Dragon of Icespire Peak ***CLOSED***

Minsys holds it out at arms length while it screams and struggles.  "Uh... what kind of voodoo crap is this!  Do I kill it? "

Tabesha'l hears Minsys' baffled comment, quickly drowned by the tiny construct's screams and thinks to herself: " Why, that most certainly did not take overly long..." before rushing into the hallway, stopping right behind Connak.

" Demonic Doll ! Minsys, quick, throw it down !" she shouts out, forgetting her manners for a minute before unleashing a mote of flames towards the small doll.

Tabesha'l told him to throw it down and he looked at the screaming sticks and then back at Tabesha'l.  He still just held it out at arms length locked in indecision.  

The other 4 likenesses of the party also animate! Tabesha'l's mote of fire elicits a few screams from the small terrors, even though it streaks past them harmlessly and lands amoung the pile of dry wood refuse at the back of the room. While Minsys is holding one of the creatures out at arms' length, another hops down from the mantle and digs its claws into his calf:

TWIG BLIGHT 1
Attack (Claws): 14 vs. AC 14 (Minsys); dealing 5 piercing damage on a hit.

(If Minsys is holding one, then I should have LOS.  If not, I'll move up to the doorway.  I will shoot any one of the twig blights that is not in melee with me... preferably the one that Minsys is holding).

Connak shakes his head at what he sees, and deals with this problem the same way he deals with most of his problems.  He shoots it...

Longbow Attack: 9 Damage: 11

The doll Minsys is holding explodes into a cloud of dust, twigs and wooden shrapnel as Connak steps to the doorway with his bow drawn and fires an arrow at point blank range!

Minsys stares at the slot where twig him was being held and his hands came together as it exploded.  He blinked a few times and then grabbed his maul and tried to smash two more.  

Attack: 12 Damage: 8

Attack: 9 Damage: 12

Minsys' wild swing narrowly misses the Tabesha'l figurine to his left, but he quickly reverses the momentum of his maul and bring the heavy weight crashing down on the Vaxis doll with devastating effect!

The Tink doll at the end of the row dives at its real life couterpart with tiny sharp claws:

TWIG BLIGHT 5
Attack (Claws): 22 vs. AC 18 (Tink); dealing 2 piercing damage on a hit.

Vaxis looks off into the distance, contemplating the "decor" of the house. He makes a small prayer to Bahamut, to end the voice coming from Arvi, and praying for Tabesha'l's wellbeing.

Suddenly he comes too at Minsys' sound of alarm, looking to the source, and hearing 'dolls' he says, "What? Dolls?! Truly dark forces are at work here!"

He begins to pray. "Bahamut, Lord of the North Wind, cast your blessings on my friends Minsys and Tink, as well as Master Tink's mechanical wonder, so that they may dispatch of these dark dolls with swiftness!"

(Moving 30 feet as close as I can to get LOS, and casting Bless on Minsys, Tink, and W.H.I.S.K.E.R)

Divine energy flows into Minsys, Tink and W.H.I.S.K.E.R. invigorating their attacks!

TWIG BLIGHT 4
Attack (Claws): 13 vs. AC 18 (Tink); dealing 5 piercing damage on a hit.

Another doll attacks Tink, but its claws have no effect on the gnomish half-elf

"Ouch! That hurt! But you should really tell your creator that sentient dolls are pretty much old tech at this point. Now if you excuse me..." Tink braces herself against attacks as she runs to the end of the line. She pulls out a familiar looking cylinder filled with greenish-yellow liquid. She then proceeds to load it into her launcher and lines the dolls up before spraying a stream of acidic substance at them. 

"Whisker! Show the one infront of you the advancements made in magical sentient technology!"

Tink's Turn
Move: Move 10ft to end of the line. (AoO from T3 and T4)
Action: Cast Tasha's Caustic Brew at level 2 on all the dolls. DC 14 Dex Save or be covered by acid for 1 minute. If covered by acid, take 4d4 acid damage at the start of their turn.
Bonus Action: Command Whisker to attack T3

Whisker's Turn
Reaction: Will use Deflect Attack to give T3 disadvantage on the AoO on Tink
Action: Force Empowered Rend vs T3 Attack: 17Damage: 11

AOO AGAINST TINK
TB3 - Attack (Claws): 14 vs. AC 18 (Tink); dealing 4 piercing damage on a hit.
TB4 - Attack (Claws): 7 vs. AC 18 (Tink); dealing 5 piercing damage on a hit.

DEXTERITY SAVE vs. DC 14
19 - TB3
10 - TB4
11 - TB5

W.H.I.S.K.E.R. rends the doll (TB3) into shreds!

Lifting her laced frills and skirts, Tabeshal saunters past both Vaxis and Connak. " Sorry ! Ethlyin Ernuvathar ! I'm awfully sorry, boys... Oh ! There, what have we here now ? My !" entering the room until she gets a clear view of the situation, after which she unleashes more streaks of flames onto the wicker puppets.

 She looks at the tiny bedeviled things and the half-orc hears her outraged comments: " These looks nothing like us, verily ! Behold, they made mine seem like a sort of elven hag or something just as ghastly... Ugh ! How ludicrously rude ! Methinks I shall have a word or two with whoever is guilty of such tasteless renditions of our physical likeness !" she says as her stream of arcane fire incinerates the blights.

The elven wizard's mote of fire utterly incinerates her own twig-formed likeness...nothing is left of the small terror, not even ash...

Connak sees the situation is well in hand.  He'll step diagonally south-west and scan the next room (south), looking for other threats.

(He'll shoot if he see's something obviously hostile)

Connak finds stone steps lead down to a flagstoned courtyard that has a pillared arcade to the east. Seven windows on the upper level overlook the courtyard, in the middle of which is a five-foot-wide stone well with thick vines erupting from it. Guttural snorts and yells erupt from the southeast corner of the manse, signaling the presence of orcs nearby. Connak sees an angry orcish face glaring down at him from a window on the second floor on the opposite side of the courtyard.

Connak looks at his dwindling supply of arrows and suppresses his first instinct to shoot an orc dead.  Instead, he bellows out into the courtyard in common, so his allies and the orcs can hear him, "We know the white dragon forced you out of your lands.  This boar cult is not the answer.  If you want to die here today, we'll be happy to oblige.  But if you want to walk away and take the fight to the white dragon, then come out into the courtyard so we can talk!"

The ugly orcish face disappears from the window followed shortly by what sounded like a herd of elephants running through the second story of the old manse.

Hearing the rumbling, Minsys looks up.  "Da 9 helps?  Upstairs!" He shouts and will start running in that direction.  He gently, shove others out of his way to get to non stick things.

Double move to get up the steps.

The remaining twig blight takes 10 acid damage and emits a tiny, high-pitched scream as it disolves into a puddle of slime.

As Minsys nears the top of the stairs, the staircase give way underneath him: Dexterity Save 21 vs. DC 15. The barbarian falls onto 5 wooden spikes, each one dealing 3 piercing damage.

(END OF INITIATIVE)