Emial approaches the door, seemingly sickened at the warmth of Red's alchemical flames. Floating at the entrance of the room, the fake Warduke calls his freezing winds to peak strength as his hands work gestures that conjure another sharp shard of ice, point forward as it is sent flying at Mihris, "Her fury sheds but frozen tears as gray clouds issue forth. Her wind across the wasteland shears, bringing blizzards from the north." his muttering echoes through the room.
Emial casts Ice Knife at Mihris: Attack 12 for 9piercing damage, then the shard explodes into a shower of ice shrapnel. ((everyone except Mialee needs to make a DC 13 Dexterity Saving Throw or take 11colddamage))
((Mathis fails and takes 7, now at 3/11, Gaoch succeeds and takes 3, now at 1/11 no damage, still at 4/11))
INITIATIVE Mihris: 21 << We are here Mathis: 19 Ionna: 17 Gerard: 16 Red: 14 Emial: 14 Vanys: 8 << We are here Gaoch: 7 << We are here Mialee: 5 << We are here
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Mihris DC 13 Dexterity Saving throw: 5
The ice shard broke over her armor seemingly harmlessly, but the cloud of ice shrapnel pierced the flesh and took away her breath. Mihris fall to the ground unconcious.
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(OOC: Note that the way Ice Knife is worded, if you succeed on the Dexterity Save, you take no damage instead of half damage, so Gaoch would not take any damage from the spell and would still be at 4/11.)
Vanys sees the shower of icy shrapnel coming towards him and quickly spins to face it. Drawing his arm across his body, the lightning that arcs between the half-elf's palm and the hovering man curves around to fry the ice that is headed in the sorcerer's direction. In doing so, Vanys also sees the ice cover Mihiris's body, and his eyes flash with rage. "You are going to pay for that." With the electricity still arcing between the sorcerer and the fake warduke, Vanys whips his arms and sends another strong pulse of electricity directly into the body of Emial.
(OOC: Note that the way Ice Knife is worded, if you succeed on the Dexterity Save, you take no damage instead of half damage, so Gaoch would not take any damage from the spell and would still be at 4/11.)
((Oh! You're right, I'll correct that. Also, something we rolled at the start of the adventure got Mihris resistant to cold damage, if I remember correctly? :) ))
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" It works! Just like the elders told me! Well done Red! Keep attacking him with fire!" Mia clenches the enchanted stone in hand and cheers the artificer.Then she sees the fake warduke unleashes rain of ice darts on her friends. " She won't! Because we are here!"She throws another flint stone at the floating Emial.
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Dex Save 8
Red preoccupied with the front, doesn't realize the ice explodes behind, taking a brunt of hits as shards slice him from behind on his unshieleded legs and arms.
Red hears not Mia's exclaimations as his consciousness wains and he falls atop the barbarian.
(Whelp botched Dex save ruins red! He'll have to make death save next round! Hope ya'll have fire.
Red's bonfire disappears as he loses concentration.
I believe I do not have an inspiration to reroll, he used it on the scroll-got one back, and then I used it to save an NPC death saving throw I think? I need to go recheck. I don't have inspiration marked so I assume I used it. Unless someone says otherwise. I can not find the post where I used it; I think I was using it to save Goach or Mathis' death saving throw?)
Edit: Inspiration r olllllll Dex Save 5
Fate smiles not on young Red, the alchemist doing his best.
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(Oh, you are right! "Only" three damage - she is fine!)
Mihris's strange numbness to the cold saved her once again in this frozen hell - she immediately stood up and without hesitation sent another bolt of a holy light toward the Duke:
While floating, the fake Warduke attempts to avoid Mihris' sacred flames. Emial's Dexterity Saving Throw: 6
As shards of ice sharp as knifes clatter around the room and the temperature manages to drop further with Emial's spell, Mathis sees Red drop into uncounsciousness. Quick reflexes kicking in, the scout legs go of the higher bunk bed and quickly moves towards the alchemist, grabbing him and pulling him as much back as he is able to, before scurrying defensively behind Mialee.
Behind the possessed Emial, Gerard at first makes a motion as if to stop his beloved, but seeing her foam in rage he shakes his head both at the uselessness of his attempts and the danger of the situation. He eventually draws his blade and joins Ionna in attacking.
Feeling the pain and despising Mihris' Eldathyn flames, a sliver of humanity seems to return to Emial, and as in acknowledgement of the mortality of its own shell, the spirit urges him forward. His eyes follow the electricity around the corner of the room to the barely visible Vanys, and working hands summon forth more of the coldfire surging as a pillar from the ground, still speaking ominously"Ice-kissed flowers caught mid-bloom, beauty kept in all its grace. Summer's gone to its silent tomb, stilling in Her cold embrace."
