His spell fizzles....still stuck, upside down, unable to move....he screams in rage....

Grenk, your turn.

[Round 6: Grenk: 21, Badger: 20, Mal: 19, Sickle: 11, Keshma: 10, Silas: 8, Acerack: 8]

Grenk looks down at the scene below.  He couldn't help but smile at Acerack's predicament.  Such a powerful being stuck in such an undignified way.  With sword in hand he shouts "Make way!" as he jumps down as well.

Athletics 23 straight roll due to advantage for strength checks from meal then disadvantage for skill exhaustion 

He then raises his blade and tries to scoure the sword into any part of Acerack that is showing.

Attack: 23 Damage: 5 + 5 fire damage + 2 radiant damage + 2 extra radiant if he's undead

Attack: 22 Damage: 9 + 6 fire damage + 5 radiant damage + 3 extra radiant if he's undead

Grenk leaps down ..(9 falling damage)... the uni-bunny absorbing the impact easily as he lands deftly on his feet despite his exhaustion. His flaming sword slashes into Acerack's exposed leg, the radiant damage flashing, the bony undead leg burning and cracking under the two massive blows....though somehow despite it all, the Lich is still squirming about, screaming horrid curses in languages that have been forgotten for hundreds of years. 

Then a blast of dark energy seems to erupt from Acerack....

Everyone near him is struck by the wave of energy.  

Grenk, Mal :  DC 20 CON save or take 43 Necrotic damage.   Half-damage on a save.

Keshma collapses, unable to withstand the dark energy, and flops onto the rock surface. 

Badger, Mal, your actions.

[Round 5: Grenk: 21, Badger: 20, Mal: 19, Sickle: 11, Keshma: 10, Silas: 8, Acerack: 8]

The current state of affairs seems to be going in their favor, so Badger continues to assault the half-exposed lich as before...

Magic Missile at 1st level again, for 7 force damage.

As bonus action, Badger continues to wave his hand around while the giant mystical Bigby's hand mimics his actions.
- If it is possible to grab the entire lich-sicle and lift it out of the hole then turn it over and dip it legs-first into the lava, then do that.
- If that's too much of a stretch, then just continue to use the Clenched Fist to thump him, like a pile-driver, head-first into the rock. Attack (with advantage - ignore if not applicable): 17 Damage: 22 force damage

Grenk con save, if this is a spell he has advantage but I'll roll them separately.  Also, Grenk has resistance to necrotic damage due to his rite of the dawn on the weapon. 12,  15

Also, if its a spell then Grenk can use a reaction to attack again

Attack: 13 Damage: 7 + 12 fire damage + 5 radiant damage + 5 extra radiant if he's undead

(not a spell)

(re: Bigby's hand, it reads "you can move the hand up to 60 feet and then cause one of the following effects with it.".  It's already quite a potent spell, so i'm hestitant about giving it MORE flexibility by allowing you to split the movement up....but....what they hay. This limitation seems artificial and maybe part of how they wrote the spell....so...you can 1) grapple the restrained dude, then 2) move him up to 30 feet (half-movement while dragging a grappled creature)....5 feet to get out of hole, 15 feet to edge of hole, 5 feet of movement to "rotate", and 5 feet of movement to dip him into lava. Seems totally fine.)

The magic missiles slam into the legs of the Lich, then the giant grasping hand lifts the Lich stone popsicle up into the air, slides him sideways across the solid stone to the edge of the slowly solidifying lava, rotates him, and dips him in...where more sizzling burning flame and smoke arise (47 damage)....

Mal?

Mal laughs a little bit and will move to Acerack and grab for his staff and hopefully yank it out of his hand, then will move back and hopefully stand over the ring, her foot resting on top of it.

Grapple 1: 21

Grapple 2: 11

[OOC: Using all of her attacks if I am able to do that and of course if he is still holding the staff. If he dropped it then I will go pick it up and still finish my move on top of the ring.]

(Mal still has a CON save to make. If she fails, she'll have taken 11 falling damage + 43 necrotic, which means she takes 4 actual HP's worth of damage before her magical shield renews to 50 hp's at the start of her turn.)

The staff, partially jammed still in the stone popsicle is only partially exposed, clutched by him in his hand, and embedded in the stone. However the stone around Acerack seems to be cracking of its own volition, especially the stone around the staff itself for some reason.  The first tug does nothing....but the second results in a shower of broken rock as the staff breaks free....and Mal stumbles back with the skull topped wooden staff in her hands. 

Sickle, still standing atop the cliff edge mumbles some words and Keshma stirs.....groggily looking around once more as she lays on the rock.  Still exhausted, she pushes herself up until she's standing, and gets her bearings.  

