Pizazz's Ravenloft and Beyond

Meepo targets one of the vine creatures...

To hit:  10

Damage: 9

He will then use a bonus action to misty step up into a higher branch of a tree, before taking his next shot.

To hit: 13

Damage: 6

Doing attacks straight-up since I do not know if an allie is within 5 feet yet.

Remembering that the needle blights could shoot needless (and not having faced any of the vine blights last time) Olin looses arrows at the needle blights. "Lionel, Ismark, to me. When they swarm us I can try to charm them... Hopefully with better result than the tree..."

Attack: 26 Damage: 11

Attack: 15 Damage: 8

Then as an initial attack - Javelin: Attack: 18 Damage: 6

Before combat (i.e. surprise round), Mordekai will cast Faerie Fire whilst the creatures are all together. 

First round of combat, Mordekai will move away to maintain range, and will unleash an Eldritch Blast targeting the vine creature that Meepo hit.

Attack: 8 Damage: 9  (If it fails its DEX save and I have advantage, the second attack roll is 15)

Dex 15 saves: 

V1: 6 V2: 1 V3: 8

N1: 15 N2: 9 N3: 7 N4: 13 N5: 20 N6: 17

T1: 11 T2: 13 T3: 6 T4: 6 T5: 14 T6: 21 T7: 10 T8: 11 T9: 6 T10: 4 T11: 9 T12: 2

Crossbow bolts, a javelin, and an eldritch blast slam into one of the vine creatures which loses cohesion and tumbles into a pile of vines. Another bolt and a slash hurt another vine creature while an arrow from Olin slams right through a needle creature, sending it's wooden bits scattering across the ground. The 2nd arrow slams into one that keeps coming. 

(1 injured vine, 1 not injured, neither are glowing.  1 injured needle, 4 uninjured, all are glowing but one.  12 twigs, 3 of them are NOT glowing)

The vine creatures both close in on Lionel, vines from all around the ground bursting upwards, trying to entangle the warrior.  (DC 12 strength check, twice, or be restrained).  The ground in the area is now difficult terrain for the party. 

Needles fly at the party. 

Lionel : Attack: 15 Damage: 9

Lionel : Attack: 16 Damage: 6

Olin : Attack: 21 Damage: 9

Olin : Attack: 9 Damage: 10

Meepo : Attack: 12 Damage: 5

Then little twig creatures come flooding into the battle. 

Lionel:   Attack: 16 Damage: 5 Attack: 21 Damage: 5 Attack: 16 Damage: 2 Attack: 5 Damage: 4 Attack: 19 Damage: 2 Attack: 12 Damage: 3

Olin:  Attack: 20 Damage: 3 Attack: 13 Damage: 3 Attack: 10 Damage: 5 Attack: 19 Damage: 4 Attack: 12 Damage: 3 Attack: 8 Damage: 4

Next turn!

Meepo shoots one of the ones in combat with one of his companions.  (vine if possible, otherwise next-biggest-looking one.)

To hit: 14

Damage: 7

Olin drops his bow, grabbing the holy symbol around his neck he summons his spiritual weapon: a floating spectral oak branch.The branch swings down on the needle blight he previously shot with an arrow. Attack: 16 Damage: 12

"In the name of Silvanus, stop!" (DC14 Wis save or charmed)

Mordekai smiles at the green glow coming from so many of the creatures before him, and unleashes another Eldritch Blast at a glowing, uninjured Needle Blight.

Attack: 25 Damage: 14

Having strong feeling of deja vu, Lionel tried to get into that chopping wood rhythm he had not so long ago, attacking first glowing enemies: Attack: 20 Damage: 11

One of the vine creatures goes down with a heavy handed blade strike from Lionel, and a crossbow through it's viney head. Olin's magical branch takes out a Needle blight while Mordekai's blast of magic takes out another.

Charm saves: 

V3: 10

N4: 7, N5: 10, N6: 19

T1: 18, T2: 4, T3: 0, T4: 4, T5: 14, T6: 11, T7: 6, T8: 3, T9: 8, T10: 18, T11: 17, T12: 17

The only remaining vine creature attacks Lionel: Attack: 11 Damage: 10

The needle creatures all stop fighting.

6 of the twig creatures are left fighting. 

Lionel is attacked: Attack: 5 Damage: 4,  Attack: 14 Damage: 5,  Attack: 21 Damage: 3

Olin is attacked:  Attack: 21 Damage: 2,  Attack: 6 Damage: 5,  Attack: 4 Damage: 3

The battle quickly goes badly for the remaining creatures as the group methodically chops them down into vegetable and wood bits. After that, the group takes down the charmed creatures which stand around, frighteningly oblivious of the fate of their allies. Sweating from the brief exhilarating combat, everyone breath puffing out in grey clouds, the group checks themselves over, and then turns to examine the grove of trees.  The skeletal remains of a humanoid lays at the bottom of the tree. It's tattered leather armor is rotting, he or she has clearly been here a long time.  The shining battle axe that is embedded in the massive evil looking tree at the center of the grove seems untouched by the weather.   Just to the west of the hill is a curtain of fog.  As you look into the curtain of fog, you see a white fortress on a hill above a great city. The city appears quite distant, maybe a mile away. The fog obscures all detail, but you can hear what sounds like the echo of a church bell.

Meepo, with Rat in tow, move to the tree and start looking around it. He checks out the body first, then anything that might lead them to this item they seek.  He casts detect magic as a ritual, while Rat noses around for any thing important.

Rat perception: 18

"That axe in the tree trunk... Does not look healthy. Do you think we should remove it?" Lionel patiently waited for the knowledgeable in the group to determine degree of danger, but would not hesitate to remove the weapon from the tree.

Also, everyone gets 3250 xp.  

The axe is magical.  Also, Meepo detects something magical emanating weakly through the dirt from underneath the skeleton. Rat's poking about doesn't turn up anything additional.

"Dig under skeleton."  Meepo instructs the others.  "Something down in ground under..."  He then nods to the axe.  "Axe magical."  Suiting actions to words, Meepo starts digging under the skeleton then.

Lionel muttered about "old fearless adventurers" once again, sighed and yanked the axe out of the tree trunk (or tried to do so), half expecting to turn into something nasty, or the tree to come to life and attack everyone around.