Vanys needs to make a Dexterity Saving Throw DC 13 against the Sacred Cold Flame for 16colddamage. ((ouch))
Meanwhile, the ice sickle spins around the room looking for a new target, approaching 1 (that's Mialee) and attacking 23 / 6colddamage.((I should play Cleric a bit more 🐦))
Afterwards, Emial's possessing spirit manifests further and a purple translucid visage of an horned owl's head appears over his form, almost filling the room. The spirit glares and screeches loudly against those harming its host, then fades slowly as the sound still echoes, leaving behind wisps of its ghostly form over the fake Warduke, who continues his chanting "All the world in winter's white, sheathed in sleet and ice. Set upon never-ending night, She conjures paradise!"
Emial casts Sanctuary on himself, whoever wants to attack or target him must first overcome a DC 13Wisdom saving throw. ((RAW I believe Vanys' Witch Bolt overcame that since it had already targeted him))
INITIATIVE Mihris: 21 << We are here Mathis: 19 Ionna: 17 Gerard: 16 Red: 14 << Needs to make a Death Save Emial: 14 Vanys: 8 << We are here Gaoch: 7 << We are here Mialee: 5 << We are here
((Remember you can control the actions of Gaoch in your post if you want, I'd suggest Red doing it since he's down. He has 1 throwing dagger left.))
(Nah someone else can control Goach. If I"m downed Im downed~ its fun to watch.
Also sidenote; Isn't attacking with Spiritual Weapon a bonus action, and casting sanctuary a bonus action? or dooes Spiritual Weapon auto attack?)
DEATH THROW! Just a straight up con save ya? 21
((Woops! You're right: "As a bonus action on your turn, you can move the weapon up to 20 feet and repeat the attack against a creature within 5 feet of it." I'll edit. The Death Save is just s straight d20, no bonus, your 17 grants 1 counters towards stabilizing at 3.))
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" Mathis, please! Give this to Red! " Mia hands her healing option to Mathis. The cold wind blows from the fake warduke knocking off the hood from the little elf's head, revealing her fire-like red hair.
Wisdom Save:13
(OOC: Can I use Inspiration to re-roll the wisdom save ?)
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(OOC: Never mind! I was really busy last weekend too. )
Inspiration. WIS Save: 6
(… wasted the Inspiration. Nat1 twice! Come om! What are the odds! LOL )
Mia feels the winter touch her heart and freezes her fighting spirit. The magic stones slip off from hand. The little druid clenches her teeth to recall the warmth from her memories. The spring stream that she dipped her feet in. The emerald sunlight that breaks through the summer leaves. The time they surrounded the bonfire, eating, talking and laughing. Mia gathers their power, and runs to Emial. She picks up her scimitar, brandishing it to distract the glowing creature. (Mia gives Help Action to Gerard and Ionna.)
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(OOC: *Sigh of Relief*)
Vanys manages to dive again out of the way of Emial's pillar of cold fire, and as he rolls on the ground, he sees Red's unconscious form being assisted by Mihris and so the sorcerer sends another pulse of electricity through the arcing connection. Growling Vanys retorts to the chanting warduke, "If you want to freeze the world over, you'll have to start with my dead body." Climbing back to his feet, Vanys steps all the way up to the Warduke and staring straight into his face, the half-elf's eyes go pitch black as a darkness begins to writhe around the electricity that is coursing into Emial's body.
INITIATIVE Mihris: 21 << We are here Mathis: 19 << We are here Ionna: 17 Gerard: 16 Red: 14 << We are here Vanys: 8 << We are here Gaoch: 7 << We are here Mialee: 5 << We are here
Both her heart and her arm chilling every time she attempts to, Mialee insists and struggles but eventually gives up and approaches Emial to help distract the possessed man from the attacks coming from behind. Seeing this new opening at the back of the room, Mathis rushes in and nods at Mihris after the priestess bestows the peace of Eldath over their fallen ally, dragging the unconscious Red further away towards safety. In the chaos than ensues around Emial, Gaoch squeezes among his companion's shoulders in order to also try and get a piece of the despicable figure in front of him. The possessed man sees himself surrounded and exerts the will of the spell cast upon him over his assailants, booming "Behold Her everlasting rime, see how it covers all; Weep not for those She traps in time behind Her glacial wall."
