Pax glances around with a frown, then mutters, "Anything else right now is impossible. Fine, you're right. Vizeran, take us to tower. But if we can take some of these with us, we should. Jimjar was crucial in gaining us entrance and trust to the gnome home. Derendil is....something is up with him. I don't know if any others are crucial in the story up to now, but think back and choose quickly. We must leave before we end up fighting the entire city." 

She glances at the Kuo-toa who seems to have a shrewd look on his face. In Undercommon she says, "Say what you think, and quickly."

"Not city, an outpost at best. And some of us would not mind killing everyone in it once more, not the slaves, that for sure. They have no weapons but we know where it is. Or they'll get from the guards. But if you are so set on the run, how about we do use that helmet? If we need beholders, there are two in Mantol-Derith. We can take everyone there." While talking, he was trying to free slaves from their shackles: Sleight of Hand (?) 8, taking a mentalnote to get a set of apropriate instruments. Should attempt fail, he would ask Pax and Derendil to combine the strength of all three od them to breack chains.

"Assuming you were able to fight back and escape while at quite a handicap and assuming these actually same guards, maybe it'll be wise to . . . question them quite hrashly as you are now better equipped and a little more numerous," Kirin stated as he peeks through the bars looking for a guard and something to grab with his mage hand outside the prison while it's out

Pax glances around, "Oh. I don't know where we are. If battle is reasonable then why rush our exit. Let's have a nice chat with some of these drow instead? I sort of want to see how they'll react to our presence."  A grin is spotted through the gap in her helm and the black fog around her. She leans against a stone wall casually and waits for the drow to approach.  Though she does take a moment to cast a spell upon herself, the shadows around her intensifying once again, sparkling of frost and ice hovering in the mist.  (4th level Armor of Agathys. 20 temporary hps, 18 ward hps)

"If we are indeed in the past going to places we have already been will disrupt many things.  Will we need to redo everything that has already happened, at least to us?  A demon lord will still rise out of Darklake and attack Sloobludoop, Will the demonic occupation in Neverlight Grove happen if we are not there to stop it?" Kaylyn pauses as the color drains from her face "All of the things we have done, attacks we have stopped, places and people we have aided have been reset and in this timeline have not happened and if we do not return to them they will go on without our interference.  I...I... cannot even begin to grasp the ramifications.  But at the same time, all of those things happened because of the demonic forces infiltrating the material plane.  If we stop the infiltration then so many things will simply not happen."

She shakes her head and tries to clear her mind.

"Even if we transport to Vizeran's tower we risk running into the him of this time, unless he has been replaced as we have as there is not a double of us here and now.   We still need the intact and unhatched egg of a purple worm, and the central eye of a beholder and both can be found at the Wormwrithings.  Perhaps going directly there is our best bet at this time.  The faster we work, the faster we stop all the horrible things that may still happen."

In a gargling voice, the kuo-toa briefly replies to Pax : A change in the current, I sense. Any further elaboration is cut off as the drow guards arrive at the cage and begin unlocking the door and barking orders: 

Attention, unworthy slaves of the Spider *****! You will now serve the Dark Mother in three teams. You, lizardman! Take the ...

The guard's words are cut off as the kuo-toa in the corner interrupts with loud singing. His gargling voice and complete lack of tone or rhythm is disconcerting enough, but the suddenness of it causes the guards to turn in shock, the door hanging wide open. The kuo-toa winks one bulbous eye at Pax and continues to sing, clearly helping to provide a distraction for the would-be escapees...

There’s a place I used to go
Farther up the river’s flow;
Where it is now, I don't know;
I'd go look, but I'm too slow.

I don't think it's necessary to run a full combat, but I'll allow everyone to declare their actions and then I'll respond with all NPCs and enemies, and we'll go back and forth like that as the drama unfolds...

Also: I might not be online much this weekend. I have another camp to run for a bunch of teenage boys, and then some Halloween activities. I might also be running a Castle Ravenloft one-shot on Sunday night. Happy Halloween everyone!

Pax taps her boots together, activating her quick speed. Then she rushes out the gate past the guards, not very concerned if they're able to take a swing at her. She moves out to amidst the quaggoth. as she casually launches three blasts of magic at one of the Drow. 

