Kaylyn Athletics 5

5

Kaylyn seems to be having difficulty even starting the climb and barely makes her own height above the ground when she looses her grip and slips back to the ground.

Rhayna looks at Pax and Sekkar going up the wall with ease, and gives a sigh. "Ugh... I should have taken that wall climbing lesson when they offered at the library. Wait..." Rhayna studies briefly the mechanical lifts closest to the party. "Perhaps..." She concentrates for a moment, then calling upon Selune for knowledge (SOP really), her eyes starts to flutter. As her other colleagues tries to figure out how to go up the wall as well, she walks up to the lift on the east side, and starts to operate it.

Channel Divinity: Knowledge of the Ages - As an action, you choose one skill or tool. For 10 minutes, you have proficiency with the chosen skill or tool.

Kaylyn, having failed her attempt to climb the wall sees Rhayna head for the lift.  She rushes (dashes) to catch up with her.  "I guess I'm not much of a climber."

....Kastix Athletics: -2

1 . . . .

The Die REALLY doesn't want to go high for Kastix or just me in general. 

Kastix put his foot on the start of the incline before he slips and falls backwards. Mumbles about learning teleportation. "I believe we should deal with the gate breakers I guess if I could only get up this wretched thing,"

Pax looks Sekkar in the eyes, having no difficulty seeing him with her arcane sight, and sees the rest of the group still stuck at the bottom of the wall.  

"Very well, let's keep these guys busy for a while...I hope we're choosing the correct side right now. I can never tell around here."

She stands up, begins advancing towards them. As she does so, she focus' her internal energy, letting the arcane shadows swirl about her, and then pulls out her rod, and points it at the cluster of invisible Duegar. A blazing pellet of fire flies towards them...and then explodes in their midst. 

Fireball :  Dexterity save DC 13 for half-damage.  27 fire damage. 

DEX saves v Fireball
Invisible duergar: 2, 7, 4, 20, 8, 4, 12, 15
Enlarged duergar: 2, 19, 3, 16

Rhayna takes one look at the system of levers and pulleys, and instantly knows exactly which one to pull to make the correct lift rise at just the right rate. The platform begins to elevate, leaving Kaylyn and Kastix just enough time to run and jump on.

Pax weaves the spell for the fireball, and despite the din coming from the battering of the door, one of the duergar looks around just in time to see the spell being released, and dodges enough to avoid the worst of it. Only one other of the eight invisible dwarves manages to survive the blast, while the other six fall to the ground and becoming visible, burning, smoking corpses. The blast is large enough to reach the doors themselves, and two of the enlarged duergar also burn to a crisp, leaving black oversized-dwarf-shaped silhouettes on the stone doors. The other two are severely singed but still alive, and instantly turn invisible. Pax sees all four surviving duergar spread out and start calling to each other in their guttural language.

Sekkar's reptilian body climbs easily to the top, using all four claws and his tail for balance (although only Pax sees him as she glances down briefly to pass on information). As Sekkar clears the lip of the trench, he sees the aftermath of the fireball and hears the duergar barking orders to each other in Dwarvish:

The two enlarged duergar chasing gnomes in the marketplace also witness the explosion, and they too turn invisible and join in warily approaching the lone figure on the lip of the trench.

Sekkar and Pax are both at the top of the trench now. Sekkar is still invisible and can only see Pax and the dead bodies. Pax can see Sekkar and the six approaching invisible duergar, who are all about 60' away. Rhayna, Kastix and Kaylyn are still riding the lift, but Pensive is flying near the cavern ceiling and can see Pax and the dead bodies.

I don't think there is any need for initiative. We'll just freestyle it.

Rhayna looks at Kaylyn and Kastix. "Sorry, I would make it go faster, but it has a certain operational limit to its ascending speed." The Cleric looks up, trying to figure how long more until they reach the top.

(OOC: Does Calm Emotions helps here?)

Pax whispers to Sekkar, "Six duegar approaching. Stay close. The rest are down."  She continues advancing away from the cliff edge, her rod out.  She tries not to give away that she can see them, but moves generally into their midsts, her rod in her hand out....ensuring Sekkar is staying close to her.  Out loud in undercommon she says, in a loud voice, "So...what's going on here? This is supposed to be a place of peace, why is everyone fighting?" 

She'll move cautiously forward towards the double doors.  Assuming they don't respond, when one is within 15 feet, she'll use a bonus action to cast Hex (vs Dexterity), and points the rod at him, attacking. 

