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S4 takes 5cold damage as it strikes Pax's shield, it's blade slicing into the darkness.
Pax leaps in surprise at the sudden explosion of sticky mushrooms. Strength save : 5 (should have been +3 more, but still FAR from success)
(I think the labels on your map got messed up, since Sekkar looks like Pax and S6 looks like a Chuulllull thingy. Can't we leap off the cliff here to get away to the left? (barring our inability to move of course))
Can't we leap off the cliff here to get away to the left? (barring our inability to move of course)
I only mentioned it briefly before, but there is a palisade running along the edge of the garden. You can break through it easily enough, but would take an action.
Orange slime did not bother him and did not restrained either, but he got tired of the clawed "mushroom" that still refuses to join the salad. And he was blocking the way to the bride! Made Sekkar feel a bit weak too...
(I thing Sekkar is still grappled by Chuul).
on Chuul: Attack: 30 Damage: 21
Attack: 23 Damage: 16
If Chuul is dead - Disengage (from Haste) and move after Kaylyn (who is running away, right?)
If not - another attack Attack: 25 Damage: 14 and running after Kaylyn while taking AoOs.
Kaylyn watches as Kastix makes a break to the south. She moves that way also though she is unable to dash. As she approaches/passes Rhayna she grabs her wrist.
"We need to go Rhayna! Now! Come on!"
She tries to drag her with her following the same path that Kastix did.
The first swing from the still-frustrated Dawnbringer is sufficient to chop the pincer from the chuul and run it through. The back-swing slices the head off the drow beside Kaylyn, who Rhayna can now see clearly.
Kaylyn watches as Kastix makes a break to the south. She moves that way also though she is unable to dash. As she approaches/passes Rhayna she grabs her wrist.
Actually Kastix went directly west out of the same hole in the palisade the group entered through. Kaylyn can go that way if desired... Rhayna seems likely to follow, as she has a clear path to the exit. (She and Sekkar are both currently being ignored by all fungal-type creatures)
The large fungoids move slightly to discourage Zeno from fleeing south, although he still notices there is sufficient space between them in that direction if needed. They make no other overtly threatening gestures, despite the fact that they look like they could deliver a hefty wallop with moss-covered fists if so desired.
Zeno slowly backs away from the group around him, then sprints toward the palisade, leaping at it and breaking through, falling down and (hopefully) catching himself before running in an intercept route to meet the group. (Not directly at them, just intending to meet them).
(BA Disengage, Action to break through the palisade, and full movement)
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Pax rips her legs out of the sticky morass and breaks away from the pack surrounding her, easily fending off a feeble attack from the nearby drow. The 'bridesmaid' fungoids seem to have no capacity for retaliatory attacks and so Pax sprints otherwise unmolested back through the gap in the palisade, joining Kastix, Kaylyn and Sekkar. The last she hears from the garden is a few groans from the dead fungus-animated humanoids and a telepathic equivalent of a malevolent smirk from the demon queen. No words are spoken, but the impression behind the mental projection seems to say: PERHAPS NEXT TIME, MORTAL.
Zeno swishes his rapier at the myconids to fend off any of their appendages and charges straight at the zurkhwood palisade, hitting is hard enough with his shoulder to punch a hole through. Unfortunately the palisade was at the top of one of the highest terraces of the grove, and Zeno finds himself bursting out of the palisade only to drop forty feet to the floor of the grove below.
Zeno takes 11 bludgeoning damage from the fall, and lands prone.
Rhayna:
Rhayna alone remains in the garden, five bridesmaids remaining from the twelve, three chamberlains also, and a few spore servants, some of whom still shimmer with faerie fire. All cease their movement save to turn their heads and stare silently at Rhayna. The corpse of a mutated myconid lays at Rhayna's feet. Zuggtmoy also turns to face Rhayna and in the same sweet-yet-fiendish tone that Rhayna first heard inside Yggmorgus, the demon queen speaks in Abyssal:
WILL YOU ALSO GO, MY TREASURE? WILL YOU NOT REMAIN HERE TO PREPARE ME FOR MY TRUE GROOM? YOU WERE NOTHING BUT A PROXY FOR THE REHEARSAL, BUT YOU COULD BE SO MUCH MORE. Pointing at the corpse at Rhayna's feet, Zuggtmoy continues: WILL YOU TAKE HIS PLACE AND LABOR TO CONVERT ALL THE MYCONIDS OF THE GROVE TO MY WORSHIP? OR WILL YOU LEAVE NOW TO ATTEND ME LATER ON THE DAY I RECEIVE ARAUMYCOS TO MYSELF? CHOOSE NOW, BUT KNOW THAT MY GIFTS ARE YOURS TO CHERISH.
