Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
Frozen Sick
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The Thayan wizard continues to spur his griffon on. He fails to gain any altitude this time as the beast falters somewhat. He curses loudly at the griffon and at the situation as a whole. Nonetheless, he manages to add some more horizontal distance between him and the others {BO-66, BP-67}.
(Captain AHB and Brother Keefe are up next.)
Reaction -
AHB positions the blade of her sword just so, it glints in the light for a moment before exploding in a dazzling ray directed at the Drow Cultist.
CON save against DC15 or Cultist is blinded until AHB's next turn...so I guess now?
Action -
AHB presses her attack against the (potentially blinded Drow).
Attack 1: 13 Damage: 6
If advantage needed: 18
Attack 2: 21 Damage: 14
If advantage needed: 28
Bonus action -
Using branding smite at level 2 to add 2d6 (8) radiant damage to the first attack.
Brother Keefe temporarily gives up trying to fight the warrior and focuses on staying alive instead.
Brother Keefe places his hands to his wounds and casts Cure Wounds at level 2.
Healing: 12
DM's Screen:
13 6
Captain AHB continues to do battle with the Drow Cultist, gaining a temporary advantage after blinding him. Aleyd adds insult to injury by forcing some of her blade's light onto the cultist as her next cut is delivered. In a moment of pure luck, the drow raises his blade just in time to parry the captain's second attack. The battered cultist would most likely not have survived it. (Drow Cultist takes 17 magical slashing and radiant damage.)
A few feet away, Brother Keefe takes a couple of seconds to cure some of his wounds. (Brother Keefe heals for 12 HP.)
-> Drow Cultist is no longer blinded and successfully maintains concentration.
END OF INITIATIVE ROUND 5
(Drow, Chaab, and Warrior go next.)
Hoping to bring down the lady knight before she can bring him down, the Drow Cultist attacks twice more:
-> Shortsword vs Aleyd: Attack: 25 Damage: 16
-> Shortsword vs Aleyd: Attack: 11 Damage: 19
The cultist skillfully finds gaps in the captain's black armor, dealing considerable damage. (Captain AHB takes 47 piecing and poison damage.)
Edit: AHB's concentration check {DC 10}: 23
(Chaab goes next.)
Chaab prepares another arrow and aims to kill the tough tiefling:
-> Shortbow vs. Thayan Warrior: Attack: 20
Damage: 21(includes Sneak Attack damage.)The sunlight has been a terrible bother to Chaab. Another arrow is wasted.
Edit: Chaab tries to hide again {BZ-68}. (Cunning Action: 21.)
(Thayan Warrior is next up.)
The Thayan Warrior seems confident about his chances of finally cutting the priest down:
-> Longsword vs. Brother Keefe: Attack: 7
Damage: 4-> Longsword vs. Brother Keefe: Attack: 17 Damage: 10
Brother Keefe mounts a challenge by blocking the first attack with his magical shield, and only narrowly failing to intercept the second. (Brother Keefe takes 6 slashing damage.)
(Olisara is up next.)
Olisara looks to the gryphon and casts polymorph to turn it into a sparrow (DC 16).
She then give a strum on her lute to support Burral (Bardic inspiration).
Extended Signature
DM's Screen:
3
Olisara sings an incantation aimed at the airborne griffon and encases it into the form of a sparrow. The surprised rider belly flops on the hard ground. (Red Wizard takes 4 bludgeoning damage and is prone.)
-> Rolling fall damage: 4
The sparrow lands on Olisara's shoulder, playing with her hair.
(Apprentice and Fanatic goes next.)
The Thayan Apprentice rushes to the wizard's aid {BO-67}. She hugs his torso and props him back upright (using her action to end the prone condition on the Red Wizard.)
Cult Fanatic sees an opportunity to put an end to a severely wounded enemy, touching Captain AHB's shining armor and unleashing another unsavory spells:
-> Inflict Wounds vs. Captain AHB: Attack: 17
Damage: 7Even in this vulnerable state, AHB manages to step back and sever the cultist's touching link with her armor.
(Harper is up next.)
The Harper Agent breaks out a rod that faintly hummed to life. Its only as he begun chant something that sounded close to a storm rumbling in the distance that sparks began dancing harmlessly along the rod. Too late would master and apprentice notice since he's last repositioning, before there world is suddenly filled with a high pitched sound. One that threatens to blow out their eardrums as surely as the vibrations of the spell would shatter bones.
In the wake of such a spell, the Harper Agent ran for it. At it first it may seem as if to keep the pair occupied more physically. But between the fact that they were casters, and he had but a adamantine rod in one hand and a sling in the other already, impeding them never crossed his mind. Rather at last, the Master Tactician would get at least closer to those preoccupied in their own private battles.
