Eleth takes aim at the blue drake and fires. Her arrow clinks against the drake's hardened scales. It roars furiously at her attempt.

Dahme'dre feels the hex travel to its new target and successfully strikes the goblin with her Eldritch Blast. However, he remains conscious but frazzled. As Dahme'dre positions herself to watch the stairs, she can hear muffled sounds and footsteps. She cannot tell whether they are friend or foe. (Unless she rolls a Perception Check!)

Updated Map (Let me know if you are actually standing somewhere else, but I think I got this right):

 (OOC: Aurelia should be SOUTH of Slade, where the dead kobold is. Eleth should be WEST of Slade, where Aurelia is marked. Don't know if Dahm's position is correct or not.)

 (D is intended to still be in the room with L taking cover in the north west corner. She's brave and all but standing in the same room as a (potentially) fire breathing beast? Armored Clerics don't provide as good of cover as a sturdy wall.) 

Perception: 10

(Oh derp. I read that as south to Slade. Here is the accurate update)

 Edit: Adding Initiative Order on this page.

Initiative Order:

Slade 
Aurelia 
Eleth 
Dahme'dre 
Ashehee 
Linan
Drake 
Kobolds 
Other NPCs

In the heat of this battle, Dahme'dre tries to listen for exact details of who is above, but can't seem to make anything out. She just knows there are at least a couple or a few somethings up there.

Linan sees the doorway is blocked and stands watch to make sure no other foes come from the front.

The drake moves up to Eleth and takes a bite! It gnashes onto her arm and tries to tear her to bits dealing 7 damage.

One kobold is completely knocked out on the ground while another lies dead. The kobold that was near the drake is brandishing a sling at Aurelia and attempts to strike her with a pellet! It flows over her head, the shot going completely wide somehow ricocheting back to the kobold hitting him square in the left eye. He wails in pain as blood spurts from the wound, his hands drop the sling as they rush to cover the popped eye.

The child remains where he is and feels safe now that the heroes are here to protect him. The man under the stairs hears the sounds of the fight and remains cowering where he is.

Updated Map:

What the hell is that half-breed doing out there navel-gazing? One of those types that buys a suit of pretty armor but freezes up at the first sign of enemy combat? Go back to choir practice, kid.  Slade grunts in dismissive contempt. These people are out of their league. I'll need to take point. Focus!
Slade narrows his eyes, and the external world fades away. He takes a centering breath, and sees only the drake, its neck extended as it clamps down on the other elf's arm. He steps forward and draws his blade in a lateral motion, cutting along the fine line of interwoven scales. Slade then leans forward, grabbing the drake's neck by both hands, and brings his knee up in a powerful upward strike, aiming at the vertebrae.

Action: Attack with short sword (13) for (7)
Bonus Action: Attack with martial arts (16) for (5)
Movement: (depends on resolution. Move at least over KO'd kobold's body, south of Eleth)

(OOC: Aurelia's move will come after we resolve Slade's action and Eleth's reaction of Wrath of the Storm)

(Slade will need to move onto the KO kobold or to the west of eleth to hit the drake in melee at the very least ofc. May input prose later. Here is the pure mechanic resolution:

Drake succeeds save, takes 2d8/2 damage from it. Plus 12 damage. Assuming a max of 8 dmg, Drake is still up, but looks incredibly weakened. Can someone roll this reaction for me? Can't figure it out for mobile.)

(OOC: damage roll for Wrath of the Storm) 14

Aurelia, seeing her friend injured, gasps. I should help her!  She begins to chant a prayer, when she remembers her training. Work together to defeat the enemy, then work together to mend. It looks bad, but the most important thing to put this thing down so it can't bite her again. 

"Courage, Eleth, stand back!", cries out Aurelia to Eleth.

Aurelia runs next to her friend. The beast's neck is fully extended, and clearly injured after Slade's powerful strike. She takes aim, and brings the end of her staff down on the top side of the vertebra, directly above the spot where Slade's knee made contact. The vertebra, caught between a rock and a hard place, makes a loud popping sound. The drake shrieks in pain, falling on the ground.

