Chilling Adventures in the North

(@nschrock, we need a death-saving throw from you if you are down.)

Oh right.

Death save 6 

I think Ricky is dead... She hit me, I went down. Swung again, that's two fails. And the third fail makes dead. 

((She hit, you went down, then she swung and missed - yay chainmail?  So First Death Save comes on your turn...  You still alive!  Though Verbeeg is up...))

(Order, Ricky, Verbeeg, Bàn, Bjorn and Qinfaren.)

After being blasted by the Thunderwave, the verbeeg recomposes herself. With Ricky down, she turns her attention to Qinfaren. She closes the distance between the two of them before attacking twice with her spear.

(Attack: 10 Damage: 17
Attack: 15 Damage: 19)

Opportunity Attack for the Dire Wolf when Verbeeg moves to attack Qinfaren: Attack: 16 Damage: 9  and DC 13 STR Save or knocked prone.

     "Get up you lazy git!" Bàn shouts over at Ricky using Healing Word to lift him out of his unconsciousness and bring him back into the fight, hopefully.  5 HP restored to Ricky.

     Bàn otherwise rushes towards the Verbeeg too also get into the fight and provice Ricky some cover while he is regaining his feet, snapping out with his whip to shoot for another Eldritch Blast at the foe...  

Action - Eldricth Blast attck:  19 To Hit, 4 Damage

Bonus Action - Healing Word to Ricky for 5hp

Movement - 30ft towards Verbeeg

(Order, Ricky, Verbeeg, Bàn, Bjorn and Qinfaren.)

The wolf once again takes the opportunity to attack the verbeeg as it rushes to attack Qinfaren. It sinks its teeth into the verbeeg's leg.

Ricky then blasts the verbeeg with an Eldritch Blast, but she doesn't seem to really notice the blast.

Bjorn then takes the opportunity to shoot another event at the verbeeg. As the arrow flies by, Blue infuses draconic essence into the arrow

(Attack: 16 Damage: 8 piercing damage + [[roll]1d6 cold damage.)

Bjorn once again turns to Blue, "Attack the verbeeg."

(Attack: 9 Damage: 5 piercing damage + 2 cold damage.)

Qinfaren raises his shield quickly when he sees the verbeeg lunging towards him. But a combination of the dire wolf chewing at the giant's legs causing them to be unsteady in their attack and Qinfaren's shield getting up in time, causes both spear thrusts to brush past without causing harm.

Qinfaren then raises his staff, and squeezes hard around the mistletoe, and allows the energy of the earth to flow upwards threw him and into the staff, causing it to hum slightly.

He then smacks out with the heard of the staff.

Bonus Action: Casts Shillelagh 

Action: Attack: Attack: 16 Damage: 7   magical damage

As the dire wolf was ordered to keep attacking the verbeeg until called off, it again jumps at the back of the verbeeg as it attacks Qinfaren.

Dire Wolf Attack (w/ Advantage since allies engaged in melee combat): Attack: 25 Damage: 18  and if hit, Verbeeg needs to make a DC 13 Strength Save of be knocked prone.

Ricky gets up, shaking off the stars from his eyes, then charging the rampaging Verbeeg. 

His focus allows him to push through the pain (second wind 10 )

He lunges for the verbeeg's knees with a haymaker Attack: 11 Damage: 10 attempting to trip it (DC 13 str save and 6 extra damage if it hits)

Qinfaren attempts to strike the verbeeg with his empowered staff. However, in her fury, she is too quick. She evades the below from the staff.

This momentary distraction gives the dire wolf an opportunity to lunge at the verbeeg. As he attempts to knock her down.

(7)

Using the momentum of the lunge, the dire wolf is able to knock the verbeeg down on to her back.

With the verbeeg now lying prone, it makes it easier for the now recovered Ricky to strike her, whilst she is down.

However, it is not long before the verbeeg is back on her feet and turns her attention to attack the dire wolf.