And with that she turns translucent and disappears from view, but Rhayna somehow senses that the Demon Queen of Fungi is returning to her lair in the great tower of Yggmorgus to resume her bridal preparations.
Combat is over, despite Rhayna still being in the garden. Back to freestyle RP.
"So much for this being a safe place," Kastix whispers as soon as he think there's no danger, "Scale of 1 to 10, how screwed are we for everything?" Kastix looks for a rock formation to sit and rest while holding his staff of fire close to him.
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Kirin - Level 15 High Elf Wizard (Evocation) - Zorg's Lost Souls - Overchannel Steel Wind Strike for the Win against Demogorgon Silas - Level 11 Human Cleric (War Domain) - Tomb of Annihilation Done
"I say 11," answered Sekkar, who was finally convinced by Dawnbringer to touch the shining blade, did so, ( Lesser Restoration ) and felt both better and a bit disoriented - he had a feeling as if almost understood some language but suddenly it turned back into the random noises. He hesitated for a moment but eventually asked: "You think that lady-demon will let our priest go? Or do we have to rescue her?"
Rhayna does not hesitate and goes after her friends.
(I will try to add more later.)
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Kazri - Level 10 Human Paladin (Oath of the Ancients) - The Tales of the Fellowship of the White Cloaks Droknin Palemane - Level 4 Leonin Barbarian (Path of the Beast) - Where the Cold Winds Blow... A Lost Mines of Phandelver Story Faelan (Cottontail) Whisperwind - Level 3 Ranger (Fey Wanderer) - Zorg's Lost Souls II
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
Pax stands there amidst the mushroom patches. A bit of bruising is visible on her neck where the demon struck her. The usually shadows that shimmer around her body are barely whisps running up her legs. She looks to the party, a somewhat accusatory look on her face...."Why'd you guys bolt!! We just about had them!" She shakes her head and sighs heavily. "Just a bit of levity there...ok....who isn't right in the head right now. Raise your hand." She looks around, unsure how to proceed, then says, "Alright, I say we go get an army of Myconids to rescue Rhayna...either way they need to know it's a demon who's infiltrated their colony here."
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What's the difference between a Wizard and a Sorcerer? Class.
"An army? We raise an army, that demon thing gets an army without effort and that's assuming it doesn't already have every Myconids under it's control," Kastix barks back, "That thing, if it wanted to kill, it would kill us in a heartbeat,"
(Did we identify what it was? Me the player knows, Kastix may not)
Kirin - Level 15 High Elf Wizard (Evocation) - Zorg's Lost Souls - Overchannel Steel Wind Strike for the Win against Demogorgon Silas - Level 11 Human Cleric (War Domain) - Tomb of Annihilation Done
Pax looks back towards the cliff, sighing heavily, "I don't totally disagree, but let's not be too dramatic Kastix. We hurt it's forces pretty good, and the Myconids here are not under it's control. At least, not yet. And if we warn them the trouble that is afoot they'll have a chance to intervene. Either way....we can't just leave Rhayna to her fate....so we should rally the Myconids and go back for her."
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(I believe we are waiting for Rhayna to join us and tell about the demon)
Sekkar shook his head one more time (the charm was gone now too but he remembered the feeling of seeing someone truly powerful and worth of following) and thoughfully added: "Aren't half the shrooms already under that demon control? With leadership split up and the other half non the wiser? Would they even believe us? Might be better to run before they came back from their - what was it? Communing? Whatever! - before they came back to senses and blamed us for dead mushrooms over there."
(Did we identify what it was? Me the player knows, Kastix may not)
Kastix knows Abyssal and I imagine that would come with at least rudimentary knowledge of major demons. Also Rhayna may have spoken of other demon lords after the encounter with Demogorgon. So he'd probably have a good guess that its a demon lord, even if he doesn't know who or what it is otherwise.
