Pizazz's Ravenloft and Beyond

Ulthan grumbles like a bear to the wailing so he doesn't take any damage from that. Oh alright... 4. Ulthan teeters on the edge of collapse, but is too stubborn to fall yet as he tries plunging the sword into Rahadin's neck before he collapses.
Sword thrust into the neck 16 Damage: 5
Sword thrust into the gut which he then twists 14 Damage: 9

I deleted comments on radiant damage, I thought it was always on, but apparently I have to cast it... hence manipulated rolls.

(Crusaders Mantle has not been cast, Ulthan hasn't used a turn to cast it, so any added damage from that has been removed.)

(Meepo, your 3 skeletons that didn't die can fire arrows.) 

Rahadin's save vs slow : 15 

Mordekai, as the only one facing the right direction, you see Strahd walk through the wall out of crypt 31, calmly...his eyes locked on your, a playful smile on his face, and...steps through the wall into crypt 26. 

(ug, so many manipulated dice rolls.  In future, don't muck with your rolls, just use the strikethrough to strikethrough mistakes, and add additional rolls.  I think I captured most of the damage...) 

waiting for Skeleton's to fire, then Rahadin and Strahd will take their actions. 

((Yeah, sorry... I'm normally good on just adding to the end of a post when I edit. Silly me tried to put in the "plus roll from Ulthan" at the end of the rolls and it set off the alarms...))

     ((What??  Rahadin didn't bite it?  Ack!!))

Skeleton attacks...

Attack: 18 Damage: 7

Attack: 11 Damage: 6

Attack: 20 Damage: 7

Three arrows clatter past Rahadin.  Ulthan leaps forward, his short sword stabbing Rahadin twice.  Grenk sweeps has blade at Rahadin, getting one good strike in, sending the elves blood spraying.  Lionel, who has been running back and forth from opponent to opponent swings around, and charges back to Rahadin, his blade swinging twice, the blade slashing into him a couple of times. 

Mordekai's casts his spell, and Rahadin's liquid movements suddenly becomes slow like molasses. His eyes dart about in slow motion, under attack by four foes, and he mutters a spell...that should be quick but takes him a second regardless....and then he vanishes, appearing 30 feet away.  He backs away another 15 feet as he tries to get some distance from the group. He's manages to get into the main stairwell where he's also got cover from the arrows, even if the skeletons move.  (Slow save : 18 ) 

Strahd comes striding out of one of the crypts, walking through the wall as if it wasn't there he strides towards Rahadin, and sees the elf badly hurt and moving sluggishly and then reaches out and touches him, casting a spell. Rahadin vanishes.  Strahd turns towards the group, a please looked on his face as he regards both Ulthan and Ketch wavering from wounds, Lionel huffing from running every which way, and Mordekai trying to help them all survive. 

Everyone's action. 

Ulthan simply squints his eyes and drops his shortsword, but nay, he is not surrendering as he smoothly  pulls arrows from the quiver launching arrows at Strahd...his shortsword simply dangles from his side, the rope he attached earlier keeping the lit sword on him.
Arrow1: 12 Damage: 10
Arrow2: 20 Damage: 10

     "Has anyone ever told you you're a terrible host?" Ketch spits out staring at Strahd.  "You invite us into your home and then sic your pets on us?  Someone never learned the rules of hospitality in vampire school..."

     In one of the pauses that his wounds inevitably caused Ketch to take, he still somehow managed to mutter a few words to Gruumsh and cast Cure Wounds upon himself once more.  ((Third level for 17 hp healed))

     During all this, Ketch still has enough wits about him to move his Spiritual Weapon directly towards the putridly pale elf Rahadin. ((Bonus action allows it to move 20ft and attack a creature within 5ft of it.  Spiritual Weapon wasn't actually on the map but I think it may be able to get within striking damage of the elf...  But if the Spiritual Axe doesn't get quite to Rahadin it should at least be within range to strike Strahd himself as a second choice...))

Spiritual Weapon Attack: 8 Damage: 6

Mordekai moves into view of Strahd and Rahadin, looks Strahd in the eye and says, following Ketch, "You didn't even turn up to dinner "

Then he sends two Eldritch Blasts fizzing past the side of Strahd's head, really aiming for where Rahadin last was (attacking with disadvantage, but aware he may not even be there). 

Attack: 22 Damage: 12

Attack: 14 Damage: 14

Running was tiresome but not that much: Lionel was not in a talkative mood, but still able to reach Strahd - so the vampire could enjoy the sunlight from the sword (15ft) - and hold up the Raven amulet.

Hold Vampires. As an action, you can expend 1 charge and present the holy symbol to make it flare with holy power. Vampires and vampire spawn within 30 feet of the holy symbol when it flares must make a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, a target is paralyzed for 1 minute. It can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns to end the effect on itself.

Meepo has the skeletons shoot again...

To hit: 12 Damage: 10
To hit: 20 Damage: 10
To hit: 21 Damage: 11

An arrow thuds into Strahd from Ulthan, though he tosses it away, the wound healing immediately.  Lionel rushes up, the sunlight bathing Strahd, his skin crackling and simultaneously healing in the flood of light.  Skeleton arrows fly past.  Mordekai sends two blasts past Strahd and one seems to strike something. You hear the thud of a body. Strahd scowls suddenly, finally his annoying smirk drops from his face. 

Lionel steps forward, his hand outstretched, the holy symbol held high as it a pulse of energy flows from it. 23   It washes across him and he ignores its power.

