Soar turns to look at Jalt, Nate, and Nub and mouths, "get ready" and then "fireball?" and then turns back to the cultists, twirling a bit, and finishing her laugh. (She lets the ogres go by, confident that the party won't get in trouble for doing what the master of the castle condoned, and if they want to look inside, they can look inside.) She steps forward, west, letting the ogres pass by to her left.
She lays on hands on herself for 8 points, filling herself up to full and then 5 points beyond, thanks to the earlier casting of aid. She approaches the
"Hi there! Do you want to just give up the ghost here? The castle's lord's done with hosting cults. You've got one chance. I'd love it if you took it."
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Nub steps forward, out of the way of the ogres, tailing Soar by about 20 feet. He begins to palm components for a fireball, readying to cast it, but not quite readying it yet. He is much less hopeful than Soar is that this will turn out well, and is watching the group, trying to time things well to be able to hit as many of the cultists as he can, even potentially waiting up until they get close to Soar, and scanning the distance past her to see where he could target the fireball to get them and just barely miss Soar.
Soar, you see horror and fear in the woman's face, and for a moment you hope that she might question her resolve to fight...
Alarm!!!! Lady Rezmir, we are attacked!!! She calls loudly as the cultists ready their weapons. The ogres, mostly through the door and inside in the building, seem confused, but they seemed confused before this happened so it's not clear what they're going to do.
She bundled them in Rezmir's clothes to quickly get into the rope trick space, and then they took them out during the short rest to examine. Nub was going to identify both while the rest of the group was looking around the rest of the rooms, but he got pulled into that as well, so he hasn't officially identified either. I'd guess they are still with Soar, though not tightly bundled. She'd have it hanging on her back somehow, or perhaps actually Nub had them, hanging on his shell, wanting to identify them. He does have the staff, right?
Soar in general would be trying to keep the party closer together -- so she'd be back closer to Nub. And I'd assume that Jalt and Nate wouldn't want to stay inside the hallway away from the rest of the party, esp with the ogres starting to enter?
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Ok, if I am being honest, Nate did try and hide right at the entrance to the room as Soar was heading out. I believe the roll was a huge fail, so the ogres and cultists see him, but I think he would still be there, pretty much right where you have him.
I think Jalt would definitely be in that larger area though closer to Soar. Nate was motioning him to go by before I left.
Nate is freaked out at the ogres right near him now.
Ok, so for Nate's turn, hearing Jalt yell out to Soar about Rezmir's mask, and also seeing the vast amount of cultists and ogres who if turn hostile would crush him (please, this is not meant to offend anyone whatsoever, this is just Nate being himself), he'd yell out to the woman cultist in his true immature form:
"REZMIR IS DEAD, YOU DUMB BI*CH!"
He'd then continue to kind of get as close to the wall as possible but staying light on his feet should things get real crazy and the ogres get hostile.
Nate's shout ring loud around the ice-walled castle. There's a look of shock, and then fury on the faces of the cultists, though they do not have a clear view of Nate. (Nate didn't move, right?)
Liars!!! The closest one C1 screams and runs in to attack Soar:
Attack: 25 Damage: 13 Attack: 11 Damage: 8
A skilled scimitar-user, the first slice cuts expertly and hurts Soar a great deal, though the second swing misses.
C2 and C2 run in to get close, but make no attack this turn.
Jalt points his finger at C2 with an absolute look of disdain on his face It didnt have to end this way. He casts Guiding Bolt at lvl 1 Attack: 25 Damage: 10
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Hoard of the Dragon Queen - Jalt Rhogar - Dragonborn Cleric (9)
Soar glances at Nub's fingers, still attempting the preparation for casting fireball, as she is completely overrun by a horde of cultists, weapons already flying. She locks eyes with him and nods, resignedly. Accepting.
She looks to the sky and mutters a quick prayer to Kelemvor, closes her eyes... and disappears.
She misty steps to the space between C2 and Jalt, just north of Nub with her bonus action. She opens her eyes, smiles, gestures to Nub as if to say, "be my guest, firestarter." She looks at the ogres and says, "they started it, and we're finishing it with Blagothkus' blessing."She then turns to the glittering cultist now in front of her and swings Talon twice. They had their chance. Now it must end.
Attack: 20 Damage: 7 Extra Attack: 20 Damage: 12
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Nub watches Jalt hit the cultist with glittering light, and then Soar get overrun. He sees her look and grimaces. But then she disappears out of the scrum, and all of a sudden, the battlefield is cleared. He grips the staff and channels his arcane fire into it, sending a fireball at a point 20 feet just beyond the cultist closest to him. (Aiming to get C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6, but it seems C7 is too many. He does not want to get the ogre at all, and he does not want to get any of his companions.)
On a failed DEX 14 save it deals 28 fire damage, and if he still has the power surge he has from the last rest, another 3 force damage.
