Out of the Abyss

Game Master Angie H

I tried, I think its a reasonable bluff, given that Demon Names may be the same in every language.

It's worth a shot. Though keep in mind Alex doesn't know what's going on past the guard tower - you can see the map, but she can't.

Ksenia, if you want to try that, I'll need a bluff roll.

Alex can make a reasonable assumption of A) Chaos, because i guess stuff there is loud, and b) Ksenia being totally outnumbered because everyone other friendly is with her, but right, she is not seeing Asha, that was my bad.

Yes, stuff there is loud, but there's also a waterfall between you and the loudness. Not sure if it's THAT loud. But yes, you can certainly reasonably assume chaos. Especially if Kalanzar told you about the spider ploy.

> @Kalanzar: that music is absolutely stunningly beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

Madison, I am very glad that you liked it. I like this composer, he has a lot of atmospheric and interesting compositions besides this album. My GM-friends and I sometimes use them for the soundtrack in our games - especially if it's related to something frightening.

And I would like to thank GM (and the authors of this adventure). Very rarely do PbP games evoke an emotional response in me. Usually it's more like a kind of fun and a way to get away from the routine. But in this game, this scene is really impressive and makes me strongly empathize with the heroes and NPCs.

Ugh - Ziyad, reroll that damage.

Its ok, I like playing fair. :) Its just part of that cantrip. If you insist... 1d10 ⇒ 2 XD Sorry.

Second time I crit on Eldritch blast meanwhile, and this time I remebered the variant rules.

Question: I am a bit over half HP, can I plausible use my own blood as reagent for armor of Agathys?

Question: I am a bit over half HP, can I plausible use my own blood as reagent for armor of Agathys?

Sorry, nope, blood is its own thing when it comes to material components. However, you know from frequent trips through the guard tower that there are usually a few waterskins near where the guards stand watch. If you want to retcon T&Ts action, you can get them to fetch one for you.

Ill keep them helping for now.

On a related sidenote, how would you invision your character singing?

Alex:
Ghost in the shell opening

(Angry) Maddison:
Pretty cool powerwolf cover

Ksenia
Female part swedish Sabaton cover

No idea about the guys or not-angry Maddy yet.

Ziyad would sound like this.

I think I made a mistake in my post, Poisoned condition affects attack rolls and ability checks, not saves. Concentration checks are constitution Saving Throws (and saves are not ability checks). So Cause Fear is still going.

It's been a week since we've heard from Ksenia. Hopefully life just got in the way, and she'll rejoin us shortly. However, I don't want to hold the game up. We'll say that Stool isn't picking anything up from her, so you don't know if she's alive or not. You have no choice but to leave her behind. If/when she rejoins us, we can have her catch up.

Apologies, this last week spiraled -- last week of the semester and then some bad dental work. I'll be better now!

Apologies, this last week spiraled -- last week of the semester and then some bad dental work. I'll be better now!

Just glad to hear everything is okay! No need to apologize, life always comes first. I hope the teeth are doing well! Bad dental work=cringe!!

I was once 2 years into a game, and the most reliable players just vanished, mid-battle. We kept botting his character for about 6 months, then finally had to accept that he wasn't coming back. We never heard from him again. Hopefully he's alive out there somewhere...

I am waiting for what I have learned on the knowledge religion check and depending on this I will act. By the way, in 5e is this a free action or standard?

Knowledge is a free action.

Which type of demon is that roll for? You'll need one roll per species

So far we have Ziyad dashing for the guard tower, Alex blasting at the quaggoth fighting Darendil, and Ksenia doing a kamikazee jump into the spiders webs. Waiting for Kalanzar and Maddy's actions.

Religion: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 3 = 19

Here is the second roll at the second type of demons (there are also two types, did I understand correctly?). I suggest that you will decide which roll on which demons. Maybe random .)

Come on folks! This round shouldn't take 5 days.

Ziyad - running for guard tower
KSenia - over the edge
Alex - bolt on quaggoth
Maddy - grab some stuff and?
Kalanzar - ?

Jumping over is a free action if you're already near the edge or on a bridge. I need to know who's jumping.

I'll probably be the last to jump, but of course totally plan too if still alive. :)

And yeah...all my games have been extraordinarily slow this week.

Alex is kind of greeding after the drow in the norhtern lookout, who probably has a full set of equipment, as well as possible supplies from the quagoth cave.

Apologies to Kalanzar, I see that you posted before my "hurry up" post, but for some reason it didn't show up in my feed for 6 hours after you posted it.

Ksenia could have told you there was almost nothing in the quaggoth cave aside from water. They don't use armour or weapons, and their nests are pretty nasty. They eat in the main hall.

I hope trying to Eldrith blast the blob is legal? 22 is pretty decent to hit, and I would gladly trade advantadge to keep a genuinely nice NPC alive.

No problem, I really was almost inactive for a few days on the forum - real life pounced on me ))

Mysterious post disappearance apparently striking again, here was supposed to be a post by someone, but it disappeared for some reason.

There's no guard tower at the northern guard lookout. Just a place to stand and a railing for safety. Ksenia is the only person who has seen it, and Sarith.

Is it also possible to use Escape Artist to free oneself from the web? Just wondering for the NPCs...

Also, I will be camping from Sunday to Thursday and I'm unsure what my cell coverage will be like so please bot Maddy as needed.

