Another Dragon at Icespire Peak - IC Thread

Rhok's bolt hits the rat, pinning it to the ground. It's not going anywhere else. The four remaining rats rush forward and try to bite everyone.

Rat attacks:
Attack: 12 Damage: 4 against Xarroth
Attack: 10 Damage: 5 against Rhok
Attack: 12 Damage: 4 against Don-Jon
Attack: 12 Damage: 5 against Lothlién

Initiative order:
21 Xarroth
19 Lothlién
16 Rhok
15 Four Giant rats
  7 Don-Jon Raskin
  4 Lia

"Bite the dust, ya filthy varmint!" Don-Jon cries, attacking the rats with his daggers, starting with the one that bit him.

Attack: 5 Damage: 3
Attack: 17 Damage: 4
Attack: 10 Damage: 3

Don-Jon smiles as his three swings manage to take his attacker down.

Initiative order:
21 Xarroth (5)
19 Lothlién
16 Rhok (6)
15 Three Giant rats
  7 Don-Jon Raskin (5)
  4 Lia

Lia is up next.

Lia sends a ray of frost at another of the rats, the one fighting Rhok...

ray of frost

Attack: 19 Damage: 7

Lia's ray hits the rat sqarely on its back, it falls down frozen with a clinking sound. Only two rats remain, one engaged with Lothlién and another fighting Xarroth.

Initiative order:
21 Xarroth (5)
19 Lothlién
16 Rhok (6)
15 Two Giant rats
  7 Don-Jon Raskin (5)
  4 Lia

It's Xarroth's turn now.

In a flash of desperation for the rat to stay back, Xarroth holds out his claw and three sparks of light flare to life then home in on the large rodent near him!

Magic Missile
Missile 1 - 2
Missile 2 - 2
Missile 3 - 4

Xarroth's missiles hit the rat right next to him, finishing it.

Initiative order:
21 Xarroth (5)
19 Lothlién
16 Rhok (6)
15 Giant rat
  7 Don-Jon Raskin (5)
  4 Lia

Lothlién goes next, engaged in combat with the last giant rat.

"Off of me, vermin!" Lothlién says while conjuring ice around it

Frostbite: 5 and disadvantage on it's next attack, unless it succeces a CON 13 save

Let's see how the rat likes the cold, CON save: 5

After living in caves most of its life, the rat is used to the cold and shrugs the icy ray off.

Initiative order:
21 Xarroth (5)
19 Lothlién
16 Rhok (6)
15 Giant rat
  7 Don-Jon Raskin (5)
  4 Lia

Rhok goes next.

Rhok carefully walks up to the Rat, holds the crossbow up to its head and fires a shot

Attack:  11 Damage: 10

Rhok's bolt pinns the rat to the ground, it goes completely limp without a sound.

With no more rats in sight, you check the room. There are food remains and rat droppings in a corner. The north side of the room looks raw, and there are heaps of ore near it. This are was under active mining activity not long ago.

"Nicely done..." lia says, pushing white hair behind an ear as she glances around.  "Best keep moving in case someone heard that though, don't want to give them too long to prepare if they did so..." She heads on to where the wererats should be located.

Lothlién follows in silence. Beeing underground isn`t really his favorite thing.

Rhok looks towards Xarroth and Don-Jon -"You two ok? Loth, did they get you?" 

Rhok will also see if either of his two bolts are salvagable

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Rhok looks towards Xarroth and Don-Jon -"You two ok? Loth, did they get you?" 

Rhok will also see if either of his two bolts are salvagable

"It's just a scratch, no big deal." replies Don-Jon "but now I'm making this personal" he wipes the blades of his twin daggers and follows Lia towards the southern passage.

Rhok finds that one of the bolts is still usable, the other is splinted near the tip and it's not going to fly straight again.

Rhok places the bolt back into his quiver, knocks a new bolt, and follows the group

"He did bite, but his teeth found just the heaviest piece of my armor. I'm alright." answers Lothlién.

You keep walking cautiously through the mine. You go south 30 feet until the tunnel turns, passing both entrances to the miner's hideout on your way. The tunnel turns west and goes straight for 40 feet, turning north at the end, with no doors in between just a single oil lamp illuminating the way.

You walk north for 25 feet and arrive at a crossing. Going east is a closed door, to the west the tunnel splits in two after 15 feet and there is a passage going north that turns east after 15 feet.

Don-Jon puts an ear to the door and listens for a few seconds "I don't hear any sound from the other side."

OOC: updated map, the tunnels marked with a "c" continue into the mine, you are standing at the "X".

"Shall we open her up and look inside?" Rhok whispers

"I guess so" Lothlién answers in the same tone

Don-Jon stands next to the wall, gripping both his daggers. Lothlién grabs the handle and pulls the door open, it's rusty hinges creaking while it moves. The room inside has six wooden cots, in a state of disarray. It seems that the invaders are not using them to slees, but searched them troughly and made a mess of the room.

OOC: from this room, the door opens to the west. The tunnel goes straight for 25 feet, splitting in two at the end. There is a passage going south just outside the room (from where you came) and another going north halfway through.