Jezun looks to Toc and the group and raises his eyebrows in a "so do we ask him again?" sort of expression.

(''Scuse me,' said the Elephant's Child party most politely, 'but have you seen such a thing as a Crocodile Dragon in these promiscuous parts?' )

"I would say that Warlock - still hope this is not Larloch himself! - got full control over your baelnorn, Toc. I wonder if his mind can be restored..." Mirica produced one of the small pouches holding enough diamond dust for one restoration. At the last second she stayed her hand, though and asked Toc again: "You know about these creature, how do they react to the holy words? Would I restore him to the dead corpse he is supposed to be with it?"

Toc looks at her, and raises an eyebrow, "I'm afraid I don't really know...."

However, at the mention of the name, the Baelnorn has begun to react, and Toc is not allowed to finish his sentance. The Baelnorn stands from the bench, putting the book down, and looks at the group with a crystal clear gaze...a sneer on his face. He speaks with a very strange accent, "I know your names now. I know your faces. I don't know what you think you know, but clearly giving the Cloud a helping hand teaches me a valuable lesson about letting people solve their own problems. Now everything is at risk. Time for you to be destroyed."  

Like last time, the Baelnorn turns into a vortex of smoke without any sign of spellcasting, and once again, glowing lights fill the space until more creatures appear. This time, the elves again look less like automatons, and more like actual creatures, but their skin is tinted blue and their eyes are white.  Behind them, rather than an iron and gear golem, a large lion appears...with feathery wings...and it wears a strange head piece....glancing at all of your with extremely light blue eyes.....

You hear the sound of other creatures and movement from the room behind you as well. 

Back, in the black fog, you hear the scrape of metal and movement from something.....

E1: 4. (Full plate armored blue skinned elf warrior)

E2:  7 (Full plate armored blue skinned elf warrior)

E3:  13 (Blue skinned elf wearing leather armor)

E4:  11 (Large winged lion creature)

E5:  5 (unknown)

E6:  6 (unknown)

E7:  13 (unknown)

E8:  10 (unknown)

E9:  4 (unknown)

Toc/Tic : 22

Roll initiative.  

Jezun initiative: 16

Mirica Initiative: 22

Mirica, and anyone else higher than 21 can post their action.

((Was waiting for Fianna, in case she still has FW at her disposal)

Mirica did the simple thing - she pulled off one more bead from her necklace and threw it at E4: a fire test, if you wish, to know what they were dealing with this time.

Fireball for 21 (Dex DC15 for half)

Fianna initiative: 14

((No Wall of Force until dawn, unless it's worth risking neutering my Staff of Power.  And it's never worth that!))

     ((Where was the Baelnorn sitting?  Where on the map is the bench?))

Chen Initiative: 21 (on the cusp! I'll post anyway)

Despite his last charge ending in an invisible wall, Chen doesn't hesitate to charge again. And seeing a large lion with wings appear, he seems to get really mad, and roars I HATE FLYING CREATURES! as he charges at the monster...

Bonus Action: RAGE!

Action: Attack with Maul+2
Attack#1: 18 Damage: 23 bludgeoning
Attack#2: 27 Damage: 19 bludgeoning

(OOC: Also, do we still have Fianna's lion? Doesn't show on map)

DEX save v Fireball: 21  (takes 5 fire damage)

Mirica tosses a pellet into the room.  The fire test.  The far side of the room fills with flame. 

(Lion, Fianna, Jezun, and Chen please make your saves)

E1: 3

E2: 10

E3: 16

E4: 13

Chen charges forward, leaping at the huge winged lion with his maul.  The weird lion thing looks unpreterbed and it's eyes glitter....and an invisible force stops Chen's first hammer hit. But his second swing, comes arching around and slams into the lion thing....it stumbles back looking a bit shocked and perhaps stunned by the blow. 

The flames meanwhile clear and all of the enemies except the unarmored elf seem to be smoking and badly charred by the fire. 

Toc glances back at the room where Chen is, with fire erupting...and looks back towards the black fog.  His rapier pulls free with a metallic sh'nick and he changes place with Tic....preparing to defend the hallway....his feet moving with his familiar sword fighting step.

One of the armored elves moves towards Chen, his blade swinging with alacrity. 

Attack: 22 Damage: 8 + 9 

Attack: 13 Damage: 9 + 10 

Attack: 29 Damage: 27 + 8 

Then from out of the black fog comes another elf, with blue skin, this one sheathed in blackened full plate....magical energy wavering around it's black long sword as it swings at Toc. 

Attack: 19 Damage: 5 + 4 thunder damage.

Attack: 16 Damage: 10 + 7 thunder damage.

Attack: 23 Damage: 9 + 10 thunder damage.

Another blackened armor elf with blue skin comes swinging in a similar fashion....

Attack: 16 Damage: 8 + 3 thunder damage.

Attack: 10 Damage: 5 + 4 thunder damage.

Attack: 14 Damage: 13 + 6 thunder damage.

The sound of their blades hitting nothing but air or being deftly turned aside is like a metallic staccato.  Then a blue skinned elf, with black rimmed eyes, black hair, and looking gaunt and boney steps up, just behind the two warriors, and begins weaving a spell...... Fianna here's the powerful words of a spell she knows well....circle of death... 

Toc Arcana check : 24

Toc lifts his hand, a counterspell trying to dissolve the magic.........which he does....putting extra power into his counterspell. 

Then poison fills the hallway....and both rooms....the now familiar cloud kill magic swarming around everyone, though it mystically dissolves as it tries to cling to the party members....thanks to their feast.

Jezun's turn. 

