The Summit Road Campaign Thread

"Compotent enough that we know your secret. And to get me here without anyone being the wiser." Vishal replies, perhaps a little too cockily 

"They're in the hall right now without anyone noticing?" Riikana raises an eyebrow, looking impressed.

 At this point they both hear a quick knock on the door, and see the massive head of Druhdaar poking behind it, right by the doorjamb. He looks icily at both of them then mumbles:

" Sorry, I thought these were the latrines... My bad. "

He then gives Vishal another brief but very eloquent look before going back outside.

"Perhaps" Vishal replies with a knowing grin. 

Riikana raises an eyebrow. "Like Latrine Boy, perhaps?" she asks dryly.

"I actually have no idea who that is." Vishal replies with a confused look as he stares at the door again. 

Decpetion: 19

Riikana frowns. "Weird. I haven't seen him in the village before." She shakes her head. "Come on, cocky." She heads for the door.

"Where are we going?" Vishal asks not moving. 

"Outside the hall where people won't interrupt us looking for the bathroom," Riikana says acidically. "We'll walk and talk."

“Walk where?” Vishal asks not being an idiot and wanting to walk alone with a soldier.

"Through the village." Riikana looks frustrated. "Right now we've been in a room alone for a while, people will start to get suspicious. If we're taking a stroll and chatting, it's a lot less suspicious." She crosses her arms. "I'm going to go take a walk. Feel free to join me if you'd like. Remember that you asked me for help, and are asking me to risk my life and afterlife." She whirls and walks out the door.

"Fair enough. You understand why I'm hesistant though. You were going to restrain and probably arrest me." Vishal says with a shrug before moving to join in on the walk. 

Riikana heads out of the room and towards the door. Halfway to the exit, she turns, drawing her sword and speaking calmly. "Formation Fifteen. All civilians please move away from one another and to the walls. We have a potential altavar corrupted, as well as at least one other of unknown identity." She turns a cool gaze onto Vishal. "Don't fight back, and this will be much easier." As she gives orders, two soldiers draw weapons and move to block the exit door, and several more spread out around the inside of the building. "Once all corrupted have been subdued, bring them to a cell at a central guard station. Do not trouble Lord Sulatesh with it...yet."

OOC: There are seven soldiers, plus Riikana, in the tavern. None are wearing armor, but they are all armed with longswords. If anybody decides to fight their way out here, initiative will be rolled and you will take your turns in initiative order. Please remember that there are consequences to your actions beyond just getting out of here alive. No path here will lead to character death, unless somebody gets really unlucky (I can't control the dice), but I've designed endings for each of the general paths out of here you could take, none of which end in death. That being said, it's always possible to tick the Riedrans off to the point where they forget their discipline and attack you, so don't...you know...kill a baby or anything. I will wait for everyone in the hall to post before giving results/reactions.

 Druhdaar stiffles a curse as he sees the way events are turning. Steeling his resolve, he quickly tries to evaluate the distance to the main door, as he takes in the soldiers fanning out around the hall and their respective positions...

 Initiative Druhdaar 15

** OOC - Note that he hasn't done anything yet, but he will take the various guards and their position into consideration to chose his course of action as he comes into his combat turn. **

Panic fills River, and her body stiffens. Her taloned hand grasps her sword and with practised ease and quickness the small bird girl ducks out of the door, planning to simply run away...

'No... Those are my friends...'

Her eyes go completely red, and she turns back, black smoke flying from her sword and surrounding Riikana quickly followed by a massive blast of black and red energy directly into Riikana's chest (Hexblade's Curse - Nat 20; 24 to hit, 12 Damage). Her beady eyes fall on Vishal before looking around the room at everyone inside, and she yells in a wise old voice;

"Fly, you fools!"

With that, River takes off running away, not going towards the cave with her comrades but in a random direction, hoping to lead the soldiers away from her friends. Getting caught herself doesn't matter as long as they're safe.

Initiative: 10

OOC: Okay, Jac whenever you post your reaction, make sure to add an initiative roll. Also, dumb me managed to forget that Tiem should get an action too, so ta da!

Tiem tenses, giving Vishal a look from beneath his hood, and angles his head towards the outside of the building before casting meld into stone, quietly vanishing into the wall.

Stealth to cast quietly: 20

Initiative: 8

None of the soldiers appear to notice the diminutive figure vanish into the wall.

OOC: Because I'm sure it will be asked. There is time to send a telepathic message to Tiem before he disappears.

Vishal attemtps to steathily send a quick telepathic message to Tiem before he dissapears, 

 He then looks around and says, "Sorry about this. We don't appreciate people who turn a blind eye to those who aren't following the Path. Torture is never a good thing."  

Stealth for eyes: 15

Initative: 21

Riikana Initiative: 10

Soldiers (I'm just going to do them as a group) Initiative: 13

Young Man: 9

Druhdaar 15, Vishal 13, Soldiers 13, River 10, Riikana 10, Young Man 9, Tiem 8

Riikana grunts as the blast hits her in the chest. "You two, go after him. Try to take him alive," she says sharply to two soldiers, who nod and prepare to rush out the door.

Druhdaar and Vishal, looking around for escape routes, notice a young man with a longsword half-drawn, looking conflicted as Vishal mentions torture. He is a ninth armed person in the room (7 soldiers, Riikana, him).

Druhdaar is up. I may be able to get a map up at some point, but it will take time and you should not wait for it.

A great bellowing roar rings across the hall as Druhdaar's shape seems to shift and shiver in faster and faster sequences. Within mere seconds, a great white bull is standing right where the bearded druid used to be. Pawing the ground with its front hooves, it charges ahead, swinging its great forehead at any soldier standing in its way, attempting to trample them into the hard-packed dirt floor as it makes a beeline towards the exit, nostrils flaring.

** Using Circle of The Moon to wildshape as a bonus action, then charging / trampling whoever gets in the way - but focusing on soldiers only, it will avoid the youth with the sword or any civilian if it can. Also will target Riikana as a priority in case she stands directly between him and the door. Strength check to knock prone followed by eventual hooves trample attack can be found below. NOTE: couldn't find any concrete ruling on charge / trample so I will send Books the data I found on the 5e bull in a PM on discord.  Dungeon Manager : call it as you see fit... ! **

Strength Check 5

Attack Hooves #1 (w/Adv if appropriate) Attack: 19 Damage: 10

Attack Hooves #2 (normal attack) Attack: 21 Damage: 6

OOC: I do not have time right now to give the bull a full once over, so right now we will stick with the 20 damage and not the grapple.

Riikana grunts as bull-Druhdaar slams into her.

Druhdaar 15, Vishal 13, Soldiers 13, River 10, Riikana 10, Young Man 9, Tiem 8

I'm dumb. In the future we'll do block init. Vishal is up.