Morays (14)!
Cultists (2)!
Koran "Demon-Hammer"!
Sinspawn (8)!
Derrik Stonesmith/King Arthur!
Daisy Eagle-Feather!
Barghest!
Ghuls (8)!
Spitter of Nightmares!
Mikey Jay!
Kailin Kros!
TBD: Kepler, Levinson, Radsworth, and Yingzen!
[dice=initiative]1d20 + 15
Damn, he's fast! Pretty sure Yingzen goes first! LOL!
The FOs stand on an 8-foot-wide stairway (treat as 10 ft wide for square placement) in ranks of two, with Yingzen ahead of them, initially by about 60 ft, but hearing the unearthly howls of the sinspawn, he halts 15 ft from the landing that accesses the third floor, allowing the others to quickly catch up to him....
Kepler, if size Large, will fill a rank by himself, as will Koran....
I'll assume the following order on the stairs, but feel free to modify it:
Yingzen;
Koran;
Derrik, Mikey Jay;
Kepler;
Levinson, Radsworth;
Daisy, Kailin.
As stated earlier, the 8 sinspawn, 8 ghuls, and 14 Morays form 10 ranks of 3 that fill the first 50 feet of a 15-ft-wide north-south hallway that runs the length of the 3rd floor; next are the barghest and 2 cultists, and then the Spitter of Nightmares in back of all, about 60 ft from the top of the stairs.
Yingzen!
Morays (14)!
Cultists (2)!
Koran "Demon-Hammer"!
Sinspawn (8)!
Derrik Stonesmith/King Arthur!
Professor Levinson!
Daisy Eagle-Feather!
Barghest!
Ghuls (8)!
Spitter of Nightmares!
Mikey Jay!
Kailin Kros!
Kepler!
TBD: Radsworth!
Eeeeeeek! Eeeeeeek!
Yingzen!
Morays (14)!
Cultists (2)!
Koran "Demon-Hammer"!
Sinspawn (8)!
Professor Radsworth!
Derrik Stonesmith/King Arthur!
Professor Levinson!
Daisy Eagle-Feather!
Barghest!
Ghuls (8)!
Spitter of Nightmares!
Mikey Jay!
Kailin Kros!
Kepler!
Eeeeeek!
After Yingzen:
All 14 Morays retrieve and drink potions of bear's endurance....
After Yingzen and the Morays:
The cultists all retrieve and drink potions of bark skin....
Mephos strides unwavering through the long, dimly-lit streets and alleys of R'lyeh, crossing slime-dripping bridges over deep pits in which shoggoths spawn fresh horrors....
He passes maddeningly intricate spires that stab at the storm-tossed sky, from which the many baleful eyes of aberrations, fiends, and undead horrors watch the hooded traveler's progress....
At length, he arrives at a vast, domed palace of sorts, it's architecture defying the human eye, with corners that seem to fold into extradimensional space, non-Euclidean geometry grossly featured in its alien dissymmetry, stairways and corridors that seem to form a tesseract of impossible physics....
Mephos, Whisperer of Secrets, enters the court of Dread Cthulhu and falls prostrate before the terrible Great Old One....
Dread Cthulhu.... Your humble servant returns....
It's difficult to tell, but Radsworth tries his best to determine if the priestesses are wearing more Fireball necklaces.
It's difficult to tell, but Radsworth tries his best to determine if the priestesses are wearing more Fireball necklaces.
[dice=Perception]1d20+1
Yes, that's about right, Rad....
Because of relative heights, the Spitter of Nightmares is within line of sight (the top of his frog-like head, anyway) to those on the stairs;
But the cultists and barghest are blocked by the angle of the stairs.... Radsworth is unable to see any necklace-wearing cultists from his position, though he might guess at their existence and armament based on past experience....
He does see the front rank of sickly, emaciated sinspawn crouched at the top of the stairs....
yingzen will enter his monkey trance while he is hidden
Yingzen stands 15 feet from the nearest foes--the front line, consisting of 3 sinspawn....
In R'lyeh....
Telepathically:
Whisper to me thy secrets, Whisperer of Secrets.... What tidings bring thee?
I bring thee tidings of the Order of the Elder Sign, Your Omnipotency.... And of their champions, The Fierce Ones, who have assassinated several of your lieutenants already, My Liege....
You know where they are, who killed The Thing Under the Balcony, The Crawler Between Dimensions, The Great Shark and his barracudas, and routed The Slime-Shrouded Master and its minions?
Forsooth, My Liege.... They now call a great rift in the midst of the arid region of that landmass known to mortals as North America home.... It is called by them, "Pandora's Box in the Canyon", and they huddle in caves in the walls of what they call The Grand Canyon, learning the primitive ways of the native humans indigenous to the land....
What is their quest, these.... Fierce Ones?
They seek to restore the world under humankind, My Liege.... They will not accept that Homo sapiens have outworn their use.... Ultimately, they seek to besiege R'lyeh, slay Your Omnipotency, and all other Great Old Ones contesting for this world.... And begin anew their ever evolving dream of humanity and civilization....
What power gives them such feeble hope?
They are emboldened by a collection of spirits too belligerent and faithful to each other to corrupt.... A powerful wizard named Merlin shepherds them, guiding them to find weapons of great power to use against thee, My Liege.... This Merlin wizard stirs up potent hero-souls wherever he goes, awakening excarnic memories in reincarnated heroes.... Spirits which have ever proven inimical to our goals, My Liege....
