Pizazz's Ravenloft and Beyond

Ulthan grumbles as he braces for the onslaught 7 and at 21 and moves behind some of these meat people  launching two powerful yet inaccurate arrows into the giant eyeball.
Attack: 22 Damage: 20
Attack: 8 Damage: 21

Utazo is commanded to bite the eyestalk with bonus action 4 so it's this or 16 Init whichever is lower. Assuming attack command works, Utazo dodges between the legs of the tasteless meat sticks and pounces on the side of the behold trying to bring it down with its weight.
Attack: 27 Damage: 10

DC16 WIS save: 21 (that's not including Lionel's bonus because I'm not sure how far away from him Mordekai is)

Mordekai Initiative: 5

Before can anyone react, the thing is blasting three more rays at the group....

Mordekai 10  

Lionel 3  

Ulthan 2  

 Mordekai: 

 Lionel : 

 Ulthan: 

 Lionel, Meepo, your actions. 

 [ Round 1: Beholder: 22, Lionel: 19, Meepo: 16, Ulthan : 16, Ketch: 14, Mordekai: 5  ] 

Mordekai DC16 STR save: 17

(EDIT: Random d6 to jump-start the dice roller above...2)

Ulthan Wis 3. So likely nothing happens on Ulthan's action other than slumping over. At least that's what many-eyes hoped. Ulthan roars in anger at the onslaught before he even has a chance to do anything.

Lionel Dex Save: 13 (nothing can help poor paladin in regards of Dex saves!)

((Still need to know where are we all?))

At least the imposter (now there could be no doubts the Quill here was an imposter) was not going to help to the beholder. For now anyway. "To the painting!" It seemed still safer to have a way out, even if into an unknown prison. Lionel tried to move to his friends to cover them with divine aura ((within 10ft to give +3 on saves)) but found himself unable to move freely. Yet, he was straggling forward hoping to stay between the group and the beholder. Protection from Evil and Good on himself.

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Quill looks up in interest, and stands, "Was that, screaming?"

 

     Ketch eyes Quill and then nods.  "Indeed.  Sounds like my help on the other side may be in trouble," Ketch answers through gritted teeth. Ketch has his shield and axe ready at hand but knows it's pointless without a way through the damnable painting.

Meepo would move to one side, so the group is not all gathered together, then he would blast with a fireball...

fireball

DC 15 Dex save or take 29 fire damage.

A fireball erupts in the upper part of the room encompassing the beholder in flames... 8 ...

Lionel moves...slowly....into the room, making sure everyone is within his aura of protection....and yells about the painting.  Then casts a protective spell on himself. 

The thing looks down at Meepo in response and scowls.... unleashing a blast form an eye stalk...then another. 

10  10  4

Meepo :  First: DC 16 Dexterity saving throw or take 55 (10d10)  48 necrotic damage. The target dies if the ray reduces it to 0 hit points. 

Meepo :  Second: DC 16 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the target’s speed is halved for 1 minute. In addition, the creature can’t take reactions, and it can take either an action or a bonus action on its turn, not both. The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Ulthan, Ketch, Mordekai, you actions.

Ketch... Has no actions.  Stuck as he is, with no way out, he tries to listen to what is going on beyond the painting but otherwise just stays prepared... Just in case.

"I said, who is responsible for this painting!" Mordekai spreads his arms wide hoping to distract some attention from Meepo. He'll cast Hex on the beholder, and follow up with some Eldritch Blasts, sending some rays of his own back at the beholder. 

Attack: 16 Damage: 13 plus 4 Hex

Attack: 12 Damage: 9 plus 5 Hex

Meepo dex save 1: 21  #2:  24

Mordekai unleashes two blasts at the beholder, striking him with one, while Ulthan fires two arrows at the thing.  The arrows slam into its body, ripping sizeable holes.  The thing shrieks in pain.  However Ulthan's order to send his cat attacking the creature isn't possible, since the thing is floating 20 feet in the air. 

People scream and run every which way. Quill goes diving under a table and hides behind the table cloth that hangs down.  Men and women run shrieking from the room.  Even in their panicked shriek though they are 'off'.....with men yelling "Ah, I am very distressed and am fleeing from this room now!" in a slightly too flat voice, or women shrieking and yelling, "The standard behavior for a woman who is afraid is to shriek.  EEeeek.  Eeeek."  

