balian sprints towards the chamber, hugging the left-hand wall as he does, while keeping an eye out for incoming arrows ( dash and dodge).
The kuo-toa jogs fishily behind the drider (where you saw the aboleth until recently) and burbles something incomprehensible while waving its hand and its scepter. A green, glowing spectral trident appears about 25 ft in front of Balian. It waves its hands again, and a ball of green light appears in its free hand.
The tan area is rough terrain from erupting earth.
Shale rushes forward (full 30' movement). "I have one of those, too," he replies seeing the weapon manifested by the kuo-toa and with a quick word he summons his own spiritual spear near the drider. Then calls a warning to the group. "That fish man may be a priest!"
(BA: Spiritual Weapon, placed as close to drider as possible. 60' range so that should place it at the tunnel entrance if I'm reading the map correctly. If for some reason it reaches here's the attack for it: Attack: 26 Damage: 12)
The cleric bangs his staff against his shield and pushes the reverberations toward the wounded drider.
(Action: Toll the Dead, DC 16 WisST, 29 on fail)
DM: I forgot to heal myself when I healed the others in the sarcophagus room through my blessed healer feature. 3 first level spell used = 9 HP healed on Shale. Heals made at Posts 280 and 299.
Blessed Healer
Beginning at 6th level, the healing spells you cast on others heal you as well. When you cast a spell of 1st level or higher that restores hit points to a creature other than you, you regain hit points equal to 2 + the spell’s level.
Shale: Toll the dead has a range of 60 ft, so you can only reach to the edge of the grid with it (same as spiritual weapon). Do you want to do something else with your action?
Shale rushes forward (full 30' movement). "I have one of those, too," he replies seeing the weapon manifested by the kuo-toa and with a quick word he summons his own spiritual spear near the drider (at R9 currently). Then calls a warning to the group. "That fish man may be a priest!" whileassuming a defensive stance ( dodge).
Realizing he is too far, Flynt will put away his swords and draw his bow. He casts Hunter's Mark on the drider (You need to advance to reach it with Hunters' Mark, with a 90 ft range, but you can get within 85 ft if you use your full movement) and fires two arrows. The first one is a solid hit, embedding into the drider's shoulder (13 damage), but the second one glances off of spider exoskeleton).
With a snarl, the drider returns fire at Flynt, launching three poison-tipped arrows in quick succession from its longbow at the dragonborn.
All three of the drider's arrows strike with surgical precision, somehow finding gaps in the ranger's armor (30 damage total). You feel a wave of nausea as the poison enters your bloodstream.
Round 2:
Moving the drider down to the bottom of the list so that the round update happens at the top.
You don't know of particular strengths or weaknesses of these two creatures, apart from the fact that driders are stronger and tougher than typical drow.
You've heard that aboleths often "nest" in a lair, and after forming a bond with the area can exert some odd influences on the surrounding area. You've heard stories of people seeing aboleths appear and disappear just as suddenly, and some have hypothesized that this is a result of the aboleth projecting an image of itself to interact with its surroundings without physically leaving its lair.
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Balian jumps as the spectral trident materializes near him, backpedaling 10 feet. Noticing the Kuo-Toa struggling to maintain the ball of green light, he follows Squiggles' firebolt with an arrow.
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Jarl:
Jarl moves forward 30 feet. "The drider was a drow once, so it has the same innate talents as me, [OOC: party members who were already traveling with Jarl would know what his racial traits are, see the character sheet for a refresher] but it's physically stronger, as you might have guessed by the --" he gestures at the drider's ...everything.
He casts Erupting Earth again, in the same spot - DC16 Dex Save for both creatures. Damage: 16 bludgeoning, or half on a save.
"The aboleth that we saw may have been an illusion, but it may well still be hiding nearby, be cautious!"
It's been three days, so I'll just assume Celric is dodging for now, since he'd have to get up in front be in range to attack.
Celric stays put, assuming a defensive stance, not wanting to put himself in the front of the pack while there are arrows and glowing tridents coming toward them.