The remnants of the group (Kastix/Kaylyn/Sekkar/Pax) are on a high terrace in the north of the cavern (gathered to speak or moving back along the ramps?). They heard and saw Zeno break through the palisade further to the south, but without the benefit of lower terraces in that area, they observe him plummet to the ground below. They are just discussing rescuing Rhayna when the cleric appears behind them, more than a little disoriented, but following along the same way they escaped themselves.
The magic from Dawnbringer does indeed make Sekkar feel better, and he senses the effects of at least some of the spores that infected him being cleansed from his body. The spores create a disease that causes the various effects. Sekkar had two different 'diseases': one that created the madness and one that created the charmed effect. Is he curing the 'charmed' disease? Rhayna also has both diseases. Zeno has only the madness one. Pax/Kastix/Kaylyn have neither.
Kaylyn's poisoning caused hallucinations that made her incapacitated, but she can attempt the DC 10 CON saving throw again each turn. Otherwise it wears off after one minute
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How does a red dragon blow out the candles on its birthday cake?
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Pax casts breaths in, getting her second win (3), as she glances around at the thoroughly confused party. "Right..you guys are messed up......Sekkar, I disagree, we can't depart and leave this whole colony to fail, we must do our best to inform the half that are not yet lost, to see reason." She glances over where Zeno plummeted. Is he in sight? "All of you, follow me, you're under the influence of madness and charms, come with me NOW." She begins leaping down to where Zeno is, looking to send him some healing light for 2 healing from afar as she approaches. She glances around, seeing who else may be badly hurt...and also casts cure light wounds on them 5.
S4 takes 5 cold damage as it strikes Pax's shield, it's blade slicing into the darkness.
Pax leaps in surprise at the sudden explosion of sticky mushrooms. Strength save : 5 (should have been +3 more, but still FAR from success)
(I think the labels on your map got messed up, since Sekkar looks like Pax and S6 looks like a Chuulllull thingy. Can't we leap off the cliff here to get away to the left? (barring our inability to move of course))
What's the difference between a Wizard and a Sorcerer?
Class.
Can Kaylyn still have moved during her turn before the entanglement?
The labels for each character show up underneath the token. It's a feature I can't change.
I only mentioned it briefly before, but there is a palisade running along the edge of the garden. You can break through it easily enough, but would take an action.
Yes, definitely.
How does a red dragon blow out the candles on its birthday cake?
Strength save: 15
Orange slime did not bother him and did not restrained either, but he got tired of the clawed "mushroom" that still refuses to join the salad. And he was blocking the way to the bride! Made Sekkar feel a bit weak too...
(I thing Sekkar is still grappled by Chuul).
on Chuul: Attack: 30 Damage: 21
Attack: 23 Damage: 16
If Chuul is dead - Disengage (from Haste) and move after Kaylyn (who is running away, right?)
If not - another attack Attack: 25 Damage: 14 and running after Kaylyn while taking AoOs.
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Kaylyn watches as Kastix makes a break to the south. She moves that way also though she is unable to dash. As she approaches/passes Rhayna she grabs her wrist.
"We need to go Rhayna! Now! Come on!"
She tries to drag her with her following the same path that Kastix did.
The first swing from the still-frustrated Dawnbringer is sufficient to chop the pincer from the chuul and run it through. The back-swing slices the head off the drow beside Kaylyn, who Rhayna can now see clearly.
Actually Kastix went directly west out of the same hole in the palisade the group entered through. Kaylyn can go that way if desired... Rhayna seems likely to follow, as she has a clear path to the exit. (She and Sekkar are both currently being ignored by all fungal-type creatures)
The large fungoids move slightly to discourage Zeno from fleeing south, although he still notices there is sufficient space between them in that direction if needed. They make no other overtly threatening gestures, despite the fact that they look like they could deliver a hefty wallop with moss-covered fists if so desired.
MAP:
Rhayna (29), Kaylyn (21), Kastix (18), Zuggtmoy (16), Spore Servants (16), Sekkar (13), Chamberlains (12), Pax (11), Zeno (7), Myconids (5), Bridesmaids (2)
How does a red dragon blow out the candles on its birthday cake?
West then, I thought he went south.
