Pizazz's Ravenloft and Beyond

20 - Ketch Dex Save

As a reaction to Lionel's throwing of the javelin, Ketch will use Channel Divinity to give him a War God's Blessing, that's +10 to the roll making it a 23...

Ketch will take two swings at the Air Elemental - First as an action, second as bonus action thanks to War Priest feature.

Attack: 10 Damage: 10

Attack: 25 Damage: 9

If the Air Elemental happens to go down before one or both of the attacks, Ketch will swing at the Elemental Crystal instead.

So, the dragon is hit with the first attack?

And Ketch has +3 to his save, so he passed.

Ketch points at the javelin just as Lionel throws and the javelin seems filled with extra energy. The javelin flies forward and, crackling with lightning slams into a dark shadow and sticks there for a moment, sending lightning coursing through the shadowy beast, before falling to the ground. 

Then he turns, swiping at the air elemental, his first strike slightly off balance and missing, but the follow up slashing through the air creature sending some amount of its essence draining away...but it's still up. 

Meepo is up. 

Meepo dex save: 17

Meepo sends a blast of cold at the shadow dragon. (rolling straight as pact tactics should counter disadvantage from being hidden. If not the case then let me know.) ray of frost

Attack: 17 Damage: 15

He than has his skeletons shower that area with arrows, though they will not likely hit anything...
skel1 ... to hit: 8 Damage: 10
skel2 ... to hit: 10 Damage: 9
skel3 ... to hit: 12 Damage: 10
skel4 ... to hit: 10 Damage: 8
skel5 ... to hit: 9 Damage: 8
skel6 ... to hit: 6 Damage: 10
skel7 ... to hit: 16 Damage: 6
skel8 ... to hit: 14 Damage: 11
skel9 ... to hit: 7 Damage: 9
skel10 ... to hit: 8 Damage: 6
skel11 ... to hit: 17 Damage: 11
skel12 ... to hit: 9 Damage: 7
skel13 ... to hit: 21 Damage: 9
skel14 ... to hit: 9 Damage: 10
skel15 ... to hit: 11 Damage: 6
skel16 ... to hit: 15 Damage: 10
skel17 ... to hit: 13 Damage: 10


Meepo is looking really really bad right now, down to only 5 hp...

Seeing Lionel in combat with the shadows, Meepo unleashes a blast of cold, striking the creature with a shimmering blast. Then a wave of arrows shriek across the room. Most of them smash and scatter against the walls and floor, but at least a few strike solid dragon parts and one may have even stuck into the beast, though it gets knocked off a moment later. 

The air elemental is still abuzz....and it faces down with Ketch as the axe swings through its body. Two whirling vortex's of wind come slamming out towards Ketch. .

Attack: 21 Damage: 15

Attack: 16 Damage: 13

Mordekai, your bonus cannon action, and then Ulthan and Mordekai get their actions.

Air Elemental 25 | Mordekai's cannon action 20 | Ulthan 18 | Mordekai 16 | Zikram 14 | Meepo 12 | Lionel 9 |  Ketch 6 

Ulthan will continue shooting at the air elemental on his turn, this whole business of not breathing seems somehow worse than life sucking necromancy... 
Attack: 25 Damage: 17
Attack: 19 Damage: 22

Ulthan's first arrow rips through the elemental, but the second misses. The whirling wind seems almost spent....but still roils about near Ketch. 

Mordekai focuses everything he has on Zikram, since he can see him slyly trying to hide in the shadows.  He'll fire the cannon at Zikram if he can with the cannon action (not sure what to roll, etc, or what kind of arc of fire it has, but he'll try his best to work out the device to fire on Zikram.

Then on his own turn, Mordekai will continue to focus on Zikram, sending 2 Eldritch Blasts his way.

Attack: 20 Damage: 15

Attack: 28 Damage: 6

Zikram DC 17 Dex save vs Cannon 19 or take 30 cold damage. (half on save)

The cannon blasts the dragon as Mordekai points the wand and pushes the button.  Then he unleashes his own blasts, two shots flying across the room and striking the shadowy beast unerringly. 

Breath Recharge, 5 or 6 : 6

The shadows flow out of the darkness and coelesce into the massive dark dragon before Lionel who stands in front of it. It's huge black claws rake out as the thing snaps at him with its jaws. 

Claw : Attack: 20 Damage: 15

Claw : Attack: 18 Damage: 17

Bite: Attack: 17 Damage: 17 + 7 necrotic damage.  

Then the dragon tries to shrink back into the shadows and vanish from view. 

Hide: 28  He slips back into the darkness vanishing like a ghost. 

Lionel: (+6 more necrotic damage for the crit)

Mordekai, you watch as the dragon moves to his left about ten feet, leaving Lionel facing only shadows. 

Meepo, Lionel, Ketch, your actions.

Air Elemental 25 | Mordekai's cannon action 20 | Ulthan 18 | Mordekai 16 | Zikram 14 | Meepo 12 | Lionel 9 |  Ketch 6  

Having to choose who to heal, Ketch rushes over to Lionel and casts Cure Wounds at 4th level upon him. 21  Meanwhile, Ketch will yell for Meepo to get behind the skellies...  (Far as Ketch knows, the dragon is still engaged with Lionel so he's the most endangered of the two...)

I assume the Air Elemental takes an AoO against Ketch as he moves away and to Lionel...

Ketch will Bonus Action use Second Wind to regain 11 plus the +2 HP from the ring of regeneration at the end of his turn...

