“I’m fine. You all were hanging out in the dark, getting intimate with monsters.” Caradoc says in a dry, humored tone.

Grimacing at the memory of the thing wrapped around her face, Damara tsks. "Too intimate. I would, rather not do, that, again."

Woot. Okay, so, next: where are you guys headed? What are you doing?

Damara will walk west, to roughly the middle of the open area there and try to see if there's anything to see to the Northwest and South.

Perception: 4

Ouch. Apparently still blind from the squid thing. On that note, she'll also dig around in her pack and pull out the healing potion she has and drink that.

9

You don't see anything out of the ordinary. Go ahead and add the HP back if you haven't already. I'll update more later tonight.

Also, when you walk over towards the west and look around, you see that there is an area to the south. 

Damara moves South, keeping her senses tuned for danger whilst she looks for any sign of Moneo or the Ram.

You don't see Moneo or the ram. You do see that the south and west walls have been engraved with red glowing symbols, and a ruined chain shirt lies in the center of the area.

Considering the trap Aeneas found earlier in their search, Damara elects to steer clear of the area near the runes, and makes her way Eastward.

Caradoc is eyeballing the chain shirt. 

“Any of you have a rope or something?”

Damara turns back to him, giving him a long look before reaching in her pack and tossing her rope toward him. "Be cautious. It is, not worth your, life."

He tries to tie the rope off in a pair of knots to grab at the chain shirt and pull it out of there.

Give me a DEX check.

Caradoc Dex lasso check 17 

Nice. Caradoc does the thing and snags the ruined chain shirt. Feel free to add it to your inventory.

While Caradoc fishes himself a chain shirt, Damara makes her way East and then South, slowly, still on guard for threats.

Caradoc whips the lasso around a few times like a cattle driver and follows Damara.

Damara leads on, Caradoc catching up while stuffing the chain shirt into his backpack. The open-air passage leads southeast and then turns back northeast opening up into another dead end room.

Once Damara gets to the opening of the room, she sees Moneo, still looking to be paralyzed and floating just one or two inches off of the ground up towards the north. He's being garded by the nyx-fleece ram. There is also another creature in here. It's humanoid in appearance with a gray-ish purple colored skin and spikes randomly protruding from its body. He looks... hungry.

Let's roll initiative.

Initiative rolls

• Aeneas (AC16, HP18): 6
• Caradoc(AC16, HP17): 18
• Damara(AC16,HP21): 16
• Nyx-Fleece Ram: 20
• Star Spawn Grue: 16

Initiative Order

1. Nyx-Fleece Ram
2. Aeneas
3. Caradoc
4. Star Spawn Grue
5. Damara

(No Map Update) - Round 1, Turn 1 - Ram's Turn

The ram is going to charge Damara and attempt to ram her (the ram's Charge ability adds an extra 2d4 bludgeoning damage):

• Attack: 7 Damage: 11 
• The ram charges towards Damara, but trips on some small rubble on the ground and ends up missing her.

Aeneas is next.

Updated Map - Round 1, Turn 2 - Aeneas's Turn

Aeneas moves over 5' in order to get a better shot with his crossbow at the Star Spawn Grue. Before taking his shot, he uses a Bonus Action to once again uses Crimson Rite to imbue an extra 4 damage to his shots (so long as he's still holding his crossbow), and he takes 1 damage. 

Then, he takes his shot:

•  Attack: 21 Damage: 10 
• The crossbow bolt hits the aberration in the leg, causing 7 points of piercing damage.

Caradoc is up.