Guild of Guilds.

Ragnir will move over to start attacking the ghast.

Movement: ragnir runs over to fight the ghast. (10 ft)

Action: Attack: 22 (attack with longsword/slashing)

Damage: (if it hits) 10 (slashing damage) 

Bonus Action: no bonus action this turn.

Ragnir sprints over thrusting his sword into the ghast’s chest before removing it, sending dark blood spilling into the floor.  

The Ghast looking pretty wounded claws at the one who damaged it the most.  Slashing out at Tyr.  

Attack: 12 Damage: 11

Tyr Con save: 8

As the Ghast’s claws sink in to the abdomen of Tyr.  You can feel the toxins from the decomposing flesh from under the nails.  As they infiltrate the bloodstream, Tyr finds his muscles stiffen as he becomes paralyzed

The Ghoul (1), now having a new target in its sight strikes out with a claw attack against Hermenor.

Attack: 11 Damage: 10

(Attack against Hermenor rerolled for some reason, it missed originally)

the ghoul lashes out wildly but is unable to connect,

Proton Con save: 16

Pritons initiative:  the stench radiating from the Ghast fills your nostrils as it makes you want to wrench and vomit, but you are able to compose yourself.  

Priton, Ragnir, and Tyr are in range of the Ghast, but Tyr just took a hit and is paralyzed.  Ten feet away is Hermenor engaged with a ghoul.

Priton will attack whichever ghoul is closest with the hostages "Someone take care of tyr, I can take care of the hostages." Priton yells as he slams his holy hammer on the ground summoning his Spiritual weapon. The spiritual weapon will attack the ghast and Priton will charge ghoul one and slam it in an uppercut with his holy hammer

Spiritual Weapon Attack: 9 Damage: 8

Priton Attack: 8 Damage: 6

Priton summons his spiritual weapon on the ground as it fires at the Ghast, filling the area with an ethereal grey smoke (it’s still a fun, right?). The Ghast reels back from the damage, but gains its footing enough to take an attack of opportunity at Priton before he rushes off to the ghoul.

Attack: 20 Damage: 10

Priton Con save if needed: 4

Priton would stumble over from the blow if he was able to.  Once the claws dig into the back of Priton, his muscles seized in place as he becomes paralyzed. Frozen like a statue, Priton is unable to make his next attack against the ghoul.

Hermenor then Rag’s initiative!

Update:  Hermenor is engaged with the remaining ghoul while Ragnir is engaged with the Ghast 10 feet away from each other.  Currently both Tyr and Priton have succumbed to the paralysis of the Ghast’s strikes.

Ragnir will attack the ghast again, and protect tyr with sanctuary.

Movement: no movement this turn.

Action: Attack: 23 (attack with longsword/slashing)

Damage: (if it hits) 9 (slashing damage) 

Bonus Action: Ragnir casts Sanctuary on Tyr.

Delighting in the sudden change of the battlefield.  The two incapacitated heroes frozen at his mercy.  The Ghast begins to let out a deep and twisted laugh.  Ragnir screams back, swinging his blade upward cleaving at the Ghast.  Decapitating the foul monstrosity.  The head rolls away towards the water as the body falls to its knees and collapses.

A blue covering begins to cover Tyr.  In the moment of fear and paralysis.  He can still feel the warmth and comfort coming through.  

Hermenor is up!

Hermenor looks at his companions' triumph against the ghast and says: "Nice! I'll soften up this last one for you."

-> Jab (unarmed strike) vs. Ghoul 1: Attack: 13 Damage: 7 magical bludgeoning.

Follow that up with another one (Martial Arts bonus action).

-> Overhand punch (unarmed strike) vs. Ghoul 1: Attack: 26 Damage: 7 magical bludgeoning.

Hermenor continues his assault against the undead creatures, landing two blows against the ghoul.  Rocking it for a moment before it refocuses.  

Tyr Con save: 11

The ghoul attempts to strike back against Hermenor:

Attack: 9 Damage: 5

Hermenor proves to be too quick for the ghoul, easily dodging out of the way of the claw attacks.

At the end of Tyr’s turn he is able to force some movement as the paralysis subsides.