Ionna's Wisdom Saving Throw against Sanctuary: 11 Gerard's Wisdom Saving Throw against Sanctuary: 13 Gaoch's Wisdom Saving Throw against Sanctuary: 5
Ionna's Attack against Emial: 9 (Advantage from Mialee's Help) / 5 slashing damage Gerard's Attack against Emial: 21 / 3 slashing damage Gaoch's Attack against Emial: 5 / 5 slashing damage ((Advantage's 2nd roll (3) swapped for Gerard))
His arms flying trying to meet the incoming blades and the sheet of ice over his chest taking the brunt of the slashes, Emial still 'stands' his ground and grimaces evily at those surrounding him, his eyes showing the intensity with which the evil spirit inside guides him, "Sovereign of summers lost, general of winter's war; Long live the queen of cold and frost. May She reign forevermore!"
Then the thin line of lightning still connecting him to Vanys flashes and the sorcerer sends a renewed bolt charging through it and across Emial's skin, centering at the frozen heart embebed into the sheet of ice over his chest. The ice shatters, the heart blackens and detaches itself from the possessed man, who ceases floating and hovers to the ground. His eyes and skin return to more normal colors and Emial now resembles a sick and frail old man, he barely has a few moments to look around him in despair and longing for his lost power as it seems the forces he conjured drain the last of his energies and the man crumbles to the ground, his form withering and freezing rapidly.
A look of utter disgust comes over Ionna's face as she grasps her blade and looks at the fallen man, muttering "Weak fool..." and eventually spitting over him. Gerard seems more preocupied in dropping his blade, and holding his beloved back, coming between her and you as he warily watches the group and tries a somewhat sympathetic nod.
The possessed man now lies broken at your feet, his companions in faith stand at the other room consumed by what just happened.
Emial's Dexterity Saving Throw: 14
The ice sickle spins over the heads of the group, seeking a new target as if imbued by some malefic intelligence.
Spiritual Weapon attack at 6 (that's Mihris):
Attack 11 / 6 cold damageEmial approaches the door, seemingly sickened at the warmth of Red's alchemical flames. Floating at the entrance of the room, the fake Warduke calls his freezing winds to peak strength as his hands work gestures that conjure another sharp shard of ice, point forward as it is sent flying at Mihris, "Her fury sheds but frozen tears as gray clouds issue forth. Her wind across the wasteland shears, bringing blizzards from the north." his muttering echoes through the room.
Emial casts Ice Knife at Mihris: Attack 12 for 9 piercing damage, then the shard explodes into a shower of ice shrapnel. ((everyone except Mialee needs to make a DC 13 Dexterity Saving Throw or take 11 cold damage))
Mathis' Dexterity Saving Throw: 15
Gaoch's Dexterity Saving Throw: 14
((Mathis fails and takes 7, now at 3/11, Gaoch succeeds and takes
3, now at 1/11no damage, still at 4/11))INITIATIVE
Mihris: 21 << We are here
Mathis: 19
Ionna: 17
Gerard: 16
Red: 14
Emial: 14
Vanys: 8 << We are here
Gaoch: 7 << We are here
Mialee: 5 << We are here
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Mihris DC 13 Dexterity Saving throw: 5
The ice shard broke over her armor seemingly harmlessly, but the cloud of ice shrapnel pierced the flesh and took away her breath. Mihris fall to the ground unconcious.
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Dexterity Save: 11
Concentration Check: 14
“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
(OOC: Note that the way Ice Knife is worded, if you succeed on the Dexterity Save, you take no damage instead of half damage, so Gaoch would not take any damage from the spell and would still be at 4/11.)
Vanys sees the shower of icy shrapnel coming towards him and quickly spins to face it. Drawing his arm across his body, the lightning that arcs between the half-elf's palm and the hovering man curves around to fry the ice that is headed in the sorcerer's direction. In doing so, Vanys also sees the ice cover Mihiris's body, and his eyes flash with rage. "You are going to pay for that." With the electricity still arcing between the sorcerer and the fake warduke, Vanys whips his arms and sends another strong pulse of electricity directly into the body of Emial.
Move: None
Bonus Action: None
Action: Trigger Witch Bolt
Emial takes 12 Lightning Damage
“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
((Oh! You're right, I'll correct that. Also, something we rolled at the start of the adventure got Mihris resistant to cold damage, if I remember correctly? :) ))
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" It works! Just like the elders told me! Well done Red! Keep attacking him with fire!" Mia clenches the enchanted stone in hand and cheers the artificer.Then she sees the fake warduke unleashes rain of ice darts on her friends. " She won't! Because we are here!" She throws another flint stone at the floating Emial.