Pax attempts to pull free of the sticky mass around her legs.
20
I think I've been holding onto an inspiration die for a while from Kaylyn, so, adding that: 5
Pax yanks herself free of the sticky mass and tries to flee the way the rest of the party went. (Disadvantage on AoO still with the boots)
What's the difference between a Wizard and a Sorcerer?
Class.
Zeno slowly backs away from the group around him, then sprints toward the palisade, leaping at it and breaking through, falling down and (hopefully) catching himself before running in an intercept route to meet the group. (Not directly at them, just intending to meet them).
(BA Disengage, Action to break through the palisade, and full movement)
Pax rips her legs out of the sticky morass and breaks away from the pack surrounding her, easily fending off a feeble attack from the nearby drow. The 'bridesmaid' fungoids seem to have no capacity for retaliatory attacks and so Pax sprints otherwise unmolested back through the gap in the palisade, joining Kastix, Kaylyn and Sekkar. The last she hears from the garden is a few groans from the dead fungus-animated humanoids and a telepathic equivalent of a malevolent smirk from the demon queen. No words are spoken, but the impression behind the mental projection seems to say: PERHAPS NEXT TIME, MORTAL.
Zeno swishes his rapier at the myconids to fend off any of their appendages and charges straight at the zurkhwood palisade, hitting is hard enough with his shoulder to punch a hole through. Unfortunately the palisade was at the top of one of the highest terraces of the grove, and Zeno finds himself bursting out of the palisade only to drop forty feet to the floor of the grove below.
Zeno takes 11 bludgeoning damage from the fall, and lands prone.
Rhayna:
Rhayna alone remains in the garden, five bridesmaids remaining from the twelve, three chamberlains also, and a few spore servants, some of whom still shimmer with faerie fire. All cease their movement save to turn their heads and stare silently at Rhayna. The corpse of a mutated myconid lays at Rhayna's feet. Zuggtmoy also turns to face Rhayna and in the same sweet-yet-fiendish tone that Rhayna first heard inside Yggmorgus, the demon queen speaks in Abyssal:
WILL YOU ALSO GO, MY TREASURE? WILL YOU NOT REMAIN HERE TO PREPARE ME FOR MY TRUE GROOM? YOU WERE NOTHING BUT A PROXY FOR THE REHEARSAL, BUT YOU COULD BE SO MUCH MORE. Pointing at the corpse at Rhayna's feet, Zuggtmoy continues: WILL YOU TAKE HIS PLACE AND LABOR TO CONVERT ALL THE MYCONIDS OF THE GROVE TO MY WORSHIP? OR WILL YOU LEAVE NOW TO ATTEND ME LATER ON THE DAY I RECEIVE ARAUMYCOS TO MYSELF? CHOOSE NOW, BUT KNOW THAT MY GIFTS ARE YOURS TO CHERISH.
And with that she turns translucent and disappears from view, but Rhayna somehow senses that the Demon Queen of Fungi is returning to her lair in the great tower of Yggmorgus to resume her bridal preparations.
Combat is over, despite Rhayna still being in the garden. Back to freestyle RP.
How does a red dragon blow out the candles on its birthday cake?
"So much for this being a safe place," Kastix whispers as soon as he think there's no danger, "Scale of 1 to 10, how screwed are we for everything?" Kastix looks for a rock formation to sit and rest while holding his staff of fire close to him.
Kirin - Level 15 High Elf Wizard (Evocation) - Zorg's Lost Souls- Overchannel Steel Wind Strike for the Win against DemogorgonSilas - Level 11 Human Cleric (War Domain) - Tomb of AnnihilationDone"I say 11," answered Sekkar, who was finally convinced by Dawnbringer to touch the shining blade, did so, ( Lesser Restoration ) and felt both better and a bit disoriented - he had a feeling as if almost understood some language but suddenly it turned back into the random noises. He hesitated for a moment but eventually asked: "You think that lady-demon will let our priest go? Or do we have to rescue her?"
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Rhayna does not hesitate and goes after her friends.
(I will try to add more later.)
