(It's only been 50 minutes, you still have 10 minutes left)
As soon as you enter the room, a cloud of gray swirls out of the floor and gathers into a vaguely humanoid form with glowing yellow eyes. In a gravelly whisper, one that only those close (Umbriel, Baeshra, and Whistler) can hear it says "Your presence is offensive to me, your life forfeit. My treasures are mine alone, not yours to plunder!"
Umbriel stands tall, unbowed by the sudden appearance. "Specter, we have no wish to offend you, nor will we plunder your riches. We seek survivors of a grisly attack, and could not, in good conscience, leave any room unexplored. Tell me, as a means of making amends, what happened here, to you, and tell us if we may be of service in some way."
Lyngheid poked her head in, " Oh, you've found one of my relatives?"
It turns it's gaze on Lyngheid and whispers "What do you have for me, little dwarf?"
And back to Umbriel "A battle. That's what happened here. And now I can't enjoy my treasure!" He gestures to the chest. "For your lives, you must give me something of the arcane. What do you have that you would give? After that we can discuss other arrangements!"
Nyx peeks around the doorway and readies a hand crossbow bolt. (No advantage, the flanking advantage is only for melee attacks).
Whistler works himself up and comes in hot, taking a swipe with his Silvered Greatsword at the ghostly creature as he darts by.
Baeshra puts his new tattoos to good use and deals some magical damage with each attack. (Flanking advantge to see if any crit: 11, 20, 2) Oh yeah, another 5 damage from the second claw attack.
Lyngheid brings her Spiritual Weapon into play, this time as the appearance of the Wild Mother and lands a blow on the evil thing.
Ireniana rushes in and swings wildly, her Longsword swirling the mist of the creature.
Owlbear roars in confusion, and follows Whistler, but runs into the corner when it sees the apparation.
Umbriel creates some distance and hits it with a large Eldritch Blast. The creature is starting to look a little bit injured.
Droop pops into the room and fires an arrow: 19 Damage: 7
Rosie looks through the doorway and fires a crossbow bolt, still feeling the effects of the poison: 6
The Ghostly creature turns to Whistler and reaches out it's arms: 22. It wraps Whistler up in a deathly embrace and does 18 Necrotic Damage. Whistler, you feel a strange sensation as the very essence of life is starting to be sucked out of you. Make a DC 14 Constitution Save. On a fail, your maximum hit points are reduced by the above amount. The creature then uses it's movement to shoot 10 feet up to the ceiling, and it seems to disappear.
Summary: - Whistler takes 18 Necrotic Damage and needs a DC14 Con Save or his Max HP are reduced by 18. - Baeshra, Whistler, Ireniana get Attacks of Opportunity on it.
The party is up! The last anyone saw, the thing went straight up to the ceiling and seemed to disappear through the solid rock. To describe the chamber better, the cave outside of this room is a large cave with ceilings 20-30 feet up. This room is built from Stone and is only 10 feet high. If you get about 20-25 feet away from the building you'll be able to see about 10 feet onto the roof.
You don't see anything more than that from the doorway.
Lyngheid decided to just check around the back of the stone column....just in case....
A few more skeletons and rubble.
Greatful there wasn't some gribbly behind there Lyngheid headed back towards the building.
Was it miners quarters? A redoubt?
(at this point I'm assuming it's been about an hour since the stirge attack, so I took my temp HP off)
Umbriel will walk in, carefully, and head over to the door on the southern wall, and listen. Perception: 5
(It's only been 50 minutes, you still have 10 minutes left)
As soon as you enter the room, a cloud of gray swirls out of the floor and gathers into a vaguely humanoid form with glowing yellow eyes. In a gravelly whisper, one that only those close (Umbriel, Baeshra, and Whistler) can hear it says "Your presence is offensive to me, your life forfeit. My treasures are mine alone, not yours to plunder!"
Lyngheid poked her head in, " Oh, you've found one of my relatives?"
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Umbriel stands tall, unbowed by the sudden appearance. "Specter, we have no wish to offend you, nor will we plunder your riches. We seek survivors of a grisly attack, and could not, in good conscience, leave any room unexplored. Tell me, as a means of making amends, what happened here, to you, and tell us if we may be of service in some way."
Persuasion: 18
It turns it's gaze on Lyngheid and whispers "What do you have for me, little dwarf?"
And back to Umbriel "A battle. That's what happened here. And now I can't enjoy my treasure!" He gestures to the chest. "For your lives, you must give me something of the arcane. What do you have that you would give? After that we can discuss other arrangements!"
Lyngheid chuckled, " Now thats not the Rockbreaker way old one. I'll be keeping whats mine."
" I'd give ye something but you've let the whole place go to pot. Not a good impression to make on the younger generation."
" Nope. We'll be needing your trinkets to fix up the place and drive out the squatters you've been letting wander everywhere."
"In that case, I'll take them!"
Everyone roll initiative and take your turn if higher than 4
Droop initiative: 10
Initiative: 16
Lyngheid sighed, " Well that makes it easier. Mother assist us in teaching this old geezer a lesson in manners."
She summoned an emanation of the Mother over the dead mans head and then smacked him with it....as she moved next to Umbriel.