Priton’s Con save: 13

9

Priton remains frozen by the paralysis.  Hermenor, Tyr, and Ragnir are free to act.  

Update: Hermenor is currently engaged with the final ghoul.  Ragnir and Tyr are ten feet away.  The fear of the hostages are beginning to subside seeing the fight to so well.

Hermenor will try to finish the job with the same 1-2 combo that worked so well just a moment ago.

-> Jab (unarmed strike) vs. Ghoul 1: Attack: 24 Damage: 6 magical bludgeoning.

Follow up (Martial Arts bonus action):

-> Overhand punch (unarmed strike) vs. Ghoul 1: Attack: 17 Damage: 8 magical bludgeoning.

Bobbing and weaving around the ghoul’s strikes.  Hermenor measures the distance with a quick jab, ducks under another claw attack as the ghoul retaliates.  As he ducks under the swing he follows through with an overhead right.  Hermenor you feel the facial bones crunch and cave in with your final strike as it crumpled down to the ground.

Combat is over - Priton comes out of paralysis.

Taking the time to look around.  You see  the 11-12 hostages all sigh in relief after that frightening encounter.  You see a caged in pen area, where they must’ve kept the miners.  Three cages are lining the pen - where they kept the ghouls.  Around the perimeter of the pen is a pressure plate system- upon further inspection it looks to be connected to open the doors of the Ghoul cages if stepped on.  Across the way there is the underground lake of still water.  In between there is a pile of items looks to be mining equipment.  The miners are still afraid to move because of the black stone pillars.

What would you like to do?

Ragnir: (to everyone) "Is everyone alright?"

Ragnir: (to the party) "This is a lot of prisoners we just rescued, i'm not sure what we should do next, we should continue to try to cleanse the area of corruption, but getting these people to safety is a big priority as well."

Tyr just looks at his companions "We could send them to the entrance of the cave and guide them back when we come back through."

"You guys(Priton says pointing at the prisoners), are you guys able to leave now or did this prick leave up some more surprises for us." Priton says as he taps the stone pillars and stretches from the paralysis

Hermenor tries to catch his companions’ attention, without making the victims privy to the discussion:

”Two points to consider, gents. First, unless we have safe-medallions for everyone, these victims might get zapped with evil-stone rays.”

”Second, remember that giant that we successfully avoided on our way to the village in the woods? Well, it just occurred to me that it had webbed feet. You know what else had webbed feet? The large footprints we saw around the lake, just outside this cave. And wait, there is more. When we went outside to try and attract these cultist out, these was a huge shadow lurking at the bottom of the lake. Connecting the dots, if we send the victims to wait at the entrance for us, we might instead be sending lunch to a water-breathing giant!”

The hostages begin to murmur and talk all at once making a chaotic cadence of pleas, thanks, and questions.  One voice cuts above the others.  The firbolg speaks up.

 “We can not get close to those pillars.  They will strike us down before we get 10 feet away.  We do not know of any traps, they kept us in the dark pen, under watch of those savage beasts.  The only time they let us out was to work.” 

A human female chimes in 

“They were looking for something, they kept talking about an artifact.  That’s why we were digging.”

The firbolg continues 

“What they didn’t know was that we found it.  Well... I found it.”

the group of miners gasp and half erupt in accusations and yelling.  Asking how he could let them suffer and go on like this.  The Firbolg yells again

 “If they got what they wanted they would’ve killed us all or left us for dead with those monsters.  If they wanted it that bad it must be powerful enough that they shouldn’t have it.... I hit an air pocket and this skull came rolling out.  It was pitch black, like obsidian.  I covered it up with some burlap and took it.  One night when the guards weren’t watching I threw it as hard as I could into the water.”

Another half orc male chimes in, interrupting the firbolg. “We thank you so much for saving us, we owe our lives to you.  We couldn’t burden you any more, but we can’t go by ourselves.  We are weak, tired, and hungry”

A voice pops up from the back “we will be fine if we stick together, strength in numbers.  Just get us out of here!”

The voices begin to erupt again as the group begins to argue amongst themselves about what they should do.  It’s clear the nerves of the situation has tensions running high.  You see the firbolg trying to keep the peace.

Ragnir: (to everyone) "Why don't we destroy the pillars? we can't just leave them here anyways."