[ Round 1: Mirica, Chen, Toc/Tic: 22-21, E2,E5,E6,E7,E9: 21-16, Jezun 16, E8: 15, Fianna 14, Lion, E1,E3: 14-3  ]

Fianna save: 5

Lion save: 4

Fi'Finella save: Immunity.  Though there is the whole debate on if the entity that takes the form of an imp actually has imp powers... so 4

((Last we talked of her, Fi'Finella was out scouting.  As I never had her go back into Fianna's backpack... *shrug*))

     ((What DC we going up against??))

((Not just into the room - but by E4! By my calculations only fireproofed Jezun had to get caught!))

(Yes, I suppose that's right, if it's 20 foot radius, my bad, really...i'm not trying to kill all of you, honest.......I think if you hit the back wall, you don't even get Jezun... so they're all fine.) 

Initiative Russell: 18

Drawn to the sounds of combat, a Kenku clad in mostly black lurks near the shadows. Only able to be seen by the most perceptive of individuals. Waiting to see which creatures are friend and which ones are foe. 

Chen thinks he hears a rustle in the corner. He looks, but can't see a Russel in the corner.

The slight, fast-moving, if incredibly clear (vacant)-eyed human monk darts over between the wall and E3 and the door. He raises the tip of his staff and in a surge of action, causes a lightning bolt to shoot through E3, E2, and E4 for 33 lightning damage on a failed DC 17 DEX save.

He then spins his staff into a blur and aims the other end at E3's head repeatedly, and then just tries a normal roundhouse kick followed by a jump spin back kick with the other leg.

Attack: 17 Damage: 10
Extra Attack: 17 Damage: 12

Bonus action: flurry of blows
Offhand Attack: 28 Damage: 10
Offhand Attack: 16 Damage: 13

E2 Save : 16

E3 Save :  21

E4 Save :  20

The blast of electrical energy surges through the room, connecting Jezun's staff and through all three targets.  The acrid tang of ozone fills the room and the already burnt enemies are now smoking, their bodies giving off little sparking zaps. 

Jezun is like a blur against the unarmored elven automaton....his staff hits it twice and then two kicks slam into it. The creature crumples to the ground in a smoking wrecked heap, it's blue skin tearing open in parts and spilling a silver metallic blood everywhere.  

A massive semi-translucent hand, shimmering with a black crackling outline comes out of the fog near Toc and attempts to grab him.  27 hand vs 15 Toc trying to leap out of the way.....but the hand manages to grab hold of the elf, squeezing him....an 'oooof' escaping his lips. Toc takes : 8 damage...

Fianna and her Lion are up. 

[ Round 1: Mirica, Chen, Toc/Tic: 22-21, E2,E5,E6,E7,E9: 21-16, Jezun 16, E8: 15, Fianna+Lion: 14, Winged-Lion, E1,E3: 14-3  ]

     "Uhhh, Toc?" Fianna calls out.  "Something going on back there?"  Fianna has heard some noise back there but felt safe knowing Toc had their back.  Mostly.  Still, she shifts over to the west to both take a quick look down the hallway as well tuck into the corner there for a little bit of cover.  Even while sending forth her Eldritch Blast towards the winged lion thing she does a double take - What was that I just saw? she thinks to herself - but doesn't have time to worry about what she thought she saw.

Eldritch Blast at E4 Attack: 20 Damage: 12

Eldritch Blast at E4 Attack: 20 Damage: 8

Eldritch Blast at E4 Attack: 15 Damage: 6

     Lion roars.  A fierce, challenging roar that fills the room with sound and a faint tinge of halitosis. Lion then launches himself at the weird false lion going for a bite attack.

Lion versus E4 Attack: 21 Damage: 7 (Adv due to pack tactics of ally being within 5 ft of target...)

The large winged lion still has a magical shield protecting it, and to Fianna's frustration all three of her blasts glance off the magical protection and slam into the walls with loud cracks.  The lion rushes forward, it's stinky lion breath preceding it's attempt to bite a fellow lion thing...but once again, the magical shield deflects the lion's attempt to bite the thing.

The winged lion creature with it's head-dress finally seems to start reacting to it's situation.  It begins speaking in a strange archaic words that only Jezun can really understand as spell casting, and it's body moves as it casts Greater Invisibility on itself.  

Meanwhile, the second elven warrior steps forward, attacking the Lion who has approached near it....swinging at it. Attack: 21 Damage: 20 Attack: 26 Damage: 14 Attack: 11 Damage: 17 

As the Lion collapses after two deft strikes, he directs his 3rd attack at Chen. 

Somewhere in the universe, a bell rings "ding ding ding" and in a culturally insensitive and sexist act, a woman wearing a tiny bikini walks past holding a board over her head with the number "2" on it. 

Mirica, Chen, Tic/Toc's actions. 

[ Round 2: Mirica, Chen, Toc/Tic: 22-21, E2,E5,E6,E7,E9: 21-16, Jezun 16, E8: 15, Fianna 14, Winged-Lion, E1: 14-3  ]

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Meanwhile, the second elven warrior steps forward, attacking the Lion who has approached near it....swinging at it. 

 

 Just checking... Does this ability apply to the elf warrior?

While you’re raging, any creature within 5 feet of you that’s hostile to you has disadvantage on attack rolls against targets other than you or another character with this feature. An enemy is immune to this effect if it can’t see or hear you or if it can’t be frightened.

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As the winged lion [Tooltip Not Found]'s before Chen's very eyes, he roars in frustration that his quarry so often manages to elude him. Without further thought on the matter, the barbarian turns and swings his hammer at the next-closest enemy, which - he just seems to notice - looks like it actually just hit him with its weapon... 

Action: Attack with Maul against E1
Attack#1: 29 Damage: 21 bludgeoning
Attack#2: 18 Damage: 19 bludgeoning