Magic Stone to the Emial : 6 Damage: 9
Dex Save 8
Red preoccupied with the front, doesn't realize the ice explodes behind, taking a brunt of hits as shards slice him from behind on his unshieleded legs and arms.
Red hears not Mia's exclaimations as his consciousness wains and he falls atop the barbarian.
(Whelp botched Dex save ruins red! He'll have to make death save next round! Hope ya'll have fire.
Red's bonfire disappears as he loses concentration.
I believe I do not have an inspiration to reroll, he used it on the scroll-got one back, and then I used it to save an NPC death saving throw I think? I need to go recheck. I don't have inspiration marked so I assume I used it. Unless someone says otherwise. I can not find the post where I used it; I think I was using it to save Goach or Mathis' death saving throw?)
Edit: Inspiration r olllllll Dex Save 5
Fate smiles not on young Red, the alchemist doing his best.
(Oh, you are right! "Only" three damage - she is fine!)
Mihris's strange numbness to the cold saved her once again in this frozen hell - she immediately stood up and without hesitation sent another bolt of a holy light toward the Duke:
Sacred Flame for 4 (Dex save DC13)
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While floating, the fake Warduke attempts to avoid Mihris' sacred flames. Emial's Dexterity Saving Throw: 6
As shards of ice sharp as knifes clatter around the room and the temperature manages to drop further with Emial's spell, Mathis sees Red drop into uncounsciousness. Quick reflexes kicking in, the scout legs go of the higher bunk bed and quickly moves towards the alchemist, grabbing him and pulling him as much back as he is able to, before scurrying defensively behind Mialee.
Behind the possessed Emial, Gerard at first makes a motion as if to stop his beloved, but seeing her foam in rage he shakes his head both at the uselessness of his attempts and the danger of the situation. He eventually draws his blade and joins Ionna in attacking.
Gerard's Attack:
8 / 3 slashingIonna's Attack:
8 / 6 slashingFeeling the pain and despising Mihris' Eldathyn flames, a sliver of humanity seems to return to Emial, and as in acknowledgement of the mortality of its own shell, the spirit urges him forward. His eyes follow the electricity around the corner of the room to the barely visible Vanys, and working hands summon forth more of the coldfire surging as a pillar from the ground, still speaking ominously "Ice-kissed flowers caught mid-bloom, beauty kept in all its grace. Summer's gone to its silent tomb, stilling in Her cold embrace."
Vanys needs to make a Dexterity Saving Throw DC 13 against the
SacredCold Flame for 16 cold damage. ((ouch))Meanwhile, the ice sickle spins around the room looking for a new target,
approaching 1 (that's Mialee) and attacking 23 / 6 cold damage.((I should play Cleric a bit more 🐦))Afterwards, Emial's possessing spirit manifests further and a purple translucid visage of an horned owl's head appears over his form, almost filling the room. The spirit glares and screeches loudly against those harming its host, then fades slowly as the sound still echoes, leaving behind wisps of its ghostly form over the fake Warduke, who continues his chanting "All the world in winter's white, sheathed in sleet and ice. Set upon never-ending night, She conjures paradise!"
Emial casts Sanctuary on himself, whoever wants to attack or target him must first overcome a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw.
((RAW I believe Vanys' Witch Bolt overcame that since it had already targeted him))
INITIATIVE
Mihris: 21 << We are here
Mathis: 19
Ionna: 17
Gerard: 16
Red: 14 << Needs to make a Death Save
Emial: 14
Vanys: 8 << We are here
Gaoch: 7 << We are here
Mialee: 5 << We are here
((Remember you can control the actions of Gaoch in your post if you want, I'd suggest Red doing it since he's down. He has 1 throwing dagger left.))
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(Nah someone else can control Goach. If I"m downed Im downed~ its fun to watch.
Also sidenote; Isn't attacking with Spiritual Weapon a bonus action, and casting sanctuary a bonus action? or dooes Spiritual Weapon auto attack?)
DEATH THROW! Just a straight up con save ya? 21
((Woops! You're right: "As a bonus action on your turn, you can move the weapon up to 20 feet and repeat the attack against a creature within 5 feet of it." I'll edit. The Death Save is just s straight d20, no bonus, your 17 grants 1 counters towards stabilizing at 3.))
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Mihris could not heal right now, but it did not mean she was absolutely helpless. She ran to Red. Spare the Dying on Red.
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" Mathis, please! Give this to Red! " Mia hands her healing option to Mathis. The cold wind blows from the fake warduke knocking off the hood from the little elf's head, revealing her fire-like red hair.
Wisdom Save:13
(OOC: Can I use Inspiration to re-roll the wisdom save ?)