Tell me, Whisperer of Secrets.... Which of mine old enemies have risen to challenge me again?
Your humble servant cannot be certain.... But Arthur, King of the Britons, is among them.... As is Odysseus, and Atilla the Hun, and likely others.... Merlin will find and rouse whomever he can.... Gilgamesh.... Heracles..... Theseus.... Achilles.... Circe.... Beowulf.... Robin Hood....Joan of Arc....The old wizard will raise them all up against thee....
And I shall lay them all low again, Whisperer of Secrets.... Take this, the Rod of Faust, as your reward.... It shall amplify thy sorcery and truly make thee a worthy Duke of the Swamplands.... All of that region known to mortals as Florida shall be thine, Mephos.... But thou must secure this realm for your liege....
A rod of ebony inlaid with onyx and jet floats down from Dread Cthulhu to the upraised hand of Mephos, Whisperer of Secrets....
I shall not fail thee, Master.... whispers the tiefling as he takes the unholy artifact--The Rod of Faust--in hand....
See that you do not, Duke Mephos.... Or it would be better for you to never have been spawned....
After Koran:
The howling sinspawn spring off their haunches to leap down the stairs at Yingzen and Koran, a horde of evil incarnate descending like a gray, fleshy avalanche....
Bite at Yingzen misses....
Bite at Yingzen misses....
Bite at Koran latches onto Koran for 3 piercing, and he must make a DC 13 Fort save....
After Koran:
The howling sinspawn spring off their haunches to leap down the stairs at Yingzen and Koran, a horde of evil incarnate descending like a gray, fleshy avalanche....
Bite at Yingzen 1d20+3 1d6+2 misses....
Bite at Yingzen 1d20+3 1d6+2 misses....
Bite at Koran 1d20+3 1d6+2 latches onto Koran for 3 piercing, and he must make a DC 13 Fort save....
To confirm crit on Koran fails to confirm....
Koran looks down as the dog-like creature nips at him and laughs.
Koran looks down as the dog-like creature nips at him and laughs.
[dice=Fort]1d20+10
[dice=PA 1]1d20+24[dice=Damage]4d6+1d6+27
[dice=PA 2]1d20+16[dice=Damage]4d6+1d6+27
Koran shrugs off the effect of the sinspawn's bite....
Mjolnir smashes the skull of one sinspawn....
The upswing crushes the skull of a second sinspawn....
Derrik surges through coming out of the steps with both weapons Brandished and swings Excalibur down upon front-row Sinspawn as he makes his way to the second row
Excalibur cleaves the sinspawn in half, the two sides falling away to reveal another sinspawn behind it in the next rank....
Daisy holds her position in the back next to Kailin.
Play us a ditty, Kailin!
She smiles prettily at the aasimar, trying to hide her fear....
Hmmm.... Maybe the more tender bites are in the rear....
The barghest uses its dimension door spell-like ability to transport it from its position at the back of the horde of ghuls, sinspawn, and Morays, to a location near the second floor landing on the stairs, just behind Daisy and Kailin....
Crowded between the Morays behind them and the sinspawn before them, the ghuls echo the blood-chilling howls of the sinspawn and mill about restlessly, eager for a chance to tear off a chunk of living meat from the trespassers....
The Spitter of Nightmares opens its frog-like maw and lets forth an undulating, resonant call, deep and primal....
50% probability (01-50) of summoning a second hydrodaemon to its side........succeeds!
A foul, green mist coalesces in the hallway behind the Spitter of Nightmares, as a portal opens to vomit forth Gorgrubbub, his warty brother....
In Abyssal:
Hail, brother of mine! Have a moment to spread some woe on Earth?
Kailin begins an uplifting song raising the FO's spirits. As he does so he gestures at the Barghest with a flick of the wrist.
Fortitude save vs DC 19 succeeds.... The barghest shuts its eyes and shakes his head.... He is not blinded by Kailin's spell....
With two demons, Radsworth is concerned. He should have done this earlier, but he starts by casting Mage Armor.
Mikey Jay sees that Derrik, Yingzen, and Koran are packed pretty close on the front line, so he leaps down the stairs past the rest of his allies....
Acrobatics check gets him closer, but not quite within reach of the barghest, so he slips past Radsworth, Kailin, and Daisy with the rest of that move action....
....and swings at the brashest....
Powerful hacking "BJ" plus holy....deals 34 slashing and holy damage to the brashest!
The barghest howls in pain as MJ's blow shears through hide and flesh....
YYYYAAAARRRP!!!
....but the monster still stands....
Levinson!
Kepler!
Then Round 2!
Eeeeeek! Eeeeeek!
Yingzen tumbles to the nearest enemy, 5 feet away, trying to get a flanking position
Yingzen tumbles to the nearest enemy, 5 feet away, trying to get a flanking position
Because the sinspawn are tightly packed on the stairs, there is nowhere for Yingzen to tumble to for a flank....
Therefore, the first attack misses, but the second deals 7 slashing to the sinspawn in front of Yingzen....
The stairwell erupts in thunderous gunfire as the Morays fire their AR15 rifles at the FOs....
At Yingzen: touch
touch
At Koran: touch
touch
At Derrik: touch
touch to confirm touch; critical damage
At Kepler: touch
touch
At Levinson: touch
touch
At Radsworth: touch
At Daisy: touch
At MJ: touch
touch
MJ is grazed by two bullets for a total of 4 damage....
OW!!