Through the chaos, magic continues to be flung back and forth between the beholder and the party.  An eye stalk blasts off at Ulthan. 8 

Ulthan:   DC 16 Wisdom saving throw or be charmed by the beholder for 1 hour, or until the beholder harms the creature.

The beholder swings around, keeping it's main eye glaring at Lionel, Meepo, and Mordekai....and then focus' all of it's eye stalks down at Ulthan!!!!

Ulthan!!  Eye rays galore are being blasted at you!  

7 5  2 

In order: 

Enervation Ray. The targeted creature must make a DC 16 Constitution saving throw, taking 36 (8d8)  44 necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Paralyzing Ray. The targeted creature must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or be paralyzed for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Fear Ray. The targeted creature must succeed on a DC 16 Wisdom saving throw or be frightened for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Lionel, Meepo, your actions.

[ Round 2: Beholder: 22, Lionel: 19, Meepo: 16, Ulthan : 16, Ketch: 14, Mordekai: 5  ]

Ulthan pales a bit as many-eyes pays too much attention to Ulthan.
Charm 11
Enervation 21
Paralyzing 20
Fear 11

Ulthan "hrmpfh friend many eyes hrmpfh" charm succeedes
Ulthan "hrmpfh oww brain drain hrmpfh" bzzzzzt drain.
Ulthan "hrmpfh bad friend many eyes bad hrmpfh" charm disperses
Ulthan "hrmpfh bad many eyes scary many eyes hrmpfh" as he spends his next round running away. "hrmpfh Utazo come hrmpfh"

Now with the group scattered and already caught in the fight retreat through the picture was not an option. The beholder was trying to escape the close combat - Lionel wanted to even the field. The shimmering radiant wings spread out and lifted him up. Still slow, but he hoped to overcome that weakness. For now he just tried to 

Radiant Soul: Once per long rest as an action, you can transform, gaining glimmering eyes and two incorporeal wings. For 1 minute or until you end it as a bonus action, you have a flying speed (30 ft.) and once per turn you can have one attack or spell deal 9 in additional radiant damage to one target.

Movement: fly as close to the beholder as possible.

BA: Channel Divinity: Vow of Enmity - You can choose a creature you can see within 10 ft. of you and gain advantage on attack rolls against it for 1 minute or until it drops to 0 HP or falls unconscious.

Meepo also moves closer to the beholder. The main eye is a cone right? If so he should be able to get out of the magic null affect by getting closer and then simply stepping to one side. Can he do so with a normal movement though is the question... Did his fireball go off last round? Meepo had moved already then, so he should have been 30 feet from the others prior to this turn. I'd be very surprised if a cone can affect all of us, in this size of a room. Meepo would have been moving closer to the beholder last round, and off to one side, so it would have to choose to affect him or mordekai this round, not both. This round he would move closer, if that is needed, or simply move out the side of the cone, then cast a spell. Just need to know if/what of the above is possible and what has or has not happened.

There's no obvious cone of anti-magic coming from him. Last round your Fireball indeed went off and scorched him good.  If you assume you're in a cone coming from his main eye, then you should be able to easily move to one side 15 feet and be out of the cone.  

Ok then... Meepo would attempt to take the beholder out of the fight...

wall of force

He does not expect this to work, but will try to make it into a sphere with a ten foot radius around the beholder.

Lionel flies up near the beholder, ready to strike, while Meepo moves off to one side, and casts his spell.  He's sure he's surrounded the beholder in an invisible wall of force, sneaking the wall between the beholder and Lionel. 

Meanwhile, an eye stalk aims at Meepo, the only target now outside it's nullifying eye ray (assuming it has one active)....

4

But the eye stalk ray strikes the inside of the magical wall and ends. 

Ulthan turns and runs out of the room, his cat following him.....

Mordekai, your action. (and Ketch if you want to do anything besides stand ready)

Out of frustration of lack of anything better to do, Ketch may start investigating the room.  He'd start with the window/painting checking for switches or buttons or levers or whatever, work his way out from there thinking maybe a secret door or something...  In truth he'd have no real hope of finding anything, but while he can hear a fight waging beyond the painting he feels he should at least do something.  

     "Have you checked around..."

     "Have you examined the..."

     "Did you look beneath the..."

     Between typical Ketch grumbling he would randomly ask the bard any question he could think of about trying to find an exit or a hidden something or other.  He barely listens to whatever answer the bard gives, knowing it'll be that he checked and found nothing... But Ketch checks again anyway.

Investigation: 11

(If you want more or other rolls, lemme know... But I expect nothing to find.)