Two hefty attacks on the very surprised cultist 2, who perhaps ought to look more panicked than they do, but fury and fanatical devotion are consuming them.
The fireball explodes from the tiny mote of orange that Nub fires:
C2, C5 and C6 are reduced to ash in an instant. C1, C3 and C4 are now barely alive, their bodies burnt and smoking and their faces twisted in agony rather than fury. The loud explosion seems to resonate through the icy castle, and you see part of the wall near the explosion seem to melt, though only for a moment until the magic kicks in and the wall repairs itself.
The lead ogre, inside the building, seems to be busy. Nate, you can see him looking at Rezmir's empty study in surprise, and he turns and looks at you. Where's dragon woman?
A non-lead ogre who witnessed the fireball explosion points at the dead cultists with his greatclub and laughs.
Round Two Nate Cultists 1 and 3 (barely alive) Jalt Cultists 6 (barely alive) and 7 (untouched) Soar and Nub Ogres 1, 2, 3 and 4 (seemingly not hostile to you)
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It's taking everything Nate has in him not to try and run away from these huge ogres and closer to the fiery action that he just witnessed to see more of the action. He likely can't see too much due to the ogre in front of him, but he can definitely hear and feel the heat, and he knows exactly what has just happened. He's seen it before. Nate would've been cheering as well when the fireball exploded. "And you're all NEXT!!!"
Nate would respond to the ogre "Dragon woman DEAD. DEAD DEAD DEAD. Blagothkus tell us to kill her. He ask us little ones to kill her. Watch us kill the rest then we all go to see Blagothkus, yes?"
Persuasion? Deception? Same mod. 11
If you will also allow Nate to dodge as well, he will do so in case the ogres get pissed and try to crush him.
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Soar turns to look at Jalt, Nate, and Nub and mouths, "get ready" and then "fireball?" and then turns back to the cultists, twirling a bit, and finishing her laugh. (She lets the ogres go by, confident that the party won't get in trouble for doing what the master of the castle condoned, and if they want to look inside, they can look inside.) She steps forward, west, letting the ogres pass by to her left.
She lays on hands on herself for 8 points, filling herself up to full and then 5 points beyond, thanks to the earlier casting of aid. She approaches the
"Hi there! Do you want to just give up the ghost here? The castle's lord's done with hosting cults. You've got one chance. I'd love it if you took it."
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Nub steps forward, out of the way of the ogres, tailing Soar by about 20 feet. He begins to palm components for a fireball, readying to cast it, but not quite readying it yet. He is much less hopeful than Soar is that this will turn out well, and is watching the group, trying to time things well to be able to hit as many of the cultists as he can, even potentially waiting up until they get close to Soar, and scanning the distance past her to see where he could target the fireball to get them and just barely miss Soar.
Soar, make an Intimidation check.
Soar intimidation: 17
Soar, you see horror and fear in the woman's face, and for a moment you hope that she might question her resolve to fight...
Alarm!!!! Lady Rezmir, we are attacked!!! She calls loudly as the cultists ready their weapons. The ogres, mostly through the door and inside in the building, seem confused, but they seemed confused before this happened so it's not clear what they're going to do.
Everyone roll initiative please.
Soar initiative: 10
Nub initiative: 6
SHOW THEM HER MASK! Jalt yells out THIS FIGHT DOESNT HAVE TO HAPPEN!
Initiative: 9
Hoard of the Dragon Queen - Jalt Rhogar - Dragonborn Cleric (9)
"Ive heard it both ways."
Soar I assume has both the mask and the sword on her, right?
Soar is carrying them - I think both are quite tightly bundled up, right?
She bundled them in Rezmir's clothes to quickly get into the rope trick space, and then they took them out during the short rest to examine. Nub was going to identify both while the rest of the group was looking around the rest of the rooms, but he got pulled into that as well, so he hasn't officially identified either. I'd guess they are still with Soar, though not tightly bundled. She'd have it hanging on her back somehow, or perhaps actually Nub had them, hanging on his shell, wanting to identify them. He does have the staff, right?
Nub does have the staff, yes. I've added it to his character sheet.
Rolling initiative for Nate: 9
12 23 10
Round One
Nate
Cultists 1, 2 and 3 (stronger looking)
Jalt
Cultists, 4, 5, 6 and 7 (less strong)
Soar and Nub
Ogres 1, 2, 3 and 4
The cultists are clearly hostile, but the ogres... who can say? Until the fight starts, of course.
Nate is up.
(Before we start, let me know if you're happy with your placement on the map, or where you think your character would be...)
Soar in general would be trying to keep the party closer together -- so she'd be back closer to Nub. And I'd assume that Jalt and Nate wouldn't want to stay inside the hallway away from the rest of the party, esp with the ogres starting to enter?
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Ok, if I am being honest, Nate did try and hide right at the entrance to the room as Soar was heading out. I believe the roll was a huge fail, so the ogres and cultists see him, but I think he would still be there, pretty much right where you have him.