Action: Cast (2nd level)Shatter, affecting only the Apprentice and Red Wizard, and inflicting 14 Thunder Damage. Con Save(DC 15) to save for 1/2 damage. (if one is secretly a construct, they make the save at disadvantage)
(@Lerus: Don't think exact coordinates matter much, as the two are within 5ft of each other and the sparrow is long gone.)
Movement/Bonus Action: Cunning Action - Dash to BT-65.
Future Reaction(if damage): Activate Rod of Retribution upon the aggressor.
When you realize you're doing too much: Signature.
DM's Screen:
15 10
The apprentice sees the incoming sound wave a fraction of a second before her master. It makes no difference. She collapses to the ground in mangled pile of cuts and broken bones. The Red Wizard also gains some fresh cuts, but seems healthy enough to keep fighting should he be unable to escape. (Red Wizard takes 14 thunder damage; Thayan Apprentice takes 14 thunder damage and is DEFEATED.)
Satisfied with the result, Harper runs past the wizard to reach a more central location in the battlefield.
(Red Wizard goes next.)
The Red Wizard runs in the northeast direction {BI-70}, while preparing an incantation. He finally turns, bringing a small glass cone to his lips, and unleashes a frigid blast toward the opposing spellcasters. It even brushes the tent a little bit, frosting over some of the fabric.
Unlike the Thayans, both Olisara and Harper see the spell coming from a mile away. The cone is quite wide, however, so they have little option apart from bracing. (Olisara takes 19 cold damage; Harper takes 19 cold damage.)
He then screams: "Come out and help!" If he meant to say anything else, his words are interrupted by the loud strike of lighting sourced from Harper's rod. (Damage roll: 10)
DM's Screen:
7
The wizard shoulder stings and burns as he begins to turn around to resume his escape. (Red Wizard takes 10 lightning damage.)
-> Olisara's concentration check {DC 10}: 8
An already frozen sparrow bursts back into its griffon form right next to the songstress. The griffon is almost dead.
(Captain AHB and Brother Keefe are up next.)
Brother Keefe... With his wounds slightly healed. Reaches out once more! He is determined to harm this Thay warrior!
BROTHER KEEFE CASTS INFLICT WOUNDS!!!!!
Attack: 11 Damage: 24
AHB feels the aches of battle in her bones and knows that she needs to deal with her Drow attackers and try to bring the party together.
Throwing herself fully into her attacks against the Drow, she unleashes a gutteral battlecry.
Attack 1: 27 Damage: 6
Attack 2: 22 Damage: 12
(OOC Think Aleyd and Keefe are going down...)
(OOC 2 Or not! 1d8 bardic inspiration to either attack roll! Thanks @Drache! 6...)
DM's Screen:
5
The adrenaline levels in AHB's blood might be lowering. In a few seconds of faulty concentration, the captain whirls her sword around using less than ideal techniques. Not even Olisara's inspiring lute strum energizes AHB enough. The drow cultist easily parries both strikes, not even having to rely on the still active shield of faith or even his actual shield.
Brother Keefe's morale is also suffering. He tries to inflict wounds on his adversary but fails yet again.
Separately, the frost left on the tent from the Red Wizard's spell begins to quickly thaw.
END OF INITIATIVE ROUND 6
(Drow, Chaab, and Warrior go next.)
The Drow cultist painfully points his short blade at Aleyd and says: "A good fight, but it seems you wasted your chance to finish it."
-> Shortsword vs Aleyd: Attack: 23 Damage: 19
He slowly drives the blade into her side and lets the coating poison do most of the work. (Captain AHB takes 17 piercing and poison damage and becomes unconscious, incapacitated, and prone.)
The drow then turns and spots another drow, who is struggling to keep his presence hidden. He runs toward him {BY-69} and stabs (no longer being able to take advantage of Faerie Fire):
-> Shortsword vs Chaab: Attack: 8 Damage: 17
The attack catches Chaab only half prepared (reaction: Uncanny Dodge.) The only reason his torso is not bleeding is because of Olisara's earlier inspiring and protective visage. (Chaab takes 11 piercing and poison damage.)
(Chaab goes next.)
After the hit, Chaab reacts quickly. He rolls out of the way {BZ-62} to avoid giving the opposing drow another opening and launches a small black orb onto the ground near his feet. The orb of darkness immediately expands, engulfing not only Chaab but also Brother Keefe and the Thayan Warrior. Chaab tells Brother Keefe to run!
(OOC: This changes the battleground substantially, so I'll go ahead and post a mid-round map update below.)
(Thayan Warrior goes next.)