Kazri - Level 10 Human Paladin (Oath of the Ancients) - The Tales of the Fellowship of the White Cloaks
Droknin Palemane - Level 4 Leonin Barbarian (Path of the Beast) - Where the Cold Winds Blow... A Lost Mines of Phandelver Story
Faelan (Cottontail) Whisperwind - Level 3 Ranger (Fey Wanderer) - Zorg's Lost Souls II
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
Pax stands there amidst the mushroom patches. A bit of bruising is visible on her neck where the demon struck her. The usually shadows that shimmer around her body are barely whisps running up her legs. She looks to the party, a somewhat accusatory look on her face...."Why'd you guys bolt!! We just about had them!" She shakes her head and sighs heavily. "Just a bit of levity there...ok....who isn't right in the head right now. Raise your hand." She looks around, unsure how to proceed, then says, "Alright, I say we go get an army of Myconids to rescue Rhayna...either way they need to know it's a demon who's infiltrated their colony here."
What's the difference between a Wizard and a Sorcerer?
Class.
"An army? We raise an army, that demon thing gets an army without effort and that's assuming it doesn't already have every Myconids under it's control," Kastix barks back, "That thing, if it wanted to kill, it would kill us in a heartbeat,"
(Did we identify what it was? Me the player knows, Kastix may not)
Kirin - Level 15 High Elf Wizard (Evocation) - Zorg's Lost Souls- Overchannel Steel Wind Strike for the Win against DemogorgonSilas - Level 11 Human Cleric (War Domain) - Tomb of AnnihilationDonePax looks back towards the cliff, sighing heavily, "I don't totally disagree, but let's not be too dramatic Kastix. We hurt it's forces pretty good, and the Myconids here are not under it's control. At least, not yet. And if we warn them the trouble that is afoot they'll have a chance to intervene. Either way....we can't just leave Rhayna to her fate....so we should rally the Myconids and go back for her."
What's the difference between a Wizard and a Sorcerer?
Class.
(I believe we are waiting for Rhayna to join us and tell about the demon)
Sekkar shook his head one more time (the charm was gone now too but he remembered the feeling of seeing someone truly powerful and worth of following) and thoughfully added: "Aren't half the shrooms already under that demon control? With leadership split up and the other half non the wiser? Would they even believe us? Might be better to run before they came back from their - what was it? Communing? Whatever! - before they came back to senses and blamed us for dead mushrooms over there."
Meili Liang Lvl 5 Monk
Dice
Kastix knows Abyssal and I imagine that would come with at least rudimentary knowledge of major demons. Also Rhayna may have spoken of other demon lords after the encounter with Demogorgon. So he'd probably have a good guess that its a demon lord, even if he doesn't know who or what it is otherwise.
The remnants of the group (Kastix/Kaylyn/Sekkar/Pax) are on a high terrace in the north of the cavern (gathered to speak or moving back along the ramps?). They heard and saw Zeno break through the palisade further to the south, but without the benefit of lower terraces in that area, they observe him plummet to the ground below. They are just discussing rescuing Rhayna when the cleric appears behind them, more than a little disoriented, but following along the same way they escaped themselves.
The magic from Dawnbringer does indeed make Sekkar feel better, and he senses the effects of at least some of the spores that infected him being cleansed from his body.
The spores create a disease that causes the various effects. Sekkar had two different 'diseases': one that created the madness and one that created the charmed effect. Is he curing the 'charmed' disease? Rhayna also has both diseases. Zeno has only the madness one. Pax/Kastix/Kaylyn have neither.
Kaylyn's poisoning caused hallucinations that made her incapacitated, but she can attempt the DC 10 CON saving throw again each turn. Otherwise it wears off after one minute
How does a red dragon blow out the candles on its birthday cake?
((Dawnbringer cured madness (for now at least). I thought charm was temporary - if not, consider him still impressed by the demon))
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Pax casts breaths in, getting her second win (3), as she glances around at the thoroughly confused party. "Right..you guys are messed up......Sekkar, I disagree, we can't depart and leave this whole colony to fail, we must do our best to inform the half that are not yet lost, to see reason." She glances over where Zeno plummeted. Is he in sight? "All of you, follow me, you're under the influence of madness and charms, come with me NOW." She begins leaping down to where Zeno is, looking to send him some healing light for 2 healing from afar as she approaches. She glances around, seeing who else may be badly hurt...and also casts cure light wounds on them 5.
What's the difference between a Wizard and a Sorcerer?
Class.