Shadowthorn's Princes of the Apocalypse

(I swear I posted yesterday, but it seems to have disappeared. I will say i heard that this happens lately, but not sure what went wrong...)

Rubin shakes his head. "I don't believe I can take all of them out, not without one shouting the alarm." He informs the others. "Likely we'll need to go in as a group." He glances to the crevace. "Though we may have some explaining to do if these are actually knights from Waterdeep..."

Never mind, the message was just further above... nevr mind my repeated second post... lol.

Xanranzan Stealth(if needed): 20.

Marros Stealth 11

((I love natural 1's. Really I do.))

Touched by everyone's willingness to jump in, Kethra undoes the rope around her waist and brandished the big ol' maul of knocking peeps unconscious.

Stealth: 3

Edit: please add +10 with Pass without Trace

Rubin nods as the others get ready, then he joins them as they head into the crevace with him... Stealth: 19

The group of potential cultists as a whole seems unaware of your presence, although a couple of them look around nervously as if they feel someone watching them.  There’s no overt culty symbols, but, well, the flowing white robes certainly wouldn’t be out of place in some secret religious ceremony,

Once the group is more or less in a position to spy on the maybe cultist, maybe not cultist, Xan holds his chin between thumb and forefinger for a bit before finally nodding at some just thought of solution. That's when he reaches behind him as if to grasp at nothing. Looking to Kethra, he facepalms lightly, remembering he'd returned his only ranged implements after getting back his stuff.

After tapping his lips in further thought, he nods sagely again, and draws a pair of longswords. At least, one was for sure a longsword, but the other the one had more saw toothed edges. he then looks to the others, giving them nods to know he was ready to act as soon as the others were armed and ready to do the same. 

(To DM: How many are visible from our current position?)

(You see three.)

"So do we run in brandishing weapons and screaming like lunatics? You know, trying to scare them so they get all frazzled and hopefully forget to sound the alarm." He voices his plan in an excited whisper. When he sees Xan draw a crazy looking toothed sword he grins and nods at the earthman. He reaches into a pouch hanging at his belt and produces a small vial. Shaking the vial above his head he splashes a touch of the clear liquid on his flowing hair. With a word the liquid flashes in a soft blue glow. 

False Life 6 THP.

Rubin nods to the others and, pulling out his hand crossbow, takes aim. He will wait for another to act first, then send multiple shots at the guards.

Can cupped his chin giving the headless plan serious thought for a second or two. But upon hearing Baker’s intentions, he looks to knight and thumbs the wizards direction.

And so, with the plan in action for the most part, the stone skinned man made A sharp motion with his swords in a downward arc before pointing towards the guards and saying,”Nighty Night ya lil rascals.” In that moment, the dust At the guards feet exploded into the air, transforming into some form of sleeping powder. Because soon as you will find themselves feeling lethargic, if not passing out on the spot. 

casting sleep at a point to affect only the guards: 24 hp pool.

Dex saves: 17, 20, 15

Only one manages to wriggle free of the webs, all of them shouting in surprise at the spell descending on them.

(I’ll wait to resolve the sleep until Rubin goes since he essentially readied attacks.  Kethra, you also have a surprise round,)

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"So do we run in brandishing weapons and screaming like lunatics? You know, trying to scare them so they get all frazzled and hopefully forget to sound the alarm." He voices his plan in an excited whisper.

Kethra is unresponsive, too busy with untangling the rope she had securely had on herself. By the time she had fully thrown off the rope, she sees everyone brandishing weapons and frantically runs forward...

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Rubin nods to the others and, pulling out his hand crossbow, takes aim. He will wait for another to act first, then send multiple shots at the guards.

Waving and making eye contact with Rubin, Kethra points two fingers to her eyes, and then points three fingers to all three of them. She is asking Rubin to shoot all three of them individually--to focus on wounding them but not killing them.

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(I’ll wait to resolve the sleep until Rubin goes since he essentially readied attacks.  Kethra, you also have a surprise round,)

(I'll need DM permission, but I'd like Kethra to toss a javelin into the wall, make a running jump to grab on it with both hands, then bonus action to kick the one guy who isn't restrained. Could I do that please? I'd really not want to get mixed in with the web again o_o)

The wall unfortunately is solid rock, so that wouldn’t work.  You could try using it like a weird half pole vault thing but that would be difficult.

Rubin's attacks...
Attack: 17 Damage: 7
Bonus action Attack: 27 Damage: 7
Attack: 23 Damage: 8 dread ambusher Damage: 1

((Now waiting for initiative rolls? I assume Marros casting False Life was his "round"?))

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The wall unfortunately is solid rock, so that wouldn’t work.  You could try using it like a weird half pole vault thing but that would be difficult.

From the perspective of the three white robed people, the dark cloaked one in the front seemed to be signaling the crossbowman, only to snap back her head to face them. She calmly walks towards them while lighting a torch with a tinderbox. She peers closer to get a better look at them, getting a closer look for any symbols or decorations about their allegiance.

"Hi. Mind telling us who you work for?" she pretends to waver the torch closer to the fringes of the webs then smiles. "Heh, I can be pretty clumsy sometimes..."

(Now that we have light, could we get more of a description of where we're in? There are three guys guarding stairs that are going down, but is there anything else?)

Nothing else other than some loose rocks.

(Initiative time, yes.  Rubin’s attacks down one of them, but the sleep does nothing.  I’ll be unable to update further today and tomorrow.)

Rubin initiative: 15