I think Jalt would definitely be in that larger area though closer to Soar. Nate was motioning him to go by before I left.
Nate is freaked out at the ogres right near him now.
Ok, so for Nate's turn, hearing Jalt yell out to Soar about Rezmir's mask, and also seeing the vast amount of cultists and ogres who if turn hostile would crush him (please, this is not meant to offend anyone whatsoever, this is just Nate being himself), he'd yell out to the woman cultist in his true immature form:
"REZMIR IS DEAD, YOU DUMB BI*CH!"
He'd then continue to kind of get as close to the wall as possible but staying light on his feet should things get real crazy and the ogres get hostile.
Nate's shout ring loud around the ice-walled castle. There's a look of shock, and then fury on the faces of the cultists, though they do not have a clear view of Nate. (Nate didn't move, right?)
Liars!!! The closest one C1 screams and runs in to attack Soar:
Attack: 25 Damage: 13
Attack: 11 Damage: 8
A skilled scimitar-user, the first slice cuts expertly and hurts Soar a great deal, though the second swing misses.
C2 and C2 run in to get close, but make no attack this turn.
Jalt is up.
Jalt points his finger at C2 with an absolute look of disdain on his face It didnt have to end this way. He casts Guiding Bolt at lvl 1 Attack: 25 Damage: 10
Hoard of the Dragon Queen - Jalt Rhogar - Dragonborn Cleric (9)
"Ive heard it both ways."
Harsh, glaring light surrounds the cultist briefly as their face contorts with the pain of the magic.
Next attack against C2 has advantage.
The other four cultists charge towards you; their faces contorted by hatred and righteous fury, and they scream for your blood.
Soar and Nub are up.
Soar glances at Nub's fingers, still attempting the preparation for casting fireball, as she is completely overrun by a horde of cultists, weapons already flying. She locks eyes with him and nods, resignedly. Accepting.
She looks to the sky and mutters a quick prayer to Kelemvor, closes her eyes... and disappears.
She misty steps to the space between C2 and Jalt, just north of Nub with her bonus action. She opens her eyes, smiles, gestures to Nub as if to say, "be my guest, firestarter." She looks at the ogres and says, "they started it, and we're finishing it with Blagothkus' blessing." She then turns to the glittering cultist now in front of her and swings Talon twice. They had their chance. Now it must end.
Attack: 20 Damage: 7
Extra Attack: 20 Damage: 12
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Nub watches Jalt hit the cultist with glittering light, and then Soar get overrun. He sees her look and grimaces. But then she disappears out of the scrum, and all of a sudden, the battlefield is cleared. He grips the staff and channels his arcane fire into it, sending a fireball at a point 20 feet just beyond the cultist closest to him. (Aiming to get C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6, but it seems C7 is too many. He does not want to get the ogre at all, and he does not want to get any of his companions.)
On a failed DEX 14 save it deals 28 fire damage, and if he still has the power surge he has from the last rest, another 3 force damage.
Two hefty attacks on the very surprised cultist 2, who perhaps ought to look more panicked than they do, but fury and fanatical devotion are consuming them.
The fireball explodes from the tiny mote of orange that Nub fires:
C1 DEX save: 11
C2 DEX save: 15
C3 DEX save: 8
C4 DEX save: 19
C5 DEX save: 7
C6 DEX save: 5
C2, C5 and C6 are reduced to ash in an instant. C1, C3 and C4 are now barely alive, their bodies burnt and smoking and their faces twisted in agony rather than fury. The loud explosion seems to resonate through the icy castle, and you see part of the wall near the explosion seem to melt, though only for a moment until the magic kicks in and the wall repairs itself.
The lead ogre, inside the building, seems to be busy. Nate, you can see him looking at Rezmir's empty study in surprise, and he turns and looks at you. Where's dragon woman?
A non-lead ogre who witnessed the fireball explosion points at the dead cultists with his greatclub and laughs.
Round Two
Nate
Cultists 1 and 3 (barely alive)
Jalt
Cultists 6 (barely alive) and 7 (untouched)
Soar and Nub
Ogres 1, 2, 3 and 4 (seemingly not hostile to you)
Nate is up.
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It's taking everything Nate has in him not to try and run away from these huge ogres and closer to the fiery action that he just witnessed to see more of the action. He likely can't see too much due to the ogre in front of him, but he can definitely hear and feel the heat, and he knows exactly what has just happened. He's seen it before. Nate would've been cheering as well when the fireball exploded. "And you're all NEXT!!!"
Nate would respond to the ogre "Dragon woman DEAD. DEAD DEAD DEAD. Blagothkus tell us to kill her. He ask us little ones to kill her. Watch us kill the rest then we all go to see Blagothkus, yes?"
Persuasion? Deception? Same mod. 11
If you will also allow Nate to dodge as well, he will do so in case the ogres get pissed and try to crush him.