At least, that's what Aurelia imagined would happen. In reality, in her excitement, her hand slips on the staff, driving a long splinter into her hand. Gasping at the unexpected pain, she momentarily lets go, and the staff clatters down, banging Slade's knee. She makes a desperate grab for the staff with her shield arm, flailing wildly, and bonking Eleth unceremoniously on the side of the head.

"Ohgods I'm so sorry, so SORRY!", cries out Aurelia, mortified. Slade just shakes his head without comment as Eleth cries out in pain.

Movement: Move to square west of Eleth
Action: Attack with staff (23) for (9)

(OOC: If Drake is down after this, Aurelia will use remaining movement to move directly in front of injured kobold and make a persuasion check to get it to surrender. Looks like that was a comedic fumble.)

(sorry, I must have missed a turn. Not sure what happened as I was following pretty closely. I'll go ahead and make my move and DM can adjust obviously):

"This mill would be the perfect death trap," Ashehee privately thinks to herself as she hears the chaos inside. She enters through the window (Making an Athletics check to jump through window to avoid movement penalty: See P. 175 of PHB for Athletics skill description which specifically mentions jumps and stunts: 18 ) and sees pandemonium. A child, an apparent coward under the stairs, blood, and steel. The tight quarters cause her to feel claustrophobic to some extent, but she quickly recovers.

(if I land the jump I'm moving west of of the drake to attack)

Turning back to the fight, she moves towards the drake (west of Drake) and strikes with her warhammer  (Attack: 19 ; Damage if Hit: 10 )

(OOC: I grabbed the 12 SP btw from the cultists)

(OOC 2: Ha ha got a manipulated dice roll notice. I think this happened because I added the athletics roll after talking to Thordain on the phone about how I should athletics ability check to jump through he window. DM of course can rule but I only rolled once :) ).

(No worries! I trust ya!!)

After Aurelia's small fumble, Ashehee lept bravely through the window and ended the drake's life with a powerful blow. As the warhammer comes down, splashing gore all around, Ashehee feels as though she truly has the Silver Flame's blessing to do good in this world. 

All that is left now, as far as our heroes can tell, is the kobold. Heavily bleeding from his eye, he looks like easy prey... (Any attack on this kobold yields advantage! Looking for Eleth and Dahme'dre to make their moves.)

(OOC on mobile but Aurelia would like to intervene and not slaughter the poor little kobold. )

Dahme'dre approaches the Kobold and strikes it aggressively over the head with a heavy two handed blow from her staff. Then looks up at her stunned party.

"I have no... patience... for kidnappers."

(She's had a bad experience)

Dahme'dre holds a finger in front of her lips then gestures at the ceiling. She notes their expressions before gesturing toward the stairs "Lead the way"

Action: Melee attack targeting worthless scum 18 to hit for 8 Bludgeoning and 1 necrotic.

Bonus: none

Move: step to target (I certainly hope that's not too far...)

Dahme'dre's punishing gaze is felt by the kobold who looks up one last time as he is snuffed out coldly by her staff. 

Now all that is left is the kobold passed out by Eleth, Slade, and Aurelia... (Battle end)

 Linan rushes to her child and embraces him. 

Eleth rubs her head where the staff hit her and looks quizzically at Aurelia.  Shaking the cobwebs out, she casts Cure wounds on herself 7

(We can drop initiative now PS.)

Linan, now carrying her son, takes a deep breath of relief. 

"Mama, they were gonna be mean to me!" Her son sobbed loudly. He remained calm during the fight, but now all his emotions were falling freely. 

"Don't worry, love." Linan hushes her son. "Mama won't let them do anything mean to you again."

