MB's Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

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The creature moves with lightning speed through the air towards Rayner, and shoots beams from 2 of its eyes:

2 4

The first beam heads towards Urukar; he'll need to make a DC 12 strength save or be moved 30 feet back down the tunnel. Valen, a DC 12 con save as an icy beam streaks towards you, or you take 9 cold damage.

Auric, Urukar, Valen, Mal'thrae, Rayner

Valen Con save: 16

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OOC:  Auric also rolled a 15 initiative--does he go next?

(Yes, Auric, Urukar, Valen, Mal'thrae, then Rayner)

The beam hits Valen square in the chest, but such a tiny creature isn't any match for him. He doesn't even notice.

Auric:

Whether sentry or just a random encounter, this creature has attacked his comrades and must be dealt with.  Auric moves up to it and slashes at the small creature with his battleaxe.

Battleaxe:  Attack: 14 Damage: 5

STR save (DC 12): 22

Urukar watches as a beam of energy from the creature hits him, feeling the magical forces trying to push him away further down the sewer.  He grits his teeth, resisting the attack, before trying to chop it in half with his axe.

Attack: 26
Damage: 32

OOC:

Looking down to where the ray hit his chest, Valen glares back up at the little ball creature.  With a nearly bear-like growl, he moves forward and slashes at the thing.

To hit: 18

Damage: 12

Then he twirls the glaive and strikes with the iron-shod end of it.

Bonus attack: 15

Damage: 6

Mal'thrae stares in awe as his companions lay into the creature, tearing it to pieces. He lowers his shortbow as it dies...

...but just in case it didn't: Attack: 21 Damage: 9 + 3 piercing damage.

"Damn. Remind me not to mess with you guys."

(It's a shame that dice roll tooltips aren't working; I'd love to see that roll. Likely on the high end of 3d12+4 thanks to improved critical.)

(Holy...)

Auric's attack puts a deep gash in the creature's hide. Immediately after, Urukar, resisting the telekinesis, splits the thing right down the middle, almost vaporizing it. Valen finishes that part.

Combat VERY over.

(Holy...)

Auric's attack puts a deep gash in the creature's hide. Immediately after, Urukar, resisting the telekinesis, splits the thing right down the middle, almost vaporizing it. Valen finishes that part.

Combat VERY over.

(Holy...)

Auric's attack puts a deep gash in the creature's hide. Immediately after, Urukar, resisting the telekinesis, splits the thing right down the middle, almost vaporizing it. Valen finishes that part.

Combat VERY over.

(You can say that again... lol.)

Valen nods to the defeated foe, then steps back, glancing over his shoulder again to make sure nothing is sneaking up behind them.

Auric:

Somewhat stunned by the annihilation of the small disagreeable creature, Auric looks around to see if anyone was injured.  Looking to Mal’thrae, Auric says, “That hatch looks like the entrance to the hideout of whichever gang hired those Kenku.  If you can get us through that hatch quietly, I will use my detection ability once we are up there to see if there are any powerful evil creatures nearby”. 

“Will do.”

Mal’thrae climbs up the ladder and carefully and quietly lifts the cover just enough to peek around.

Stealth: 13

Sleight of Hand: 25

"The symbol is by that tunnel there, not by the hatch though."  Valen points out, nodding to the symbol on the tunnel wall.

Mal'thrae, you feel like you move pretty sneakily up the ladder, and you get the hatch open enough to see the room it opens up to. It seems to be a cellar, probably for a tavern. It's full of glasses, food stores, ale and wine barrels, and other sorts of tavern-ish items from what you can see.

Urukar grumbles as he wipes a 'substance' from the blade of his axe, and eyes the remains with a look of distaste on his face..  "Hardly worth the effort... Are there lots of these 'things' in the sewers of civilization?"

OCC: Is knowledge of this type of creature common?