Aspiring Heroes of Faerûn

Nym is going to cast Bless at 2nd Level and Bless herself, Kess, Chrys and Vesper. Trying to stay unseen while she approaches her full movement to the closest of the orcs.

Stealth: 18

As Lumen watches the chief desperately try to remove the glowing armor that's burning his skin, he screams for help, and the female orc begins to help him extricate from the chain mail suit more quickly. 

Meanwhile, the three axe-less orcs draw their hunting knives and begin rushing around the area near the fire pit in a frenzied attempt to be useful. Lumen sees then approaching and he does his best to crouch down and remain hidden from their eyes but then he hears one of the orcs shout in orcish...

He suddenly realizes that he's been spotted, and he watches as the three orcs turn their eyes to his position behind the log and begin to approach with their knives held up in front of them. Right now, they're about 20 feet away from him.

Lumen has a higher initiative than these three orcs, so he can act first. 

From outside the camp, as Nym bestows a blessing on her other three companions, you all hear increased commotion and yelling over by the fire pit, but you do not understand what's being said. This is in addition to the harried activity of the other four orcs who are chasing the fire fox. 

Everyone can state actions. 

Chrys rushes towards the closest orc.  Knowing her short legs won't make it in time(?), she narrows her eyes and marks him as her target, before flinging a javelin (or swinging her hammer if she's in melee) at him.

BA: hunter's mark
Attack: 27
Javelin Damage: 12 piercing  OR Due Process Damage: 11 bludgeoning

((Just as a point, DM, wouldn't Kess still have Comprehend Languages up or has that been too long?))

"They found him...! Hurry!"

Kess doesn't hesitate; she slinks through the trees, ambling over a log and sliding along a moss-slicked rock before she lets and lets an arrow fly on the first orc she sees surrounding Lumen from within the brush as she slides down back into the greenery.

Kess lets fly with her bow: 19 plus 2
Damage, if it connects: 10

CRITICAL HIT: 7

Rushing towards the closest orc, Chrys hucks her javelin as hard as she can. The projectile flies through the air and sticks hard into the orcs abdomen, causing it to howl in pain and surprise. 

Kess, who's able to understand what the orcs are screaming in the camp, advances, takes sight with her bow and lets an arrow fly towards one of the orcs that she thinks are closing in on Lumen. With deadly accuracy, she kills it with a head shot. 

Vesper and Lumen are up.

Vesper shores up her defenses and casts Mage Armor

(Don't know when I'll be able to post tomorrow, so whenever her turn comes up:)

For her bonus action Nym is going to cast Spiritual Weapon in the shape of a silver longsword in the middle of the closest cluster of orcs to try and hit the one closest to her that she can reach but hasn't been attacked so far. Assuming she can reach them with her movement (they were originally 60ft and then she moved 30 on her last turn so another 30) to reach that closest one and attack with her own longsword. 

Spiritual Weapon Attack: 22  +  3
Damage if it hits: 10

Longsword Attack: 18  +  2
Damage if it hits: 4

How far along in the minute of heat metal are we at this point? I'm assuming 30 seconds in, with the other orc helping him out of it to cut the doffing time in half?

Lumen growls and begins to stir to his feet and audibly mutters in Orcish a facsimile of a prayer to Gruumsh One-Eye. Of a summoning nature. Dark smoke swirls about him, expanding in a widening, huge 10' circle, and then a tall 15' column that manifests into a hulking, massive, figure, a brutal profile. Dark, with spikes jutting from shoulders and joints. It's hard to see detail in the smoke that still rushes about the huge figure, in a cyclone that offers hints of furious fire. The one strong light in the image is one orange eye.

Lumen is entirely within this illusion, using his lute and his voice to create a cavalcade of deep, reverberating sound. Growling, roaring, the crackle of fire somehow. And a massive voice (partially created by yelling into his lute), in Orcish: "ORCS. DO. NOT. SERVE. DRAGONS."

Guessing you want some rolls here so take your pick, in any order:
Performance: 18
Deception: 20
Intimidation: 22

Lumen watches tenuously from his position as the three orcs close in on his position, apparently spotting him, before one goes down with an arrow to the head that seemed to come out of nowhere. Just then, with aid from his female lieutenant, who's desperately yanking and cutting the leather straps that hold the chainmail in place, the orc chief finally frees himself from his armor, but not without a dire cost. It's obvious that he endured a massive amount of pain during the whole ordeal. 

As the chief picks up his axe and tries to figure out what's going on, Lumen creates his hulking, orc-like illusion that surrounds his entry body, and he shouts with a deep, resonant voice. Immediately, the two orcs halt in shock and stare up at the massive shape of the smoke monster with a mix of horror and surprise. They stand motionless, clearly confused about what to do.

Over on the other side of camp, the three remaining orcs now see the dwarf who's rushed in and attacked their companion. One of them rushes with surprising speed towards Chrys and immediately begins an assault with his great axe. Attack: 6 Damage: 13 However, the sturdy paladin easily parries his attacks with deft shield work. 

(Post got messed up in editing. The orc's initial roll missed. )

Chrys is up.

Chrys rushes up on the orc she injured and continues with a full swing of Due Process, hoping to drop him.  She curses as she swings, her foot slipping on the foliage underfoot.