(Attack: 21 Damage: 22
Attack: 26 Damage: 34)

     Advancing on the Verbeeg, Bàn considers getting close enough to Inflict Wounds on the thing but pulls up short 10 feet away instead.  May need me spell strength for more healing, he decides, and lashes out with his whip to make a Booming Blade (booming whip) attack.

Booming Whip:  22 to hit,  6 damage and sheets it in booming energy that does 6 thunder damage if it moves…

     Seeing the Dire Wolf fall, Bàn will once again shout out a Healing Word with “Don’t be such a mutt!  Shake it off and get back up on yer paws!”  — 4 healing.  (Disregard if it’s not unconscious, but I assume it is.)

The dire wolf suffers grievous injuries, but before Bàn can cast a spell, rather than dying, the dire wolf simply vanishes.

Bàn's booming blade strikes the verbeeg.

Bjorn then fires another arrow at the verbeeg, which Blue infuses.

(Attack: 26 Damage: 9 piercing damage + 5 cold damage.)

Bjorn then turns to Blue, "Continue attacking the verbeeg."

(Attack: 25 Damage: 11 piercing damage + 2 cold damage)

Seeing how deadly this verbeeg is with that spear and how quickly they dispatched the dire wolf, Qinfaren almost doesn't have time to contemplate the loss of the animal but in the back of his mind he does remember that it wasn't a real dire wolf and maybe it will reappear the next time he uses the gray bag of tricks. He almost reaches in the bag to pull out another fur ball but decides that will take too much time.

Instead he swings hard at the verbeeg again.

Action: Attack: 21 Damage: 5  magical damage from shillelagh. 

He then blinks out of view and moves around the verbeeg, to get to the side, or behind it if possible.

Bonus Action: Uses Hidden Step to turn invisible until the start of his next turn.

Ricky keeps punching 

Attack: 7 Damage: 11 

Bjorn's arrow pierces into the verbeeg's other shoulder. However, Blue misses with his bite.

Qinfaren swings at the verbeeg with his staff. However, the verbeeg twists out of the way of his weapon.

Ricky throws another punch at the verbeeg. However, he still hasn't recovered from being knocked out. Ricky misses the verbeeg.

The verbeeg turns her attention to Bjorn. She readies her spear before rushing at Bjorn to attack him.

(Attack: 9 Damage: 18
Attack: 20 Damage: 21)

     Tiring of what they once thought would be an amusing little fight, and wary of Ricky potentially dropping again, Bàn decides to stop messing around and to pull out all the stops….

     Bàn instructs Owl to distract the Verbeeg, basically to fly at its face but pull up at the last moment and flyby instead.  (Owl use Help action to give advantage to Bàn on his attack and then Owl uses Flyby trait to not provoke opportunity attack fleeing the Verbeeg.)

     Bàn himself rushes the creature muttering dark arcane words of an unfriendly nature.  Once the ten feet is crossed Bàn strikes out at the creature and casts Inflict Wounds upon it.

Spell attack: 17 or 19 (since Adv) +5 for 24 to hit

Damage: 15

(Order, Ricky, Verbeeg, Bàn, Bjorn and Qinfaren.)

Bjorn ducks and twists out of the way of the verbeeg's attacks. However, with her now up close, it would be difficult for him to shoot an arrow at her

Instead, Bjorn drops his longbow to the floor, and pulls out his handaxe to strike at the verbeeg with that instead.

(Attack: 7 Damage: 9 slashing damage.)

"Continue attacking our enemy," Bjorn calls over the giant's shoulder to Blue.

(Attack: 15 Damage: 2 piercing damage + 2 cold damage.)

With the final two attacks from Bjorn and Blue, the verbeeg finally collapses to the ground.

Seeing that the danger has now passed, Bjorn retrieves his longbow from the ground.

"I think this verbeeg and the one in the cave were somewhat romantically involved," Bjorn explains his thinking. "This is probably why she acted without thinking and fought so passionately. I wonder what she was bringing in that basket, though."