Jarl moves forward 30 feet. "The drider was a drow once, so it has the same innate talents as me,[OOC: party members who were already traveling with Jarl would know what his racial traits are, see the character sheet for a refresher]but it's physically stronger, as you might have guessed by the --" he gestures at the drider's ...everything.
He casts Erupting Earth again, in the same spot - DC16 Dex Save for both creatures. Damage: 16 bludgeoning, or half on a save.
"The aboleth that we saw may have been an illusion, but it may well still be hiding nearby, be cautious!"
Drider DEX save: 9
Kuo-Toa DEX save 7
Both creatures are caught flat-footed, as the earth once again erupts beneath them (16 damage each).
Balian jumps as the spectral trident materializes near him (DM: there's not room to stand 10 ft back since the passage is single file there and Flynt is standing there. You'd have to go 25 ft to get to an open space.) Noticing the Kuo-Toa struggling to maintain the ball of green light, he follows Squiggles' firebolt with an arrow.
Attack: 7 (Using sharpshooter power attack)
He must have been a little shaken by the trident, however, as the arrow sails wide of the kuo-toa, clattering against the rear wall of the cavern.
Where you are now is single file. Let's say there's 15 ft of passage that's 10' wide before what I've drawn, where it goes to 15' wide. So single file for 60 ft. from Jarl, "double file" for 15', then "triple file" for the remainder of the passage.
Just waiting on Celric, then I'll resolve the next batch and take the kuo-toa's turn.
"Darvin" | Changeling | Hexblade 1 / Swords Bard 6 | Descent Into Avernus (AC 19; PP 14; 52/52 HP)
Anton Chergoba | Human | Battlemaster 4 | Lost Mines of Phandelver (AC 20; PP 14; 36/36 HP)
Celric runs 30 feet forward and takes the dodge action behind his shield.
"I am coming for you evildoer! With Bahamut's fury and might I will strike you down!"
Gash - Lvl14 Goblin Wizard - The High Court of the Aasimar Queen
Fluffy goes into an evasive flying pattern, darting around his position ( dodge).
Celric charges forward, shield held in front of him, shouting, "I am coming for you evildoer! With Bahamut's fury and might I will strike you down!" ( dodge)
Jarl waves his hands and mutters something, causing the ground around the drider and aboleth to erupt in a fountain of stone (erupting earth: DC 16 DEX save, 27 or 13 bludgeoning).
Drider DEX save: 7
Aboleth DEX save (-2): 9
The drider is too fixated on the invaders to dodge the stone, and a large chunk of rock smacks it squarely in the spider thorax (27 damage).
Another piece of rock strikes the aboleth, which shimmers for a moment, then vanishes.
Balian sprints towards the chamber, hugging the left-hand wall as he does, while keeping an eye out for incoming arrows ( dash and dodge).
"Darvin" | Changeling | Hexblade 1 / Swords Bard 6 | Descent Into Avernus (AC 19; PP 14; 52/52 HP)
Anton Chergoba | Human | Battlemaster 4 | Lost Mines of Phandelver (AC 20; PP 14; 36/36 HP)
The kuo-toa jogs fishily behind the drider (where you saw the aboleth until recently) and burbles something incomprehensible while waving its hand and its scepter. A green, glowing spectral trident appears about 25 ft in front of Balian. It waves its hands again, and a ball of green light appears in its free hand.
The tan area is rough terrain from erupting earth.
Shale is up.
"Darvin" | Changeling | Hexblade 1 / Swords Bard 6 | Descent Into Avernus (AC 19; PP 14; 52/52 HP)
Anton Chergoba | Human | Battlemaster 4 | Lost Mines of Phandelver (AC 20; PP 14; 36/36 HP)
Shale rushes forward (full 30' movement). "I have one of those, too," he replies seeing the weapon manifested by the kuo-toa and with a quick word he summons his own spiritual spear near the drider. Then calls a warning to the group. "That fish man may be a priest!"
(BA: Spiritual Weapon, placed as close to drider as possible. 60' range so that should place it at the tunnel entrance if I'm reading the map correctly. If for some reason it reaches here's the attack for it: Attack: 26 Damage: 12)
The cleric bangs his staff against his shield and pushes the reverberations toward the wounded drider.