Attack: 9 >__<
Damage? 15

As Chrys bumbles her attack, she watches as a second or shouts a battle cry and charges towards her with its great axe swinging wildly. Attack: 15 Damage: 10. However, the blow is absorbed by her armor. 

A second later, he's joined by the already injured companion, so now all three of the sentries are up on her, teaming up on a three against one assault against the dwarf. This third one attacks her from a flanking position, hoping to capitalize on the advantage. Attack: 15 Damage: 9  Again, her armor proves its mettle, and the orcs become frustrated that she's so hard to hit. 

The fourth orc continues to chase after the fire fox, which keeps daring just out of reach of the frustrated creature. 

Seeing her own companion under assault by a trio of angry orcs that tower over her, Nym reacts by casting her Spiritual Weapon spell. The spectral sword dances towards the orc that's currently flanking Chrys, and it stabs down with a vicious motion, instantly killing the creature. 

She then rushes in to join the battle and fight alongside Chrys. Attacking with her own blade, Nym stabs with a powerful thrust that cuts deeply into another orc's side. It remains on its feet, even as a stream of black blood pours forth from the wound. 

Kess is up. Right now, she's about 30 feet away from the melee with Chrys and Nym, and 80 feet away from the orcs that are near Lumen. 

Seeing that Lumen has bought himself time for the moment and dropping her bow, Kess draws Moonpetal and her scimitar before leaping into the melee to aid Chrys and Nym, moving to flank one of the orcs adjacent from either Chrys or Nym and plunging her blades hard and deep for the creatures chest and lower back, hoping to strike something vital.

Kess attacks with Moonpetal: 23
Damage, if it connects: 12

Kess follows the plunging Moonpetal with a brutal slash across the back of the neck: 21
Damage: 2 + 4 = 7

((forgot to add DEX mod, lol ))

Leaping into the fray as well, Kess delivers a deadly display of bladework, slicing and dicing the already injured orc that was positioned between herself and Nym. Then, quickly following with her off-hand scimitar, she delivers a fatal cut with near equal agility and watches as the orc slumps the ground, a stream of black blood running out from the deep slice on the back of its neck. 

The third orc, now suddenly finding itself in a three on one against him, screams with a guttural yell, which Kess and Lumen both understand. "Ambush!! Elf ambush!!!!!!"

Over by the fire, the now free, but unarmored orc chief takes a determined look at the huge illusion, staring at it with fury in his eyes. He shouts, 

"Its only magic!!! The half one has come to test the fury of the Red Claws! Kill him!!! 

The chief remains where he is, but he gives his lieutenant a hard shove to try and push her towards the giant illusion to join the other two orcs near Lumen.

Lumen is up.

Lumen growls and lashes out through the swirling illusion with his longsword at the closest orc threatening him. "The Red Claws deserve better than fools who drive them to ruin under a dragon!"

Attack: 9 Damage: 11

He then inspires his closest ally (not sure who that is, but whoever it is gets a d6 for any d20 roll, including combat rolls).

Lumen lashes out with his blade and skewers the closest orc, who responds with a very surprised shout. The orc responds by making a closer look at the swirling illusion, and after a few seconds, he seems to be of the same mind as the chief. The orc right behind him still seems unsure about the whole thing, though, and he remains with his sword up in a defensive, but confused posture as his mind conflicts between what he sees and what he hears from his chief. 

Vesper is up.

(remember you are blessed, Vesper! 1d4 to your atk rolls and saves)

Vesper aims three magic missiles at the chieftain.

7

That was terrible

A slight error in her somatic hand movements causes Vespers's magic missiles to sputter towards the chieftain with quickly fading energy. However, they do strike the orc in the back, and cause even more damage to the already badly burned chief. He responds with a pitiful roar as he tries to retain his hold on the embattled tribe. 

Meanwhile, third orc sentry rushes into the melee with terrifying speed and aggression and begins a vicious assault on Kess. Attack: 18 Damage: 10

He slices into her right side with a forceful and painful blow that draws blood. Kess instinctively recoils from the attack, wincing from the cut. Then, before she even has time to think, Kessdara, who is usually cool, calm and quite collected, flies into a brief, seemingly uncontrollable rage and tears into the orc with a terrifying and brutal series of attacks with her two blades. As Chrys and Nym watch her from just a few feet away, it would seem that Kess swings and stabs at the creature with even more strength and force than she normally displays, slashing with absolutely ruthless and murderous fury as she retaliates with cold abandon.

The orc does his best to parry her attacks, but they just keep coming and he just can't keep up with her sheer speed and precision. Within seconds, Kess cuts the orc down with fearful precision, but even after it falls dead, she continues to attack the corpse with a horrific and hysterical assault that lasts for a good five or ten seconds, until she has reduced the body to a gruesome lump of black blood and diced orc flesh that stains the earth beneath it.

Then, with a sick feeling in her stomach, she instantly snaps out of whatever strange and frenzied urge that possessed her to temporarily lose her cool and act with such uncharacteristic, shocking and monstrous violence as she looks down upon the grisly scene.

Chrys is up. 

(( I am here, DM! LOL ))