With people in the way, and not much "Acerack" left to see through the now almost fully encased Acerack...except for his "face hole"....Sickle pulls lightning into his hand, crackling and dancing, and readies himself to blast Acerack if he somehow emerges from the stone.  But with Grenk, Mal, Keshma and the hand and others nearby, he holds it for now.

Silas? 

[Round 5: Grenk: 21, Badger: 20, Mal: 19, Sickle: 11, Keshma: 10, Silas: 8, Acerack: 8]

Assuming lack of option, Silas will just ready to dodge  while hiding in the back room. 

[OOC: sorry totally missed it, though I did remove the 11 damage from my temp, so depending on save, will affect the rest.]

Con Save: 5

Acerack's stone is crumbling, but it's not crumbled enough for him to escape. Really only the end of one of his arms is revealed now, where he'd been clutching his staff.  His legs are no longer burning...as the ring has now solidified the lava around his legs, leaving him further stuck.  He mutters in a raspy deathly voice, "We'll meet again, fools! And on that day, you will die!"  

With that he attempts to teleport once again....  Grenk is no longer close enough to him to attack, since Badger floated him away over to more lava....

Badger, reaction? 

No counterspell from Badger this time.

The Lich vanishes....leaving a Lich shaped hole inside the chunk of stone. The room goes dark as the remainder of the lava turns into hard stone.

There's a moment of eerie silence.  

A "WOOOHOOOO!!!" is screamed from the stairs, startling everyone.  The civilian is standing, arms raised in the air, on the stairs....a big grin on his face.  "ZORG GUYA MORZ'IN SILA!!!!"

Keshma mutters using her tongues spell, "What is wrong with that guy? And how much time do I still have on the clock for you guys....surely we can take down some ancient dragons or maybe a couple demi-gods in our last few hours together?"

(We're out of initiative.....)

Badger slumps down on the balcony and sighs deeply. Perhaps they could have defeated the lich, but that would have only invited more urgent retaliation. He hopes that letting it escape buys enough time for his companions to return to civilisation, and for Badger to secure this dungeon for himself and fortify it against the lich's possible return. But for now it felt as though their quest was accomplished. The Soulmonger was destroyed and its guardians vanquished! There was still much to explore, but it could wait for a moment of rest and recovery. Except for one thing... Badger looks around for the ring and can't see it anywhere. The gnome teleports down to the lava surface and hunts around, absently mumbling a reply to Keshma: Well, there's a very nasty dinosaur in the ruins above us - you could start there, if you can find a way out of this place. I'm inclined to leave it be, personally.

Grenk let's out a loud roar of frustration and triumph.  He's not quite sure how to feel.  They had completed what they had set out to do by eliminating the soul devouring device and giant baby thing and caused some significant damage to Acerack but he had gotten away.  Still though, it looked like if he could get out, he could continue and expand his order.

Calming down a little he looked up to ledge.  "Keshma, you've been an incredible with the time you've been here and maybe you've enjoyed getting a piece of vengeance.  Maybe seeing Acerack stuck upside down, squirming, with his knickers bared for all to see will give you laughs for decades.  I think the rest is just some exploration so hopefully we can just relax for a bit.  If you may, can you help us out of this pit?"

"Badger, we can explore the rest of this place for sure and if we can't find a way out, I believe Keshma has offered to take us to a different plane before."

"Can anyone preform Sending? We need to confirm we have accomplished our mission," Silas states as he carefully moves back into the room and look around. If he can gather everyone together, he'll start casting Prayer of Healing

Healing: 13

Mal will bend over out of exhaustion and hopefully casually pick up the ring and pocket it.

Sleight of Hand: 24

Then sighing and straightening her back, "Well we should probably look about the room, inspect whatever containers those are on the balcony and then search for a way out of here. Maybe that glowing wall Acerack came in from. There has got to be a way out of here." Then she will slap her forehead and ask the blob of clay holding onto her shoulder, "Do you know the way out of here?"

Unable to locate the ring, Badger curses softly and says: I don't know how he did it, but he must have taken the ring! Then sighing deeply, he adds: Oh well. It's probably for the best. Such a powerful artifact - and he showed such interest - he was sure to return for it eventually. Then he notices the staff that Mal is holding and adds: Or that. He would probably return for that too. Glancing around, Badger tries to see if the mini sphere of destruction is still present.

"I doubt he will come for those items. If anything, he may just come for us to kill and the items are a bonus," Silas replies, "If he has the ring, I think these items are a good trade off,"

Mal looks at the staff, then smiles coyly, "Yea I have no use for this stick, should I just toss it into that sphere there? It seems to destroy most everything it touches." Then she will make to toss the staff into the sphere but instead toss the staff at Badger. "Don't make me regret doing that."

Then Mal will climb up onto the nearest balcony and start searching crates and jars up there.

Perception: 18

Investigation: 11