OOC:
BA: Spiritual Weapon- Attack: 14 Damage: 11
Baeshrsainit: 19
Baeshra will wildshape back to dino and surge forward to attack.
Attack: 24 Damage: 6 claw
Attack: 20 Damage: 8 claw
Attack: 23 Damage: 9 Bite
(They do count as magical due to tattoo, figured it might be important with a ghosty enemy.)
Whistler expertly spins his sword to block Umbriel's body from the swirling mist.
W Initiative: 9
O Initiative: 7
Round 1:
Whistler moves around and behind the creature.
"FLANK! KAW!"
Attack GWM: Attack: 1 Damage: Unable to parse dice roll.
Bonus action: Rage. (Gonna Retcon Rage due to inperson, I would know if I rolled a crit to invoke GWM. -2 from damage done.) Attack: 2 Damage: 18
Whistler - Lost Mines of Phandelver [Lvl 8 Barbarian] | Cinta Yuliani Lestari - My Island Home [Lvl 3 Fighter] | Shalana - Allansia Wildlands [Lvl 4 Monk] | Roger Durant - Storm King's Thunder [Lvl 8 Monster Hunter] | Rotthran - The Waterdeep Heist [Lvl 5 Thief]
Ireniana Initiative - 7
Ireniana will move inside and attack the creature.
Attack: 21 Damage: 12
I have an intelligence of six, I know what I'm doing.
Nyx moves forwards to the doorway, using it as cover. Poking her body around, she fires off a crossbow bolt at the swirling mist.
"Is this Black Spider that haunts you some kind of necromancer..."
OCC:
Initiative 18
Holds attack until after Whistler charges in
Hand Crossbow Attack: 24 Damage: 5 - Advantage from Whistler flanking
Sneak Attack if applicable 4
Yevna Galanodel - Wood Elf | Level 8 | Druid/Circle of Spores 6 - Ranger 2 - Ravnica
Nyx - Satyr | Level 9 | Rouge/Swashbuckler 5 - Bard/Collage of Lore 4 - Lost Mine of Phandelver/Storm King's Thunder
Initiative: 18
Umbriel will make some space and loose an Eldritch Blast at the shade. Attack: 25 Damage: 11
(per the ten minutes you mentioned, I put the temp HP back)
Rosie Initiative: 10
Nyx peeks around the doorway and readies a hand crossbow bolt. (No advantage, the flanking advantage is only for melee attacks).
Whistler works himself up and comes in hot, taking a swipe with his Silvered Greatsword at the ghostly creature as he darts by.
Baeshra puts his new tattoos to good use and deals some magical damage with each attack. (Flanking advantge to see if any crit: 11, 20, 2) Oh yeah, another 5 damage from the second claw attack.
Lyngheid brings her Spiritual Weapon into play, this time as the appearance of the Wild Mother and lands a blow on the evil thing.
Ireniana rushes in and swings wildly, her Longsword swirling the mist of the creature.
Owlbear roars in confusion, and follows Whistler, but runs into the corner when it sees the apparation.
Umbriel creates some distance and hits it with a large Eldritch Blast. The creature is starting to look a little bit injured.
Droop pops into the room and fires an arrow: 19 Damage: 7
Rosie looks through the doorway and fires a crossbow bolt, still feeling the effects of the poison: 6
The Ghostly creature turns to Whistler and reaches out it's arms: 22. It wraps Whistler up in a deathly embrace and does 18 Necrotic Damage. Whistler, you feel a strange sensation as the very essence of life is starting to be sucked out of you. Make a DC 14 Constitution Save. On a fail, your maximum hit points are reduced by the above amount. The creature then uses it's movement to shoot 10 feet up to the ceiling, and it seems to disappear.
Summary:
- Whistler takes 18 Necrotic Damage and needs a DC14 Con Save or his Max HP are reduced by 18.
- Baeshra, Whistler, Ireniana get Attacks of Opportunity on it.
Round 2 Initiative:
Nyx: 27
Whistler: 23
Baeshra: 19
Lyngheid: 16
Ireniana: 15
Owlbear: 13
Umbriel: 12
Droop: 10
Rosie: 10
Mormesk: 4
The party is up! The last anyone saw, the thing went straight up to the ceiling and seemed to disappear through the solid rock. To describe the chamber better, the cave outside of this room is a large cave with ceilings 20-30 feet up. This room is built from Stone and is only 10 feet high. If you get about 20-25 feet away from the building you'll be able to see about 10 feet onto the roof.
CON SAVE: 11
AOO: Attack: 14 Damage: 20
Whistler looks bloodied and extremely peeved.
Whistler - Lost Mines of Phandelver [Lvl 8 Barbarian] | Cinta Yuliani Lestari - My Island Home [Lvl 3 Fighter] | Shalana - Allansia Wildlands [Lvl 4 Monk] | Roger Durant - Storm King's Thunder [Lvl 8 Monster Hunter] | Rotthran - The Waterdeep Heist [Lvl 5 Thief]
Ireniana's AOO - Attack: 8 Damage: Unable to parse dice roll.
For her turn, Ireniana will hold her action. If the creature attacks her or her companions, she will attack.
I have an intelligence of six, I know what I'm doing.