Rod attacks: Attack: 18 Damage: 6.  Attack: 28 Damage: 7.   Attack: 15 Damage: 10.   (If all 3 hit and he's still alive, then he has to make a DC 15 Con save, or have 1/2 movement, disadvantage on Dexterity saves, and no reactions for 1 minute)

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Rhayna looks at Kaylyn and Kastix. "Sorry, I would make it go faster, but it has a certain operational limit to its ascending speed." The Cleric looks up, trying to figure how long more until they reach the top.

(OOC: Does Calm Emotions helps here?)

On the duergar? Possibly, but if Rhayna could see them, or know where they are (they being invisible) she would also realise they are quite spread out, and probably not all within a 20' radius. Not yet at least.

(I was actually asking if we would like to calm ppl down, and figure out what’s happening.)

"Well done, sister. You could be accepted to any tribe. As a warrior." Sekkar inhaled the intoxicating aroma of roasted meat and added, following perceptive Pax around. "They say strange things, though... Surprised that we are siding with the svirfneblin scum and expect attack of drow." What does it all mean he did not understand yet, but if Pensive was in contact, sent the information back to to the "lift party". If anyone (anything) would attack Pax, he is going to fight back.

"Can someone throw me a rope to get me out of here?" Kastix shouts from  bottom of the trench. 

NVM

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"Can someone throw me a rope to get me out of here?" Kastix shouts from  bottom of the trench. 

 I think Kastix is in the lift. 

Kastix impatiently taps his staff on the lift floor as he is lifted up, "I forgot to ward myself. just a moment. Here's some protection as well," Kastix cast Death Ward and twinning it onto Rhyana. 

CON save: 15

(Sekkar's first attack is both advantage from being invisible and disadvantage from attacking an invisible target. After the first attack he loses invisibility, so attacks with disadvantage. Fortunately all are still hits, although no critical sorry)

Pax has the advantage of being able to see the duergar approach, so can see that the two large duergar that were bashing the door are not wearing shields. Considering them easier targets, Pax mentally lashes out with the tentacle rod, which wraps all three tendrils around the giant dwarf's limbs. But there are few folk as resilient and hardy as an Underdark dwarf, and despite being severely battered and bruised by the tentacles, the creature manages to shake off the other negative effects.

Unseen by the duergar, but also unable to see them, Sekkar is able to make a fair guess as to their location. Dawnbringer comes alive in his hand, but the light is not as first visible under the effects of the spell. Listening carefully, Sekkar notices a small shift of loose stone, and slipping away from Pax, he strikes low at the place where his prey's feet and legs should be. Suddenly sunlight blossoms into the cavern, and just as the others on the lift clear the edge of the trench, they see the ranger with his blazing sword slashing at what appears to be empty air, only to watch as a giant dark-skinned dwarf suddenly materialises and then shrinks to normal size and crumple to the ground. Another stray sound and Sekkar is able to pick another target, glide towards it and make another successful strike.

Sekkar senses his new target move away from him, and Pax can see that all the remaining duergar are retreating to the south, evidently surprised by the unexpected attacks, alarmed by the sudden painful light, and knowing their advantage of invisibility is spoiled.

No opportunity attacks, as Pax is not within range and Sekkar can't see his opponent. The duergar are still invisible, but everyone can tell they have moved 50' to the south, into the broken marketplace.

Rhayna/Kastix/Kaylyn can all declare an action now if they wish.

"Hey no running away," Kastix states as he slashes the air while casting Wall of Fire, creating a 20ft high (to the ceiling) and 60ft long wall of fire cutting them off with the side dealing damage facing  towards the duergars.

Dex Save: 16

Damage: 31

Staff of Fire Possible destruction: 4

(Is Rhayna able to see the duergars stuck by Kastix’s fire wall? If she, she will cast Calm Emotions, trying to target them both if possible.)

Reaching the top of the lift and looking around Kaylyn sees flames flying about and duergar popping out from their unseen places.  "What in the blazes is going on?" She mutters and then casts See Invisibility.  She looks around to see how many of these duergar are around.

"Are we even attacking the right people? We don't know anything." She mutters.

Pax looks at Kaylyn and begins babbling in a constant stream of words...  "They were chasing the underground gnomes and bashing down doors, and they seemed like the aggressors, so I took a chance and blasted the bunch of them. Then...I tried to talk...but...they just seemed intent on killing me...which..given the fireball...seems reasonable...but then Sekkar says they said somethin about Drow...so...maybe they're not the bad ones...I don't know."  Pax seems to be stuck mumbling on and is clearly unsure if she's just murdered a bunch of 'allies' or is killing enemies....and all of her doubts and confusion about the "grey" parts of the universe between good and bad, and different races possible spot on that spectrum rush back and she seems frozen in indecision and just continues mumbling "this..but....this...but...this"...    She may be broken as she clutches her tentacled evil looking rod, surrounded in black shadows, looking to all the world like some sort of evil villian.