Waterdeep: Camel Heist (2020)

(Can I also ask those of you who haven't properly given yourself a long rest, please do so on your character sheet now before battle gets fully underway.  Everyone should start at full HP and all spell slots, except for the one party member (naming no names) who fell off his camel.)

Seeing Zoria surrounded, Dekhan launches himself into the air as the glowing wings explode from his back. He flies up to H8 and sheathes Talon and reaches for a javelin.

Seeing herself surrounded, she looks back to the group with a big smile and a thumbs up!

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I took the dodge action, so shouldn't all of those attacks have disadvantage?

Seeing herself surrounded, she looks back to the group with a big smile and a thumbs up!

 Yes, sorry.  Working on it:

1  Attack: 10 Damage: 7

2 Attack: 8 Damage: 6

5 Attack: 20 Damage: 3

7 Attack: 5 Damage: 5

 Zombie 6 still hits, because it had advantage and disadvantage, and its first d20 is enough to hit.  Give me one concentration saving throw.

Concentration - 13 

Zoria shows no fear in the face of the horde!!!!

Thanks, so Shield of Faith is still up.

Dekhan, you launch yourself into the air and fly above the zombies.

Group G:  Not in fact zombies.

Dekhan, you see below you the tent shake, and then a flap opens.  You all see a stout man with a shaved head storm out.  What is the meaning of this?  he shouts.  He is wearing rich, red robes, and when he lifts his hand, you see all the zombies turn and stare at it.  

Group H: Scupper, Strix and Vaz are up.

Scupper sees opportunity in the chaos.

"Stay sharp lads," he whispers mostly to himself but with a wink to Vaz and he moves to stealthily sneak to the back of the tent...

Stealth 21

Scupper, you dash to the north, but it takes your full turn to get within range (as you were hanging back with Varinth and Soodi).

Varinth will start tootiling down the hill, altogether like a five year old girl on a summers morning, shouting iM A cOmiN!

Acrobatics : 0

With his wineskin in one hand and his other on fire, Vaz stumbles halfway down the hill and does rolly polys down the rest, flinging out warm wine and bursts of flames like a demented pinwheel.

In case it's called some thing different elsewhere in the world, this is a rolly poly;

Advancing to I9 to support Zoria and Fekar (presumably adjacent to the man coming out of the tent at h8) Strix notices the man's raised hand garnering attention and calls to him: "Came for well. Need water. Call off!"

If the zombies don't stand down immediately, throw spear at Z1 13 for 4 and hold torch out (so it should now be touching the tent....)

Oh.  says the man.  His hand flashes with red light for a moment, and the zombies lower their gaze and seem to become... inert.  Still standing, but slack, looking down at the ground.  

The well is over there.  The water's lovely and fresh.  He points to the large well nearby.  Help yourselves.

"So, uh, what's with all the undead?" she asks, very verklempt.

When Scupper reaches the back of the tent, he'll keep going silent and pop under the back to get a look inside.

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Oh.  says the man.  His hand flashes with red light for a moment, and the zombies lower their gaze and seem to become... inert.  Still standing, but slack, looking down at the ground.  

The well is over there.  The water's lovely and fresh.  He points to the large well nearby.  Help yourselves.

Strix stays his spear - though part of him feels like it was going to be a ******* great throw and he's going to regret not doing it later.... - and gives the bald gent a clipped bow and a "Thanks!", then heads over to the well to fill his second wineskin. He remembers how the shopkeeper had looked at him when he bought a 2nd wineskin despite clearly already having a 1st one. Well who's laughing now, shop keeper? WHO'S LAUGHING NOW???

Walking over to the well, he sing-songs in Orc "He seems nice, reasonable. We should use this cessation of hostilities to take up more appropriate defensive positions in case he changes his mind though. He may just be using these wretched creatures as free labour but then maybe that's because he has violent mood swings that make him unsuited to managing a living, sentient workforce." Before taking out the contentious wineskin or putting down either his torch or spear, he looks over the edge of the well to see what the water level is like, if it's water, if something leaps out of the water to take his face off and whether he's going to need to use one of those rope-pulley-bucket things to drink his fill.

Perception for looking into the well if needed : 13

As the slope peters out Varinths roll slows until he gently comes to rest against the small wall at (F13)... snoring.

Zoria, the man answers you.  Well, security mostly.  There's all sorts in these hills, you know.  Goblins.  Orcs.  I see you have your orcs under control, jolly good.  I've had some sniffing around a few days ago, but they didn't approach.  You notice as he's speaking that he has an unusual tattoo on his forehead.

He watches as Strix fills the waterskin, and his eyes go up to Dekhan.  An Aasimar.  Rare, though I have met a few in my time.  Goodness, you are quite a mix, and you have 'adventurers' written all over you.  What brings you to this remote place?

He looks off into the distance.  Goodness me, is that a camel?  And an ogre, too.  Whatever will they think of next?  You look back, and see that Gog the ogre is developing a playful friendship with Soodi; him pretending to swipe her with his massive fists, and her gracefully stepping out of the way at the last moment.

Is there some check I can make to recognize the tattoo? - 20 - History/Religion: +2 - Arcana: +0

As in like see if I recognize the mark itself or any details about it.

Strix sniffs at the water, and then while the man is distracted by the camel he swaps his wineskins around. If the man's gaze returns to his direction he'll make sure he's seen taking a drink, in case it precipitates a reaction.