Rhanloi's Romp Through the Sword Coast

Initiative == Manfred (23) ;  Wakka (15) ; Block 2 (13) ;  Perkas (10) ; Block 3 (9) ; Block 1 (5) ;  Penumbra (?) 

Round 1: Manfred initiates combat by casting faerie fire into the room, catching three of the people inside! (You have advantage on attacks on Green, Yellow & Purple.) Wakka is up.

(Jorvik, will keep that action for round 2!)

Wakka charged ahead towards the nearest enemy caught under the affects of Manni's spell and sliced twice with his borrowed sword.  "Let's see what these magic items can do!" he shouted to himself as he attacked, scoring two powerful hits on the enemy in front of them.

• Attack #1: 19/ 24; Damage #1: 13
• Attack #2: 12/ 28 (nat 20); Damage #2: 14 + 8 = 22 (Adding Psionic Strike to this attack)

"Apparently alot..." he added as he cut through the man's defenses with relative ease.

initiative: 4

 Penumbra rushes forward out of the shadows with her short swords drawn, she picks the closest wererat and attacks.

Attack: 24 Damage: 5

Attack: 12 Damage: 6

sneak attack damage: 13

Round 1 (con't) == Manfred ;  Penumbra (23) ; Wakka  ; Purple (Faerie Fire) ; Red ; Blue ;  Perkas (10) ; ??? ; Green (Faerie Fire) ; Yellow (Faerie Fire) 

• Penumbra does...
• Wakka charges into the cavern, cutting down the first person he encounters (Green) who goes down before he could even draw a weapon!
• The female (Purple) whistles loudly, fires her hand crossbow at Wakka, and then ducks out of sight into the cavern to the north. Attack: 10 Damage: 7 
• The Red adversary moves in, attacking Wakka with a flurry of his shortswords! Attack 1: 19 Damage: 5 : Attack 2: 12 Damage: 3 
• The Blue one follows his companion, but passes behind him to head out the door and attack the next person in line - Perkas! Attack 1: 14 Damage: 4 : Attack 2: 8 Damage: 3 
• Perkas...(do you want to change your action, since you now have an enemy in your face in the hallway?)

I think perkas will re-think her plan just enough to fire off Lil' Bess at the guy right in front of her. Blue one just attacked me, but red looks right in front of me. Not sure if Horde Breaker would work in this situation.

(Ah yeah - I switched the tokens by accident. Fixed now! The two enemies are 10 feet apart, so no horde breaker. Your Crossbow Expert feat allows you to shoot an enemy within 5' and not have disadvantage. I'll take your previous rolls and apply them to the Blue guy! Will wait for Penumbra's earlier action to post more since she rocked the Init roll!) 

Round 1 (con't) == Manfred ;  Penumbra ; Wakka  ; Purple (Faerie Fire) ; Red ; Blue (-16) ;  Perkas ; ??? ; Yellow (Faerie Fire) 

(Penumbra already went - above your initiative post)

(I must have been posting at the same time as you Rhanloi, I rolled initiative then edited the post and added on her turn.)

(You ninja'd me =) Good news/bad news...The good news is your action doesn't disrupt anything already adjudicated/posted. Bad news is that your attacks did no damage to the person you attacked!!)

Penumbra rushed forward out of the shadows with her short swords drawn, attacking the first wererat she saw. Despite the vicious attack, the wererat doesn't seem to have suffered any damage! (The party will now realize that wererats are immune to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical weapons that aren't Silvered)

The group hears a series of squeaking noises, and 4 giant rats come running out of the north-east cavern and attack! Only two can get close, though - they try to bite Wakka.
Orange Attack: 11 Damage: 5
Gold Attack: 20 Damage: 3

The last wererat, glowing yellow from Manfred's faerie fire spell, shoots his hand crossbow at Penumbra before running off after the female. Attack: 22 Damage: 6

Round 2 == Manfred(-5) ;  Penumbra(-3) ; Wakka(-8) ; Red(-0) ; Blue(-16) ;  Perkas(-0) ; giant rats (x4)

Surrounded and unable to stop the ones who had run off, Wakka gritted his teeth slashed at the nearest wererat.  If he managed to take it down he'd then turn his attention to one of the giant rats and slash at them next as hard as he can.  

