To Prove D&D Exists for Echolon

OOC: managed a brief and unexpected break from the worlday long enough to peek in and say...

GDI, fox.

Ilyara also moved out alongside Tallboots and Elyona. 

EverYbody gets to go before the big ugly.

GOGO!

For lack of anything better to do, Toots shouts “look out” as she fires her crossbow at their unwanted guest: (Attack: 22 Damage: 6). 🤞🤞

The bolt whiffs into the darkness!

"Escort?  Lemme know if you think this is cool" and Tommary the Unworthy let's two arrow fly through the can of his "silence" short bow producing a very clear audible "thwip! thwip!"

Attack: 9 Damage: 6

Attack: 18 Damage: 6

Elyona will advance 25 feet toward the creature, and then cast Moonbeam at second level. 15 radiant damage.  DC 16 Con save for 1/2 damage. Centered on the creature

Toots - 40 feet to creature

Tommary - 35 feet to creature

Elyona - 15 feet to creature

Ilyara - 35 feet to creature

Tommary lets loose with a pair of arrows! One flies into darkness shattering on the roof of the passage, the other piercing all the through the creature, spattering the floor with rotting flesh.

CON save 18

Elyona's moonbeam burns the creature with holy light.

*Shlup* *splat* it closes on Elyona making her gag on the smell of rotting flesh, freshly burned. The hole made by Tommary's arrow does not close up. She also notices it is leaving a tail or trail of entrails in the direction from which is came.

The large humanoid form raises both weapons - a rusted cleaver caked in dried blood, and a mace trailing green vapors. 

Cleaver chop! Attack: 19 Damage: 14

Mace smash! Attack: 24 Damage: 10 plus 12 Necrotic on hit.

A burst of eye tearing darkness if one of the attacks hit - Divine Smite 14

EVERYBODY GO!

“Oh no! Ely!!” Toots shouts, hearing the clash of weapons on armor. She casts light on another crossbow bolt and fires it at the monster, hoping to illuminate the darkness of the battlefield: (Attack: 16 Damage: 5).

The lit quarrel sinks to the fletchings in the creatures shoulder brightly illuminating how revolting it is. *splort*

Elyona will use her flame tongue sword to make two attacks against the creature.  If one hits, she will use a 1st level divine smite.

Attack: 16 Damage: 13

Attack: 20 Damage: 15

Divine smite damage, if applicable: 11 additional if creature is undead or fiend: 5 [Wysp: please mark a 1st level spell slot off for E if she does hit, see OOC Notes below]

OOC NOTES:

-neither attack from the creature hit—this round

-If another member of the party is within 5 feet of her and targeted, she will use her protection fighting style to impose disadvantage on the attack

-Reminder to party members: if you are within 10 feet of E, you add +4 to saving throws (aura of protection), you have resistance to damage from spells, and—as long as E is conscious—you cannot be frightened.

-It is very unlikely that I’ll be able to check in again today, unless I do so late tonight when we reach our next hotel.  I’m fine with Wysp (or a player Wysp designates) deciding E’s actions.  My current plan was that if things were looking dire, she would increase the level spell slot she used for divine smite, but she doesn’t want to use all her slots for this one fight unless necessary.  If she is struggling to hit, needs to retreat to avoid going down, or if the battle is dragging out but not wearing our side down to much, she’d move the moonbeam on the creature if she can without harming party members. (If the creature isn’t doing too much damage to us, she would do this to save spells slots).  She will also be paying attention to the creatures regenerative powers.  Her current theory is that radiant damage prevents the regeneration they seemed to see earlier.  If that seems to continue to bear out, she’ll use a combo of moonbeam and divine strikes to do her best to keep the regeneration “off line.”

-Moonbeam is concentration, so if she takes damage E will need to make concentration saves: this also limits her other spell casting.

With his blade flourish, Tommary the Unworthy has enough movement to windbreak the gas bag alongside Elyona.  

If one attack lands, he does an additional 4 sneak attack damage.

Attack: 27 Damage: 11

Attack: 19 Damage: 7

And he'll still have 5' of movement left to disengage from the stank, probably just standing behind and to the side of Elyona.

Elyona slashes it across the thighs, then backswings it in the guts! the intense fire from her blade burns the bits and blood to ash in a cloud around her.

Tommary slides in on a smear of rotting flesh driving his blade deep into the chest cavity up the  forearm, YUCK!

You notice that parts falling off are no longer regrowing. The maggots seem disappointed. He roars in pain and frustration covering Tommary and Elyona in spit!

Ilyara darts forward after a moment's fugue, images of an older, less successful* fight flashing through her mind.  Drawing Rilia, she slots in next to Elyona (using her Cunning Dash to make up the movement deficit) and lashes out, striking with the blade aglimmer with shifting viridian flames.

Attack: 22 Damage: 15

OOC:
God FINKING damnit, fox.  -_-
For future, not-this-combat combats - what do y'all think of implementing the latest 1DD UA's version of the light property?  Not that Ilyara can use it with GFB, but hey - might be worth trying in fights like this where a single solid hit is better than banking on a bit of extra fire damage.

OOC: not seeing the difference or am I missing something?

A shining eye pops and slime dribbles down the helmet as it focuses on Elyona. The plague bearer swings again with both weapons "NURRRCKLLLLL!"

cleaver Attack: 23 Damage: 14

mace Attack: 26 Damage: 9 plus 5 Necrotic on a hit

Dark Divine Smite 2

OOC: New Light property allows you to do the offhand attack as part of the Attack action, without eating up your bonus action.  Otherwise acts the same way.

Elyona staggers under the twin blows, but her armor resists contamination and her eyes blaze in fury.

GOGO everybody!

“ELY!!”

🎼🎶”Ely, Ely, you’re the Hin
Chop that ****er in the shin!
Smite it left and smite it right,
And smite it right out of this fight!

Hit it with your great big sword,
Nail it like a rotten board.
You’re so great, don’t be afraid,
Slay that stinky thing instead!”🎵

Elyona has 1d8 Bardic Inspiration.

Toots also takes another shot at it with her crossbow: (Attack: 12 Damage: 9). 🤞🤞