(Can Mordekai shout brief directions to Lionel as Zikram moves? Or would that need to be an action or something done on Mordekai's turn?)

As hard as the dragon attack was, it did not kill the paladin outright, and (at least Lionel hoped so) he was still holding the dragon's attention. Ketch's healing came in time, and Lionel decided to continue to be an irritating nuisance to the beast. Except he had no idea where the creature is. Should Mordekai indicate the direction, Lionel will go there.

Haste on himself and attack the shadow:

Attack: 26 Damage: 13  (Sorry, second roll for disadvantage: Attack: 18)

If Mordekai is able to direct their attacks, then Meepo would send a fireball into the area of the dragon.

DC 16 dex save for half, or take 22 fire.

He would also send his skeletons arrows at the location as well...

1 ... 9 to hit, 6 damage.

2 ... 8 to hit, 10 damage.

3 ... 6 to hit, 6 damage.

4 ... 10 to hit, 8 damage.

5 ... 12 to hit, 11 damage.

6 ... 20 to hit, 8 damage.

7 ... 20 to hit, 7 damage.

8 ... 8 to hit, 7 damage.

9 ... 8 to hit, 8 damage.

10 ... 9 to hit, 7 damage.

11 ... 9 to hit, 9 damage.

12 ... 10 to hit, 8 damage.

13 ... 10 to hit, 7 damage.

14 ... 8 to hit, 10 damage.

15 ... 8 to hit, 9 damage.

16 ... 5 to hit, 11 damage.

17 ... 12 to hit, 11 damage.



meepo moves back away from the dragon's location, trying to put some distance, and to move away from which ever side of the hall his companions are in. (Pretty much trying to get out of the area of the dragon's breath if they use it on the group again.)

Mordekai rushes towards Lionel, the air elemental swiping at him as he moves away. 

Attack: 19 Damage: 11

Then reaches Lionel, letting some healing out.  At the same time Mordekai yells out the dragons shifting position in the shadows.  Lionel uses magic to flow into himself, and suddenly speeds up, moving like a blur, and keeps attacking, his weapon swinging into the darkness.  He connects with something but it bounces off without doing damage.  

Then the black dragon is suddenly backlit by an explosion of fire that lights the room momentarily.  The fire rushes through the best and leaves people's eyes dazzled for a moment as the flame evaporates away a second later.  

DC 16 Dex Save against Fireball: 8

A spray of metal tipped arrows comes raining across the room, arrows rapping off of wall, floor, slamming into table, and bouncing harmlessly off the shadowy black dragon. 

The air elemental pursues Ketch, attempting to pummel him twice more. 

Attack: 10 Damage: 18

Attack: 24 Damage: 13

A moment later the cannon swings around once more and Mordekai blasts the dragon again. 

Dex save vs DC 17 : 24 for 31 cold damage, save for half. 

Ulthan, Mordekai, you're up.

Air Elemental 25 | Mordekai's cannon action 20 | Ulthan 18 | Mordekai 16 | Zikram 14 | Meepo 12 | Lionel 9 |  Ketch 6  

Elemantal you stay down you speedy bugger, you are my nemesis... ok, mostly not mine, but you're still going down! Yells Ulthan in his head.
Attack: 15 Damage: 20
Attack: 12 Damage: 23

Utazo leaps from table to table and pounces on the elemental as well.
Attack: 16 Damage: 12
If it hits, then DC 13 or be knocked prone with cat on top. If prone then bonus bite attack
Attack: 26 Damage: 11

The air elemental takes a shot through it...the wind all but giving up, and then the wintery white cat leaps from a table and flies through though elemental which disperses into nothingness as the cat rakes away the last of its essence. 

(Elemental is dead!)

Mordekai will use his bonus action to cast Hex at first level on the dragon (affecting Dex-based checks if ever relevant), and follows up again with his Eldritch Blasts.

Attack: 25 Damage: 6 + 1 Hex Damage (necrotic).

Attack: 28 Damage: 9 + 4 Hex Damage (necrotic).

Mordekai's blasts strike the shadowy dragon. Many of the blows and spells seem to be having a less than normal effect on the shadow dragon, but the powerful force magic strikes the thing hard. Growling in the shadows, the creature slide away in the darkness from Lionel and Ketch and slips across the room towards Mordekai, the one with his wand, blasting him with magic and cold and who can clearly see through his hiding.

Breath recharge: 5 or 6 : 4

The shadow ripples across the room in the darkness with speed and the darkness once again emerges into the room as a huge presence over by Mordekai. The creature rakes its claws out at Mordekai. 

Attack: 28 Damage: 15

Attack: 15 Damage: 15

Attack: 15 Damage: 18 + 2 necrotic (** + 13 + 9 if auto crit) 

(I believe Mordekai goes down with the 2nd claw, and the bite damage isn't enough to auto-kill him, but it does cause him to get 2 death saving throw failures immediately). 

As Mordekai drops, the dragon gingerly picks up the wand from the ground that controls the cannon, and laughs a hearty laugh, then attempts to fade back into the shadows. 

Hide check : 17   Once again fading into darkness like a ghost.

Meepo, Lionel, and Ketch's turns.

Zikram's cannon action 20 | Ulthan 18 | Mordekai 16 | Zikram 14 | Meepo 12 | Lionel 9 |  Ketch 6 

(Should attacks against Mordekai be made with disadvantage, due to the Cloak of Displacement?)