((Certainly! Sorry for the delay, weekends being weekends))
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(OOC: Never mind! I was really busy last weekend too. )
Inspiration. WIS Save: 6
(… wasted the Inspiration. Nat1 twice! Come om! What are the odds! LOL )
Mia feels the winter touch her heart and freezes her fighting spirit. The magic stones slip off from hand. The little druid clenches her teeth to recall the warmth from her memories. The spring stream that she dipped her feet in. The emerald sunlight that breaks through the summer leaves. The time they surrounded the bonfire, eating, talking and laughing. Mia gathers their power, and runs to Emial. She picks up her scimitar, brandishing it to distract the glowing creature. (Mia gives Help Action to Gerard and Ionna.)
(OOC: I agree that Vanys's Witch Bolt was already targeted and so is not affected by Sanctuary.)
Dexterity Save: 18
“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
(OOC: *Sigh of Relief*)
Vanys manages to dive again out of the way of Emial's pillar of cold fire, and as he rolls on the ground, he sees Red's unconscious form being assisted by Mihris and so the sorcerer sends another pulse of electricity through the arcing connection. Growling Vanys retorts to the chanting warduke, "If you want to freeze the world over, you'll have to start with my dead body." Climbing back to his feet, Vanys steps all the way up to the Warduke and staring straight into his face, the half-elf's eyes go pitch black as a darkness begins to writhe around the electricity that is coursing into Emial's body.
Move: 5 Feet up and into melee with Emial
Bonus Action: None
Free Action: Talking
Action: Activate Witch Bolt
Emial takes 3 Lightning Damage
“The mark of a successful DM is when you have caused more player deaths with doors than dragons, demons, or devils.”
INITIATIVE
Mihris: 21 << We are here
Mathis: 19 << We are here
Ionna: 17
Gerard: 16
Red: 14 << We are here
Vanys: 8 << We are here
Gaoch: 7 << We are here
Mialee: 5 << We are here
Both her heart and her arm chilling every time she attempts to, Mialee insists and struggles but eventually gives up and approaches Emial to help distract the possessed man from the attacks coming from behind. Seeing this new opening at the back of the room, Mathis rushes in and nods at Mihris after the priestess bestows the peace of Eldath over their fallen ally, dragging the unconscious Red further away towards safety. In the chaos than ensues around Emial, Gaoch squeezes among his companion's shoulders in order to also try and get a piece of the despicable figure in front of him. The possessed man sees himself surrounded and exerts the will of the spell cast upon him over his assailants, booming "Behold Her everlasting rime, see how it covers all; Weep not for those She traps in time behind Her glacial wall."
Ionna's Wisdom Saving Throw against Sanctuary:
11Gerard's Wisdom Saving Throw against Sanctuary: 13
Gaoch's Wisdom Saving Throw against Sanctuary:
5Ionna's Attack against Emial: 9 (Advantage from Mialee's Help) / 5 slashing damageGerard's Attack against Emial: 21 / 3 slashing damage
Gaoch's Attack against Emial: 5 / 5 slashing damage
((Advantage's 2nd roll (3) swapped for Gerard))His arms flying trying to meet the incoming blades and the sheet of ice over his chest taking the brunt of the slashes, Emial still 'stands' his ground and grimaces evily at those surrounding him, his eyes showing the intensity with which the evil spirit inside guides him, "Sovereign of summers lost, general of winter's war; Long live the queen of cold and frost. May She reign forevermore!"
Then the thin line of lightning still connecting him to Vanys flashes and the sorcerer sends a renewed bolt charging through it and across Emial's skin, centering at the frozen heart embebed into the sheet of ice over his chest. The ice shatters, the heart blackens and detaches itself from the possessed man, who ceases floating and hovers to the ground. His eyes and skin return to more normal colors and Emial now resembles a sick and frail old man, he barely has a few moments to look around him in despair and longing for his lost power as it seems the forces he conjured drain the last of his energies and the man crumbles to the ground, his form withering and freezing rapidly.
A look of utter disgust comes over Ionna's face as she grasps her blade and looks at the fallen man, muttering "Weak fool..." and eventually spitting over him. Gerard seems more preocupied in dropping his blade, and holding his beloved back, coming between her and you as he warily watches the group and tries a somewhat sympathetic nod.
The possessed man now lies broken at your feet, his companions in faith stand at the other room consumed by what just happened.
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Red lived! for now anyway.
Is the heart still floating in space, or did it fall to the ground with the old man?
((Yes, the heart is lying close to him, though it looks just at the man, pale and withered, no longer shining in blue light.))
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