Dreams Into Journey

 Reaction

Seeing the larger grick move past her, Stata snaps her jaws at it goes by. Unfortunately, she misses its tail.

 Players' turns

Avia tells Stata to move as she drops to a knee to aim her spell. Both gricks were able to avoid it again, the nearby one having had to dodge it before, albeit much closer and the alpha by virtue of just moving parts of its body to the other side of the pillar.

However, in the smaller grick's effort to avoid the spell, it found itself wrapped by Stata's jaws (4 piercing damage, already halved by resistance).

Renata move back further and provides some divine assistance to Lia, Kysdiane and herself.

Her floating, ethereal encyclopedia pursue the large grick and lands another solid strike (10 force damage).

Monsters' turn

The grick that Stat bit tries to retaliate again.

Tentacle Attack: 20 Damage: 4

It only just manages to cut off a little bit of fur (miss).

Meanwhile, the second grick comes from the south (now at G-12) and attacks Avia.

Tentacle Attack: 22 Damage: 8

Beak Attack: 10 Damage: 4

While she was paying more attention to the larger threat, she did not notice the other threat and learned a painful lesson (16 piercing and slashing damage)

The last grick sees the action to the south of it and joins in on attacking Stata (at H-8).

Tentacle Attack: 10 Damage: 13

Stata is becoming quite famous for avoiding theses underground predators (miss).

Kysdiane and Lia can post their turns.

Lia has her spiritual dagger attack the closest enemy to it...
Attack: 18 Damage: 12

She then sends a ray of frost at the closest one to herself...
Attack: 7 Damage: 6

Seeing himself face to face with the the Alpha Grick and no easy way of escaping, Kysdiane, still hovering, slams forward with his flail empowering it with searing infernal energy before sending it smashing down towards the large Grick.

Lia nat 1 save: 1

Lia sends her spiritual dagger to the grick near to Avia, and it buries its incorporeal tip deep inside of it. The smaller grick is having a lot of trouble keeping upright. Hoping to try and finish it off, she tries to send another chilling ray out of her fingertips. However, a strange backfire instead causes her hand to stiffen (12 force damage and cantrip missed, on next turn first attack roll takes -4 penalty).

Kysdiane, now up in the air, seeing no recourse but to face the alpha, closes the distance as he imbues his flail with flaming energy and swings at it. and swings with his flail. The momentum of flight throws off his aim as the grick barely needs to move (miss).

End round 2

Begin Round 3

Initiative order (players/allies win initiative ties vs enemies):

 Map:

 Gulgus can post his turn.

Gulgus

Gulgus, moves over to the other side of Lia (to B-11) and hoping to finish the smaller grick, conjures a flickering flame and hurls it toward the unsteady creature.

Spell: Produce Flame
Ranged Spell Attack: 24
Fire Damage: 1

Seeing one of the gricks in dire straits, Gulgus moves to a point where he can get a clean shot and throws tongue of flame at it. Unfortunately, by the time it makes contact, much of its power had dwindled. (1 fire damage).

Grick Alpha's turn

With its prey close to it the large creature starts its striking at Kysdiane.

Tail Attack: 11 Damage: 10

Tentacle Attack: 11 Damage: 27

It's wide attacks suggest that it didn't expect Kysdiane to get closer to it (both miss).

Renata and Avia can post their turns

Seeing the grick alpha has moved passed her spiritual weapon, Renata waves her hand and moves her floating encyclopedia across to G9, and slams it down at the smaller rattlesnake (at G10) instead. She moves behind Lia to B11, and sends another ray of frost at the other smaller rattlesnake (G12).

Ray of Frost: Attack: 10+1(Bless) Damage: 6

Spiritual Weapon: Attack: 20+1(Bless) Damage: 12

Avia realizes that she probably won't survive another few hits from the Gricks, so she retreats a bit. She then commands Stata to keep fighting.

Action: Disengage

Move Action: Run to I9

 Bonus Action: Command Stat to bite the Grick at G10. Attack: 23 Damage: 7

Players' turn

(Stata occupies a square that includes I-9, I'll move you near there, J-9)

Shortly after moving away from the line of skirmish, Avia signals Stata to attack the severely weakened grick. The large wolf's jaws bite sown on a weak part of the monster's hide, ripping it clean off, spilling its viscera on the stone tiles (3 damage, already halved from resistance and dead)

(Changing Renata's spiritual weapon target as original one was killed)

On the other side of Stata, Renata's ethereal encyclopedia bashes the grick next to it, which is quickly followed by an icy blast from Renata, herself. The combination of the two attacks sends the grick reeling (14 force and cold damage). Now it is showing signs of weakness.

Gricks' turns

With its prey now next to a predator, the remaining grick by the mine cart moves over to what is sees as easier prey, Lia, and strikes at her.

