DragonDenn’s Theros Game

Xerronios initiative 23

Xerronios, expecting something...weird...lurches backward at the first sign of movement from the creature.  One hand goes to the emblem of Klothys he wears around his neck and the other points at the creature.  "Klothys, I call upon your holy power to smite, of light, a Tower!"

ooc: Guiding Bolt, 3rd level: Attack: 9 Damage: 28

ooc2: Spending a luck point to roll the attack again, 16

Kanlos initiative: 17

Kanlos takes careful aim from his spot across the cave and fires at the seated figure.

Sharpshooter and Steady Aim, Sneak Attack included.
Attack: 15 Damage: 20

Xerronios
Sends a blast of radiant power into the now-living (undead) figure.

Livilias
Begins to cast a spell, ready to have the owl deliver the magic when it can do so...

Windlass
Need action...

Owlie
Flies in and brushes a wing over the slightly-glowing (from guiding bolt) undead, the power of the spell flowing into the figure. It takes damage, but not as much as would be expected. (Resistant to Necrotic.)

Kanlos
Sends an arrow into the figure, hitting and doing damage.

Revenant
Waiting on Windlass's action, which might change what the undead does...

(Resistant to Necrotic.)

((I figured as much, but figured Livilias wouldn’t so still went with his default…  But now he mows too! lol))

Yes, she cast detect magic with a slot. Assuming what she sees doesn't change anything fundamental about her understanding of the situation...

Windlass reacts with a start, casting scorching ray on the revenant at third level. 

Attack: 10 Damage: 8
Attack: 13 Damage: 7
Attack: 22 Damage: 7
Attack: 28 Damage: 16

"Hold." The figure says then, seeming to come to himself, as he frowns and glances around. "I truly have no quarry with you, do I?" He settles back into the chair, having only begun to rise, and having looked quite hostile up to this point. Now though he stares at the golden holy symbol in his hand, his features drawn in sorrow.

Kanlos holds a readied arrow on the figure, "It is unlikely you have a quarrel with us directly. May I ask what you're doing here?"

Xerronios looks the figure over.  "What was your purpose on this island? Why are you carrying the symbol of Erebos?"

He holds Word of Radiance ready to cast if the revenant attacks anyone.  CON save DC 13 or take 5 damage.

     “We’re talking now?” Livilias says. “I said we should talk from the start!  Always make friends when you can, life is healthier that way…”

"Why be I here?" The figure asks, glancing up from the holy symbol. He looks to the walls around you. "This island, named Ánokáto, once be me home base, I be a pirate captain, once upon a time, ye see. With its treacherous coral reef it be seeming the perfect spot." He shrugs, glancing back to the holy symbol again, then up at you. "I be human once, sailing the sea and absconding with those things that no be mine." There was a long pause, then he sighs. "No be knowing what I be now, no be human, but no be undead neither." He shrugs, seeming to turn his attention inward before focusing in on you once again. "As for me story, that I will be telling ye..."

I be leading me crew on the adventure of a lifetime. We be sailing into the underworld itself ye see." he tells a fabulous tale of adventure and thrilling near-death. In this telling you would learn that he and his crew sacked a temple of Erebos. He thought they got away with it, but shortly thereafter his crew all fell ill and died from a wasting sickness. His ship crashed on the shore of Ánokáto. That’s when the hand of Erebos sheared the island from its roots and upended it with a massive wave. When he washed ashore he was surrounded by undead, but they did not kill him. Instead, they enabled him to live many lifetimes of misery and perpetual drowning. They forced the holy symbol of Erebos into his hand and shoved him into the cavern where he still resides, neither truly alive nor dead.

He has tried to escape many times, but the undead above only grow in strength and numbers. There is no escape for him. In life, he is tormented, and in death he surely will be, too. He knows innately that he could break the holy symbol and be free of this suffering, but he has not done so through the long ages out of terror.

"Will ye help me be rid of this thing once and fer all?" He pleads with you, holding up the symbol.

Again the green of Xerronios's goddess flashes, only for his eyes, around the thing, and he would get a definite feeling of anger at such a defiling of destiny.

     As Livilias understood what was being asked, Owlie would swoop into motion.  “Of course, my friend.  Nobody should be shackled by the whim of the gods!”

     Even as Livilias says such, Owlie swoops down as if yo perch on, or grasp, the holy symbol, delivering the Satyr’s Shocking Grasp with it’s touch.

Shocking Grasp Attack: 29 Damage: 21

(I’m thinking with advantage as the symbol, if not the armor, is metal? If I’m wrong just use first roll…)

Kanlos hesitates, but does nothing to interfere, "Whatever punishments await him in the afterlife, we should not deny Athreos's duty."

Xerronios feels a smoldering anger and this unjust interference with the course of fate.  "Of course we will free you to let Fate take It's course.  If you can break it, you must do so.  If not, we will have to kill your current form," he says.

He waits a moment to see if the dead pirate moves to break the holy symbol.  If he does not, the bard sings out "Klothys, of this metal, take my anger, and yours, and make it BURN!"

ooc: Casting Heat Metal at 3rd lvl, take 15, and make CON sav DC 14 or be forced to drop the symbol if possible

(Shocking grasp cannot be cast on objects. Please revise that action.)

Con save vs heat metal: 11

The figure grimaces, but does not drop the holy symbol, even as it starts to glow with heat.

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(Shocking grasp cannot be cast on objects. Please revise that action.)

Con save vs heat metal: 19

 (Well then I guess it is cast upon the creature through the object?  *shrug* If it doesn't work or misses, then so be it.))

While the others try to break the holy symbol, Io takes a moment to step back and think. He doesn't say it verbally but he does agree with Kanlos. To steal from a god's temple is a grave sin that deserve punishment. However, he feels that keeping the man here for that punishment is interfering with Athreos' duty. He sees some parallels with this man to someone else he cares about though it is still different in his mind as that other person was punished by the goddess Nylea but their actions that angered the goddess were ones they took after falling victim to the deception and trickery of a different god, Phenax.

Perhaps this man deserves the punishment but that has to wait until he faces Erebos in the afterlife. It is unfair to Athreos to keep this man chained here in the mortal life well past his time. Io racks his brain on what would be an effective way to break the curse.

Will casting Remove Curse free the man? What ways can the man be free? How can the holy symbol be broken safely?

Religion: 14 + Guidance: 2
(If Arcana it should be 4+4 =8 instead of total of 11 above)

(Ok on shocking grasp...)
The owl lands on the steaming amulet, sending a jolt of lightning into it, but the figure seems unphased. You would all notice that he does not seem to be taking damage from whatever you do, the magic just seems to wash over him and disipate.

IO
You think and can only see that the holy symbol itself needs to be broken. It looks to be non-magical, and is already starting to melt under the heat metal spell. A simple attack, directed at the holy symbol - if it hits, would likely do significant damage to the thing.

(Wanted to detail the damage to the revenant better... It is getting hurt, that is clear, and feeling the pain of the heat metal, and the shocking grasp, just those things don't seem to be injuring its body, just causing it pain.)