Attack: 13 Damage: 5

Attack: 10 Damage: 6

Attack: 17 Damage: 13

(Happy Halloween and see you Monday!)

A drow is a drow, no matter who he serves. "Serve your mother yourself," sput Sekkar and activated Dawnbringer. He, personally, was going to cut down every guard/slaver/spider he comes across.

Rhayna tries to approach Stool, but she is taken aback by his fear of her. She is puzzled at first, but then she recognizes that so much has yet to happen to the little Myconid. "I am very sorry little one. You should fear the spores that courses through my body." Rhayna says telepathically to Stool. "Actually, you may encounter folks with the similar spores in the future. Do be afraid, and avoid them. They are dangerous to you." There is so much that she wanted to tell Stool, but unfortunately now it not the time, nor it is appropriate. As the guards approach. "Please, do know that I am your friend, and that I will help you as much as I can." With that said, the cleric stands up, and holds her Drow staff with both hands. She first infuses herself with her spores (Symbiotic Entity), then she imbues those same spores into her staff (Shillelagh).

(Did we get any rest at all with the time travel?)

"Who are you are in charge? I guess you are. We'll be having a chat I think" Kirin shouts before he points his staff at the guards and cast Burning Hands sculpting around any allies in the way and the Drow that giving commands.

Dex Save: 17

Damage: 16 Fire Damage

(No there was no time to rest)
Drow DEX save v Burning Hands: 6, 21, 4
Quaggoth DEX save v Lightning Bolt (27): 10, 5, 3

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Pax runs out the cage, across the small patch of ground, and up beside the quaggoths standing on some kind of wooden path, then turns and blasts one of the drow guards unconscious. She can see now that the jail cell opens onto a small natural platform high in a long narrow cavern. A waterfall can be seen off to the left, rushing past a large mass of spiderwebs not far below into a lake beneath. Wooden walkways run from the platform to a hollowed-out stalactite inside which several drow guards and watching in surprise as the combat breaks out.

A sheet of fire sprays out from Kirin's hands, engulfing two more of the guards, who fall smoking to the ground, and injuring another, who some recognise as the maimed warrior Jorlan. Only Shoor, the brash young warrior and the priestess's favoured consort, remains untouched. Then sunlight bursts out from the cell as Dawnbringer comes alive, blinding the drow captain. The lizardman has defeated this foe once before, and doesn't feel as inclined to chat like the elf wizard does.

Next, Vizeran calmly walks out the door, extends one arm from the fold of a robe, and shoots a bolt of lightning, blasting the quaggoths standing in a line beside Pax on the walkway. The orc Ront runs out next, grabs a shortsword from a fallen guard, and charges the injured quaggoth slaves, with Jimjar following suit. Eldeth exits the cage, grabs a crossbow and kneels down to prepare to cover the others, aiming out over the walkways to the left. Topsy and Turvy slink out of the door and into the shadows, while Buppido sprints out the door and off to the right, heading down a descending gangway that runs along the cave wall. Derendil is a little slower, but comes to cage door with Stool waddling behind. Shuushar and Sarith don't make any attempt to leave the cage.

A sound of anxious yelling is heard from the guard tower as the shocked guards begin calling out an alert to the rest of the outpost...

(Sekkar can still post an action for the last round, and Rhayna can use her Halo reaction. Then everyone post another round!)

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MAP: The prison cave is at #11, with Pax/Ront/Jimjar and the quaggoths on the walkway between #11 and #10. The guards in #10 are alerted.

Attack: 16 Damage: 16

Attack: 27 Damage: 10

Attack: 20 Damage: 17 + 7

On the closest targets.

"The guard tower first! The slaves will need weapons!" Sekkar runs in that direction.

Rhayna sticks close to Stool. She uses her reaction to target the most injured and still standing with her Halo of Spores (5 necrotic damage).

Pax turns and glances down at the fleeing Buppido. She unleashes three blasts of energy at the evil creature, who she suspects may still be related to their current situation.

Attack: 23 Damage: 8

Attack: 25 Damage: 8

Attack: 16 Damage: 11

Then she turns and strides towards #10, moving quickly like a blur and not worrying about creatures who might try to attack her from one side or the other. 