At this point, the strange man under the stairs peeks out. You see now he isn't fully human, but a shifter. He has wolfish looks to him and looks like he could be a strong fighter. He looks at some of you. "Eh? You... you ain't one of them?" He stays under the steps, but his head is visible to everyone. "So much chaos, I can't keep track..." 

"Lucien, is that you?" Linan looked surprised. "I thought you'd've died out in the fields..."

"Na, miss," Lucien waved her concerns away. He comes out from under the steps, seemingly more comfortable with Linan around. "I managed ta hide. Got to the mill just in time to see a [flippin'] dragon!" He uses choice words. Linan narrows her eyes at him and nods toward her son. "Er, right, sorry." That was when his eyes stopped on Ashehee. He instantly recognized her as a paladin of the Silver Flame. His expression became a bit fearful and he looked at the ground.

(Everyone, since this may be of interest, you all know that the Silver Flame, about 140 years ago, instituted a Lycanthropic Inquisition which aimed to purge Khorvaire of ALL lycanthropic people, INCLUDING the shifters. Everyone knows shifters are, more or less, what you get when enough were-people breed with enough humans. Shifters are now their own race. While the Church of the Silver Flame/Thrane stopped the campaign, these wounds are still somewhat fresh. There are still Silver Flame members who believe that lycanthropy is a disease of both body and soul. Ashehee it is up to you how you feel about this. Aurelia during your time in the Reaches, you probably came to know and befriend some shifters.

RN, feel free to RP away.)

Ashehee's warhammer is covered with the blood of the drake, so much so the warhammer appears to be bleeding through the pores of its strong steel. Ashehee pays no mind, as she expects the blood to flow freely in this wretched town.

She instantly turns to the man beast. Her eyes darkening and narrowing, she walks towards the abomination while she affixes her Warhammer to her side and pulls out her dagger. "Cowards should die. They're more dangerous than the enemy. Arm yourself beast, so I can kill you with honor." Ashehee turns to her companions, her eyes suggesting she wants them to give the Lycanthropic a weapon.  

"After I dispense with this coward we should search the room and the carcasses."  Her glare returns to the "man," her dagger ready to do the Silver Flame's work.

(EDIT: Adding Intimidation Check on the Lycanthropic (24)

"I knocked out one of the cultists back there. Now that the child is safe, perhaps she can tell us more about what she knows. We'll be back right away." Aurelia and Slade jump on the magebred mare outside and ride back to the unconscious cultist. (OOC - If any other PCs want to join, please join too and I'll rewrite the post to include you).

Aurelia casts guidance on herself and Slade (and any other PCs that came). Aurelia removes the dragon mask and gently wakes up the cultist. "Wake up. We've defeated your friends, and most of them are dead. Tell us about the attack. Why is the dragon attacking? Why did you kidnap the child?" When the cultist shakes her head angrily, Aurelia looks her in the eye. "Look, be reasonable. My friend Slade here wants to slice your belly open." Slade, grim faced, puts his boot on the cultists chest and draws his shortsword out slowly. "Her kind deserves nothing less than a painful death."

Aurelia's voice is warm and full of empathy. "I don't want to hurt you. I believe in life and redemption. I did everything I could do to convince my friends to let me talk to you. Your companions left you to die. They don't care about you. Be reasonable. Help us, and I can convince my friends to let you live. What do you have to lose?"

Action: Slade uses the help action to assist in Aurelia's persuasion check
Action: Aurelia uses persuasion with Slade's  help  and the guidance to persuade the cultist that her cult has used and discarded her, and that her best course of action is to help the party. 8 + 4 = 24;

"Stop!" Eleth cries out to Ashehee.  "I will not be a party to murder.  This man has done nothing to draw your ire save to hide knowing he was no match for the foes presented to him.  Please stand down and sheath your weapon.  I implore you to not go down this road!"

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"Stop!" Eleth cries out to Ashehee.  "I will not be a party to murder.  This man has done nothing to draw your ire save to hide knowing he was no match for the foes presented to him.  Please stand down and sheath your weapon.  I implore you to not go down this road!"