Pizazz's Ravenloft and Beyond

Ulthan puts two silver arrows into Strahd, but as normal expects them to do nothing.
Arrow1: 6 Damage: 15
Arrow2: 20 Damage: 20

Magic missiles strike into Strahd....the wounds blasting at him, arrows fly at him, stabbing into him....blasts of eldritch magic strike him....enough to take down any normal creature.  The wounds are no longer closing and the sunlight cast is clearly burning him badly....he hisses angrily, like a mindless monster, enraged and angered.  But.....he is no longer locked down by Lionel's spell.....hurt and looking like one more volley could finish him, he lets go of Lionel's arm and flees backwards 30 feet in a blur, racing for his castle.  (No AoO).

Lionel / Samanthan, your action. He's 30 feet from you, right next to the castle wall. 

((With Strahd backpedaling away such that Ketch cannot get into melee, he would instead take his action to Eldritch Blast instead of double movement towards the guy who fled too far away already anyway... Still try to taunt him with the head of his friend and all, but blasting instead of extra movement.  Cause why chase a guy you can't catch if you can at least maybe get a couple licks in Eldritchy-wise...))

Eldritch Blast v Strahd Attack: 5 Damage: 7

Eldritch Blast v Strahd Attack: 6 Damage: 4

((Sorry to retcon but since Strahd does go first, his fleeing would influence Ketch's actions...))

She so hoped it can work now! And Lionel (with the others) hoped too with her:

Hold Vampires - Samanthan made a few steps forward, the symbol in her hands glared with holy power. (DC 15 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, a target is paralyzed for 1 minute).

"Stay and fight, you coward!" (She was not very original, but audience probably did not mind) BA: Compelled Duel once again (DC 15 Wisdom saving throw)

Two more blasts from Ketch hit him.

Hold save : 13

Compelled duel save : 20

He all but howls at Ketch and his 'decoration'....screeching around at the myriad of opponents blasting him with magic. His skin sizzling and blackening, wounded badly, he shakes his head with a grimace, "Nearly a dozen on one and this cursed sunlight?  Your desire to fight me alone is as empty as your honor....come...come get me, if you dare. In the darkness I shall not back down...."   he glares at Ketch, "...and I will END you..."   He steps backwards through the castle wall and out of sight, leaving behind the smell of cooking rotting flesh...

Ezz screams and rushes the wall he vanished through, leaping up onto a base stone and peaking through a narrow arrow slit, "NOOO....COWARD!!!" 

The angel leaps off of his feet, his wings propelling him forward at an immense speed, "You'll not flee from me devil!"  and just before it seems like he's going to crash into the wall Strahd went through, he shimmers into the form of a small bird and vanishes through an arrow slit. 

The bride stands out in the courtyard...smoking, in a burned dress...and smoking hair, looking around confused. 

Ulthan, Ketch, Mordekai, Meepo, Samanthan, your actions. 

[ Round 33:  Mordekai : 22, Meepo: 18, Samanthan: 17,  Strahd : 16, Ezz : 15, Abbott: 13,  Ulthan : 7, Bride: 5, Ketch : 4 ]

(Which bit of wall did he go through? He had been heading for the main castle door, did he go into the entrance? And what's the state of the doors? Last time we knew, they're not magically locked, but they're closed? They took some damage, but they still work, right?)

(The angel run through those doors outside)

"Meepo think follow." Meepo speaks up. "Go coffin now?" He asks the others. He would have his skeletons remain alert, with orders to shoot the vampire as soon as he shows his face again, just in case.

     “If we had a bard we could have them compose a ballad of how the coward fled and sing it across the lands...” Ketch thought aloud.

     “Alas, back to the start again.  But three choices now: regroup to regain strength; rush to the coffin and wait; or we can try to find and assist the angel,” Ketch proposes.  He then looks to Lionel for direction. Then remembers its Samanthan now?  Then shrugs.  “I say we head to coffin to destroy his rest and if we stumble across a battle we join in...”

"I think we go in and don't let him rest up.  If we catch him by his coffin, he'll have nowhere left to flee to.  Watch out for the dragons."

Mordekai heads towards the doors, 30ft closer, and casts Disguise Self to transform into Rahadin - primarily to taunt Strahd when we find him, but also hoping to give the dragons pause long enough to get through the entrance and into narrower corridors where they hopefully can't follow.

"I agree, we follow the angel, help him defeat the dragons and then Strahd." Samanthan said it out loud, paused for a second and added "Or just defeat dragons and go to the coffin".  Another pause. "We just go."

The dwarf walked to the doors and looked inside and up.

     “Gruumsh wept,” Ketch spits, and then follows the others.

Ulthan being somewhat close to fully healed follows wearily, bow and arrows at the ready.

He's gone through the front wall of the castle, to the left of the front doors. The front doors are sitting open, but even closed there is a sufficiently large hole to just walk through. Mordekai sheaths himself in illusion and strides purposely through the open front doors, and through into the main entrance hall. As he does so, he looks up. The two dragons are clutching the side fo the walls, hanging above the door, looking down....presumably waiting to breath on the next fool to walk in...however....seeing Rahadin....the don't breath on him....but, their ears twerk and they glance towards the opening, hearing others following him.  

As Lionel/Samanthan approach the front doors and pokes in just a bit, glancing up, he/she can see parts of the dragons clinging to the wall 20 feet above the front doors on the inside....bits of plaster and stone plink down from above as they move about....ready to strike.

(1 round to approach since you were all 50 - 60 feet away, so this is now the next round, 34)

Mordekai holds his hands up to the dragons, half commanding, half placating. He mutters behind him, "Meepo, could you help me out here, with your Draconic? As though I'm telling them you're with me, or I'm handling it? Then we all head downstairs? I'll be the last to follow. I say we head to the coffin, rather than follow Strahd where he wants us."

     Assuming disaster doesn’t strike before his turn, Ketch enters the castle with head down, as if in defeat, and follows any directions Mordekai or Meepo give, trying to play along with the charade...

Surprisingly, so is the dwarf - though some hesitation from Samanthan was only natural. But if Mordekai was able to placate the beasts, she would not insist on fighting.

Meepo shrugs and uses Minor Illusion to speak words, that sound as if they are coming from Mordekai's illusion. "These minions are my slaves now, do not harm them."

The ruse seems to work....as the dragons scramble up and away from Rahadin....back to their perches above....glaring down, but not attacking.  The group makes their way through the entrance way into the main hall.  Cobwebs stretch between the columns that support the vaulted ceiling of a great, dusty hall dimly lit by sputtering torches in iron sconces. The torches cast odd shadows across the faces of eight stone gargoyles squatting motionlessly on the rim of the domed ceiling, though the bright sunlight pouring from holy symbol that Lionel/Samanthan holds up casts everything into sharp relief. Cracked and faded ceiling frescoes are covered by decay. Double doors of bronze stand partially open to the east. To the north, a wide staircase climbs into darkness. An unlit hallway to the south contains another set of bronze doors. 

(round 35) 

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     Ketch calmly follows Mordecai, not concerned at all about several red dragons and a bunch of gargoyles at his back.  Nope, no sweat on me.  I'm Mr. Smooth drinking an Icee.