Lost Land of Ror'nav

(Oh i must have missed that. Thanks for pointing out)

Happy shifts a little to the side to get into line of sight on the ghoul and also moves the Hex over before sending the Eldritch Blast.)

Hex damage: 3

Hex disadvantage: Dex

Your blast nearly knocks the ghoul to the ground, but it shruggs off the pain. Catherine, seeing the weakend state of her ememy rushes in, great axe high, and bares down on it.

Attack: 19 damage: 9

(These might not be the numbers she had, but since the character was removed from the campaign I'm going to assume she had a strength of at least 14)

Her axe cleaves through the ghoul, sending the creatures dark blood splattering around the immediate area.

As of now combat appears to have ended with no more creatures rushing out of the room, what do you all do?

Arlo will direct Catherine to prop her big axe in the way of the portcullis to help stop it closing on him before investigating the chamber beyond

She'll nod in agreement and rush forward to stand her axe up. Once placed she'll poke her head into the dark room cautiously. After a quick moment she announces, "there is no more sign evil creatures. The room looks to be almost the same size as this. There are heavily destroyed crates to the right, against the wall, and another barred passage off the left wall..." She pauses as she scans the rest of the group before asking, "what happened to Sieghart?"

Sieghart returns with the green gemstone in hand. The party needed to know what he had found. 

‘’I think I found the source of the green light we’ve been following.’’ He presents the emerald to his companions. ‘’It looked like it was powering some sort of coffin filled with a green liquid. There are more of them. I don’t know much about magic. What do you make of this?’’

Arlo, I believe you are the only one who is proficient in arcana, so why don't you make the roll to see if you recall anything.

Oh sure. Arcana 21

Arlo:

(That’s okay, I think DMing is hard to gauge the right amount of success/failure on dice sometimes)

Arlo looks up at Sieg. “Coffins, eh... more like incubators. Sounds like Orbid’s got a monster farm here. You see anymore of these crystals, snag ‘em. And lets destroy those coffins.”

(Does the gemstone in the ceiling look anything like the one Siegfried grabbed from the other room?)

Lucas takes another stab at dislodging the gem from the ceiling.

Athletics: 11

With another whack the gem falls from the ceiling and clatters to the ground. Picking it up you see that it is different is purple in color, in the shape of a half-dome, and is about palm size. The one in Sieghart's hand is green, and roughly the shape of a bean.

From behind you all, in the room where the ghouls were held, you hear the familiar voice of Orbid.

"I cannot let you destroy my work. Too many years of effort have been spent rebuilding that town and growing my subjects."

Lucas pockets the gem for later inspection.

"Arlo and Siegfried, you should destroy those coffins or we might have some more friendly ghouls to deal with".

Lucas turns toward Catherine and points his axe toward Orbid's voice, "Catherine, want to take this evil out once and for all?"

Arlo goes to start chopping

Sieghart nods and follows Arlo in the side room with the coffins. He will attempt to remove the other two gems from their sockets.

Catherine's mouth stretches to a wide grin and says, "I thought you'd never ask."

Orbid sees Sieghart start to turn for the room, whips a hand to his robes as if he's reaching something, and begins mumbling what is probably an incantation.

Everyone roll initiative.

Sieghart’s initiative: 15

Arlo initiative 21 

Happy Initiative: 21

Lucas initiative: 16

(Sorry typing on my phone)

Initiative order:

Arlo
Sieghart 
Happy
Orbid
Lucas
Catherine

Chop away, Arlo!