The fireball that had just gone off had incinerated a goodly number of bats.....but the shock of the spell and of the battle was causing the ceiling full of bats above to practically vibrate, with waves of motion moving through them.  Strahd, his scowl fierce, glanced to the ceiling, then to the group, and then smiled. 

And then the air is filled with black bodies as a wall of creatures descends from above. Claws and teeth bite and chew, little clawed hands grasp and scratch as you're assaulted by thousands of bats. 

Lionel : 

Attack: 15 Damage: 8

Attack: 24 Damage: 11

Attack: 10 Damage: 6

Attack: 9 Damage: 3

Mordekai : 

Attack: 7 Damage: 7

Attack: 14 Damage: 8

Attack: 6 Damage: 4

Attack: 19 Damage: 6

Ulthan : 

Attack: 20 Damage: 5

Attack: 19 Damage: 5

Attack: 14 Damage: 4

Attack: 8 Damage: 4

Ketch : 

Attack: 17 Damage: 4

Attack: 23 Damage: 4

Attack: 19 Damage: 3

Attack: 20 Damage: 6

In the shroud of black bodies you completely lose sight of your enemy as he melds backwards and away.

Meepo....the vampire ladies around you continue dragging their nails down your sphere....like nails on chalkboard it's rather annoying. A few dozen bats come flapping into the space above. You and the ladies glance up for a moment...distracted by the fluttering creatures as they flap around at random. The seconds before this sphere drop continue to tick by....

Everyone's action.  You can only see 5 feet around you.  There are numerous swarms of bats filling the all of the spaces.

     “If he’s dead, he’s staying dead,” Ketch spits out in a grumble and does his best to wade through the bats over to the area where Strahd and the pale elf had been.

     Ketch wants that things head.  To ensure it isn’t revived, as revenge and as a trophy... Ketch prods around the area if no body is visible, trying to make sure it’s not cloaked or invisible.  He’ll swing at anything that could be the corpse of the elf...

     if nothing is found then Ketch will settle for casting his last 3rd level Cure Wounds on himself for 20 of healing...

Mordekai's eyes glow red with fury and frustration. He points at the bats that managed to hurt him, a fearsome image, as fire leaps at the bats on question (Hellish Rebuke, DC16 DEX save or take 21 fire damage, half on a successful save).

Not being able to see through the bats is infuriating, and Mordekai continues to lash out at them, transferring Hex to a swarm and casting Shocking Grasp for possibly the first time ever...

Attack: 26 Damage: 12

(To clarify, yes, I told 2d8+1d6 and got a total of 4 lol)

Do we give away multiple attacks of opportunity every 5ft we move? Even if we do, Mordekai will try to push through the swarms, heading in Meepo's general direction (I think my 30ft gets me roughly outside crypt 32?)

((I think opportunity attacks may be moot since the whole place is swarmed with bats 🦇))

The was not much Lionel could do in this cloud of wings beating all around (with one particularly mean bat that personally had it out for paladin). Strahd was gone (again!) and it seemed they had to follow. They could probably hide in a crypt, and wait for the bats to settle again, but with Strahd around it did not look like a good idea.

"Meepo! Everyone! To the stairs!" Rahadin body was there anyway and Lione would not mind to see it too. Hopefully, the light of the sword could be seen even through the bats.

He tried to somewhat clear the path swinging the sword:

Attack: 26 Damage: 11

Attack: 17 Damage: 9

The first bat barely has time to scratch and bite Ulthan before he collapses on all of them killing and suffocating them under his body.

Lionel and Ketch bravely give chase, despite the swarms of bats around them.  The flying rodents begin seemingly to follow them...trying to press their flapping bodies into the hallway. Meanwhile, Mordekai presses against the flow of the bats that swarm past him towards the stairway.  

Ketch and Lionel press into the stairwell....kicking and stabbing at the ground, but the only sign of the cursed elf is a trail of blood that ends abruptly at a wall.  The bats all around them meanwhile are swirling upwards, up a hollow round column that in the center of the staircase. It seems like it may take quite a while for the bats to clear out of this place. 

Lionel and Ketch still in the worse press of bats continue to get scratched and bit as they flap by: 

Lionel: 

Attack: 22 Damage: 7

Attack: 12 Damage: 5

Attack: 22 Damage: 6 

Ketch:

Attack: 21 Damage: 4

Attack: 5 Damage: 4

Attack: 22 Damage: 7

Mordekai meanwhile releases flame and uses his lightning coated hand to swat away the creatures, only getting attacked minimally: 

Attack: 13 Damage: 3

Ulthan, who has dropped to the ground like a rock, with deep gouges in his back, with red and black damage around his wounds, lays there on top of a few crushed bats, bleeding.

The bats ignore the three remaining skeletons.

Next round.  

Mordekai takes a gamble and opens crypt 32. Having been pointed to the conjuration magic coming from it earlier, he's counting on any possible magic trap not dealing more than 58 damage, and bats not following him as they seem to be focused on leaving. 

     "Balls," Ketch curses.  His obscenities only getting fouler and more obscure from there.  Having no way to follow, Ketch makes his way back to the trap that his companion was... well, trapped behind.  

     "We need to regroup and get somewhere we can rest.  Sleep.  Heal...." Ketch says aloud as he batters his way through the bats.  During his slow trudge, Ketch casts another healing upon himself.  ((2nd level Cure Wounds - 15 But hey, he's 3 full 1st levels left!  Bring the elf back!!!))

Lionel returns with Ketch, trying to fing Ulthan who was already in a bad conditions.

20 points from Lay on Hands on Ulthan