(Action: Toll the Dead, DC 16 WisST, 29 on fail)
DM: I forgot to heal myself when I healed the others in the sarcophagus room through my blessed healer feature. 3 first level spell used = 9 HP healed on Shale. Heals made at Posts 280 and 299.
Beginning at 6th level, the healing spells you cast on others heal you as well. When you cast a spell of 1st level or higher that restores hit points to a creature other than you, you regain hit points equal to 2 + the spell’s level.
Shale: Toll the dead has a range of 60 ft, so you can only reach to the edge of the grid with it (same as spiritual weapon). Do you want to do something else with your action?
"Darvin" | Changeling | Hexblade 1 / Swords Bard 6 | Descent Into Avernus (AC 19; PP 14; 52/52 HP)
Anton Chergoba | Human | Battlemaster 4 | Lost Mines of Phandelver (AC 20; PP 14; 36/36 HP)
(Oops. Thought it was 120'. Dodge action then... damn, and that was a good damage roll too.)
Shale rushes forward (full 30' movement). "I have one of those, too," he replies seeing the weapon manifested by the kuo-toa and with a quick word he summons his own spiritual spear near the drider (at R9 currently). Then calls a warning to the group. "That fish man may be a priest!" while assuming a defensive stance ( dodge).
Realizing he is too far, Flynt will put away his swords and draw his bow. He casts Hunter's Mark on the drider (You need to advance to reach it with Hunters' Mark, with a 90 ft range, but you can get within 85 ft if you use your full movement) and fires two arrows. The first one is a solid hit, embedding into the drider's shoulder (13 damage), but the second one glances off of spider exoskeleton).
With a snarl, the drider returns fire at Flynt, launching three poison-tipped arrows in quick succession from its longbow at the dragonborn.
Attack 1: 24 Damage: 11
Attack 2: 24 Damage: 14
Attack 3: 25 Damage: 5
"Darvin" | Changeling | Hexblade 1 / Swords Bard 6 | Descent Into Avernus (AC 19; PP 14; 52/52 HP)
Anton Chergoba | Human | Battlemaster 4 | Lost Mines of Phandelver (AC 20; PP 14; 36/36 HP)
Oof, some brutal rolls there; sorry Flynt!
All three of the drider's arrows strike with surgical precision, somehow finding gaps in the ranger's armor (30 damage total). You feel a wave of nausea as the poison enters your bloodstream.
Round 2:
Moving the drider down to the bottom of the list so that the round update happens at the top.
Squiggles/Fluffy
Celric
Jarl (-11)
Balian
Kuo-Toa (holding a spell)
Shale (dodging)
Flynt (-30)
Aboleth(?)
Drider (-40)
"Darvin" | Changeling | Hexblade 1 / Swords Bard 6 | Descent Into Avernus (AC 19; PP 14; 52/52 HP)
Anton Chergoba | Human | Battlemaster 4 | Lost Mines of Phandelver (AC 20; PP 14; 36/36 HP)
Squiggles curses in gnomish. "Jarl, anything we need to know about the thing that looks like a spider ate you that is firing arrows at us?"
Squiggles raises his arms above his head and yells "Time to cook some fish! sâ!!!" and a Fire bolt comes out of his hands, aiming for the kua-toa
Firebolt: Attack: 15 Damage: 12
Edit: If I can't reach (120ft) i'll move forward until I can
Fluffy continues to dodge
The firebolt sails over the drider's shoulder and straight into the kuo-toa's chest, causing some external heartburn (18 damage).
(Concentration check: 17)
The green ball in its hand flickers for a moment, but stabilizes.
"Darvin" | Changeling | Hexblade 1 / Swords Bard 6 | Descent Into Avernus (AC 19; PP 14; 52/52 HP)
Anton Chergoba | Human | Battlemaster 4 | Lost Mines of Phandelver (AC 20; PP 14; 36/36 HP)
If you could stop rolling your ass off, that'd be great :p
(Any particular strengths/weaknesses on either creature that Jarl would know about? And does he have a clue what happened with the aboleth?)
