Pizazz's Ravenloft and Beyond

Meepo's action as he sees a ray strike Lionel.  Lionel's body goes rigid and he drops from the air and lands with a thud...his flesh beginning to turn pale and gray. 

Meepo stands tall, as tall as his 2 foot 3 inch form can and holds up the staff in his hand.  He is all that stands between the beholder and the painting now.  Aiming the spell, he sends a cone of cold at the beholder, making sure not to hit Lionel.

DC16 Con save or take 32 cold damage.

The cone of cold seems to simply fail, the magic failing to respond to your summons as the Beholder regards you with a baleful glare. 

Meepo suddenly remembers the main eye's anti-magic....and curses....though...as much as he can't hurt it, likewise, the Beholder is unable to strike at Meepo as long as his eye is focused on him. 

Ulthan, your action. It takes 30 feet of movement to get to the door of the ballroom.  

(I take it Mordekai's spell was entirely ineffective?)

How does the antimagic field affect the painting then? Meepo is standing directly in front of the painnting... If it is magical in nature, the field should affect it, right?

Ulthan noticing the rather dire situation fires two arrows into the back of the beholder before it gets a chance to notice whispering attack to the cat. The bow arches to its maximum as two arrows fly out while the cat bounds onto furniture off the side wall and tries to bite beholder.

Attack: 15 Damage: 20
Attack: 18 Damage: 16
Cat Sneak Attack: Attack: 24 Damage: 16 (long jump is up to 9 meters per rl, but can't find high jump, that said leopards also do parkour so hoping there's enough furniture to get close enough.

Mordekai casts his spell....and...the window vanishes, leaving a blank rock wall. 

Quill raises an eyebrow, "Well, you just made it worse, way to go." 

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Ulthan appears in the doorway of the room suddenly and with the pull of his bow unleashes an arrow.  It strikes the "back" of the beholder and the beholder drops from the air and lands in the middle of the room like a rotten pumpkin being dropped from a roof.  The "splooch" it makes as it hits the floor, and the it's sides ripping open spilling out guts makes a disgusting mess. His cat looks back at him as he orders the attack with a look that says, "I am NOT getting near that disgusting mess..."  

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Before Mordekai can feel too bad though, the window reappears....and the slime from it seems to be missing.

Quill shrugs, "Well...fine then...you did it. Nice work."

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Other Quill comes running out from under the table cloth and shouts, "Nooooo!!" in anguish...and as he rushes towards the Beholder's body he slowly dissolves, leaving behind only his clothing that puffs to the ground, empty.

The ground shakes. Thunder and lightning outside can be heard. The chandelier tingles and rattles as everyone feels what seems like an earthquake. 

Lionel, make your 2nd Petrification saving throw. 

We're out of initiative. 

"Well, I didn't expect it all to vanish and come back, but I've literally never used that spell before so maybe that's just always how it works..." Mordekai is fairly sure the success wasn't actually of his making, but for now he'll take credit if it'll impress Quill. 

"Shall we...?" He says to Ketch and Quill, and gestures to the painting. 

Quill shrugs and moves forward, eagerly touching the painting. He vanishes. 

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In the ball room, next to Meepo, Quill appears. He glances down at the kobold. "Ahh!!  A Kobold!!"  He attempts to kick you.  Attack: 11 Damage: 5

Ketch and Mordekai (presumably) appear a moment later. 

Lionel Save: 20

     "Kindly do not harm our kobold," Ketch growls at Quill, stepping into his face.  Ketch will grab his arms and hold him fast as he looms over him a bit. "We only have the one and we've grown....  used to it!"

Intimidation: 19

Lionel...laying prone on the floor.....slowly has the color return to his flesh...and blinks as he stands up...looking pale, but otherwise unharmed. He sees the dead Beholder nearby, as well as Quill, Ketch, and Mordekai all being present. 

Quill glances at Ketch as he grabs his arm, and raises an eyebrow, unimpressed, "Pff, very well, I didn't know he was your pet. You never did tell me who you were sent by. Best let go of my arm and give me some details."

Meanwhile, the ground continues to shake, and hail falls down from outside....everyone is rocking back and forth as the whole world seems to be rumblings.  A chaise lounge emerges from the wall, tearing opening the painting...and slamming to the ground near the group....the painting is ruined, revealing only a solid rock wall behind it.  

 "Not sure how much did you already hear," begun Lionel moving closer to the bard. "But let me introduce myself - Lionel Silvestone. And these are ..." he named everyone, including, undoubtedly, already selfintroduced  Ketch and Mordekai. "We were hired by the group of people to save their friend - Arrant Quill - from the Dimentional Prison - that lovely piece of land that you call home. When we were sent here, we found a beholder and an imposter posing as a master of the house. During our search for you a fight broke out, but it seems that unexpected fight was the very key to the trap that hold you."

Lionel smiled his friendly and polite smile that hopefully would smooth the impression Quill could get after being trapped with an irritated Ketch. "I am sure those friends did not know that beholder found its way to your prison or they would warn us. But all well that ends well. We are here to help and hope you would accept that help."

Lionel was radiating friendliness and trustworthiness - looking straight in the eye of the cursed man, and keeping the best manners a polite and well bred human can have.

Quill looked on, even more suspiciously and raises an eyebrow, "I see. Very generous of everyone involved. Which group of people hired you again?"

"Everything Lionel says is quite right. It's really all a very heartwarming story, but I feel like our priority should be our immediate safety. I'm not sure what's happening outside... or inside for that matter, it seems the house is throwing furniture at us. Escaping this entire dimension seems much the safest plan right now, and it requires your action. There is a dagger, imbued with the magic to release us all from this prison. To work, it must break your skin. Not mortally wound you or anything serious, which is why my preference would be that you do it yourself rather than any of us stab or cut you with it. 

Besides, if you did it yourself rather than one of us, I'm sure you could spin the tale into a great song about how you rescued all of us, rather than needing to be rescued by us."

(If persuasion is needed, 23)

Lionel screamed internally at Mordekai's uncharacteristically rush decision to lay out the weakest part of the plan right away without even an attempt to get bard's cooperation, but he kept the calm face expression. "We never learned their names. They asked us for a help - that was all we needed to know. Saved one must learn the name of the savior, while savior does not need the name of those he saved."

"But Mordekai is right, can we talk in a less ... decaying place?"

Meepo dodges the clumsy kick with a squeak as the bard appears out of no where.  He looks to Mordekai as the warlock reappears a moment later.

”Meepo think time go.”  Meepo says, glancing to the others.  He msiles at Lionel as he sees the angle-man get up.  “Meepo think place going to break apart soon...”

     "How about someone just prick the prick already?" Ketch asks, still holding the bard unless they broke free...  "Less chat, more bleed..."

(Sorry, posted at same time as DM. If I'd read that he was more suspicious I wouldn't have gone straight in with that! I was counting on a good earlier persuasion check plus escaping the painting and killing the beholder, and hoping for another good persuasion check off the back of Lionel's statements, and some openness winning some trust... Telling an already suspicious man we need to stab him is less convincing!)

((Convince shmavince, the world is shaking apart, time to cut to the chase I say!))