• Action: Attack
  • Attack #1 - 22 hit/ 14 damage
  • Attack #2 - 21 hit/ 10 damage
• Move: If the wererat falls, Wakka will move into it's place to better defend the ones behind him

Penumbra shrugs off the damage and sheathes her blades. "Ok, well I know you guys don't like fire." She casts a firebolt at the nearest wererat.

Attack: 8 Damage: 4

Perkas continues to fire at the one in her face. With a spit on the ground. She knows being wedged in a tunnel is not a place she likes to be.

Action: Attack

Hit 1: 15 to hit / damage 10

Hit 2: 23 to hit / damage 13

Movement: none 

(Manfred has his flaming chromatic orb attack carried over - if there are no faerie fire wererats available to target he’ll attack one without faerie fire, which has 15 to hit, rather than 16)

Round 2 == Manfred(-5) ;  Penumbra(-3) ; Wakka(-8) ; Red(-0) ; Blue(-16) ;  Perkas(-0) ; giant rats (x4) 

Manfred hurls a flaming orb at the blue wererat in front of Perkas, hitting him square in the face and causing his hair to erupt in flames! (In the military, this is called a 'screaming alfa' - or Class A - fire...) The creature eventually drops to the ground and moves no more. Penumbra casts a firebolt at the red wererat, burning it badly but it remains standing. Wakka slashes at the same wererat, finishing off what the tiefling started! He kicks the downed opponent and moves a step to the east to better defend the party. Perkas, suddenly faced with a severe lack of targets, moves forward towards the door and right behind Penumbra, aiming lil' Bess at the rat furthest to the west. Her bolt flies true, impaling the (red) rodent through its beady eye. She ducks her weapon to the other side of Penumbra, getting a relatively clear shot at another rat (green), also taking it out with a single shot! The remaining two rats flee to the east after their wererat masters, but not before the yellow one takes a last snap at Wakka. (Attack: 24 Damage: 6)  (Wakka, you get an AoO on the yellow rat as it scurries away.)

Round 3 (only if you want to pursue) == Manfred(-5) ;  Penumbra(-3) ; Wakka(-8) ; Purple(-0)(Faerie Fire) ; Perkas(-0) ; giant rats (x2) ; Yellow(-0)(Faerie Fire)

• AoO: 9 hit (Crit Fail)

Distracted by all the enemies fleeing, Wakka's slash at the nearest rat clanked against the stone floor of the mine causing a few sparks to fly up in the air.  Turning to the party, he quickly asked, "Are we chasing?  They for sure know we're here at this point."

‘I think we need to keep after them, but carefully - they know these tunnels and could set traps and ambushes...’ says Manfred, looking around to check injuries.

(Medicine - 8)

perks nods in agreement with Manfred. "Best take care of them now before they attack someone else."

Perkas will wait for Penumbra if she is agreeable, if so , she will follow behind after she takes a once over around the room to see if she can collect any arrows or see what might have been on the wear rats person (lost 4 arrows this fight)

Investigation: 12

Scattered about this cave are various debris piles, pickaxes, shovels, and other mining tools. And the bodies of three wererats and two giant rats, of course...Perkas can grab 3 bolts on the way through the cave. (Not doing a real search of the room...that would take about 10 minutes.)

You find an open door at the end of the adjoining cavern and carefully follow the passage to the north about 20 feet before coming to another 'T' intersection. If you go north you find a door in the north wall (4) and the passage continues west to the storage cavern and door (3) you found previously. To the east the passage goes about 20 feet curving SE and then you see natural steps leading up. (2) (updated map)

Carefully leading the way Penumbra searches for any indication of which way the wererats went as well as looking out for traps.

Perception: 20

Unfortunately, there isn't any sign or sound of them.