Birgit | Shifter | Sorcerer | Dragonlords
Shayone | Hobgoblin | Sorcerer | Netherdeep
Jarl:
You don't know of particular strengths or weaknesses of these two creatures, apart from the fact that driders are stronger and tougher than typical drow.
You've heard that aboleths often "nest" in a lair, and after forming a bond with the area can exert some odd influences on the surrounding area. You've heard stories of people seeing aboleths appear and disappear just as suddenly, and some have hypothesized that this is a result of the aboleth projecting an image of itself to interact with its surroundings without physically leaving its lair.
"Darvin" | Changeling | Hexblade 1 / Swords Bard 6 | Descent Into Avernus (AC 19; PP 14; 52/52 HP)
Anton Chergoba | Human | Battlemaster 4 | Lost Mines of Phandelver (AC 20; PP 14; 36/36 HP)
Balian jumps as the spectral trident materializes near him, backpedaling 10 feet. Noticing the Kuo-Toa struggling to maintain the ball of green light, he follows Squiggles' firebolt with an arrow.
Attack: 5 (Using sharpshooter power attack)
Damage: 16
Waiting on Celric and Jarl
"Darvin" | Changeling | Hexblade 1 / Swords Bard 6 | Descent Into Avernus (AC 19; PP 14; 52/52 HP)
Anton Chergoba | Human | Battlemaster 4 | Lost Mines of Phandelver (AC 20; PP 14; 36/36 HP)
Jarl:
Jarl moves forward 30 feet. "The drider was a drow once, so it has the same innate talents as me, [OOC: party members who were already traveling with Jarl would know what his racial traits are, see the character sheet for a refresher] but it's physically stronger, as you might have guessed by the --" he gestures at the drider's ...everything.
He casts Erupting Earth again, in the same spot - DC16 Dex Save for both creatures. Damage: 16 bludgeoning, or half on a save.
"The aboleth that we saw may have been an illusion, but it may well still be hiding nearby, be cautious!"
Birgit | Shifter | Sorcerer | Dragonlords
Shayone | Hobgoblin | Sorcerer | Netherdeep
It's been three days, so I'll just assume Celric is dodging for now, since he'd have to get up in front be in range to attack.
Celric stays put, assuming a defensive stance, not wanting to put himself in the front of the pack while there are arrows and glowing tridents coming toward them.
Jarl moves forward 30 feet. "The drider was a drow once, so it has the same innate talents as me, [OOC: party members who were already traveling with Jarl would know what his racial traits are, see the character sheet for a refresher] but it's physically stronger, as you might have guessed by the --" he gestures at the drider's ...everything.
He casts Erupting Earth again, in the same spot - DC16 Dex Save for both creatures. Damage: 16 bludgeoning, or half on a save.
"The aboleth that we saw may have been an illusion, but it may well still be hiding nearby, be cautious!"
Drider DEX save: 9
Kuo-Toa DEX save 7
Both creatures are caught flat-footed, as the earth once again erupts beneath them (16 damage each).
Balian jumps as the spectral trident materializes near him (DM: there's not room to stand 10 ft back since the passage is single file there and Flynt is standing there. You'd have to go 25 ft to get to an open space.) Noticing the Kuo-Toa struggling to maintain the ball of green light, he follows Squiggles' firebolt with an arrow.
Attack: 7 (Using sharpshooter power attack)
He must have been a little shaken by the trident, however, as the arrow sails wide of the kuo-toa, clattering against the rear wall of the cavern.
"Darvin" | Changeling | Hexblade 1 / Swords Bard 6 | Descent Into Avernus (AC 19; PP 14; 52/52 HP)
Anton Chergoba | Human | Battlemaster 4 | Lost Mines of Phandelver (AC 20; PP 14; 36/36 HP)
Can Squiggles tell what spell the kua-toa is holding?
Arcana: 18
Celtic will advanceforward 30feet and take a defensive stance once again taunting the baddies. “Give me all you got!”
Gash - Lvl14 Goblin Wizard - The High Court of the Aasimar Queen