D&D 5E Escape the Underdark, Fear the Madness, and get Out of the Abyss - IC

[EarlyBird]

OOC: Just need Athletics checks from Kildrak and Grudach, and then will advance the thread.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

[roll0]
[roll1]

 

[hero4hire]

Ooc
Athletics : 1D20+6 = [11]+6 = 17

 

[EarlyBird]

A couple hours on the Darklake and the group learns that this will be no pleasure cruise.

After a half dozen or more tunnels, leading from their lake cavern, become impassable the need to always be back-tracking becomes tedious. One tunnel's ceiling is to low for the group allow the group to pass. Another narrows to only eight feet wide, an has no way to get the mushroom craft through.

Part of the trouble is not being able to see but sixty feet of a path at a time, but light on the water would probably be a beacon noone wishes to light.

A quick current (of which their have been plenty) pulls the group into another cove where the walls narrow a bit. The speed helps wedge a boat into the narrow fifteen foot gap, but it isn't so bad as to damage the groups craft. Catching a quick breather everyone stops whispering amongst their selves as a strange sound echos throughout the area.

*bou-oup* *bou-oup* bou-oup*

"Look up! Look up!" Buppido shouts as he lifts a shortbow to target the darkness above you

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The derro lets an arrow fly as eight of the odd floating creatures descend to attack.

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Buppido free atk; [roll0], dmg [roll1]
Thia also gets a free atk for having her weapon at the ready.

Then Round 1:

Atallia
AC:15, HP: 27/27, 4/4 Ki, HD 4/4
Grudach
AC:16, HP: 51/57, Rage 3/3, 4/4 HD, inspiration die
Kildrak
AC:18, HP: 36/36(DR3), Spell Slots 3/0/0, LoH 20/20, 4/4 HD
Finn
AC:13, HP: 22/27, Slots 2/2 (2nd lvl), 4/4 HD, mage armor 1/1
cantrips: eldritch blast, friends, magic stones, light, mage hand, spare the dying, frostbite, prestidigitation
Thia
AC:16, HP: 27/27, Spell Slots 4/3/0, Inspiration(d6) 2/2, 4/4 HD
cantrips: shocking grasp, message, true strike, light

Darkmantles: all are AC:11
1) 22/22 - 30' from J08
2) 22/22 - 25' from L09
3) 22/22 atk: Grudach; [roll2]
4) 22/22 atk: Finn w/advan; [roll3], [roll4]
5) 22/22 atk: Buppido; [roll5]
6) 22/22 atk: Derendil; [roll6]
7) 22/22 - 40'from N12
8) 22/22 atk: Eldrath; [roll7]
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[EarlyBird]

OOC: DMG: Grudach; [roll0] Finn; [roll1] Buppido; [roll2] Eldrath; [roll3]

Not being able to see what is going on Finn starts to find something to cast his light spell on when suddenly his head is engulfed by something leathery. Sharp teeth start to tear at his skull while tendrils wrap around his throat cutting off his oxygen.

Grudach has time to drop his paddle and find his weapon and then a sharp pain erupts in his side, as the strange creature attaches itself to him, its lamprey mouth digging into his flesh.

OOC: Finn will need a STR check DC 13 to get the thing off him.

 

[Charwoman Gene]

Hearing her only light source gasping for air, Atallia lashes out at the creature, hoping to knock it free from Finn.

OOC: Spear on Darkmantle on Finn (Disadv. Darkness): 2D20.LOW(1)+5 = [15, 10]+5 = 15 1D6+3 = [5]+3 = 8 Flurry of Blows on Darkmantle on Finn (Disadv. Darkness): 2D20.LOW(1)+5 = [19, 9]+5 = 14 1D4+3 = [2]+3 = 5 2D20.LOW(1)+5 = [13, 17]+5 = 18 1D4+3 = [3]+3 = 6 Must make two DC 12 Str saves or be moved 15 ft and off of Finn. If it fails the first, move to I10 and attack DM3.

 

[hero4hire]

Kildrak swung his hammer over his head and connected with the rubbery mass of tentacles.

Ooc:
Attack #4
Hit ac 13 for 8 dmg
Atk darkmantle: 1D20+6 = [7]+6 = 13
1D8+6 = [2]+6 = 8

 

[TallIan]

Finnan

Finnan starts to panic as something wraps around his head, stifling and biting. He thrashes for a heartbeat before a calm comes over him and manages to grab two ropy tentacles and pull. It feels to Finnan like pulling a blanket over his head, then he sucks down a lungful of air.

[SBLOCK=Mini Stats]AC: 13 (DEX) or 16 (Mage armour)
HP: 22/27 HD: 4/4

Offense:Eldritch blast: +5 120ft 1d10+3F
Tentacle Rod: 3 attacks: +9 15ft 1d6B if all three hit same target make a DC15 CON save: 1/2 move; disadv on DEX saves, no reactions, only action OR bonus action for 1 min save each turn

Spells:
Cantrips: frostbite, prestidigitation; light, mage hand, spare the dying; magic stones; Eldritch Blast, Friends
1/1 Level 1: Mage armour
2/2 level 2: dissonant whispers, arms of hadar, phantasmal force, mirror image, mind spike
Rituals: Detect Magic, Ceremony[/SBLOCK]

 

[jmucchiello]

Thia sees the strange creature about to drop on Grudach. She shoots it. It lands near Grudach, biting him, and she fires another arrow at it.

OOC: Readied Attack [roll0] Damage [roll1] Normal Attack [roll2] Damage [roll3] Nat 20 damage 16 hp 24 total

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Grudach felt the panic welling up inside him. He let out a half-surpressed yell and tried to thrust the creature away from him with his newly-found pole-weapon.

[roll0] for a raging [roll1] damage

(Edit: If Thia killed his, he will thrust (with reach!) at any of them that is close enough)