@Ziyad, go ahead with your turn

Using fire automatically free somebody. Ziyad, who were you freeing with that firebolt?

Stool first, then whoever else needs freeing with Ziyad last.

Alas, escape artist if for slipping out of bonds, and there's no slipping out of the sticky web.

Maddy is stuck unless she'd like to use her bonus action to rage, and get advantage on her STR roll to try again.

Question 1: , are both of Szariths feet caught or only 1?
QUestion 2: It seems Szarith is on a perhaps panel or stairway of some type? If I were to blast it from both sides, he would have some really awkward footwear but me mostly free, and the stuff does eventually dissolve.

Eldeth and Ront (good riddance) are probably lost causes at this point.

Alas, escape artist if for slipping out of bonds, and there's no slipping out of the sticky web.

Maddy is stuck unless she'd like to use her bonus action to rage, and get advantage on her STR roll to try again.

May I take a final action with Eldeth as she goes unconscious? It will not help or hinder the party or herself, it's just for roleplay.

And follow up question: Ksenia can see that she has very little chance with either dagger or strength checks of pulling herself free. Since she's near the lift in the down position, maybe she could throw her chain around some crossbar or support of the lift to try to pull herself free that way? My thinking would be getting to roll the strength check with advantage since she's got leverage instead of just raw ripping at the web?

how many of Sarith's feet caught?: 1d2 ⇒ 1

Sarith is on the stairs that go down to the quaggoth den. I've put that as the top slide in the deck. They are stone stairs, and he's a few steps down. Are you proposing to try and blast the stone away from around his feet? I think I'll have to straight out rule that impossible in a battle situation. The damage threshold of stone is higher than your eldritch blast damage, and by the time you managed to get him free, it would have dissolved. Also, if he's falling into a pond with his feet in stone, he'd just drown anyway.

The lift is down, which means the basket is 70 feet below you. Right now there's the spider-silk rope that connects the basket to the pulley (which is 30 feet above you). You can certainly use your chain to grab the rope and pull it towards you. The rope won't stick to the webs. Chain attack on the rope has DC 8, and once you have it, you can have advantage to pull yourself out. Then acrobatics DC 12 to shimmy safely down the rope. If you slip, Dex save DC 12 to grab it again before you splat.

If you critically fail your chain attack, it gets fouled in the sticky webs.

And you can always add a pure-RP scene, story and fun come first!

Sadface, I wasnt sure if its stone or perhaps a wood equivalent. Was hoping for wooden/whatever stairs on top of the stone.

I dont think Alex is bloody minded enough to force blast his leg off, that could also take a fair while.

I think I have an RP idea that could increase the odds of us seeing Szarith again, in some future perhaps.

Bluffing 2.0. pretend that I profane gifted him.

Szarith is probably quite easily capable of tracking us anyway, and hej, when a confrontation happens, it is possible for Jorlan (who is probably rolling on the floor laughing, as if affected by hideous laughter, after seeing what happeend to Shoor) and Szarith (although Ilvara will do nasty counter measures) to possible turn.

Buppido is the only one left in the web (except for Ksenia).

Nice dying scene for Eldeth! :)

Edit - I mean nice falling unconscious scene for Eldeth. She might not be dead. Ront is, though.

We're no longer directly in combat turns, as the drow are distracted at the moment. Ziyad, you can RP getting Buppido and yourself down into the water. He has no bonus to his acrobatics roll.

Alexandara - that's a lot of talking for 6 seconds!

Ksenia, we'll assume you're able to get to the rope, but we'll need your acrobatics to get down. There are drow and quaggoth on the cavern floor, so you'll need a Stealth roll to get past them and meet up with the others.

It is pitch black on the ground, there is no light leaking from the top. The cavern is 150 feet long, running roughly NE to SW. It's 45 feet wide at the widest point. There are three exits: South, North-West, and North-East. You know that the drow city is to the NE.

Please give me about 30 seconds of roleplaying once you're down, but no more than that yet. That's enough to get your feet to the shallows if you're swimming - if you can't see, assume one of the others helps you.

Its telepathic! :)

Hej, normally GMs love it when PCs get invested with NPCs, right right? :).

Its telepathic! :)

Hej, normally GMs love it when PCs get invested with NPCs, right right? :).

I'm not complaining. If anybody can jam that much planning, even telepathically, into 6 seconds, it's Alex.

If I may slightly retcon it,

Is that OK?
Semiplausible way to cram that much info into 6 seconds perhaps.

Edit: Ouch Ziyad, now would be a good time to level up o.O.
I hope Kalanzar has his healing word spell slots?

Ouch is right!!

alex - Remind me how you'll get darkvision next level?

If someone wants to save spell slots, its just a wisdom DC 10 check to stabilize so I don't keep rolling death saves (can add medicine to check if you have it). Then I would wake up with 1 hit point in 1d4 hours.

Warlocks get 2 eldritch invocations at level 2, one of them is:

Eldritch invocations

Devil's Sight

You can see normally in darkness, both magical and nonmagical, to a distance of 120 feet.

Unsure about the other, probably agonizing blast for more ranged DPS, ups my blasts from 1-10 to 4-13.

While I am a Hexblade, I dont intend to melee without some proper armor or weapons, and it will take some time before my possible melee contribution catches up with my eldritch blasts.