Tentacle Attack: 14 Damage: 10

Beak Attack (pending reaction(?)): 10 Damage: 7

The grick's tentacle hooks onto her arm, opening it to a deep bite from it beak.

Meanwhile, the grick by Stata, in its weakened state starts to retreat (now at L3).

Lia and Kysdiane can post their turns.

Kysdiane rears back with his flail first, swinging towards the large Grick with a ferocious swipe. The head of his flail is still charged with flaming, infernal energy. If the attack connects, Kysdiane waves his arms to create an additional magical barrier to protect himself.

Lia casts shield to deflect the attack.

She then will cast misty step to get away from the creature. She will then use her normal movement to move further away if possible, making it difficult for any of the creatures to reach her. My hope is to move away from all of them, but to remain where she can do ranged attacks. Not sure where on the map that will mean she moves to, since I cannot see it.

For her main action she will then send another ray of frost at the one who tried to attack ehr.

Ray of Frost Attack: 8 Damage: 2 (rolling with disadvantage due to crit fail last round.)

She also has her spiritual dagger attack one of the enemies that it can reach...

Attack: 11 Damage: 9

Resolving reaction

Lia throws up a magical barrier to deflect the grick's tentacle throwing preventing its beak from getting close to her (no damage).

Players' turns

(@DragonDenn I see 2 bonus actions here, the misty step and the spiritual weapon attack. Since you main point in this turn is to get away from the grick, I will ignore the second attack roll. Also, first roll had a flat -4 penalty, not a DA)

With the grick a little too close for comfort, Lia  displaces herself to gain some considerable distance from the threats in the room (B-4 is pretty far from all of the gricks) and fires off another chilling beam. But with her casting hand numb, she is unable to aim very effectively and only manages to put some frost on a nearby minecart (miss).

Kysdiane tries another attack against the large grick on the pillar. However, his swing is wide and his flail bounces off of the pillar (miss).

End of  round 3

Begin Round 4

Initiative order (players/allies win initiative ties vs enemies):

 Map:

 Gulgus can post his turn.

Gulgus

Gulgus again conjures a ball of fire and throws it at the nearest grick, hoping for something more effective this time around.

Spell: Produce Flame
Ranged Spell Attack: 24
Fire Damage: 8

Gulgus' turn

Gulgus throws another small mass of flame at the close-by grick. This time, the flame keeps it power and hits it full-force (8 fire damage).

Alpha Grick's turn

The large, serpentine monster continues attacking Kysdiane.

Tail Attack: 20 Damage: 14

Tentacle Attack: 10 Damage: 23

The grick's tail slams hard into Kysdiane. Rather fortunately, the force of the previous attack accidentally moved him just out of the way of its own tentacles (14 bludgeoning damage).

Concentration (DC10): 14

Kysdiane manages to maintain his smite.

Avia and Renata can post their turns.

Renata will move away towards the south (A15) to spread out the group. Aided by the divine guidance, she moves her spiritual encyclopedia to strike at the giant grick alpha again. Herself focused on the smaller rattle snake in front of her (D11) and a ray of frost shoots from her palm.

Spiritual Weapon: Attack: 24+1(Bless) Damage: 7

Ray of Frost: Attack: 14+1(Bless) Damage: 2

(Reminder of Avia's turn)

Avia commands Stata to move towards the Grick that is attacking Renata and Gulgus. She then sends a small blob of acid at the Grick Alpha, hoping it won't dodge like it usually does.

Bonus Action: Stata moves to E11-F12 and attacks the Grick there. Attack: 18 Damage: 11

Action: Avia uses acid splash on the Grick Alpha. DC 13 dex save, or take 2 acid damage.

Players' turns

 Avia sends Stata after the fleeing grick who bites at it. Her fangs cannot find purchase (miss).

Meanwhile, Avia sends a blob of acid at the larger grick, but it sees it coming and is easily able to avoid it as it bursts (made the save).

As this is happening, Renata moves south to gain some distance and has her encyclopedia attack the large grick. The grick was distracted enough for the book to get in a solid strike (13 force damage). The big creature is now showing signs of fatigue from the punishment it's receiving, evidenced by a tentacle going limp. She then sends a cold ray at the much closer grick, it is covered in ice and its movements are more sluggish and it, too is having trouble supporting its head when baring it upright (8 cold damage and 10 feet slower until start of Renata's next turn).

Gricks' turn

In more of an act of self preservation, the grick pursued by Stata lashes at her with a tentacle.

Tentacle Attack: 23 Damage: 6

Beak Attack: 7 Damage: 4

It manages to make a cut to Stata's side while its beak only catches air (5 slashing damage).

The other grick pursues the cleric (Renata) who just now chilled it and retaliates.

Tentacle Attack: 9 Damage: 7

In its newly weakened state, it couldn't muster the force to get through her armor (miss).

Lia and Kysdiane can post their next turns.