Seeing Shoor and knowing he was a dangerous foe Kaylyn sends 3 blasts of  Eldritch energy at the drow. "I was kinda hoping we were leaving." she says

Attack: 19 Damage: 13

Attack: 20 Damage: Unable to parse dice roll.

Attack: 24 Damage: 12

Kirin sigh as he takes a calm pace out of the jail, following the party, "Information is nice to have but I guess you have some lingering resentment," He goes to cast cast Greater invisibility on Sekkar before he charges off.

23 13 14

Jorlan v Shoor
Shortsword #1: 21 Damage: 9 plus 8
Shortsword #2: 9 Damage: 5 plus 11

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Kirin casually casts his spell and Sekkar vanishes along with everything he is carrying. However even though Dawnbringer is also invisible, her light continues to glare out as Sekkar slashes at Shoor and then runs across the bridge, giving the effect of a giant globe of sunlight gliding through the cavern. Looking furious at this affront, that some upstart prisoners should make him look bad, Shoor draws his shortswords, shaking off the sickening effect of Rhayna's spores, only to get blasted by Kaylyn's magic.

Shoor looking weak and afraid, stumbles back under the onslaught and into Jorlan's arms. A look of shock and horror crosses Shoor's face, and he slumps to the ground, revealing Jorlan holding a bloodied shortsword as he pulls it out of Shoor's back. The disfigured drow warrior promptly reaches down, wipes the blood onto Shoor's silky clothing, and swipes the wand that hangs from Shoor's belt, before following the globe of sunlight across the bridge. The look in his eyes suggests he has one more act of vengeance to commit...

The three quaggoths don't seem to appreciate being lightning blasted by Vizeran. To them he is just another drow, another of their slave-masters, and the hairy beasts seem to take courage at seeing the prisoners rise up against the cruel drow. Seeing some easy targets in the guard post, the quaggoths rush across the bridge and begin attacking the drow guards, with one being pushed out of the window and falling into the webs below.

Pax's shots are a little off, but two seem sufficient to drop Buppido, who screams a Wilhelm scream as he falls from the walkway and down into the webs below.

Beyond the guard tower is another footbridge, followed by more slender walkways along the edge of the cavern. More drow appear on these walkways, looking to see the cause of the commotion. Vizeran vanishes in a thin mist and reappears on the far walkway, then casually launches a small blast of fire at one of the drow soldiers who also falls in the spider webs below.

Jorlan and the quaggoths seem to be joining the group's efforts to vex the drow. Vizeran is just outside room #6-8, Sekkar, Pax and the quaggoths are in #10 and everyone else is just outside #11

Kirin maintains his leisure pace, simply watching his traveling companions just relieve some aggression, "I would have to assume there's an higher up we can question or leading them?" Kirin asks before mostly lazily pointing his staff and casting Magic Missile into closest three drows guards.

Damage: 7 (Empowered Evocation./...lucky I used this feature it seem)

Damage: 3

Damage: 3

When Sekkar realized what happened, he laughed openly and as joyfully as he did not laugh for a long time. "Nicsssse! Let's have a little fun now!"

Before moving away, though, the cloud of light answered Kirin's question: "The priestess and her lackeys are where Vizeran is," (Sekkar was in such a good mood, he called the drow wizard by his name). "Want "authority" - go there. But don't take too long - there are others who wish to tell them a few strong words."

He, himself, continued cleaning up the guarding tower - other slaves needed weapons and armour. Then he intended to join others in high quarters.

BA: Hunter's Mark (moving it every time the target dies (and there is a BA action). So, adding HM and Sneak Attack when applicable

Attack: 28 Damage: 13 + 2

Attack: 18 Damage: 12 + 4 + 8

Pax looks around at the chaos of the escape as she follows behind the glowing light of the invisible Sekkar. Keeping her eyes open for any spellcasters who could ruin the groups progress, she follows the direction of Sekkars' suggestion, and decides to proceed that way. She runs through the enemies in a blur heading for Vizeran.  (double move, with base movement of 70 feet, so she can get a total of 140 feet.  Attacks of Opportunity are at disadvantage as she runs past.)

She'll run all the way to "6-8", then try to burst in through the door there and look around.